The Burst Laser is the default weapon for the Shade Sentinel that fires three-round bursts in succession. This weapon accepts pistol mods.
This weapon can be sold for 
1,250.
Acquisition
This sentinel weapon is automatically acquired by acquiring Shade. Note that this weapon also takes up one Sentinel inventory slot.
Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against armor.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Instantaneous reload speed.
Disadvantages:
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. – less effective against shields and health.
- Extremely low critical chance and status chance.
- Low critical multiplier.
Comparisons:
Burst Laser (Normal Attack), compared to Prisma Burst Laser (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (7.00 vs. 10.00)
- Lower total damage (7 vs. 10)
- Lower base critical chance (2.50% vs. 5.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.30x vs. 2.00x)
- Lower base status chance (2.00% vs. 10.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (21.15 vs. 31.5)
- Lower burst DPS (8.81 vs. 13.12)
- Lower sustained DPS (8.80 vs. 13.11)
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Notes
- Actual fire rate of this weapon is not affected by fire rate mods. Instead, these mods affect delay between bursts.
- Due to having instantaneous reload, this weapon is not affected by magazine capacity or reload speed mods.
- Due to the travel time of each projectile as well as the slow fire rate, it may be advisable to keep your sentinel's attack precept at low levels, to prevent them from acquiring long ranged targets that are moving and difficult to hit.
- Whilst considered by much of the community to be a terrible weapon, it's still considered better than the Laser Rifle.
- Tied with the sentinel weapon Laser Rifle and the Archwing Onorix as the lowest critical multiplier weapons in Warframe.
- The weapon uses pistol mods, and so it's wise to have a duplicate set of pistol mods ranked up for it if one wants to properly mod an equipped burst laser while also having a properly modded secondary weapon.
Patch History
Hotfix 14.0.11 (2014-07-30)
- Adjusted the sound of the Sentinel Burst Laser weapon hit effect.
Update 7.0 (2013-03-18)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.3 (2018-12-05)
See also
- Prisma Burst Laser, the prisma counterpart.
