Drakgoon

Grineer

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Drakgoon

Statistics

Utility

Projectile Type

Projectile

Uncharged Shot

8

24

Projectile Type

Projectile

Charged Shot

7

56

Projectile Type

Projectile

Miscellaneous

Users

Reth
Kuva Heavy Gunner

Introduced

Update 11.6 (2014-01-08)

Variants

Internal Name

/Lotus/Weapons/Grineer/LongGuns/GrineerFlakCannon/FlakCannon

CODEX

The Drakgoon Flak Cannon sends volleys of intensely hot shrapnel ricocheting around the room. Can be fired in wide or concentrated bursts.

The Drakgoon is a Grineer flak cannon with a distinct charge mechanic. The longer the weapon is charged, the tighter the spread of the pellets fired, and charged shots gain punch through depending on how long the charge is held, giving the Drakgoon extreme versatility at any range. Additionally, the flak from the Drakgoon can bounce off surfaces once, allowing for a volley to hit more than once if positioned correctly.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500; it is also a requisite ingredient for the Zarr Zarr.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
High overall status chance.
High charge speed.
High ammo efficiency.
Shots ricochet once.
- This allows one to fire at a wall and kill an enemy behind cover, albeit with some difficulty.
Charged shots have innate 2 meter punch through.
Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
Effective over multiple ranges due to charge/spread mechanic:
- Uncharged shots fires wide-dispersal shots to soften up multiple enemies at mid/long range, or quickly hit a single target at short range.
- Charged shots fires a tightly focused blast over longer ranges for high single-target damage.
No damage falloff.
Can use the Drakgoon-exclusive Fomorian Accelerant Fomorian Accelerant mod.

Disadvantages:

Low Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
Very low critical chance.
Shrapnel projectiles have travel time.
- Shrapnel projectiles slow down by a great margin after ricocheting.
- Shrapnel will vanish after 2 seconds of leaving the weapon.
Fairly low reload speed.

Comparisons:

Drakgoon (Charged Shot), compared to Kuva Drakgoon (Charged Shot):
- Higher base damage per projectile (70 vs. 57.5)
  - Higher Impact Damage Impact damage (7 vs. 4.6)
  - Higher Puncture Damage Puncture damage (7 vs. 4.6)
  - Higher Slash Damage Slash damage (56 vs. 36.8)
  - Lower Lich System/Progenitor MinProgenitorBonus damage (0 vs. 11.5)
- Higher total damage (700 vs. 575)
- Lower base critical chance (7.5% vs. 21%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2x vs. 2.5x)
- Lower base status chance (6.9% vs. 9%)
- Lower average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (752.5 vs. 967.84)
- Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (940.27 vs. 1,612.26)
- Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (666.59 vs. 1,237.46)
- Smaller magazine (7 round(s) vs. 11 round(s))
- Slower reload time (2.3 s vs. 2 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 13)
- Higher disposition (1.4 vs. 1.1)

Acquisition[]

The Drakgoon's blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Alternatively, it can be acquired from completing the Neptune to Pluto Junction.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	5	950	5,500	1,100	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	5	950	5,500	1,100	Rush: 40
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:30,000

Notes[]

The projectiles bounce once when not charged, and bounce twice when fully charged.
The "Flak" from the weapon works with Mag Mag's Magnetize Magnetize and can headshot if it enters the field at a high enough point.

