Silva & Aegis Prime

The Silva & Aegis Prime are the Prime counterparts to the -based sword and shield combo weapons, Silva & Aegis. Compared to its normal counterpart, the Silva & Aegis Prime boasts significantly higher damage and higher critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance, but with significantly slower attack speed.

Characteristics
This weapon deals damage.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Infested and Cloned Flesh.
 * Can also be combined with damage to make  damage for further-increased effectiveness against the Infested.
 * Can also be combined with damage to make  damage, making it effective against most Grineer units.
 * Highest blocking effectiveness of all weapons, reducing up to 90% of incoming damage.
 * Blocking increases both Critical and Status Chance by 15% (max 60%) to next attack.
 * With all four dual stat elemental mods, 100% status chance can be reached after blocking 4 times.
 * Ground finishers are guaranteed to inflict a proc.
 * AoE knockback on ground slam.
 * High status chance, even without blocking first
 * Wide swings can hit targets slightly behind the player
 * Shield Bashes deal proc.
 * Can use the Silva & Aegis exclusive mod.
 * Good critical chance.

Disadvantages: Comparisons:
 * damage is ineffective against Proto Shields.
 * Silva & Aegis Prime, compared to the Silva & Aegis:
 * Significantly higher base damage (120.0 vs. 35.0).
 * Higher critical chance (15.0% vs. 5.0%).
 * Higher critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x).
 * Higher status chance (25.0% vs. 20.0%).
 * Significantly slower attack speed (0.75 vs. 1.0).
 * Higher block percentage (90% vs 85%)
 * Two and one  polarities.

Trivia

 * The Silva & Aegis Prime is the first of DE's Community Melee Weapons Contest designs, which are comprised of fan-submitted weapons, to receive a Prime version.
 * On Silva & Aegis Prime, Silva Prime is a mace, while on the non-prime variant, Silva is a flaming sword.
 * Silva & Aegis Prime was likely released with Oberon Prime, Fae King of the Forest, because Silvan means 'one who frequents glades and woods.'

Bugs

 * Due to how thin its shield is the Silva & Aegis will often clip into the arms of the Warframe wielding it. This is purely visual and has no effect on gameplay.