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
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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.

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

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  damage.

Advantages

• Highest base damage of all non-Archwing weapons.
  • High and good damage – effective against health and armor.
  • Innate damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
• Very high status chance.
  • Can achieve 100% status per pellet with three of the following:  Scattering Inferno,  Frigid Blast,  Shell Shock, and  Toxic Barrage.
  • Innate confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
• Second-tightest pellet spread of all shotguns, behind  Astilla.
• Fairly fast reload speed.
• Innate 0.5 meter Punch Through.
• 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 flight speed).
• Projectiles have travel time.
• Very low critical chance.
• Lowest critical multiplier of all primary weapons.
• Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one pellet will proc a status; the actual base status chance per pellet is ~13.82%.
• Extremely low magazine size of just one round; requires frequent reloading.
• Lowest pellet count of all shotguns.
• Narrow pellet spread makes it harder to hit multiple enemies at once.

Tips

• As the Exergis is a single-shot weapon, its firing speed is almost entirely determined by its reload speed stat instead. Thus, any mods that decrease firing speed can be equipped with impunity, 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.
• While the Exergis is capable of inflicting multiple status effects per shot when at 100% status chance like most other shotguns, it's only capable of three at a time due to its extremely low pellet count.  Hell's Chamber and other multishot mods can remedy this, bringing the pellet count up to a minimum of 6 with an added 60% chance of firing 7.
• 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.

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.

Media

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

Warframe Exergis - 3 forma build

Warframe Build - EXERGIS ENERGISE - 2 forma

See Also

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