Exergis

Corpus

Exergis
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Shotgun
Mastery Rank Requirement	8
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	15.4
Ammo Max	47
Ammo Pickup	15
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.10x)
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	1
Reload Time	1.60 s
Reload Delay	0.00 s
Projectile Speed	100.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spread	6.50° (5.00° min, 8.00° max)
Normal Attack
20 ( 3.7%)
120 ( 22.22%)
260 ( 48.15%)
140 ( 25.93%)
Total Damage	1,620 (48.15%  Slash)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	8.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.40x
Damage Falloff	30.0 m (100%) - 60.0 m (49.20%)
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Multishot	3 (540.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.5 m
Spread	6.50° (5.00° min, 8.00° max)
Status Chance	36.00%
Projectile Speed	100.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, SINGLESHOT
Riven Family	Exergis
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)
Polarities
Sell Price	7,500
Variants	Exergis
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Slash Damage Weapons Shotgun Exergis Primary Weapons Semi-Auto Weapons Semi-Automatic Base Alarming Weapons Single Shot Weapons Projectile Weapons Untradeable Weapons

CODEX

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  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  damage.

Advantages

• Highest base damage of primary shotguns.
  • High and good damage – effective against health and armor.
  • Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• Very high status chance per bullet.
  • Innate confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
  • Can achieve over 100% status chance per pellet with three of the following:  Toxic Barrage,  Shell Shock,  Frigid Blast and  Scattering Inferno. 
• Fairly fast reload speed.
• Innate 0.5 meter punch through.
• Innate multishot of 3.
• Tightest pellet spread of all pellet shotguns.
• Innate polarity.

Disadvantages

• Innate damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
• Low damage – less effective against shields.
• 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.
• Very low critical chance.
• Lowest critical multiplier of all primary weapons.
• Extremely low magazine size of just one round; must reload after every shot.
• Lowest pellet count of all shotguns.
• Narrow pellet spread makes it harder to hit multiple enemies at once.

Acquisition

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

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
20,000	2	2	175	8,500	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:20,000

Notes

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

Tips

• As the Exergis is a single-shot weapon, its firing speed is determined by its reload speed and fire rate stat instead. 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.
  • The delay between shooting and automatically reloading is determined by firing speed, even on single-shot weapons like the Exergis; a slower firing speed means a longer delay. This can be countered by pressing reload immediately after firing.
• 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  Vicious Spread.
• The Exergis is capable of holding up to six different damage types at once; , 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.
• Exergis can have up to 3 shots in its magazine, using a magazine capacity riven (2x positive and 1x negative), Ammo Stock and a non-maxed out  Burdened Magazine. The returns from a build like this are miniscule, as user is forced to trade off 3 mod slots for this.

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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.

Media

• Exergis in Arsenal

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Exergis Shotgun Is It Really That Good? (VS Tigris Prime)

Warframe Exergis - 3 forma build

Warframe Build - EXERGIS ENERGISE - 2 forma

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

Warframe - All Corpus Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2012 - 2019)

Exergis Skins

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Shock-Camo

Hecaton

Zobov

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.

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