Vasto Prime

The primed version of the Vasto revolver, the Vasto Prime features enhanced damage over the original.

On November 15, 2016, it was announced that the Vasto Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High damage.
 * High damage – effective against Infested, Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
 * Fast fire rate.
 * Very accurate.
 * Very fast reload speed, on par with the Bronco and the Brakk
 * Two polarity slots.
 * Higher chance to stagger than other weapons.
 * Decent critical chance.
 * Can cut enemies, leaving 2 corpses for a Nekros to use Desecrate on.

Disadvantages:
 * Small magazine size, which, when combined the fire rate, means you will empty your magazine in just over one second.
 * Low and  damage – less effective against shields or armor.

Comparisons

Tips

 * The Vasto Prime has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, similar to -focused melee weapons. This makes the Vasto Prime a prime candidate for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
 * Other known firearms which shares the same property are the Akjagara, Braton Prime, Flux Rifle, Grakata, Kohm, Latos (Lato, Lato Prime and Lato Vandal), Miter, Panthera, Tigris and other Vasto variants (Vasto and Akvasto).

Trivia

 * The Vasto Prime was one of the first Prime items which had colorable gold parts. This trait is shared with the Soma Prime, Nova Prime and the Pyra Prime Syndana.
 * Since, several other Prime items have since had this trait implemented.
 * With the introduction of Damage 2.0, the original Vasto along with Akvasto became able to cut enemies due to its overwhelming slash damage. The Vasto Prime inherited this trait.
 * The Vasto Prime also bears a striking visual resemblance to the Enouy Revolver.