Hek

Grineer Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Hek
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Shotgun
Mastery Rank Requirement	4
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	9.1
Ammo Max	120
Ammo Pickup	15
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.20x)
Fire Rate	2.170 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	4
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	11.00° (6.00° min, 16.00° max)
Normal Attack
11.25 ( 15%)
48.75 ( 65%)
15 ( 20%)
Total Damage	525 (65.00%  Puncture)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	10.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Damage Falloff	10.0 m (100%) - 20.0 m (20.00%)
Fire Rate	2.170 attacks/sec
Multishot	7 (75.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	300.0 m
Spread	11.00° (6.00° min, 16.00° max)
Status Chance	10.70%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Riven Family	Hek
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 5.2 (2013-01-04)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Vem Tabook Dhurnam Kuva Trooper
Variants	Hek  Kuva Hek  Vaykor Hek
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Grineer Weapons Puncture Damage Weapons Shotgun Hek Primary Weapons Semi-Auto Weapons Semi-Automatic Vem Tabook Dhurnam Kuva Trooper Base Alarming Weapons Hit-Scan Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

CODEX

The Hek is a powerful shotgun that fires its shots with a tight spread, making it efficient at medium range as long as its strong recoil is properly managed.

For the Boss on Earth, see Councilor Vay Hek.

The Hek is a Grineer shotgun that deals very high damage, particularly known for its relatively narrow cone compared to other shotguns. Due to this relatively tight spread, the Hek is also able to perform with greater success at more moderate ranges, regardless of pellet/ projectile falloff. However, the Hek does trade its raw power and relative focused fire for its small magazine size, and generally limited crowd-control ability.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:

• High damage – effective against armor.
• Very high overall status chance.
• Tied with  Tigris,  Tigris Prime,  Vaykor Hek and  Corinth for the third narrowest pellet spread of all shotguns, behind  Exergis and  Astilla.
• Innate multishot of 7 pellets.
• Can equip the Hek-exclusive  Scattered Justice mod.

Disadvantages:

• Lower and damage – less effective against Shields and Flesh.
• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 20% from 10m to 20m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Low critical chance.
• Small magazine size.
• High recoil.
• May miss enemies at point-blank range due to the length of the barrels.

Comparisons:

•  Hek (Normal Attack), compared to  Vaykor Hek (Normal Attack):
  • Equal base damage
  • Lower base critical chance (10.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (577.5 vs. 656.25)
  • Lower burst DPS (1253.17 vs. 1968.75)
  • Lower sustained DPS (601.04 vs. 1067.79)
  • Closer max damage falloff distance (20.0 m vs. 25.0 m)
  • Greater max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (80.00% vs. 73.33%)
  • Lower fire rate (2.170 attacks/sec vs. 3.000 attacks/sec)
  • Smaller magazine (4 vs. 8)
  • Faster reload time (2.00 s vs. 2.25 s)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 12)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))
  • No innate Justice effect

Acquisition

The Hek's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
25,000	5	900	1,200	1,000	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 25
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:25,000

Tips

• Along with the  Corinth and  Vaykor Hek, the Hek is able to use  Accelerated Blast more efficiently than other shotguns due to being its primary damage, which is uncommon among weapons in its class.
•  Ammo Stock at Rank 3 (+40%) adds two into the magazine size (for a total of 6). There is no need to upgrade the mod further as no additional rounds will be gained.
  • A fully ranked Ammo Stock combined with a fully ranked  Burdened Magazine will add 5 additional rounds to the magazine, giving it 9 rounds in total.
• Using the  Shotgun Ammo Mutation mod can help regain ammo when needed, although not as often as the full auto shotguns.
• The weapon's spread cone can be shrunk by zooming in, as with all shotguns.
• Equipping both  Hell's Chamber and  Scattered Justice will give the Hek +320% Multishot, giving it an impressive 29 pellets per shot with a 40% chance of firing a 30th pellet. This greatly improves the Hek's damage and status chance.
  • Along with  Scattered Justice's multishot, the Justice effect can be used to restore health and deal area-of-effect damage.

