The Gazal Machete is a unique melee weapon that serves as a companion weapon to the Djinn sentinel. Each enemy killed will add potential 
Corrosive damage to Djinn's radial corrosive blast, and each consecutive cast of 
Fatal Attraction will buff the Gazal Machete with additional corrosive damage for a short period of time.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages
- High
Slash damage – effective against health. - Very high status chance.
- Above average attack speed.
- Synergizes with the Djinn;
- Kills with this weapon will add additional Corrosive damage to Fatal Attraction's radial blast.
- Any time Djinn casts Fatal Attraction, the Gazal Machete gains additional Corrosive damage for a period of time.
- Innate Corrosive damage – effective against Ferrite Armor and Fossilized.
- Innate
- Kills with this weapon will add additional
- Innate polarity.
Disadvantages
- Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Djinn's synergy has innate Corrosive – less effective against Proto Shields.
- Low critical chance.
Acquisition[]
The Gazal Machete's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |
 2 |
 2,600 |
 1,900 |
 1,400 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price: 15,000
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Tenno Lab Research  3,000
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5,000 |
 2 |
500 |
300 |
50 |
Time: 72 hrs |
| Prereq: N/A | |||||
 x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
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Notes[]
- When the Gazal Machete kills an enemy, the Djinn sentinel will gain 50 bonus Corrosive damage on its next successful cast of Fatal Attraction's radial blast. This bonus can stack up to a maximum of 10 times, for a maximum of 500 bonus damage after 10 kills. These stacks reset once Fatal Attraction has performed a radial blast or when Djinn dies. (The numbers might need to be checked again, I don't see any difference after 7 kills, and the max damage is more around 2800 for me)
- Upon Fatal Attraction activating, the Gazal Machete will receive 25% additional bonus damage as Corrosive for 30 seconds. (the bonus isn't always 25%, probably bugged if it's supposed to be a specific amount)
Trivia[]
- The Gazal is the first weapon ingame that has specific synergistic abilities with another different item, in this case the Djinn sentinel.
- The word Gazal is the alternative spelling of Ghazal, a Middle Eastern poetic form consisting of rhyming couplets and a refrain, with each line sharing the same meter.
- The blade's profile is similar to that of the Kukri, a Nepalese/Indian knife used similar to a machete.
Media[]
Gazal Machete in Codex.
Gazal Machete Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Damage increased from 52 to 178.
- Range increased from 1 to 2.6.
- Status Chance increased from 25% to 30%.
- Slam Attack increased 104 from to 534.
- Slide Attack increased 156 from to 356.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
Update: The Vacuum Within (2016-10-05)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also[]
- Djinn, the companion Sentinel to the weapon.
- Gazal Djinn Skin, a sentinel skin for Djinn that goes with the Gazal theme.
