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.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages
- Second-highest base damage of all weapons in the game, after Arquebex.
- High
Puncture damage – effective against armor. - Very high critical chance.
- High status chance.
- Innate 1.5x damage multiplier.
- Innate multishot of 7 arrows, which can be oriented vertically, horizontally, or diagonally based on charge time.
- Arrow damage and status chance are 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.
- Explosion has innate
- 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.
- 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.
- With Concentrated Arrow augment:
- Explosion has innate Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
- 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.
- Explosion has innate
- 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).
Notes[]
- 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.
- Hunter Munitions can be utilized to greatly bypass enemy defenses such as Armor.
- As an Exalted Weapon, this weapon comes with an Orokin Catalyst pre-installed.
Trivia[]
- 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 History[]
Update 30.2 (2021-05-12)
- Fixed inability to deactivate Ivara’s Artemis Bow or swap weapon after throwing a speargun weapon.
Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)
- Fixed animation issues with Ivara/Ivara Prime’s Artemis Bow.
- Fixed de-equipping a Scanner not returning you to your active Exalted weapon if one was equipped prior.
Hotfix 29.1.1 (2020-09-18)
- Fixes towards Exalted weapons not being equipped when viewed via Look Link or Mod Link.
Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)
- Ivara's Artemis Bow now has 20% Status Chance per projectile. Also slightly tweaked how Status Chance and Multishot are displayed in Arsenal stats.
Update 23.0 (2018-06-15)
- Introduced as a moddable weapon.
Last updated: Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)
See Also[]
- Artemis Bow, the ability that summons the weapon.
- Ivara, the weapon's user.
