The Artemis Bow is 
Ivara's and 
Ivara Prime's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by 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. - Innate 1 meter punch through.
- 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.
- 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.
- Innate two and one polarities.
- Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
- Unlike other Exalted Weapons, it does not have continuous energy drain and Ivara can gain energy from passive energy regeneration while it is active, such as from Energy Siphon.
Advantages
- Very high critical chance.
- High status chance.
- 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.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Silent.
- 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.
Disadvantages
- Wide projectile spread reduces effectiveness on a single target unless firing at point-blank range.
- 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)
- Does not have an Exilus slot.
- Cannot equip Primary Arcane Enhancements.
Lore[]
Notes[]
- The Artemis Bow weapon appears in the Arsenal after unlocking Ivara's Artemis Bow ability.
- 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.
- 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 Exalted primary in the game.
Patch History[]
Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)
- Fixed Ivara’s Artemis Bow not benefitting from the Galvanized Aptitude Mod.
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
- Fixed the Thunderbolt Mod causing self-damage to Ivara when equipped on her Artemis Bow.
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- Fixed many mods that previously worked on Exalted Weapons not correctly applying, for example (but not exclusively) Internal Bleeding and Hunter Munitions when installed on Ivara’s Artemis Bow.
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.
