Phage

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Extremely low ammo consumption rate.
 * Good status chance even for a shotgun, excellent for a continuous weapon.
 * Multiple fire modes, changed by holding zoom.

Disadvantages:
 * The starting spread is quite wide, and it takes quite a while to focus the beams together.
 * It will lose focus the instant you stop firing, or land from a jump, or step off a ledge...
 * Limited range, similar to the Synapse.
 * Requires mastery rank 7.

Acquisition
The Phage can be purchased for. The blueprint can be purchased from the Bio Lab after being researched.

Tips

 * Due to being a shotgun weapon, Tainted Shell is rendered usable, allowing the Phage to have an increase in accuracy.
 * The Phage has a unique Punch-through capability, as the streams seem to penetrate Snow Globes and physical shields carried by Shield Lancers.
 * The "Focus" of the beams can be paused at an intermediate stage by releasing zoom. This can be used to dispatch different groupings of enemies more efficiently.
 * Vicious Spread Will only increase the initial spread of the beam, and not the "focused" state achieved through zoom.

Trivia

 * Phage is the Greek term for "to devour".
 * It is also a nickname to a virus named Bacteriophage.
 * This is the first shotgun to have a continuous-firing feature.