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Feel the kick of this Corpus shotgun as it shatters a high-yield crystal into anyone and anything standing in your way.

Exergis is a Corpus shotgun that shatters a crystal into enemies, puncturing them with devastating DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation shards. Its extremely high damage output, large status chance, and reload speed make up for its single round, poor critical chance, and critical multiplier.

Characteristics[]

  • This weapon deals primarily DmgSlashSmall64 Slash damage.
  • Innate multishot of 3 pellets.
  • Innate Vazarin Pol polarity.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • No auto-reload delay.
  • Innate Infinite Body Punch Through, and 0.5 meter punch through for surfaces.
  • Tightest pellet spread of all pellet shotguns.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • High reload speed (1.60 s)
    • Very high total damage (1,620)
    • High average number of procs per shot (1.08)
    • Very high status chance (36.00%)

Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 49.2% from 30m to 60m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
  • Projectiles have travel time.
  • Lowest pellet count of all pellet shotguns.
  • Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
    • Very low crit chance (8.00%)
    • Very low magazine (1)
    • Below average fire rate (3.330 attacks/sec)
    • Low ammo max (47)
    • Below average disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x))
    • Very low crit multiplier (1.40x)

Acquisition[]

The Exergis's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.


Manufacturing Requirements
📝 Edit blueprint requirements
Credits
20,000
ArgonCrystal
2
RepellerSystems
2
Oxium
175
Salvage
8,500
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 35
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 225 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:Credits20,000

Notes[]

  • Although the Arsenal shows a huge accuracy increase when using Mod TT 20px Tainted Shell, there doesn't seem to be a notable accuracy difference in practice.

Known Bugs[]

Tips[]

  • As the Exergis is a single-shot weapon, its firing speed is largely determined by its reload speed. Thus, any mods that decrease firing speed can be equipped with a relatively small penalty, while those that increase it should be avoided in favor of reload speed mods.
    • Alternatively, equipping Mod TT 20px Ammo Stock (Mod TT 20px Primed) may be desirable to increase magazine size and thus also increase the gun's overall DPS.
    • Notably, using both Mod TT 20px Burdened Magazine and Mod TT 20px Primed Ammo Stock increases the magazine size to 3, which allows this weapon's relatively high fire rate to work in its favor.
  • Excluding automatic and beam shotguns, the Exergis has the highest accuracy rating/narrowest pellet spread in its class. Combined with the fact above, this makes it an extremely strong candidate for Mod TT 20px Vicious Spread.
  • The Exergis is capable of holding up to six different damage types at once; DmgRadiationSmall64 Radiation, the three physical damage types, one secondary element, and either an additional secondary element, or a primary one. This gives the weapon the potential to fare extremely well against all enemy factions without the need to change mod configuration for each, as well as giving it a very large pool of possible status effects to proc per shot.
  • The Exergis' infinite punch through against bodies synergizes with Magnetize130xWhite Magnetize and DmgVoidSmall64 Void status, causing the pellets to continually rebound towards the center of the bubble.

Trivia[]

  • The projectile is made from a crystal that grows as the user "reloads" the weapon, hovering between two points before being shattered and its projectiles expelled outward. Not only is this unique for any weapon in Warframe, but it makes increasing Multishot more realistic, as the weapon can simply shatter a more powerful crystal into more shards.
  • The weapon's name is a corruption of the word "Exert" and "Exegesis", A critical explanation of text, mainly religious text.

Media[]

Exergis Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

Ammo Changes

We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.

Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.

Primary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides

15 Ammo per Pick Up:

  • Exergis

Update 30.9 (2021-11-11)

  • Fixed weapons with 1 bullet in their magazine (Exergis) bypassing the Fire Rate limit if equipped with a max rank Arcane Pistoleer.

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.

  • (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 12% to 36%.

Hotfix 25.7.4 (2019-09-05)

  • Fixed firing Exergis at the right time as Gauss’ Redline is activated causing you to be able to fire it continuously without needing to reload.

Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)

  • Introduced.

See also[]

  • Plinx Plinx, the secondary counterpart of this weapon.
  • Galvacord Galvacord, the melee counterpart of this weapon.
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