Corinth Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

Corinth Prime

Statistics

Utility

Projectile Type

Hit-Scan

Buckshot

25.2

37.8

27

Damage Falloff

100% damage up to 18 m
33% damage at 36 m
67% max reduction

Range

300 m

Projectile Type

Hit-Scan

Air Burst Projectile

100

Ammo Cost

4

Projectile Type

Projectile

Air Burst Explosion

2,200

Ammo Cost

4

Damage Falloff

100% damage up to 0 m
10% damage at 9.8 m
90% max reduction

Range

9.8 m

Projectile Type

AoE

Miscellaneous

Internal Name

/Lotus/Weapons/Tenno/LongGuns/PrimeCorinth/PrimeCorinth

Introduced

Hotfix 27.3.6 (2020-03-31)

Variants

CODEX

Heavy in the hand with a bone-crushing kickback. This Prime version of this shotgun adds remote detonation of the weapon's airburst round.

The Corinth Prime is the primed variant of the Corinth shotgun with improved status chance, magazine size, buckshot fire rate, and air burst damage and explosion radius. The air burst no longer has a set range before exploding allowing it to damage enemies from farther away, but in turn no longer has a delayed fuse and must be manually detonated with Alternate Fire. Instead of individual rounds, the weapon reloads the entire magazine at once with a slower reload speed. Corinth Prime was released alongside Titania Prime and Pangolin Prime.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage on its primary fire and Blast damage on its alt-fire.

Advantages:

Primary Fire shoots a wide-spread, close-ranged buckshot:
- High Puncture and good Slash damage – effective against armor and health.
- Tied with Corinth for the highest critical chance and critical multiplier of all shotguns.
- Good overall status chance.
- Innate multishot of 6 pellets.
- Tied with Hek and Vaykor Hek for the narrowest pellet spread of all shotguns.
Alternate Fire launches a grenade that creates a 9.8 meter area of effect explosion after remotely detonated with Alternate Fire.
- Physical contact with the grenade has a guaranteed Impact proc.
- High Blast damage – effective against Machinery and Fossilized.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Tied with Cedo's alt fire and Trumna's alt fire for the second highest status chance of all primary launchers, behind Bubonico's alt fire.
Large magazine size.
Innate two and one polarities.

Disadvantages:

Primary Fire:
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 33% from 18m to 36m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
Alternate Fire:
- Innate Blast damage – less effective against Ferrite Armor and Infested Sinew.
  - Physical contact with the grenade deals lower Impact damage.
  - Damage cannot be increased with Puncture or Slash mods.
    - The physical contact grenade deals only Impact damage, while explosion itself deals only Blast damage, therefore the explosion does not benefit from any physical damage mods.
- Grenade only explodes in midair; does not explode if it hits a surface or an enemy.
- Grenades have travel time, heavy arcing, and needs to be manually detonated.
  - A grenade hitting an enemy without exploding causes much less damage compared to the explosion.
- Extremely low critical chance.
- Low critical multiplier.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
  - Manual detonation should prevent accidental self-stagger unless mistiming or rapidly moving towards the grenade's impact area before it explodes.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 10% from central impact.
- Consumes 4 ammunition per shot.
Slow reload speed.

Comparisons:

Corinth Prime (Buckshot), compared to Corinth (Buckshot):
- Higher base status chance (9% vs. 6%)
- Higher burst DPS (1,180.87 vs. 972.97)
- Higher sustained DPS (973.51 vs. 632.54)
- Higher fire rate (1.42 round(s)/sec vs. 1.17 round(s)/sec)
- Larger magazine (20 round(s) vs. 5 round(s))
- Smaller max ammo capacity (120 round(s) vs. 132 round(s))
- Slower reload time (3 s vs. 2.3 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (0.9 vs. 1.15)
- Air Burst Explosion:
  - Higher base damage (2200.0 vs. 404.0)
  - Higher status chance (50% vs. 28%)
  - Lower fire rate (0.667 vs. 1.17)
  - Larger range (9.8m vs. 9.4m)

Acquisition[]

Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic

Corinth Prime's Relic Drops
Receiver	Barrel	Stock	Blueprint
Meso P4 Uncommon Neo T5 Uncommon Axi T7 Uncommon (V) Lith D3 Uncommon (V) Neo R4 Uncommon (V)	Axi C6 Rare Axi C5 Rare (V) Meso C5 Rare (V)	Meso C6 Rare Lith C6 Rare (V)	Lith A4 Common Meso S10 Common Axi T4 Common (V) Lith T5 Common (V) Meso I1 Common (V) Neo E2 Common (V)

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	1	1	1	10	Time: 12 hrs
20,000	1	1	1	10	Rush: 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

Notes[]

The Air Burst is fired using Alternate Fire, and then manually detonated with Alternate Fire again. It will not explode if hitting a surface, an enemy or a corpse.
Modding the Corinth Prime with Punch Through does not allow the grenades to pass through enemies or objects.
The grenade does explode on its own, but only after traveling about 90 meters in its 2 second lifespan. Improving Projectile Speed will increase the distance it will travel before exploding on its own and vice versa if flight speed is reduced the grenade will explode closer to the player.
- Reducing flight speed will also decrease the minimum and maximum ranges in which falloff occurs on the normal fire, which is not recommended.
Corinth Prime has a different reload animation, unlike its regular counterpart. In this case, similar to reloading a magazine in general.
- Because Corinth Prime has slower reload speed than its regular counterpart, equipping a skin may result in sluggish reload animation on their respective skin.

Tips[]

While direct hits from the Alternate Fire deal significantly reduced damage, the guaranteed Impact proc can be used to momentarily stun a priority target, allowing for a follow-up shot.
An efficient way of using the weapon's Alternate Fire is by detonating it slightly overhead enemies. Not only does aiming overhead reduce the chance of the shells prematurely hitting anything and wasting potentially powerful crowd control, the resulting explosion can also trigger headshots dealing far more damage within the blast radius.
Ivara's Navigator halves the distance that the grenade has to travel before an explosion.
The sound of the pump action when chambering the last shell in the magazine is noticeably different, providing an audible warning that reloading will be required.
The Corinth's alt-fire can effectively set up enemies for finishers. This makes it useful when accompanied by any melee weapon with Finishing Touch.

Trivia[]

The barrel is shaped like a Void Key.
The weapons is famously featured during the TennoCon/2021 in-game playthrough of the opening of The New War, when the Grineer soldier Kahl-175 plucked the gun off a fallen Rhino to fend off Sentient enemies at the final leg of his playthrough.

Media[]

Corinth Prime Build 2020 (Guide) - The Hail Mary - Warframe

Two Main Corinth Prime Builds, Differences with God Rivens

Corinth Prime Skins Edit

Patch History[]

Hotfix 30.7.6 (2021-09-23)

Reduced volume of the Corinth Prime Alt Fire projectile range beep.

Hotfix 29.1.2 (2020-09-22)

Fixed the Corinth Prime Blueprint using the wrong icon for the Corinth Prime Stock.

Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)

Made a slight boost to the muzzle flash size to improve visibility on Corinth Prime.

Hotfix 28.0.6 (2020-06-24)

Fixed incorrect Corinth Prime reload sounds if the Solstice Skin is equipped.

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

Fixed Corinth Prime’s custom reload animations not appearing correctly when equipped with Skins.

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

Made some slight changes to Corinth Prime’s sound mix.
Fixed the Corinth Prime playing an Alt Fire animation that does no damage if only 3 shots are left with no Ammo remaining.

Hotfix 27.3.13 (2020-04-14)