Astilla

The Astilla is a Tenno automatic shotgun that fires slugs that explode to deal a secondary AoE attack that damages enemies in a small radius. With strong Impact and Slash damage, this weapon stuns and bleeds enemies with ease.

Characteristics
This weapon primarily deals Slash damage.

Advantages:
 * High damage slug.
 * Slug has guaranteed proc.
 * Impact with enemies or surfaces creates a shatter that inflicts secondary source of damage to all enemies in a ~5m half-circle in front of the impact.
 * High status chance.
 * Good critical chance.

Disadvantages:
 * Has damage falloff range starting at 40m and ending at 60m.
 * Projectiles have travel time.
 * Low ammo efficiency against single targets compared to most shotguns.
 * Must directly hit enemy for maximum damage.
 * Shatter AoE cannot hit enemies behind the location of impact.

Tips

 * can be added to increase flight speed, as well as increasing minimum and maximum damage falloff penalty ranges to 56 and 84 meters respectively.
 * Due to the low ammo pool and slug mechanics it is recommended to treat the not like a automatic shotgun but instead like a automatic explosive rifle.

Trivia

 * "Astilla" is Spanish for "splinter".

Patch History
Astilla