The Lex Prime is the primed version of the Lex pistol, featuring improved, fire rate, and magazine size at the cost of damage. It is also a requisite ingredient for Aklex Prime.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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15,000 |
1 |
1 |
10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush: 50 | |||||
Market Price: N/A | Blueprints Price:N/A |
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- Low Slash and Impact damage - less effective against shields.
- Slow fire rate.
- Fairly small magazine size.
- High recoil.
- Slow reload speed.
Comparisons:
- Lex Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Lex (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (78.00 vs. 105.00)
- Lower total damage (78 vs. 105)
- Lower average damage per tap (78 vs. 105)
- Higher burst DPS (162.24 vs. 113.4)
- Higher sustained DPS (101.52 vs. 80.19)
- Higher fire rate (2.080 attacks/sec vs. 1.080 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (8 vs. 6)
- More shots per magazine (8 vs. 6)
- Larger max ammo capacity (32 vs. 24)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 3)
- Lex Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Aklex Prime (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (78.00 vs. 49.00)
- Higher total damage (78 vs. 49)
- Higher average damage per tap (78 vs. 49)
- Higher burst DPS (162.24 vs. 130.83)
- Higher sustained DPS (101.52 vs. 87.18)
- Lower fire rate (2.080 attacks/sec vs. 2.670 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (8 vs. 16)
- Less shots per magazine (8 vs. 16)
- Faster reload time (2.30 s vs. 3.00 s)
- More accurate (16 vs. 9.8)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 15)
Trivia[]
- A large portion of the weapon is animated, complete with an exchanged magazine and blow-back slide. This makes the Lex Prime one of the few pistols with firing animations for a conventional weapon.
- Lex Prime is the icon for the Secondary weapons category in the Foundry.
- The Lex Prime can be seen in Loki Prime's Decoy.
- The Lex Prime and its akimbo and regular variants share similar weapon sounds to the Hammer 1895, a revolver featured in Dark Sector.
Media[]
Lex Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 5 to 8.
Hotfix 22.10.3 (2018-01-29)
- Fixed the Lex Onyx Skin not removing the clip attachment when equipped on the Lex Prime.
Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
- Increased Mastery Rank requirement from 0 to 5.
- Lex Prime damage increased in Conclave.
Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 2.1 (2016-08-10)
- Fixed incorrect materials on Lex Prime attachments.
Update: Specters of the Rail 2 (2016-08-03)
- Lex Prime has received the PBR treatment!
Hotfix 18.4.10 (2016-02-11)
- Increased the damage of the Lex series in Conclave.
- Increased the headshot multiplier of the Lex series in Conclave.
Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)
- Lex Conclave Skin added.
Hotfix 17.0.3 (2015-08-04)
- Reduced the damage of Lex Prime in PvP.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Unlisted Changes (Listed in 17.0.2)
- Damage increased from 85 to 150.
- Status chance increased from 20% to 25%.
- Critical chance increased from 20% to 25%.
Update 15.7 (2014-12-17)
- Added Orokin Ducat cost to Lex Prime Blueprint.
Update 13.2 (2014-05-01)
- Increased the volume on the Lex Prime sound effects.
Hotfix 13.0.1 (2014-04-10)
- Fixed Placeholder Lex Prime description & wrong stats.
Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.6.2 (2018-08-31)
See also[]
- Lex, the original counterpart.
- Aklex, the akimbo version of the normal counterpart.
- Aklex Prime, the primed akimbo counterpart