Artemis Bow (Weapon)

The Artemis Bow is Ivara's signature Exalted Weapon, which can only be used upon activating the ability of the same name. It fires seven arrows at once in a vertical spread, which can be reoriented into a horizontal spread by holding down the fire button.

Refer to the weapon's ability page for a list of mods that affect the weapon.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages
 * High damage – effective against armor.
 * Very high critical chance.
 * High status chance.
 * Innate 1.5x damage multiplier.
 * Every shot fires 7 arrows, which can be oriented vertically or horizontally.
 * Arrow damage and status chance are not divided among the arrows.
 * augment replaces the 7 arrows for a single arrow that, on headshots, has increased critical chance and releases a explosion with a guaranteed  proc.
 * Explosion has innate damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
 * Pinpoint accuracy.
 * Silent.
 * Innate 1 meter Punch Through.
 * On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
 * Does not use ammunition.
 * Can use the bow-exclusive mod.
 * Innate two and one  polarities.

Disadvantages
 * Low and  damage – less effective against shields and health.
 * Arrows have a travel time with slight arcing.
 * With augment:
 * Explosion has innate damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
 * Explosion damage cannot be increased by, , or mods.
 * The single arrow deals the same amount of damage as an individual arrow without the augment.
 * Charge has no effect on damage; only the projectile speed.
 * Explosion has 0% status chance.
 * Punch Through is removed, and cannot be increased with mods.
 * Cannot be modded with the following: weapon augments (e.g., ), Riven Mods, or Acolyte Mods.
 * Requires energy to activate and consumes energy per shot.

Trivia

 * Before the introduction of modable Exalted Weapons, the stats of the Artemis Bow depended on the mods equipped on the player's Primary weapon.

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