The Spira are large throwing knives released in Update 17.4.5 (2015-09-23).
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 15,000 |
 Gallium5 |
 Ferrite2,500 |
 Plastids800 |
 Salvage4,000 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  45
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price:20,000
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Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High damage.
- Silent- will not be present on opponent's minimap.
- Very high reload speed.
- On kill, bodies will follow the knife that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Two
polarity slots.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact damage – less effective against shields.
- Projectiles have travel time and travel in an arc, making it hard to hit at longer ranges and achieve headshots.
- Second lowest fire rate of all throwing-type secondaries, behind Pox.
Comparisons:
- Spira (Normal Attack), compared to Spira Prime (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (88.60 vs. 82.80)
- Higher total damage (88.6 vs. 82.8)
- Higher average damage per tap (88.6 vs. 82.8)
- Lower burst DPS (221.5 vs. 275.72)
- Lower sustained DPS (177.2 vs. 225.63)
- Lower fire rate (2.50 attacks/sec vs. 3.33 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (10 vs. 12)
- Less shots per magazine (10 vs. 12)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (20 vs. 24)
- Slower reload time (1.00 s vs. 0.80 s)
- Lesser projectile speed (70.0 m/s vs. 75.0 m/s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 10)
Tips[]
- For effective use of non-hitscan weapons, it is strongly recommended to learn how to lead your target. In short, leading means aiming ahead of your target so the projectile still hits him. It can be a challenge to learn it, low level Grineer are recommended for practicing.
Notes[]
- There is a slight delay after firing a knife before being able to reload, which requires pausing before trying to reload, or tapping the reload button several times.
- The right handed throw does not land at the same place as the left throw, landing lower and slightly to the right of your aim
Trivia[]
- The Spira was one of the items (along with the Ninkondi and the Zhuge) initially made exclusive to Warframe China.
- The Spira has a Prime version, which was given as part of the Chinese Version's Founders Program, along with the Nikana Prime and Excalibur Umbra.
- The Spira is referred to in the game files as "littlelidaggers", a reference to the Little Li daggers (小李飛刀) which are the signature weapon of the martial artist Li Xunhuan in the famous Xiaoli Feidao novels written by Gu Long.
Media[]
Spira in Codex.
Warframe Spira, It All Comes Down to the Dangly Bits - 4 Forma thequickdraw
Spira 17.4.5 - mog
Tenno Reinforcements - Spira
Warframe - Update 17.4.5 Spira Throwing Daggers
Lets Max (Warframe) E86 - Spira
SPIRA BUILD - Knives to the face 3 forma - Update 18.2 Warframe
Spira Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 1 to 8
- Damage increased from 55 to 82
- Status chance increased from 5% to 8%
- Critical chance increased from 25% to 30%
Update 17.4.5 (2015-09-23)
- Introduced
