Karak

Grineer Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Karak
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery Rank Requirement	1
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Accuracy	28.6
Ammo Max	540
Ammo Pickup	80
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●● (1.35x)
Fire Rate	11.670 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	30
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Spread	3.50° (2.00° min, 5.00° max)
Normal Attack
13.05 ( 45%)
8.7 ( 30%)
7.25 ( 25%)
Total Damage	29 (45.00%  Impact)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	9.00%
Crit Multiplier	1.50x
Fire Rate	11.670 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (29.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Range	300.0 m
Spread	3.50° (2.00° min, 5.00° max)
Status Chance	15.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	ASSAULT_AMMO
Riven Family	Karak
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)
Polarities
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Frontier Elite Lancer
Variants	Karak  Karak Wraith  Kuva Karak
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Grineer Weapons Impact Damage Weapons Rifle Karak Primary Weapons Auto Weapons Automatic Frontier Elite Lancer Base Alarming Weapons Hit-Scan Weapons Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

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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.

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

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
30,000	2	400	900	100	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 30
Market Price: 125			Blueprints Price:30,000

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages

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

Disadvantages

• Low 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 (Normal Attack), compared to  Karak Wraith (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (29.00 vs. 31.00)
    • Lower  Impact damage ( 13.05 vs. 13.95)
    • Lower  Puncture damage ( 8.7 vs. 9.3)
    • Lower  Slash damage ( 7.25 vs. 7.75)
  • Lower total damage (29 vs. 31)
  • Lower base critical chance (9.00% vs. 13.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.50x vs. 2.00x)
  • Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (30.30 vs. 35.03)
  • Lower burst DPS (353.65 vs. 408.80)
  • Lower sustained DPS (198.90 vs. 294.31)
  • Smaller magazine (30 vs. 60)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (1 vs. 7)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.28x))

•  Karak (Normal Attack), compared to  Kuva Karak (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (29.00 vs. 23.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Higher  Impact damage ( 13.05 vs. 7.1)
    • Higher  Puncture damage ( 8.7 vs. 6.2)
    • Lower  Slash damage ( 7.25 vs. 9.7)
  • Lower total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (29 vs. 36.8)
  • Lower base critical chance (9.00% vs. 23.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.50x vs. 2.10x)
  • Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 31.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (30.30 vs. 46.11)
  • Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (353.65 vs. 538.10)
  • Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (198.90 vs. 419.27)
  • Smaller magazine (30 vs. 70)
  • Slower reload time (2.00 s vs. 1.70 s)
  • Less accurate (28.6 vs. 80)
  • Wider first-shot spread (2.00° vs. 0.50°)
  • Wider maximum spread (5.00° vs. 2.00°)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (1 vs. 13)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.05x))

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Tips

• 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

• 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

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Oscira

Soaktron

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Patch History

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

• Converted materials to PBR on the Karak.

Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)

• Karak has received the PBR treatment.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 1.
• Damage increased from 27 to 29.
• Status Chance increased from 7% to 15%.
• Critical chance increased from 3% to 9%.

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Increased damage of Karak in Conclave.

Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)

• Karak's magazine size reduced from 30 to 20.

• Fixed the Conclave Karak Skin not applying to all parts of the weapon.

• Fixed an issue with the Conclave Karak Skin.

• Fixed the Conclave Karak skin having the incorrect store icon.

• Conclave skin added.

Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22)

• Karak series damage has been increased in Conclave.

Hotfix 18.4.5 (2016-01-29)

• Fixed an issue with Karak reload animations playing the wrong sound.

Update 17.10 (2015-11-04)

• Karak damage reduced in PvP.

Update 17.1 (2015-08-12)

• Increased the damage of the Karak in PvP.

Update 16.5 (2015-05-12)

• Karak damage increased in PvP.

Update 16.4 (2015-04-23)

• The Karak has now been balanced for use in PvP.

Hotfix 14.0.11 (2014-07-30)

• Damage multipliers for the Karak normalized.

Update 14.0 (2014-07-18)

• Limited the max instances of Karak fire sound effects.

Hotfix 11.5.1 (2013-12-19)

• Fixed Karak not being craftable with BluePrint.

Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.4 (2018-12-10)

See also

•  Karak Wraith, the Wraith counterpart of this weapon.
•  Kuva Karak, the Kuva Lich counterpart of this weapon.