Astilla Prime is the primed variant of 
Astilla, acting as a direct upgrade. Astilla Prime was released alongside 
Gara Prime and 
Volnus Prime.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash and Impact damage – effective against health and shields. - High critical chance.
- Very high status chance.
- Fires a single slug every shot instead of individual pellets.
- Slugs have a guaranteed Impact proc.
- Slugs have a guaranteed
- Slugs explode in a 2.4 meter radius after impacting a surface or enemy.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Tied with Astilla for the highest accuracy of all shotguns.
- Innate two and one polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low Puncture damage – less effective against armor.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 30m to 60m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Fewer status counts due to firing a single projectile instead of multiple pellets.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 70% from central impact.
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Ammo inefficient.
- Shatter area of effect cannot hit enemies behind the location of impact.
Comparisons:
- Astilla Prime (Slug Impact), compared to Astilla (Slug Impact):
- Higher base damage per projectile (100 vs. 70)
- Higher Impact damage (100 vs. 70)
- Higher
- Higher total damage (100 vs. 70)
- Higher base critical chance (21.00% vs. 17.00%)
- Higher base status chance (37.00% vs. 33.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (118.9 vs. 80.71)
- Higher burst DPS (514.83 vs. 349.47)
- Higher sustained DPS (378.32 vs. 226.74)
- Larger magazine (24 vs. 16)
- Larger max ammo capacity (120 vs. 112)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●●●○○ (1.05x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
- Higher base damage per projectile (100 vs. 70)
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
 Receiver
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 Barrel
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 Stock
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 Blueprint
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|---|---|---|---|
 Lith N12 Common Axi N7 Common (V) Lith H3 Common (V) Lith N8 Common (V)
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 Meso A3 Rare Lith A4 Rare (V)
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Lith N11 Uncommon Lith T8 Uncommon (V) Meso T5 Uncommon (V) Neo P3 Uncommon (V)
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Axi G7 Uncommon Meso I2 Uncommon Neo T4 Uncommon (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  45
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Notes[]
- As a Signature Weapon, Astilla Prime gains a bonus effect with Gara or Gara Prime, gaining an additional 80 reserve ammo, for a total of 200.
- Similar to its standard counterpart, because of the weapon's firing mechanics, the Astilla Prime can be practically treated as a mid-ranged assault rifle that uses shotgun mods. But due to the explosive effects of its slugs, the gun is deceptively effective at crowd control.
Trivia[]
Media[]
Guide to Astilla Prime & Builds - Warframe
Astilla Prime Build 2021 (Guide) - The Glass Cannon - Warframe
Patch History[]
Update 30.3 (2021-05-25)
- Introduced.
