Hind

Grineer

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Hind

Statistics

Utility

Projectile Type

Hit-Scan

Burst Mode

7.5

15

Projectile Type

Hit-Scan

Range

300 m

Burst Count

5

Burst Rate

5

Burst Delay

0.12 s

Semi-Auto Mode

12

36

Miscellaneous

Users

Elite Lancer
Dok Thul
Tusk Lancer
Aerial Commander
Plains Commander

Introduced

Update 9.6 (2013-08-16)

Internal Name

/Lotus/Weapons/Grineer/LongGuns/BurstRifle/GrnBurstRifle

CODEX

A powerful mid-range rifle used by Grineer shock troops, the Hind fires in five round bursts.

The Hind is a Grineer burst rifle used by their Elite Lancers. It fires five-round bursts while maintaining a low recoil allowing all rounds fired to land very close to one another, but has poor critical stats. Pressing Alternate Fire shoots single rounds with higher damage per bullet and critical stats but lower status.

Characteristics[]

This weapon primarily deals Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
Semi-auto fire has good critical chance.
Burst-fire has good status chance.
High accuracy.
Large magazine size.
Highest number of shots per burst out of all burst-fire rifles.
Burst-fire has low recoil.
Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:

Low Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture – less effective against shields and armor.
Burst-fire mode:
- Tied with Burston Burston and Kuva Hind Kuva Hind for the lowest base damage per bullet of all burst-fire rifles.
- Very low critical chance.
- Low critical multiplier.
- Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with six bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired. However, this can be circumvented by using the semi-auto single shot.
Semi-auto mode:
- Low status chance.
- Tied with Kuva Hind Kuva Hind and Nagantaka Nagantaka for the third slowest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles, after Grinlok Grinlok/Prisma Grinlok Prisma Grinlok and Kuva Chakkhurr Kuva Chakkhurr.

Comparisons:

Hind (Burst Mode), compared to Kuva Hind (Auto):
- Lower base damage per projectile (30 vs. 37.5)
  - Higher Impact Damage Impact damage (7.5 vs. 6)
  - Higher Puncture Damage Puncture damage (7.5 vs. 6)
  - Lower Slash Damage Slash damage (15 vs. 18)
  - Lower Lich System/Progenitor MinProgenitorBonus damage (0 vs. 7.5)
- Lower total damage (30 vs. 37.5)
- Lower base critical chance (7% vs. 21%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 1.9x)
- Lower base status chance (15% vs. 33%)
- Lower average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (31.05 vs. 57.07)
- Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (194.06 vs. 570.72)
- Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (162.76 vs. 454.56)
- Lower fire rate (6.25 round(s)/sec vs. 10 round(s)/sec)
- Smaller magazine (65 round(s) vs. 90 round(s))
- Faster reload time (2 s vs. 2.3 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 15)
- Higher disposition (1.42 vs. 1.05)

Acquisition[]

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

Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	6	700	1,000	1,200	Time: 24 hrs
25,000	6	700	1,000	1,200	Rush: 25
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:40,000

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

Notes[]

This weapon was introduced in Update 9.6 (2013-08-16).
Mods that affect fire rate will also affect the burst rate, making the Hind very deadly with mods that increase the firerate, and even more so with the addition of punch through.

Tips[]

New players who prefer burst fire but cannot afford this weapon's heavy building cost should stick with the Burston Burston until they have enough resources.
The Hind is made significantly better against enemy groups with the addition of Shred Shred or Metal Auger Metal Auger.
Stabilizer Stabilizer effectively reduces the recoil on every burst giving it more pin point precision over long distances or for better headshots.
- If one does not have Stabilizer or does not wish to install the Mod, a better alternative is moving the mouse down to combat the recoil when firing.

Trivia[]

The Hind is one of the Grineer weapons to be showcased in the Chemical Lab.
The Hind probably derives its name from the NATO reporting name for the famous Mil Mi-24 helicopter gunship/troop transport. Other probable sources of the weapon's name include:
- A lesser known aircraft, the Hawker Hind, is a pre-WWII British propeller driven bomber.
- The Golden Hind, Captain Sir Francis Drake's privateer galleon.
- A lunar crater named Hind.
The Hind is one of the few Grineer weapons that are not focused on Impact Damage Impact damage, and instead focused mostly on Slash Damage Slash. This makes them the least effective gun unit in the Grineer arsenal at taking down shields and punching through armor, while being better equipped against the Infested or Corpus enemies with shields down.