The Burston Prime is the Prime variant and direct upgrade of the Burston, sporting higher stats across the board including fire rate, damage, status, and critical chance.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- Can use the Burston Prime-exclusive
Gilded Truth.
- Normal Attack
- Above average magazine
- Very high effective fire rate
- Above average max ammo
- Above average status chance
- Above average disposition
Disadvantages:
- Normal Attack
- Below average crit chance
- Below average damage
- Below average crit multiplier
Comparisons:
- Burston Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Burston (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (36 vs. 30)
- Higher total damage (36 vs. 30)
- Higher base critical chance (18.00% vs. 6.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (1.8x vs. 1.6x)
- Higher base status chance (30.00% vs. 18.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (123.55 vs. 93.24)
- Higher burst DPS (514.8 vs. 243.35)
- Higher sustained DPS (330.94 vs. 186.72)
- Higher fire rate (13.64 vs. 7.83)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 0)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●● (1.45x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
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The Burston Prime can be sold for 7,500.
Tips[]
- The Burston Prime has a fast burst, making it decent in long-range combat.
- The Burston has arguably better ammo efficiency than the
Soma or
Synapse due to its burst-fire nature.
- Fire rate mods (
Speed Trigger,
Shred,
Gilded Truth, etc.) reduce the delay between bursts, but did not increase the fire rate of the actual bullets themselves. As of Hotfix 17.4.3 (2015-09-16), fire rate mods now increase the fire rate of the burst itself.
- It isn't advised to put a
Heavy Caliber on the Burston Prime as this weapon benefits more in close to mid range situations with its high accuracy and damage over long range situations where hitting enemies with all bullets becomes more difficult.
- Modifying the magazine can sometimes be problematic, as you might be reduced to only 1 or 2 rounds in your last shot. A Max Rank
Wildfire or a Rank 3
Magazine Warp will give you a magazine of 54, allowing you 18 bursts before reloading. This ensures you will always fire 3 rounds in every burst.
Trivia[]
- The Burston Prime has noticeably less golden ornamentation than previous Prime weapons.
- At the time of its release, the Burston Prime was the first Prime weapon whose component drops were exclusive to the Orokin Derelict instead of the Orokin Void. Update 12 has since moved some component drops into the Void.
- The Burston Prime is the first Prime primary weapon to receive a Weapon Augments mod.
- The Burston Prime's gold parts can be recolored as of Update 15.13 (2015-02-05).
- During a flashback to The Old War in Erra (Quest), an
Excalibur Prime is seen wielding the Burston Prime, albeit firing in full-auto mode. This implies that the weapon was more powerful in the past, matching the weapon's Codex entry.
Media[]
Burston Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)
- Fixed Burston Prime’s magazine getting stuck to your left hand if the Solstice Skin is equipped.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 12.
- Status chance increased from 15% to 30%.
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 18%.
- Critical damage increased from 1.5x to 1.8x.
- Damage decreased from 39 to 36.
Update 12.3 (2014-02-27)
- Fixed Burston Prime Blueprint not being tradeable.
Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
Burston, the original variant.
Sicarus Prime, the sidearm counterpart.
- Prime, the Orokin versin of a weapon or Warframe.
Gilded Truth, a Burston Prime exclusive Syndicate mod.