Fire Rate

Fire rate is the frequency at which projectiles are launched per second. Various mods can be used to increase or decrease the fire rate of primary and secondary weapons. This applies to bullets, lasers, arrows, and hand thrown projectiles.

Mods that increase fire rate also reduce the spin up time of spooling weapons which includes the Gorgon, Deth Machine Rifle, Soma, Cestra, and Supra. They also reduce the charge time of bows and other weapons with charge such as the Ogris, Miter, Stug, Ballistica and Lanka. For burst-fire weapons, such as the Burston and Tiberon, fire rate affects both the speed of the burst as well as the time between bursts from Hotfix 17.4.3 onwards. Continuous weapons such as Ignis and Flux Rifle have no additional visual effects from fire rate mods, however they still do damage at an increased rate. Increasing fire rate on semi-auto weapons increases the cap on how fast they can fire and vice-versa. On duplex-fire weapons, fire rate mods affect the time between each 2 round burst, similar to burst-fire weapons.

High fire rate exacerbates the effects of weapon recoil. For some weapons, lowering the fire rate can improve the player's overall accuracy.

Fire Rate ModsEdit

Dual-stat fire rate mods are obtained from Nightmare Mode missions. These mods combine increased fire rate with another positive enhancement. These mods are often weaker than their basic counterparts, but are useful for stacking or diverse builds.

These mods are found within vaults of the Orokin Derelict missions, increasing fire rate at the expense of other weapon stats.

Found in Orokin Derelict missions, these negatively affect fire rate in exchange for other enhancements. Weapons with innate overbearing recoil can be made more effective at range by reducing the fire rate.

These mods are dropped by Stalker's Acolytes during Operation: Shadow Debt. These mods increase fire rate while aiming for a short duration after reloading.

These mods are dropped by Grineer Commanders on the Plains of Eidolon, and may also be awarded by completing Ostron Bounties available in Cetus. They provide additional bonuses based on the number of set mods presently equipped.

These mods are the primed variants of the normal fire-rate mods.

Charged WeaponsEdit

For weapons that use a charge mechanic, fire rate mods will increase the charge rate. Note that this increases the speed at which these weapons charge, which is not the same as lowering the charge time directly:

Charge Rate = 1 ÷ Charge Time

The charge rate is the speed at which the charge circle progresses to full. Applying mods works as so:

Modded Charge Rate = Charge Rate × (1 + Mod Bonus)

For the resulting charge time (seconds per charge) this means:

Modded Charge Time = Charge Time ÷ (1 + Mod Bonus)

Charge times for bow weapons (x2 bonus applies)

Base Charge Time	Shred (+60%)	Vigilante Fervor (+90%)	Speed Trigger (+120%)	Vile Acceleration (+180%)	All (+450%)
0.25s (Rakta Cernos)	0.15625s	~0.1316s	~0.1136s	~0.0893s	~0.0455s
0.5s (Most bows)	0.3125s	~0.2632s	~0.2273s	~0.1786s	~0.0909s
1s (Artemis Bow (Weapon), Daikyu)	0.625s	0.5253s	~0.4545s	~0.3571s	~0.1818s
1.2s (Lenz)	0.75s	~0.6316s	~0.5455s	~0.4286s	~0.2182s

Artemis Bow (Weapon) (1.00 sec)

Cernos (0.50 sec)

Cernos Prime (0.50 sec)

Daikyu (1.00 sec)

Dread (0.50 sec)

Lenz (1.20 sec)

MK1-Paris (0.50 sec)

Mutalist Cernos (0.50 sec)

Paris (0.50 sec)

Paris Prime (0.50 sec)

Rakta Cernos (0.25 sec)

Charge times for rifle weapons (x2 bonus does not apply)

