Artemis Bow (Weapon)

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

The Artemis Bow is Ivara's signature Exalted Weapon, which can only be used upon activating the ability of the same name. It fires seven arrows at once in a vertical spread, which can be reoriented into a horizontal spread by holding down the fire button.

Refer to the weapon's ability page for a list of mods that affect the weapon.

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.

Advantages

• High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
• Very high critical chance.
• High status chance.
• Innate 2.0x critical multiplier.
• Every shot fires 7 arrows, which can be oriented vertically, horizontally, or diagonally.
  • Arrow damage and status chance are not divided among the arrows.
  • A full charge isn't necessary to deal the weapon's maximum damage.
  • Concentrated Arrow augment replaces the 7 arrows for a single arrow that, on headshots, has increased critical chance and releases a Blast explosion with a guaranteed Impact proc.
    • Explosion has innate Blast damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
• Silent.
• Innate 1 meter punch through.
• On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
• Does not use ammunition.
• Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
• Can use the Hunter Munitions mod.
• Innate two and one polarities.

Disadvantages

• Low Impact and Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
• Arrows have a travel time with slight arcing.
• With Concentrated Arrow augment:
  • Explosion has innate Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
    • Explosion damage cannot be increased by Impact, Puncture, or Slash mods.
  • The single arrow deals the same amount of damage as an individual arrow without the augment.
  • Charge has no effect on damage; only the projectile speed.
  • Explosion has 0% status chance.
  • Punch Through is removed, and can not be increased with mods.
• It's almost impossible to make all 7 arrows hit a single target unless when firing at point blank ranges, minimizing the amount of damage players can do on a single target.
• Requires energy to activate and consumes energy per shot.
• As Exalted Weapon, it cannot get nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods.

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

• See Category:Artemis Bow (Weapon) Build to see how players mod this weapon.
• See Category:Artemis Bow (Weapon) Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
• For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

NotesEdit

• The displayed damage number of 240 in the Arsenal is Artemis Bow's base damage of 160 multiplied by Artemis Bow's innate 1.5x critical multiplier.
• Firing arrows with a half charge allows players to shoot arrows in a diagonal orientation.
• Charging shots does not increase arrow flight speed, unless Concentrated Arrow is equipped.
• Multishot mods apply separately to all seven arrows, meaning it's possible to get a maximum of 18 arrows with Split Chamber and Vigilante Armaments equipped.
• Hunter Munitions can be utilized to greatly bypass enemy defenses such as Shields and Armor.

TriviaEdit

• Artemis is a deity from Ancient Greek mythology, most famous for being the goddess of the hunt.
  • One of Artemis' symbols is the bow and arrow.
• Before the introduction of moddable Exalted Weapons, the stats of the Artemis Bow depended on the mods equipped on the player's Primary weapon.

Patch HistoryEdit

See AlsoEdit

• Artemis Bow, the ability that summons the weapon.
• Ivara, the weapon's user.