The Ballistica Prime is the Prime variant of the 
Ballistica, sporting higher damage, critical chance, critical damage, and status chance, larger magazine, and faster charge-up and reload speed. This weapon has the unique ability to create ghosts that will fight alongside its user with charged shot kills. It should also be noted that the Ballistica Prime doesn't have burst-fire like the standard Ballistica and Rakta versions, instead shooting 4 arrows in a tight spread.
It was released in Update 21.6 alongside 
Hydroid Prime and 
Nami Skyla Prime.
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High Puncture and good Slash damage – effective against armor and health.
- High critical chance and status chance.
- Silent.
- Charged shots have 1 meter Punch Through.
- Charged shot kills within 50 meters of the user will create a ghost of the enemy that lasts for 7 seconds and will fight alongside the player similar to Specters.
- High reload speed.
- Low charge time.
- No projectile arcing.
- Has 2 and a polarity slot.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact damage – less effective against shields.
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Damage and status chance is split between each of its four bolts, requiring simultaneous hits to maximize damage and status procs.
- Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one bolt will proc a status; the actual base status chance per bolt is ~5.43%.
- Consumes 4 ammo per shot regardless of charge-up unlike other members of the Ballistica family, resulting in an 8-shot magazine.
- Slightly lower than average zoom.
- Spawned ghosts will alert enemies, despite the weapon being silent.
Comparisons:
- Ballistica Prime, compared to Ballistica:
- Faster charge time (0.8 s vs. 1.0 s)
- Larger magazine (32 rounds vs. 16 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.2 s vs. 2 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 2)
- Ballistica Prime, compared to Rakta Ballistica:
- Faster charge time (0.8 s vs. 1.0 s)
- Larger magazine (32 rounds vs. 20 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (1.2 s vs. 2 s)
- Lack of an innate Blight effect
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 6)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Ballistica Prime Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Ballistica Prime 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
- Unlike other members of the Ballistica family, the Ballstica Prime functions as a weapon with innate multishot rather than a burst-fire weapon. As a result, the number in the arsenal reflects the total damage and status per barrage rather than per shot, with the actual damage/status being divided between the number of bolts fired.
- Enemies killed by this weapon's charged shot will leave behind a ghost that will fight alongside the player similar to Specters.
- If multiple enemies are killed with the same charged shot with Punch Through, they will all become ghosts.
- Ghosts do not block bullets/projectiles, similar to Mirage's Hall Of Mirrors.
- Bursas, Juggernaut, and Stalker (except Shadow Stalker) will not leave a ghost.
- Eximus enemies killed by a charged shot will become ghosts of their non-Eximus versions.
- A ghost of an enemy that spawns minions, such as Drahk Masters, Hyekka Masters, or Sniper Crewman, can spawn friendly minions but will expire along with the ghost that spawned them.
- Ghosts are not created if the enemy is killed by a DoT proc such as slash or gas, even if the shot was a charged shot.
- Ghosts can also not be created from said slash procs to nearby enemies, even if it was a charged shot and even if it kills the nearby enemies. They also cannot be created from the explosions caused by Molecular Prime, even if the weapon's kill shot explosion turns the original enemy into a ghost.
- Ghosts can also not be created from said slash procs to nearby enemies, even if it was a charged shot and even if it kills the nearby enemies. They also cannot be created from the explosions caused by
TipsEdit
- Ghosts, created by charged shot kills, can be scanned with Codex Scanner or Synthesis Scanner, even when the original enemies were already scanned.
- Rare enemies can yield more scans with this method.
- This also works for Kavat when farming Kavat Genetic Codes.
MediaEdit
Warframe Ballistica Prime, Better than the Rakta? - 3 Forma Build thesnapshot
Warframe - BALLISTICA PRIME - Get Ghosted! 2 forma
Ballistica Prime Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 22.12
- Mastery Rank increased from 7 to 14.
- Fixed not being able to draw your bow while sprinting (you could always charge your bow while sprinting, but pinky-friendly sprint changes have made this more obvious).
- Fixed Ballistica Prime not creating proper ‘Ghost’ on Charged Attack kill.
- Fixed animation issue when charging an arrow immediately after firing a shot using Bows.
- Fixed the Ballistica Prime turning Executioners in Rathuum and Brokers in The Index into ghosts.
- Fixed instances of Ballistica Prime not properly spawning ghosts.
- Fixed the color of the Prime Ballistica ghosts flickering for Clients.
- Fixed Ballistica Prime not unfolding correctly if no primary is equipped.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5
See AlsoEdit
- Paris, a silent primary bow.
- Dread, the Stalker's personal primary bow.
- Attica, the primary counterpart of this weapon.
- Rakta Ballistica, Red Veil custom version.
- Ballistica, the non primed counterpart.
