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Epitaph Prime is the Primed counterpart of 
Epitaph wrist-mounted sidearm, with slight improvements to its damage and already high critical chance and critical multiplier, charged shot's status chance, and uncharged shot's fire rate and explosion radius. Additionally, charged shots have a guaranteed 
Cold status proc. Epitaph Prime was released alongside 
Sevagoth Prime and 
Nautilus Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals pure
Blast damage uncharged and primarily Slash damage fully charged. - Shots have a guaranteed Impact proc on direct hits.
- Uncharged shots:
- Explodes in a 10 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Can benefit from Fulmination ( Primed).
- Has a guaranteed Cold proc.
- Explodes in a 10 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Charged shots:
- Highest critical chance of all secondaries.
- High critical multiplier.
- Very fast charge speed.
- Innate 2 meter punch through.
- Has a guaranteed Cold proc.
- Deals +20% headshot damage when wielded by Sevagoth/ Sevagoth Prime.
- Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Innate two polarities.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- No magazine; does not need to reload.
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high crit chance (50.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- Very high total damage (315)
- Very high crit multiplier (3.00x)
- Uncharged Direct Hit (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- Very high status chance (50.00%)
- Uncharged AoE (wiki attack index 3)
- High maximum falloff distance (10.0 m)
- High reload speed (0.60 s)
- High status chance (50.00%)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Uncharged Shots:
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
- Explosion has linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 20% from central impact.
- Projectiles have travel time. Uncharged shots have slower projectile speed with heavy arcing.
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Low ammo max (40)
- Very low fire rate (1.75 attacks/sec)
- Below average status chance (14.00%)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
- Uncharged Direct Hit (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low crit chance (4.00%)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Low ammo max (40)
- Low fire rate (1.75 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
- Low crit multiplier (1.80x)
- Uncharged AoE (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low crit chance (0.00%)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Very low total damage (30)
- Below average fire rate (1.75 attacks/sec)
- Low ammo max (40)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
- Very low crit multiplier (1.00x)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Epitaph Prime (Charged Shot), compared to Epitaph (Charged Shot):
- Higher base damage per projectile (315.00 vs. 300.00)
- Higher total damage (315 vs. 300)
- Higher base critical chance (50.00% vs. 48.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (3.00x vs. 2.60x)
- Higher base status chance (14.00% vs. 4.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (630 vs. 530.4)
- Higher burst DPS (1050 vs. 884)
- Higher sustained DPS (656.25 vs. 552.5)
- Higher fire rate (1.75 attacks/sec vs. 1.50 attacks/sec)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x) vs. ●○○○○ (0.55x))
- Uncharged Shot:
- Higher base damage (30.00 vs. 20.00)
- Higher base critical chance (4.00% vs. 2.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (1.80x vs 1.20x)
- Larger range (10m vs. 8m)
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
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 15,000 |
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 1 |
 Orokin Cell10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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Notes[]
- Sevagoth's headshot bonus only applies to actual heads and not any other weak spot.
Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 36.1 (2024-08-21)
- Introduced.
