Helstrum

Akaten

Artax

Batoten

Burst Laser

Burst Laser Prime

Cryotra

Deconstructor

Deconstructor Prime

Deth Machine Rifle

Deth Machine Rifle Prime

Helstrum

Lacerten

Laser Rifle

Multron

Prime Laser Rifle

Prisma Burst Laser

Stinger

Sweeper

Sweeper Prime

Tazicor

Verglas

Vulcax

Vulklok

Helstrum
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery Rank Requirement	0
Max Rank	30
Slot	Robotic
Trigger Type	Burst
Utility
Accuracy	100
Ammo Max	∞
Ammo Type	None
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.00x)
Fire Rate	0.910 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	80
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Speed	10.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Normal Attack
5.1 ( 56.04%)
4 ( 43.96%)
Total Damage	9.1 (56.04%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Burst Count	4
Burst Delay	0.1000 s
Burst Fire Rate	10.00 attacks/sec
Bursts Per Second	0.71 bursts/sec
Crit Chance	5.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.50x
Fire Rate	0.910 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (9.10 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Status Chance	30.00%
Projectile Speed	10.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Trigger Type	Burst
Explosion
2.1 ( 42%)
2.9 ( 58%)
Total Damage	5 (58.00%  Heat)
Crit Chance	5.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.50x
Fire Rate	0.910 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (5.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	3.0 m
Status Chance	30.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, SNIPER_AMMO, AOE, SENTINEL_WEAPON
Riven Family	Helstrum
Introduced	Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Variants	Helstrum
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

Launches a swarm of micro-missiles.

The Helstrum is a robotic launcher weapon that burst-fires four small homing missiles that explode and deal damage. This weapon accepts rifle mods.

It can be sold for 7,500 Credits 7,500.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:

• High damage – effective against shields.
• Second highest status chance of all sentinel weapons, behind  Cryotra.
• Shots explode in a 3 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
  • Innate damage – effective against Cloned Flesh, Infested, and Infested Flesh.
• Pinpoint accuracy.
• Innate polarity.
• Missiles will home in on a target that the sentinel aims at.

Disadvantages:

• No damage – less effective against health.
  • Damage cannot be increased with mods.
• Explosion has innate damage – less effective against Proto Shield.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased with or mods.
• Low critical chance.
• Low critical multiplier.
• Low fire rate.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 75% from central impact.
• Projectiles have travel time.

Acquisition

The Helstrum's blueprint can be purchased from Legs in Fortuna for 10,000 Standing 10,000, requiring the rank of Old Mate with Solaris United. Note that this weapon also takes up one Sentinel inventory slot.

Manufacturing Requirements
50,000	10	10	10	1	Time: 24 hrs
					Rush: 25 Platinum 25
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:  10,000

Notes

• Fires in a quick 4-round burst, but then has a burst cycle time of 4 times the inverse of the Firing Rate, otherwise known as the Seconds Per Shot. The delay in seconds between the first shot of each burst = 4 / (modified firing rate), e.g. with a maxed  Speed Trigger the cycle time is 4/(0.91 x (1 + 0.6)) = 2.75 seconds between bursts. The default rate is one burst every 4.4 seconds.
• Missiles have homing properties, allowing the whole salvo to reliably hit small and/or agile targets such as Ospreys.
  • In the event the target dies before the missiles reach it, the missiles will continue to travel in a straight line.
• Starts to target enemies that come within ~30m of the companion.
• MOA companions equipped with this weapon will fire a volley only after the previous volley hit. [Needs Testing]
  • ^{This appears to not be the case, at least when testing in Captura, however, it appears MOAs will 'lose interest' in a target if the player does not continue to target it. This appears to happen faster than with other companions, with MOAs firing, on average, three bursts, and sentinels firing approximately five before losing interest.}

Tips

•  Firestorm and  Primed Firestorm will increase the small blast radius on impact, increasing it to almost 5 meters with the Primed version.
• With the Helstrum's very low base damage/Crit stats but good Status chance, it can be built into an extremely effective Status Effect inflictor if raw damage-per-shot is ignored completely. It is not difficult to have the Helstrum simultaneously surpass 100% Status Chance, have 2 additional Elements (including both being combination elements by adding all four base element types) and then filling the remainder of available Mod slots with the best Multishot and Firing Rate mods you have available. Building for and will allow for good crowd control and assist in boosting damage from Viral, but with for heavy armor removal or with for a combination of armor removal and health damage boost are also good options. As a reminder, the damage from the AoE blast is considered dead last in the elemental combinations based on Mods equipped, unless a mod is specifically equipped earlier in the sequence of the Mod screen.

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Patch History

Hotfix 29.1.2 (2020-09-22)

• Fixed some Sentinel and Moa Weapon types not getting affected by Magazine related Mods (notably Helstrum).

Hotfix 28.0.2 (2020-06-11)

• Fixed Helstrum missing from the Codex and an inability to Chat link it.

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)