Boltor Prime

The Boltor Prime is the Prime version of the Boltor projectile rifle, released in Update 12.4. Its bolts' flight time requires compensation, making this weapon more difficult to use at longer ranges. Despite this, the Boltor Prime can easily punish close-range targets, its high Puncture damage makes it an excellent close-quarters rifle against the Grineer.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High base damage.
 * Deals high damage; effective against armored targets.
 * High rate of fire.
 * Due to its high fire rate and damage, it yields one of the highest single target burst dps of all primary weapons, the other being the Boar Prime.
 * Knocks target back on kill, dealing damage to nearby enemies behind the target.
 * Low Recoil.
 * Comes with and  polarities.

Disadvantages:
 * Bolts have a small amount of travel time.
 * Generally less effective against shields and flesh.
 * Low  damage, which is compounded by the damage penalty  has against shields
 * No  damage, making it less effective against flesh and Infested.
 * Low critical chance.
 * Below-average ammo efficiency in general, especially when used with Speed Trigger.

Comparisons:
 * Compared to the Boltor:
 * Higher base damage (55.0 vs. 25.0).
 * Higher damage (5.5 vs. 2.5).
 * Higher damage (49.5 vs. 20.0).
 * Does not have damage (0.0 vs. 2.5).
 * Higher critical damage (2.0x vs. 1.5x).
 * Faster rate of fire (10.0/sec vs. 8.8/sec).
 * Slightly faster reload time (2.4s vs. 2.6s).
 * Higher accuracy (50.0 vs. 25.0).
 * Has an extra polarity.

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

Tips

 * Since it has medium ammo economy, mods like Rifle Ammo Mutation or Ammo Drum can be used to gain extra ammo if needed, or alternatively, a Team Ammo Restore can be used.
 * The Boltor Prime has a knockback effect on kill that can be used instead of Punch Through to save an additional mod slot.
 * The knockback works with Punch Through mods, making a Boltor Prime with Shred or Metal Auger devastating when fired against lines of enemies as it both punches through them and knocks any killed enemies back into the line.

Trivia

 * Boltor Prime is the sixth primed Primary weapon ever released.
 * Compared to previous Prime weapons, the Boltor and the Boltor Prime have a much closer resemblance to each other.
 * A possible explanation is the manufacturing faction. The Boltor is a Tenno produced weapon, unlike, for example, the Braton.
 * The Boltor Prime's gold parts can be recolored as of Update 15.13.