The Sicarus is a burst-fire pistol that shoots tight 3-round bursts.
This weapon can be bought from the Market for 
20,000. It can also be sold for 5,000.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages:
Disadvantages:
- Low base damage.
- Small magazine; being a 3-round burst weapon carrying 15 bullets it only has 5 bursts per magazine.
- Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with four bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired.
Comparisons:
Sicarus (Normal Attack), compared to Sicarus Prime (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (29.00 vs. 25.00)
- Higher total damage (29 vs. 25)
- Higher average damage per tap (87 vs. 75)
- Lower burst DPS (214.31 vs. 234.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (107.94 vs. 123.85)
- Lower fire rate (7.39 attacks/sec vs. 9.38 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (15 vs. 21)
- Less shots per magazine (15 vs. 21)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (45 vs. 63)
- Less accurate (N/A vs. N/A)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (3 vs. 14)
Tips[]
- Precise timing is required to fire at its labeled fire rate, practice lining up shots and timing the next shot to find out the ideal speed at which to press the fire button. A faster fire rate will require slightly faster timing.
- Like the Kraken, there is a slight delay after firing where reloading will not function, and requires a double click or a pause then click for it to actually reload. This can be frustrating.
- As this is a burst fire weapon, move the mouse down after firing shots.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Update 9.0 (2013-07-13), Shield Lancers used the Sicarus instead of the Viper.
- The Sicarus' name is probably derived from sicarius, the Latin word for "assassin" or "dagger-wielder".
Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Status chance increased from 5% to 6%
- Critical chance increased from 15% to 16%
- Recoil decreased while aiming
- Damage decreased from 40 to 30
Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
- Increased damage from 30 to 40
- Increased Crit Chance from 10% to 15%
- Increased Status Chance from 2% to 5%
- Increased Mastery Rank requirement from 1 to 3
Update 7.11 (2013-05-17)
- Removed Platinum price.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Item introduced with game release.
See also[]
- Burston, the rifle counterpart of this gun.
- Sicarus Prime, the prime counterpart of the Sicarus.
- Kraken, a Grineer burst-fire pistol.
