Arca Plasmor

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

The Arca Plasmor is a Corpus-built plasma shotgun that fires highly damaging pulses of Radiation with a guaranteed Impact proc. The Arca Plasmor is a part of the Arca weapons series, which includes the Arca Scisco pistol and Arca Titron hammer.

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	5	25	925	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research 3,000
7,500	200	12,000	3,750	8	Time: 72 hrs
					Prereq: Lanka
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

AcquisitionEdit

This weapon is available through Energy Lab Research in the Clan Dojo.

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals high amounts of Radiation damage.

Advantages:

• Fifth highest base damage of all shotguns, behind the Drakgoon (when charged), Tigris, Sancti Tigris, and Tigris Prime.
  • Innate Radiation damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• High critical chance.
• Very high status chance.
  • Innate Radiation confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
• Shots have a guaranteed Impact proc to enemies up to 15 meters.
• Projectiles have a thickness of 3 meters.
• Innate 2 meters Punch Through against bodies.
• Good magazine size.
• Very ammo efficient.
• Low zoom, making covering wide shots while aiming easier.
• Killed enemies will have their corpses vaporized, good for Stealth gameplay if silenced due to no bodies being left behind.
• Two innate polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Radiation damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
  • Damage cannot be increased with Slash, Impact, and Puncture mods.
• Linear damage falloff from 100% to 33.33% from 10m to 20m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• The projectile has travel time.
• Limited range of 30 meters (can be increased with Projectile Speed mods).
• Low critical multiplier.
• No bonus damage on headshots.
• Very low reload speed.
• Lowest fire rate of all shotguns.
• Innate Punch Through does not apply to surfaces if hitting with the central portion of the projectile, requiring Punch through mods.

NotesEdit

• Being that it is a pulse shotgun, accuracy mods seem to have no effect on spread.
  • Vicious Spread however throws off accuracy by making shots veer wildly off from the aiming reticle at times, use at your own discretion.
    • This can be counteracted somewhat with Hell's Chamber, which will cause the weapon to fire 2-3 waves of energy.
    • Vicious Spread can also be counteracted by using Mirages' Hall of Mirrors ability, do note that projectiles fired by the clones bounce off solid surfaces instead of dissipating.
    • A possible bug, Tainted Shell does not counteract Vicious Spread's accuracy decrease in any reasonable measure. Meaning that if you install both, the accuracy will still be significantly lower.
• The Plasmor's pulse has a range of 30m. This scales with Projectile Speed mods, including the Jet Stream augment.
• Shots will only proc Impact if the target is within 15m.
• The Plasmor has a reduced zoom by about 60% when aiming.
• While the weapon uses shotgun mods and it is classed as a shotgun, it does not use standard shotgun status mechanics, due to not having any pellets. This means the status is much more reliable per shot.
• While the critical chance of the weapon is good, the critical damage is only slightly better than normal.

TipsEdit

• Because the range and damage falloff are determined by the weapon's projectile speed, adding in Fatal Acceleration will increase the range and falloff limits by 40%, to 14m minimum falloff and 28m maximum falloff as well as increasing the range to 42m.
• Due to its innate Radiation damage, the weapon can use elementals and dual elementals that use Heat or Electricity damage, such as Corrosive VS Grineer or Magnetic VS Corpus.
• Consistent Impact procs from the weapon at medium range or less may negate the need for Blast damage for crowd control, allowing the player to use Cold damage instead which slows enemies and extends the Impact stun duration.
  • This also allows the weapon to have the advantages and disadvantages Cold damage brings.
• Short corridors favor this weapon highly, as a few pulses are normally enough to make short work of enemy clusters as long as no Arctic Eximi or Nullifier Crewmen are present, and the added Impact and Radiation procs will keep enemies at bay.
  • Applying Seeking Force and Seeking Fury will make this weapon even deadlier along such corridors.

TriviaEdit

• The magazine for the weapon is a metal cylinder, which rotates clockwise after firing each shot and pumping the mechanism. No shells are ejected with each pump, perhaps implying the cylinder is filled with batteries or charge cells, which are depleted from a single pump and must be rotated to bring a new cell into position.
• Writings on the side of the weapon seem to translate as "G.S.1.1", and possibly "DANGER EXTREME HEAT".
• The description of surviving enemies being "consumed by radiation" simply means that their bodies will disintegrate on death, making this weapon viable for stealth (if silenced).

MediaEdit

• Arca Plasmor in Codex.

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Patch HistoryEdit

Last updated: Update 24.0

See AlsoEdit

• Arca Scisco, the secondary counterpart to this weapon.
• Arca Titron, the melee counterpart to this weapon.
• Catchmoon, a Kitgun chamber that fires a similar projectile.