Karak

Solid, dependable and deadly. The Karak is a standard issue rifle in many Grineer platoons.

The Karak is an accurate Grineer assault rifle that is used by Frontier Elite Lancers. It features high damage, high accuracy, and a good fire rate, offset by its fairly low magazine size and limited critical chance and damage potential. Overall, it serves as a very effective rifle capable for any range of combat.

Characteristics[edit | edit source]

This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.

Advantages

High Impact damage – effective against shields.
High accuracy, on par with Soma.
Low recoil for an automatic weapon.
Has a polarity slot.

Disadvantages

Low Slash damage – ineffective against Infested, Flesh and Cloned Flesh
Very low critical chance.
Very low status chance.
Fairly small magazine size.
Poor ammo economy.

Comparisons:

Karak, compared to Karak Wraith:
- Lower base damage (29 vs. 31)
  - Lower Impact damage (13 vs. 13.95)
  - Lower Puncture damage (8.7 vs. 9.3)
  - Lower Slash damage (7.3 vs. 7.75)
- Lower critical chance (9% vs. 13%)
- Lower critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 2x)
- Lower status chance (15% vs. 25%)
- Smaller magazine (30 rounds vs. 60 rounds)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (1 vs. 7)
- Higher disposition (1.35 vs. 1.28)

Karak, compared to Kuva Karak:
- Higher base damage (29 vs. 23)
  - Higher Impact damage (13 vs. 7.1)
  - Higher Puncture damage (8.7 vs. 6.2)
  - Lower Slash damage (7.3 vs. 9.7)
- Lower critical chance (9% vs. 23%)
- Lower critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 2.1x)
- Lower status chance (15% vs. 31%)
- Smaller magazine (30 rounds vs. 70 rounds)
- Slower reload speed (2 s vs. 1.7 s)
- Less accurate (29 vs. 80)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (1 vs. 13)
- Higher disposition (1.35 vs. 1)

Acquisition[edit | edit source]

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

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	2	400	900	100	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	2	400	900	100	Rush: 30
Market Price: 125			Blueprints Price:30,000

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

Tips[edit | edit source]

With a polarity, the Karak is recommended to either have Serration, Split Chamber, or Speed Trigger as its first mod.
The Karak is a solid anti-Corpus weapon due to its slight bias towards Impact damage over Puncture and Slash damage. Consider adding Bane of Corpus to further increase its effectiveness against them.
The Karak is a very versatile weapon, good at combating all enemies, but aside from its high Impact damage and rate of fire, it doesn't excel in any particular situation.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The end of the bound strap on the midsection of the gun has movement/cloth physics similar to Syandanas; it flaps loosely whilst moving and firing the weapon.
Aesthetically, the rifle appears to be heavily based on the M16 assault rifle, with its filename data referring to it as the "GrineerM16Rifle", reinforcing the connection.
This is the first official automatic Grineer Assault Rifle introduced in the game (following the burst-fire Hind rifle), as the Grakata is considered to be a submachine gun and the Gorgon is more of a Light Machine Gun.
The weapon was introduced in Update 11.5 (2013-12-19).

Karak Skins Edit

Media[edit | edit source]

Karak in Arensal

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

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

Patch History[edit | edit source]

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

Fixed the cloth ribbon on the Karak when equipped with the Desert-Camo and Conclave skin appearing distorted and behaving strangely.
Fixed reload animation issues on the Karak when equipped with the Desert-Camo and Conclave skin.

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)