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 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 the highest single-target-dps of all primary weapons.
 * Knocks target back on kill, dealing damage to nearby enemies behind the target.
 * Decent status chance.
 * Low Recoil.
 * One  and one  polarity slot.
 * Compared to the normal Boltor:
 * More than twice the damage.
 * Higher rate of fire.
 * Increased accuracy.
 * Slightly faster reload.
 * Increased critical damage.

Disadvantages:
 * Bolts have a small amount of travel time which may be troublesome.
 * Low  damage.
 * Deals no  damage, making it less effective against lightly-armored targets.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Bad ammo efficiency in general, especially when used with a Speed Trigger mod. Using a Rifle Ammo Mutation mod is recommended.
 * Components can only be obtained through the Void and are thus difficult to acquire.
 * Requires 10 Orokin Cells to craft.

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.
 * However, 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.
 * Despite being aesthetically closer than any other contemporary equivalent, the Boltor is significantly inferior to its predecessor.