Acrid

"The Acrid fires an acidic-infused needle."

- In-Game Description

The Acrid is an Infested weapon unlockable through Bio Lab Research in the dojo. It appears to be a needle gun which kills enemies with toxic injections. Its damage is poison elemental, similar to Mire.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Leaves a damage-over-time effect that ticks 4 times over 4 seconds for 18 damage per tick.
 * DoT stacks with each shot.
 * Most enemies do not have resistance against poison damage.
 * No recoil or dart drop
 * Silent

Disadvantages:
 * DoT cannot be increased by Hornet Strike. (Although it can still benefit from elemental MODs)
 * Has a travel time.
 * (*)Even though the game states this weapon has 100 accuracy, the needles will still spread.
 * It is a dojo research weapon and requires a large amount of materials.
 * Requires Mastery Rank 7.

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

Tips

 * Since the DoT does not scale with Hornet Strike, Barrel Diffusion and Gunslinger will be more effective.

Trivia

 * Saryn + Mire + Torid + Acrid will give you the only loadout consisting solely of poison.