The Telos Boltor is an exclusive version of the Boltor available only from the Arbiters of Hexis. Featuring improved damage, critical stats, fire rate, and magazine size, the Telos Boltor also possesses an innate Truth effect.
Acquisition[]
- The Telos Boltor can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Maxim with the Arbiters of Hexis, and spending
125,000 to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Telos Boltor cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Maxim rank. - Syndicate weapons can also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 12 to acquire the Telos Boltor, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
- Tied with Soma/Soma Prime and Prisma Gorgon for highest critical chance of all fully automatic rifles.
- High critical multiplier.
- Good status chance.
- Good accuracy.
- Low recoil.
- High magazine capacity.
- Good fire rate.
- On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Innate Truth effect.
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact and no Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Projectiles have travel time with slight arcing.
- Slow reload speed.
- Inefficient ammo economy.
Comparisons:
- Telos Boltor (Normal Attack), compared to Boltor (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (33.00 vs. 36.50)
- Lower total damage (33 vs. 36.5)
- Lower average damage per tap (33 vs. 36.5)
- Lower burst DPS (307.89 vs. 319.37)
- Higher sustained DPS (200.82 vs. 181.63)
- Higher fire rate (9.33 attacks/sec vs. 8.75 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (42 vs. 30)
- More shots per magazine (42 vs. 30)
- Larger max ammo capacity (168 vs. 120)
- Faster reload time (2.40 s vs. 2.60 s)
- Greater projectile speed (90.0 m/s vs. 85.0 m/s)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 2)
- Telos Boltor (Normal Attack), compared to Boltor Prime (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (33.00 vs. 32.20)
- Higher total damage (33 vs. 32.2)
- Higher average damage per tap (33 vs. 32.2)
- Lower burst DPS (307.89 vs. 322)
- Higher sustained DPS (200.82 vs. 193.2)
- Lower fire rate (9.33 attacks/sec vs. 10.00 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (42 vs. 36)
- More shots per magazine (42 vs. 36)
- Larger max ammo capacity (168 vs. 144)
- Less accurate (N/A vs. N/A)
- Lesser projectile speed (90.0 m/s vs. 120.0 m/s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 13)
Media[]
Telos Boltor in Codex.
WARFRAME - Telos Boltor (Builds and Synergies)
Warframe - Telos Boltor
Telos Boltor 30 60 Forma
Telos Boltor Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 22.17.1.1 (2018-04-05)
- Fixed unintended shell dropping sound on Telos Boltor.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Status Chance increased from 7.5% to 16%
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 30%
- Critical damage increased from 2x to 2.4x
- Damage decreased from 50 to 30
Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
- Conclave:
- Reduced magazine size from 90 to 42.
Update 17.4 (2015-09-09)
- Fixed missing weapon trails from projectiles created by the Telos Boltor.
Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)
- Telos Boltor introduced.
Last update: Hotfix 22.17.1.1 (2018-04-05)
See also[]
- Boltor, the unmodified version of this weapon.
- Boltor Prime, the Prime version of this weapon family.
- Telos Akbolto, another weapon offered by the Arbiters of Hexis.
