Artemis Bow (Weapon)

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Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Artemis Bow

Statistics

Utility

Normal Attacks

235.2

1344.0

100.8

Charged Shot

235.2

1344.0

100.8

Miscellaneous

Weapon Users

Ivara

Introduced

Update 23.0

Ivara hit the ground and sprang into a surrounding tunnel, the Myrmidon's shot lancing a gouge in the porous chamber wall.

Ivara pressed her back to a shadowed outcrop at the tunnel's end while the Myrmidon's weapon blazed and cut and chewed through her only cover. As good a time as any to discuss the weapon before you: the Artemis Bow. The huntress' signature weapon and the tool with which she has wrought so much good. Said by some to be spirit-bonded to her, others say the product of forgotten Orokin technology. What Porvis tells us next displays to good effect what warrior and weapon were capable of.

Pinned behind eroding cover, seconds from death, Ivara summoned her Artemis Bow, and it came to her. She and weapon as one. Without rising she pulled back, aimed high, she and arrow as one, and loosed. Under Ivara's guidance the arrow turned its path and shot down the corridor, toward the Myrmidon, and lengthwise through his weapon.

Around Ivara the walls flashed green for a micro-second, as the Myrmidon's weapon erupted, and then... silence.

—Drusus

The Artemis Bow is Ivara's and Ivara Prime'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 1.5x damage multiplier.
Fires 7 arrows, which can be oriented vertically, horizontally, or diagonally based on charge time.
- Arrow damage is not divided among the arrows.
- Damage is unaffected by charge amount.
- 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.
Innate two and one polarities.

Disadvantages

Low Impact and Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
Status chance is split between each of its seven arrows, requiring simultaneous hits to maximize status procs, exacerbated by the large spread.
- Wide projectile spread reduces effectiveness on a single target unless firing at point-blank range.
- Projectiles generated by multishot will deal the same damage as normal projectiles; adding multishot will not decrease the damage per arrow.
- Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one arrow will proc a status; the actual base status chance per arrow is ~3.14%.
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.
Arrows have a travel time with slight arcing.
Requires energy to activate and consumes energy per shot.
As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods (the Vigilante Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Warframe, Primary or Robotic Weapons, and not on the Exalted Weapon itself).
Cannot equip Amalgam Mods (e.g., Amalgam Serration).

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 Artemis Bow weapon appears in the Arsenal after unlocking Ivara's Artemis Bow ability.
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 damage 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 (the 18th arrow has a 50% chance of occuring with both multishot mods 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.
On Ivara Prime, the bow is named Artemis Bow Prime. Its stats are, however, identical to Artemis Bow.
Artemis Bow is the first and only Exalted primary in the game.

Patch HistoryEdit