Talk:Rakta Ballistica/@comment-28509943-20160616155300/@comment-176.10.233.131-20161015051220

As a note (mostly to show i have a good feel for how her abilities behave), i have 1200h ingame, with 36% of them being on ivara, and whilst it's true that the non-charged version is silent, it's a very weird almost useless version of it (when it comes to actually running stealth, when prowling during survival and stuff like that, not breaking prowl is pretty much all you need so the alert is fine).

The alert is 100% not due to noticing the projectiles, which you can easily see by placing yourself somewhere you can't be noticed in any way shape or form (like one of the void spawns where you're placed in the elevated room with 2 pipes leading out), prowling, and just shooting into the ground which will instantly alert in the same way a non-silent weapon would.

On another note when doing fissures for example where enemies tend to run off to freaking narnia after spawning if you're running fully stealthed (either because you're all in a stealth arrow or because you're running solo) launching off a burst of rakta bolts is enough to make them stick around, and new spawns will do so automatically because the other ones are on alert.