Euphona Prime

The Euphona Prime is a Prime shotgun type sidearm, capable of two different firing modes. The primary fire shoots tight, focused shots for longer range engagements while the secondary fire shoots wider spread shots for close range fights.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High damage.
 * High damage – effective against shields.
 * High critical chance.
 * High critical multiplier.
 * High accuracy.
 * Alt-fire can fire a very short range shotgun blast.
 * Alt-fire can be used even while rolling.
 * Alt-fire has high status chance.
 * Can be built to provide 100% status chance causing each pellet to inflict a status effect.
 * Comes with three innate polarity slots.

Disadvantages:
 * Low and  damage – less effective against health and armor.
 * Slow rate of fire.
 * Slow reload speed considering its magazine size.
 * Low magazine size.
 * Difficult to aim at range, due to both bullet drop and non-hitscan projectiles.
 * Low maximum ammo capacity.
 * Alt-fire has severe damage falloff (approximately 5.5m).
 * Alt-fire has a large, inconsistent spread.

Trivia

 * Euphona Prime is the fourth standalone Prime piece of equipment, after Reaper Prime, Dakra Prime, and the Kavasa Prime Collar, and the first standalone Prime Secondary weapon.
 * Euphona is a Greek word that refers to pleasant sounds, typically letters, syllables, or words.

Bugs

 * As of the ammo maximum on PC is 40, rather than 50 as compared to Consoles.
 * Currently Euphona Prime's alternative shot's spread seems to be bugged. It spreads to the top right of the crosshair instead of around the crosshair as normal shotguns do.