Base Charge Time	Shred (+30%)	Vigilante Fervor (+45%)	Speed Trigger (+60%)	Vile Acceleration (+90%)	All (+225%)
0.3s (Javlok, Ogris)	~0.2308s	~0.2069s	0.1875s	~0.1579s	~0.0923s
0.5s (Ferrox)	~0.3846s	~0.3448s	0.3125s	~0.2632s	~0.1538s
0.75s (Miter)	~0.5769s	~0.5172s	0.46875s	~0.3947s	~0.2308s
1s (Lanka)	~0.7692s	~0.6897s	0.625s	~0.5263s	~0.3077s
2s (Opticor)	~1.5385s	~1.3793s	1.25s	~1.0526s	~0.6154s

Ferrox (0.50 sec)

Javlok (0.30 sec)

Lanka (1.00 sec)

Miter (0.75 sec)

Ogris (0.30 sec)

Opticor (2.00 sec)

Charge times for shotgun weapons

Base Charge Time	Accelerated Blast (+60%)	Shotgun Spazz (+90%)	Frail Momentum (+90%)	All (+240%)
0.5s (Drakgoon)	0.3125s	~0.2632s	~0.2632s	~0.1471s

Drakgoon (0.50 sec)

Phantasma (1.00 sec) (not affected by mods)

Charge time for pistol weapons (Excluding Angstrum, as charge time differs with mag size.)

Base Charge Time	Lethal Torrent (+60%)	Gunslinger (+72%)	Anemic Agility (+90%)	All (+222%)
0.8s (Ballistica Prime)	0.5s	~0.4671s	~0.4211s	~0.2484s
1s (Ballistica, Rakta)	0.625s	~0.5814s	~0.5263s	~0.3106s
3s (Staticor, Stug)	1.875s	~1.744s	~1.578s	~0.9316s

Angstrum (0.50/1.50 sec single/3 rocket(s), scales with magazine size)

Ballistica (1.00 sec)

Ballistica Prime (0.80 sec)

Prisma Angstrum (0.20/0.60 sec single/3 rocket(s), scales with magazine size)

Rakta Ballistica (1.00 sec)

Staticor (3.00 sec)

Stug (3.00 sec)

Base Charge Time	Shell Rush (+50%)
0.5s (Corvas)	~0.3333s
1s (Velocitus)	~0.6667s

Corvas (0.50 sec)

Velocitus (1.00 sec)

Auto-Spool WeaponsEdit

Some automatic weapons don't start out firing at the fire rate listed in the Codex. Instead, the first few shots are fired more slowly as the weapon 'spools up' to the maximum fire rate. Once the maximum fire rate is reached, the weapon will continue firing at that rate until either the wielder stops firing or runs out of ammo.

Weapons with auto-spool:Edit

Gorgon

Gorgon Wraith

Kohm

Prisma Gorgon

Soma

Soma Prime

Supra

Supra Vandal

Tenora

Aksomati

Cestra

Dual Cestra

Kohmak

Secura Dual Cestra

Twin Kohmak

Deth Machine Rifle

Phaedra

Burst WeaponsEdit

Weapons with burst-fireEdit

The following weapons have burst-fire as its primary trigger mode or as an alternate trigger:

Battacor (2 round burst)

Burston (3 round burst)

Burston Prime (3 round burst)

Dex Sybaris (2 round burst)

Harpak (3 round burst)

Hind (5 round burst)

Nagantaka (9 round burst, scales with magazine size)

Paracyst (3 round burst)

Quartakk (4 round burst)

Sybaris (2 round burst)

Sybaris Prime (2 round burst)

Tiberon (3 round burst)

Tiberon Prime (3 round burst)

Akjagara (2 round burst)

Ballistica (4 round burst)

Ballistica Prime (4 round burst)

Kraken (2 round burst)

Pandero (8 round burst, scales with magazine size)

Sicarus (3 round burst)

Sicarus Prime (3 round burst)

Sarpa (5 round burst)

Burst Laser (3 round burst)

Prisma Burst Laser (3 round burst)

Cyngas (3 round burst)

MediaEdit

Accelerated Blast

Warframe Fire Rate

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See AlsoEdit

• Attack Speed, for the melee equivalent of fire rate.