Phantasma

The Phantasma is Revenant's signature shotgun that fires a deadly beam of and  damage. Its Alternate Fire charges up an explosive plasma orb that spawns additional enemy-seeking projectiles.

Characteristics
This weapon deal primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
 * High damage – effective against shields.
 * Second highest status chance of all shotguns, behind Strun Wraith.
 * Can reach 100% status chance with three of the following:, , and.
 * Innate confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
 * Primary fire is pinpoint accurate.
 * Primary fire is tied with Convectrix and Phage for the fastest fire rate of all shotguns.
 * Primary fire consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
 * Fastest reloading speed of all primary shotguns.
 * Alternate Fire charges the weapon to fire a large explosive glob that releases seeking projectiles. The longer the charge, the more damage is dealt, and the more projectiles are released.
 * Fastest reload speed of all shotguns.
 * No damage falloff.
 * Innate and  polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Innate damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
 * No or  damage – less effective against armor and health.
 * Damage cannot be increased with and  mods.
 * Lowest critical chance of all shotguns.
 * Low critical multiplier.
 * Low magazine size; requires frequent reloading.
 * Primary fire has a limited range of 20 meters.
 * Alt-fire has travel time with heavy arcing.
 * Alt-fire inflicts self damage.
 * Alt-fire seeking projectiles travel slowly and can fail to spawn or not seek enemies in enclosed areas.

Trivia

 * φάντασμα is Ancient Greek for phantom or apparition.