Zenith

The Zenith is an assault rifle available through the Daily Tribute system, as a reward for logging in for 500 cumulative days. The primary fire shoots fully automatic shots with very high status chance and high fire rate, and features an Alternate Fire that deploys a disc that highlights nearby enemy heads through walls and obstacles while altering the weapon to a semi-automatic fire with very high critical chance and infinite Punch Through.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage on primary fire, and  damage on alt-fire.

Advantages:
 * Primary fire has high damage – effective against health.
 * Primary fire has high Fire Rate.
 * Primary fire has very high status chance.
 * Can reach 100% status chance with, , , and.
 * Alt-fire has the second highest base damage of all semi-automatic rifles, behind Grinlok.
 * Alt-fire has high damage – effective against armor.
 * Alternate Fire deploys a disc for 30 seconds and highlights enemy heads within 20 meters through walls and other obstacles after a 1-second delay.
 * Alt-fire has the highest critical chance of all rifles.
 * Alt-fire has high critical multiplier.
 * Alt-fire has mostly infinite Punch Through.
 * High accuracy.
 * Large magazine size.
 * High Reload Speed.
 * Innate and  polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Low damage for both fire modes – less effective against shields.
 * Primary fire has low critical chance.
 * Alt-fire has very low status chance.
 * Alt-fire consumes 5 ammo per shot.
 * Alt-fire has the third slowest Fire Rate of all semi-auto rifles, after Hind and Grinlok.
 * High recoil when firing from the hip.
 * Mediocre ammo efficiency.

Acquisition

 * The Zenith is exclusive to the Daily Tribute system, and can only be attained after 500 accumulated log-ins. The Zenith comes with its own weapon slot and a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.

Tips

 * Allows players to easily take out enemies without exposing themselves to danger.
 * The high status chance on its primary fire mode allows players to quickly stack up status procs to weaken enemies before taking them out with the higher damage semi-auto mode.
 * Due to the aforementioned chance of unreliable marker placement, it may be prudent to aim slightly below the marker when shooting through walls to have a better chance of hitting enemies.
 * Due to the infinite punch through, using Zenith's secondary fire in Low / Mid Level missions in narrow corridors can kill many enemies with one shot, making it pretty effective in survival missions where the enemies tend to run straight at the player.
 * This is less effective in infested missions due to the height of most of the enemies, making most shots on an angle where they can't hit many enemies at once.

Trivia

 * The Zenith's name likely stems from zenith, whereas its design is inspired by a sundial.
 * The word Zenith when used in literature can also refer to the time when something is at its peak.

Patch History
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