Rakta Ballistica

The Rakta Ballistica is an exclusive version of the Ballistica available only from the Red Veil. The Rakta Ballistica has a higher portion of damage than its default version, and features a larger magazine as well as innate Blight effect.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily  damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * Highest damage of any secondary – effective against Armor.
 * Good charge critical chance.
 * No projectile arc when firing burst or charged.
 * Charged shot can hit multiple enemies in a line (caused by flying dead bodies and not the bolt).
 * Has both and  polarities.
 * Charged attack conserves ammo.
 * Innate Blight effect.
 * Fully charged shots are Silent.

Disadvantages:
 * Semi-auto function has low accuracy and spreads horizontally.
 * Has fairly strong horizontal recoil associated with this which players may be unaccustomed to compensating for.
 * Must be charged for higher accuracy shots.
 * Has a slightly lower than average zoom.
 * Projectiles have slight travel time.
 * Linearly less efficient – Sometimes a target may only die with five projectiles, which requires an entire second burst/charge to be fired.
 * However, since the charge shot only consumes one ammo, this problem can be avoided entirely.
 * Low  and  damage – less effective against shields and health respectively.
 * Burst-fire projectiles have very low critical chance.
 * Low Critical Multiplier

Comparisons:
 * Rakta Ballistica, compared to the Ballistica:
 * Higher base damage on un-charged shots. (75.0 vs. 25.0)
 * Higher base damage on charge shots. (300.0 vs. 100.0)
 * Higher  damage. (270.0 vs 80.0)
 * Higher  damage. (15.0 vs 10.0)
 * Higher damage. (15.0 vs 10.0)
 * Larger magazine. (20 vs 16)
 * Higher crit chance. (20.0% vs 15.0%)
 * Innate Blight radial effect.
 * Additional polarity.

Acquisition

 * The Rakta Ballistica can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Exalted with the Red Veil, and spending to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Rakta Ballistica cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Exalted rank.
 * Syndicate weapons can be also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.

Trivia

 * This is the second item in the game with the "Rakta" prefix, the first one being the Rakta Syandana.
 * Rakta is derived from the Sanskrit word rakta , meaning blood.
 * Prior to, the Rakta Ballistica could not be recolored, with only its energy color being customizable.
 * Its appearance prior to Update 16 appeared to be based on Wraith weapons. The weapon's current inventory icon shows what the Rakta Ballistica formerly looked like.
 * When the Rakta Ballistica was first introduced, its charged attack dealt primarily damage instead of  damage. The primary damage type changed in  (along with several other improvements to the weapon) to be more consistent with the regular version.