The Baza is a silenced, rapid-fire Script error: The function "Faction" does not exist. submachine gun with a high critical chance, critical multiplier, and fire rate while maintaining extreme accuracy at the cost of small magazine resulting in frequent reloading and medium range damage falloff.
Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against armor and shields.
- Very high critical chance.
- Tied with
Soma/ Soma Prime, Attica, and Baza Prime for the highest critical multiplier of all fully automatic rifles. - Extremely high accuracy per shot, even at full auto.
- Negligible recoil.
- Silent.
- Large ammo reserve.
- Second fastest reload speed of all fully automatic rifles, behind Baza Prime.
- Tied with Baza Prime for the third fastest fire rate of all fully automatic rifles, behind Grakata and Prisma Grakata.
- Low zoom when aiming, good for mods that require zooming in for bonuses.
Disadvantages:
- Tied with Baza Prime for the fourth lowest base damage of all fully automatic rifles, after Prisma Grakata, Soma/ Soma Prime, and Grakata; very reliant on its high critical damage potential.
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against health.
- Low status chance.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 22m to 34m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Cannot equip Terminal Velocity.
- Cannot equip
- Poor ammo economy.
- Fairly low magazine size in contrast to its high fire rate.
- Low zoom when aiming can make ranged shooting more difficult.
Comparisons:
- Baza (Normal Attack), compared to Baza Prime (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Lower base critical chance (26.00% vs. 28.00%)
- Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 14.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (24.32 vs. 24.96)
- Lower burst DPS (405.41 vs. 416.08)
- Lower sustained DPS (256.03 vs. 318.68)
- Closer starting damage falloff distance (22.0 m vs. 30.0 m)
- Closer max damage falloff distance (34.0 m vs. 60.0 m)
- Smaller magazine (40 vs. 60)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (800 vs. 840)
- Slower reload time (1.40 s vs. 1.10 s)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 10)
- Higher disposition (●●●○○ (1.05x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.00x))
Acquisition
The Baza's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.
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 20,000 |
 3,500 |
 4,300 |
 575 |
 1 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 240
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 Blueprints Price:15,000
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Tenno Lab Research 3,000
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10,000 |
1,500 |
 5 |
 1,750 |
 300 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Akstiletto | |||||
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Notes
- The weapon's firing sounds increases in pitch when 15 or fewer rounds are remaining in the magazine, indicating that the weapon's magazine is almost empty.
- The weapon has minimal zoom when aiming, helpful for mods that add bonuses while aiming like Argon Scope.
Tips
- The Baza's high accuracy allows it to land headshots consistently compared to other automatic weapons, which along with its good critical hit chance makes it ideal for builds using Argon Scope.
- Its lower status chance compared to some other automatic rifles can be alleviated with the Hunter Munitions mod, allowing the weapon to spread Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. procs rapidly to enemies, which helps the weapon a lot versus heavy armor.
- Its silenced nature makes it synergize well with Ivara, as firing the weapon will not interrupt her Prowl ability.
- Since the Baza has very high accuracy, it can use Heavy Caliber with almost no drawback and increasing the weapon's overall damage output.
Trivia
- The Baza are a genus of bird of prey in the Accipitridae family.
- Physically, the weapon bears a strong resemblance to the real-life PP-19 Bizon SMG, due to Baza's underbarrel, horizontal magazine, and its overall appearance.
- The name Baza may be derived from the PP-19's nickname, Bizon.
- The name Baza (shortening of "Barry") is strongly believe to be derived from a conversation had at PAX Aus between DE staff and fans, where "Australian Names" were discussed. It was claimed that "Baza" may be the "most Australian name". There was also discussion about many great names from native flora and fauna (released with the Cassowar).
Media
Warframe - All Tenno Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)
Warframe - All Tenno Weapon Reloads in 3 minutes (2012 - 2019)
Baza Skins
Patch History
Hotfix 23.1.2 (2018-07-24)
- Fixed audio crackling when firing the Baza with Ivara's Prowl ability.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Critical damage increased from 2.8x to 3x.
Update 22.7 (2017-12-12)
- Fixed sounds not playing properly when firing the Baza.
Update 22.5 (2017-11-30)
- Reduced the camera rotation of the Baza's recoil from the hip.
- Reduced the delay before auto reloading an empty mag while using the Baza.
- Fixed clicking sounds when firing the Baza at fast Fire Rates while under audio stealth effects.
- Fixed a very high pitched noise when reloading the Baza.
- Fixed an issue with the Baza not having icons and pickup behaviors when being disarmed.
Update 22.4 (2017-11-23)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.2.15 (2019-02-15)
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