Exergis is a Corpus shotgun that shatters a crystal into enemies, puncturing them with devastating Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 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 Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages
- Highest base damage of all non-Archwing weapons.
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and good Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against health and armor.
- Innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew.
- Very high status chance per bullet.
- Can achieve over 100% status per pellet with three of the following:
Scattering Inferno, Frigid Blast, Shell Shock, and Toxic Barrage. - Innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. confuses enemies and makes them indiscriminately attack each other.
- Can achieve over 100% status per pellet with three of the following:
- Second-tightest pellet spread of all shotguns, behind Astilla (Which does not fire pellets).
- Fairly fast reload speed.
- Innate 0.5 meter Punch Through.
- Innate Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarity.
Disadvantages
- Innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized.
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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.
- 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 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.
- 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; Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist., 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.
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.
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 Skins
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.
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.