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Trivia

• This weapon seems to be modeled on the main weapon of Councilor Vay Hek's Terra Frame, which fires rockets as opposed to shotgun shells. This has caused speculation as to whether the Councilor himself is merely the shotgun's namesake, or otherwise responsible for designing/commissioning it.

  

  Concept art for Vay Hek's Terra Frame, with the Hek-shaped cannon clearly in view.

  • Additionally, Vay Hek's only weapon was the Hek shotgun before his Update 13.0 (2014-04-09) rework.
  • Vem Tabook uses a modified Hek that fires electric shells.
• The magazine for the Hek is the cylindrical 'handle' sticking out of the side of the bottom right barrel. This raises questions as to how the shells are actually loaded into each barrel.
  • It is possible that the barrel it is attached to is a tubular feeding system and not for firing, and that the other three barrels actually fire.
• The Hek received a minor visual update in Hotfix 13.4.1 (2014-05-23), which added weathering and other textures to the weapon to make it look more worn and aged, putting it in line with other Grineer weapons.
• The Hek was named during a livestream. When one of the developers asked what the shotgun should be called, the other developer on stream stubbed his toe and yelled 'Hek', which led to the naming of this shotgun.
• The Hek has a striking resemblance to a 1960s quad-barrel shotgun prototype.

Media

• Hek in Codex with Update 13.4.1 textures.
• Hek as shown in the Arsenal

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Warframe - Hek Shotgun Spotlight - Beta 7.9.0

Warframe New Hek Reload Animation

Warframe HEK Review Gameplay (Hand Canon)

Warframe Hek Build Guide w Scattered Justice (U15.8.1)

Warframe Builds - HEK SCATTERED JUSTICE BUILD 3 formas - update 15.16

Lets Max (Warframe) E2 - Hek and Scattered Justice! (60fps)

Warframe Hek - Buffed & Forma

Warframe - All Grineer Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Warframe - All Grineer Weapon Reloads in 2 minutes (2012 - 2019)

Hek Skins

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Desert-Camo

Obsidian
PlayStation™ Exclusive

Hecaton

Zobov

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.

• (Undocumented) Status chance increased from 3.5714285714286% to 10.714285714286%.

Hotfix 18.13.2 (2016-06-01)

• Original sound restored.

Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)

• Conclave: Can now be used in PvP.

Hotfix 15.0.3 (2014-10-24)

• Fixed an issue with Syndicate mod being 500% multishot instead of 50% (Scattered Justice).

Update 15.0 (2014-10-24)

• New syndicate weapon mod: Scattered Justice, adds 50% multishot.

Hotfix 13.4.1 (2014-05-23)

• Updated textures.

Update 12.0 (2014-02-05)

• Damage increased and more minimun damage added to falloff.

Update 9.5 (2013-08-09)

• Added custom reload sounds.

Update 7.10 (2013-05-03)

• Effective range increased. Range longer than Strun and Boar.

Hotfix 7.7.1 (2013-04-04)

• Restored missing sounds

Update 7.x Weapon Balance (2013-03-22)

• Changes to Recoil feel and Accuracy, generally sharper Rotation and Translation Springs, added Noise and better spread control when aim firing. Added force feedback to all firing sounds.
• Damaged per pellet reduced from 19 to 17
• Total number of pellets increased from 7 to 8
• Reload time decreased from 2.15 to 2
• Crit Chance increased from 2.5% to 5%

Update 5.4 (2013-01-14)

• Balance changes.

Update 5.2 (2013-01-04)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 18.13.2 (2016-06-01)

See Also

• Councilor Vay Hek, the Grineer boss who uses an oversized version of this weapon, and may have invented it.
• Vem Tabook, the leader of The Grustrag Three, uses a modified version of the Hek.
•  Scattered Justice, a Hek exclusive Syndicate mod.
•  Vaykor Hek, the Steel Meridian custom version.