Embolist

"A living weapon, the infested EMBOLIST pistol kills its victims with a acidic venomous gas."

- In-game Description

Characteristics
Much like the Ignis, the Embolist fires a continuous stream of acid at it's target doing poison damage.

Advantages:
 * Deals Poison Damage which ignores armor.
 * Ignores shields in PvP and damages Health directly.
 * One polarity slot.
 * Deals damage in an AoE cone (much like the Ignis) that hits all enemies in it, making it excellent at decimating large groups.
 * Applies damage to every body part of Ragdolled enemies at once, multiplying the damage several times.

Disadvantages:
 * Requires a large amount of materials to craft, namely a Forma, five Mutagen Masses and a hefty 15,000 Salvage.
 * Very short range, about 5-6 ingame meters, even shorter than the Ignis.
 * Expends ammo rapidly. The 1.7 firing rate does not reflect the ammo consumption.
 * Requires Mastery Rank of 8.
 * Low total ammo size.

Acquisition
Acrid is required before researching this weapon. Upon research the blueprint can be replicated for  50,000.

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

Tips

 * Vauban is an excellent choice with the Embolist as damage is applied to every body part of enemies that are ragdolled in his Vortex, multiplying the damage several times and can even kill mid level enemies unmodded.

Trivia

 * This item was added in Update 10.
 * An embolism refers to the lodging of an embolus, such as a blood clot or gas bubble. It can cause a circulatory blockage which affects a different part of the body away from the actual site of the blockage.
 * The visual effect of the Embolist resembles the special attack of the Nauseous Crawler, indicating that this weapon may be a part of said Infested or derived from it. However, apart from the similar attack appearance there are no shared properties.
 * Has the highest mastery level requirement in-game at mastery level 8. Before U10 the highest Mastery level needed to make a weapon was 7.