Plasma Sword

"An advanced blade that delivers high-damage charge attacks. Delivers a high percentage of critical strikes."

- Codex Description

The Plasma Sword is a longsword exclusive to Alert Missions. It is effective against shields and has high charge damage, critical chance, and a good chance to proc status effects, but loses effectiveness against armor quickly.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Specializes in Impact damage, making it effective against shielded enemies.
 * Good chance to Proc, highest chance of all melee weapons.
 * High Charge Damage.
 * Has a good base critical chance and good critical damage.
 * Decent range.
 * Once you find the blueprint, it's very easy to make (сrafted using easily obtainable resources).
 * Staggers enemies on regular attacks.
 * Fast charge speed.

Disadvantages:
 * Once the enemy's shields are down, the Plasma Sword will lose effectiveness due to the low Puncture and Slashing damage.
 * No polarities.
 * Low-end damage output with normal swings.
 * Can only hit single targets.
 * Slow jump attack animation, takes longer to slam down once you hit the ground.

Acquisition
The Plasma Sword can only be acquired from alert missions.

Can be sold for  5,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Trivia

 * The plasma sword uses the smaller model of the pre-update 11 Gram.