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 (2015-09-16) 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 Mods

• Standard
• Nightmare
• Corrupt (Bonus)
• Corrupt (Penalty)
• Acolyte
• Set
• Primed

Arch-GunAceMod.png

SpeedTriggerNew.png

ShotgunSpazzModU145.png

GunslingerModU145.png

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.

ShredNew.png

AcceleratedBlastModU145.png

LethalTorrentModU145.png

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

VileAccelerationNew.png

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.

CriticalDelayNew.png

VilePrecisionModU145.png

TaintedShellModU145.png

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.

PressurisedMagazineMod.png

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.

Primed Shred.png

Charged Weapons

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)

• Bow
• Rifles
• Shotguns
• Secondary
• Arch-gun

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,  Daikyu)	0.625s	0.5253s	~0.4545s	~0.3571s	~0.1818s
1.2s ( Lenz)	0.75s	~0.6316s	~0.5455s	~0.4286s	~0.2182s

EWArtemisBow.png

 Artemis Bow (1.00 sec)

DECernos.png

 Cernos (0.50 sec)

 Cernos Prime (0.50 sec)

AsymmetricBow.png

 Daikyu (1.00 sec)

Dread2.png

 Dread (0.50 sec)

 Lenz (1.20 sec)

 MK1-Paris (0.50 sec)

InfCernos.png

 Mutalist Cernos (0.50 sec)

 Paris (0.50 sec)

PrimeBowM.png

 Paris Prime (0.50 sec)

SyndicateRVCernos.png

 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
0.4s ( Battacor)	~0.3077s	~0.2759s	0.25s	~0.2105s	~0.1231s
0.5s ( Ferrox,  Scourge)	~0.3846s	~0.3448s	0.3125s	~0.2632s	~0.1538s
0.6 ( Opticor Vandal)	~0.4615s	~0.4138s	0.375s	~0.3158s	~0.1846s
0.75s ( Miter)	~0.5769s	~0.5172s	0.46875s	~0.3947s	~0.2308s
0.8s ( Tenora)	~0.6154s	~0.5517s	0.5s	~0.4211s	~0.2462s
1s ( Lanka)	~0.7692s	~0.6897s	0.625s	~0.5263s	~0.3077s
2s ( Opticor)	~1.5385s	~1.3793s	1.25s	~1.0526s	~0.6154s

 Battacor (0.40 sec)

 Ferrox (0.50 sec)

GrnFlameSpear.png

 Javlok (0.30 sec)

 Lanka (1.00 sec)

 Miter (0.75 sec)

OgrisNew.png

 Ogris (0.30 sec)

CrpBFG.png

 Opticor (2.00 sec)

 Opticor Vandal (0.60 sec)

PriestSpearGun.png

 Scourge (0.50 sec)

TnBardRifle.png

 Tenora (0.80 sec)

Charge times for shotgun weapons

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

GrineerFlakCannon.png

 Drakgoon (0.50 sec)

RevenantShotgun.png

 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,  Staticor)	0.625s	~0.5814s	~0.5263s	~0.3106s
3s ( Stug)	1.875s	~1.744s	~1.578s	~0.9316s

CorpusHandRocket.png

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

DEBallistica.png

 Ballistica (1.00 sec)

PrimeBallistica.png

 Ballistica Prime (0.80 sec)

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

RVBallistica.png

 Rakta Ballistica (1.00 sec)

CrpElectroMag.png

 Staticor (1.00 sec)

GrineerCrossbowGooGun.png

 Stug (3.00 sec)

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

ArchLaunchGrenade.png

 Corvas (0.50 sec)

ArchRailgun.png

 Velocitus (1.00 sec)

Auto-Spool Weapons

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.

• Primary
• Secondary
• Robotic
• Arch-gun

 Gorgon

WraithGorgon.png

 Gorgon Wraith

GrineerSparkGun.png

 Kohm

 Prisma Gorgon

U10DesignCouncilTennoAR.png

 Soma

PrimeSoma.png

 Soma Prime

CorpusMachineGun.png

 Supra

 Supra Vandal

TnBardRifle.png

 Tenora

AkimboSomaPistols.png

 Aksomati

CorpusMinigun.png

 Cestra

DualCorpusMinigun.png

 Dual Cestra

GrnWindUpPistol.png

 Kohmak

PSDualCestra.png

 Secura Dual Cestra

DualKohmak.png

 Twin Kohmak

DESentinelDethMachineRifle.png

 Deth Machine Rifle

GrnAntiAirGun.png

 Grattler

 Imperator Vandal

ArchLongRifle.png

 Phaedra

Burst-Fire Weapons

There are three types of burst-fire weapons. There are normal burst-fire weapons that fire a set number of rounds per burst, with each round shot one after the other; these are the most common out of all the burst-fire weapons. The second least common are simultaneous burst-fire weapons that shoot the number of bullets in its burst count simultaneously (similar to shotguns). Automatic burst-fire weapons are automatic versions of normal burst-fire weapons, holding the trigger will continue to shoot rounds in normal bursts until the trigger is released. The following weapons have burst-fire as its primary trigger mode or as an alternate trigger:

• Primary
• Secondary
• Melee
• Robotic
• Arch-gun

 Battacor (2 round automatic burst)

 Burston (3 round burst)

PrimeBurston.png

 Burston Prime (3 round burst)

 Dex Sybaris (2 round burst)

GrnHarpoonGun.png

 Harpak (3 round burst)

InfestedBurstRifle.png

 Hema (3 round burst)

 Hind (5 round burst)

 Nagantaka (9 round burst, scales with magazine size)

InfQuantaRifle.png

 Paracyst (3 round burst)

GrnFourBarrelRifleWeapon.png

 Quartakk (4 round simultaneous burst)

TnoLeverActionRifle.png

 Sybaris (2 round burst)

Sybaris Prime.png

 Sybaris Prime (2 round burst)

 Tiberon (3 round burst)

 Tiberon Prime (3 round burst)

 Akarius (2 round simultaneous burst)

 Akjagara (2 round simultaneous burst)

 Akjagara Prime (2 round simultaneous burst)

DEBallistica.png

 Ballistica (4 round burst)

PrimeBallistica.png

 Ballistica Prime (4 round burst)

 Cyanex (11 round burst, scales with magazine size)

 Kraken (2 round burst)

TnBardPistol.png

 Pandero (8 round burst, scales with magazine size)

 Quatz (4 round simultaneous burst)

RVBallistica.png

 Rakta Ballistica (4 round burst)

 Sicarus (3 round burst)

DESicarus Prime.png

 Sicarus Prime (3 round burst)

TnoGunbladeAuto.png

 Sarpa (5 round burst)

 Burst Laser (3 round burst)

PrismaSentinelBurstLaser.png

 Prisma Burst Laser (3 round burst)

ArchBurstGun.png

 Cyngas (3 round burst)

Media

Accelerated Blast

Warframe Fire Rate

See Also

• Trigger Type, for more info on firing mechanisms of weapons.
• Attack Speed, for the melee equivalent of fire rate.