Ballista

Grineer

Ballista
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Long Ranged Sniper
General Information
Faction	Grineer
Planet(s)	Mercury Earth Mars Saturn Uranus Ceres Sedna Phobos
Type	Sniper
Weapon(s)	Vulkar Sheev
Statistics
Affinity	200
Cloned Flesh	100
--  -  +  +  +++
Ferrite Armor	100
Dmg. Reduction	25%
-  -  ++  +++
Body Multipliers	Head: 2.0x
Base Level	1
Normal Attack
60.9375
9.375
9.375
Total Damage	75 (81.25%)
Status Chance	25%
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	5
Drops
Mod Drops	Organ Shatter 1.14%  Stormbringer 0.33% 15  Endo 1.14% 50  Endo 0.33% 80  Endo 0.06%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Pigment Drops	2x  Tharsis Brown Pigment 50.00%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

For the similarly named weapon, see Ballistica.

Ballistas are Grineer female units that utilize the Vulkar for long range support. While they have a slower fire rate than other Grineer units, Ballistas deal more damage and are smaller targets.

Notes

• In spite of their role as a long-ranged unit, they seem to have similar tactics used by regular Grineer Lancers.
• Like all standard Grineer, her Vulkar can do devastating damage to shields when it hits such targets and has a fairly high chance to proc. Although more rare, procs can occur which are more deadly than other Grineer weapons due to its high base damage.
• Ballista can perform a quick, three shot burst when blind-firing from around a corner with each shot dealing as much damage as they normally would under regular circumstances, making it very deadly.

Tactics

• Ballistas have accurate sniper rifles and will predict the last movement of a moving player before making a lethal shot. Zigzagging maneuvers is advised in order to prevent these shots from being taken.
• Even though they have a low firing rate, Ballistas can become a serious nuisance as their Vulkars are capable of dropping a player's shields in under 3 shots and they are often isolated from other Grineer allies.
• Their Vulkars deal significant damage to shields and light armored targets, especially Excavators.

Variants

• Drekar Ballista

Drekar Ballista	General		Drops
	Introduced	Undetermined	Mod Drops: Fusion Core 0.938% Organ Shatter 0.938% Fusion Core 0.563% Fusion Core 0.031% Toxic Flight 0.031%
	Tileset	Grineer Sealab
	Weapon	Vulkar
	Codex Scans	5
	Statistics
	Cloned Flesh	100
	​+  ​+  ​+++  ​‐  ​‐‐
	Ferrite Armor	100
	​++  ​+++  ​-  ​-
	Affinity	200
	Base Level	1

Trivia

• Ballistas were added in Update 7.0 (2013-03-18).
• Ballistas originally wielded Snipetrons prior to Update 8.0 (2013-05-23).
• Following Update 15.0 (2014-10-24), Anemic Agility was added to the Ballista's drop tables, then later removed in Hotfix 15.7.2 (2014-12-19).
  • According to the changelog, Anemic Agility "was only ever intended to drop in Orokin Derelict Vaults."
• The Drekar Ballista originally used the health and armor values of Heavy Gunner Variants, rather than that of standard Ballistas. This was corrected in Hotfix 17.2.3 (2015-08-24).

Media

• A Grineer Ballista.
• Ballista prior to U8 with the Snipetron.
• ballista
• Drekar Ballista
• Another Drekar Ballista, without a mask

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