Zhuge Prime

The Zhuge is a Tenno automatic crossbow. It boasts impressive damage that is complimented by its very high status chance, limited by its projectile nature and very slow fire rate.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages
 * Tied with for the highest base damage of all fully automatic weapons.
 * High damage – effective against armor.
 * High critical chance.
 * Highest status chance of all fully automatic weapons.
 * Can reach 100% status chance with, , , and.
 * High base accuracy.
 * Very ammo efficient.
 * High ammo reserve for its magazine size.
 * Uses rifle ammo pickups instead of the scarcer sniper ammo pickups.
 * Silent.
 * On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
 * Has a polarity.
 * Can use the bow-exclusive mod.
 * Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.

Disadvantages
 * Low damage – less effective against shields.
 * Low reload speed.
 * Projectiles have travel time.
 * Third lowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, behind and.

Tips

 * While possessing an Auto trigger, the Zhuge is best used when fired in bursts to better aim shots and manage its small magazine. On the other hand, its automatic fire combined with its native knockback makes it good when strafing against multiple enemies, or shooting a single tough enemy multiple times.
 * synergizes well with the Zhuge due to the weapon's magazine size and automatic trigger, giving it a very high chance of triggering explosions within a shorter amount of time than conventional bows. This makes the Zhuge more proficient at crowd-control than single-shot bows like the, with its full-auto fire allowing one to strafe an area with explosive bolts to deal damage against multiple enemies.

Trivia

 * The Zhuge was originally introduced in Warframe China as a timed-exclusive item, alongside the and.
 * The Zhuge is named after the Chinese word for the repeating crossbow, Zhūgé nǔ (諸葛弩), literally meaning "the Zhuge [Liang] crossbow", in turn named after its purported inventor Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was a Chinese chancellor that lived during the Three Kingdoms Period of China, and is considered one of the greatest strategists of the era.
 * The Zhuge is the fourth crossbow introduced in the game, after the and /.