Boltor Prime

The Boltor Prime is the Prime version of the Boltor projectile rifle, released in Update 12.4. Its bolts' flight time requires compensation, making this weapon more difficult to use at longer ranges. Despite this, the Boltor Prime can easily punish close-range targets. Its high Puncture damage makes it an excellent close-quarters rifle against the Grineer.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * Deals high damage; effective against armored targets.
 * High rate of fire.
 * Due to its high firerate and damage, it yields one of the highest sustained single-target-dps of all primary weapons, the other being the Boar Prime.
 * Knocks target back on kill, dealing damage to nearby enemies behind the target.
 * Low Recoil.
 * Compared to the normal Boltor:
 * More than twice the damage.
 * Higher rate of fire.
 * Slightly faster reload.
 * Increased critical damage.
 * Twice the accuracy.
 * Higher projectile flight speed.
 * and polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Bolts have a small amount of travel time.
 * Generally less effective against shields and flesh
 * Low  damage, which is compounded by the damage penalty  has against shields
 * No  damage, making it less effective against flesh and Infested.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Bad ammo efficiency in general, especially when used with Speed Trigger.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

 * Since it has medium ammo economy, mods like Rifle Ammo Mutation or Ammo Drum can be used to gain extra ammo if needed, or alternatively bring along a Team Ammo Restore.
 * The Boltor Prime has a knockback effect on kill that can be used instead of Punch Through to save an additional mod slot.
 * The knockback works with Punch Through mods, making a Boltor Prime with Shred or Metal Auger devastating when fired against lines of enemies as it both punches through them and knocks any killed enemies back into the line.

Trivia

 * Boltor Prime is the sixth primed Primary weapon ever released.
 * Compared to previous Prime weapons, the Boltor and the Boltor Prime have a much closer resemblance to each other.
 * A possible explanation is the manufacturing faction. The Boltor is a Tenno produced weapon, unlike the Braton, for example.