Tips[]

Shrapnel spread upon fire will narrow as the charge is held. Using Accelerated Blast Accelerated Blast and Shotgun Spazz Shotgun Spazz will decrease the charge time, whilst accuracy mods like Tainted Shell Tainted Shell will reduce the initial uncharged spread.
Rolling will cancel the charge.
If a melee attack is performed while holding down the charge, it will fire and then immediately melee.
The charge can be held while sprinting, sliding, wall running, and wall clinging, allowing for mobility and closing in on enemy targets.
The Drakgoon excels against the Infested thanks to its Slash-focused damage. There are a few ways to increase its effectiveness;
- Use (Primed Point Blank Primed) Point Blank Point Blank for damage and Cleanse Infested Cleanse Infested for increased effectiveness against Infested enemies.
- Use Shredder Shredder and/or Sweeping Serration Sweeping Serration to increase both the Slash Damage Slash damage and its proc chance.
- Use Blaze Blaze and Incendiary Coat Incendiary Coat to add Heat Damage Heat; when combined with Toxin Damage Toxin from Toxic Barrage Toxic Barrage and Contagious Spread Contagious Spread, the resulting Gas Damage Gas element is even more effective against light Infested than Heat Damage Heat.
The pellets will ricochet off the environments only once. If well handled, these pellets can clear a tight, empty room as every pellet has a second opportunity to hit a target if they missed the first time.
Firing an uncharged shot at a low angle into the ground will cause the ricocheted projectiles to form into a horizontal line with significantly lower spread. This is useful for quickly taking out groups of charging infested at medium range without having to charge.
Equipping Tainted Shell Tainted Shell makes this weapon an extremely accurate long-distance weapon when fully charged.
Fatal Acceleration Fatal Acceleration is extremely useful for increasing the Drakgoon's effectiveness at long range; at maximum rank, the Drakgoon's shrapnel will have a speed slightly higher than the shots of a Dera Dera.

Bugs[]

The Drakgoon's charging animation is not affected by mods. This, however, is purely visual.
Punch through is currently bugged and acts unpredictably, at best.

Trivia[]

Concept art of it was first seen in Livestream 17, and this weapon would be introduced on January 8, 2014.
"Drakgoon" may be a combination of Flak and Dragoon.
- Flak is derived from the German Fliegerabwehrkanone (literally "air defense cannon"). This is any cannon used primarily for anti aircraft fire, but the term is often used to refer to an anti aircraft cannon that fires a shell that bursts in the air, sending a spray of shrapnel towards the target: the idea being that a spread of shrapnel will have a greater chance of hitting a moving target by covering a large area, as opposed to a single shell, which can only cover its impact point.
- Dragoon refers to mounted infantry trained to deliver tremendous damage against a squad of unmounted infantry, thus relating the weapon's capability of spreading massive damage against a crowd of enemies. They are named as such because they wield a weapon known as the 'dragon', which is essentially a handgun-sized version of the blunderbuss (the forerunner of the modern shotgun).
There is Grineer text on both sides of the Drakgoon with the first line saying "FLAK". The second line reads "1.8".
This is the first shotgun to gain a Charge feature.
Prior to Hotfix 11.6.1 (2014-01-10), the Drakgoon used Rifle Ammunition instead of Shotgun Ammunition.
This is the third shotgun to have a non-static model, following the Boar Prime Boar Prime and the Sobek Sobek.
The colored cap on the top of the mid portion of the Drakgoon is what appears to be the magazine. This magazine is awkwardly small if it contains ammunition but the Drakgoon appears to instead use energy projectiles, suggesting this is a battery or an energy capsule.
Having a black energy color on Drakgoon will make projectiles nearly invisible and remove the lights inside the funnels.

Media[]

Tenno Reinforcements - Drakgoon

Warframe 11.6 ♠ Drakgoon Flak Cannon

Warframe Drakgoon

A Gay Guy Reviews Drakgoon, A Faceful of Shrapnel

Warframe Let's Build The DRAKGOON

Warframe Drakgoon (Huge Feckin Canon!)

DRAKGOON FAST BUILD - FOMORIAN ACCELERANT 5 forma - Warframe

DRAKGOON 99.5% STATUS BUILD - Bouncy Bullitos 5 forma - Warframe

Warframe - All Grineer Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Warframe - All Grineer Weapon Reloads in 2 minutes (2012 - 2019)

Drakgoon Skins Edit

Patch History[]

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Greater than 100% Status having meaning

Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.

Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.