Hystrix

"Fire, ice, electricity, or poison: choose an element and launch a flurry [sic] deadly quills. This versatile sidearm is Khora's signature weapon."

- In-Game Description

The Hystrix is Khora's signature sidearm that fires metallic quills with high critical stats. It is also a very versatile weapon, with its quills applying, , , or elemental status procs that can be cycled at will with Alternate Fire.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * High damage – effective against armor.
 * Alternate Fire cycles between, , , or elemental quills. Quills apply a guaranteed proc of the selected element.
 * High critical chance.
 * Above average critical damage multiplier.
 * High fire rate.
 * Fairly fast reload speed.
 * On kill, bodies will follow the quill that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
 * Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:
 * Low and  damage – less effective against health and shields.
 * Projectiles have travel time.
 * Low status chance.
 * Small magazine size.
 * Coupled with its high fire rate, results in frequent reloading.

Tips

 * Because elemental mods are not combined with the quill element this can be very useful for easily getting multiple procs on enemies for.

Trivia

 * ὕστριξ (Hystrix) is Ancient Greek for porcupine.

Patch History
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