“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Knell Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.
Knell Prime is the Primed variant of the 
Knell pistol, with enhancements to Damage, Critical Chance, Critical Multiplier, and Status Chance. Knell Prime was released alongside 
Harrow Prime and 
Scourge Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon primarily deals
Puncture damage. - Landing a successful Headshot hit grants the "Death Knell" buff, additively increasing the modded critical multiplier by 0.5x and modded status chance by 20% and stacks up to 3 times, and also increases Ammo Efficiency by 100%. The buff lasts 2 seconds and can be refreshed on subsequent Headshots.
- Precise at long range due to the scope feature.
- Scope can be used even in Bleedout.
- Innate two polarities.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high crit chance (40.00%)
- High total damage (180)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Can only load one shot at a time (two when used by Harrow/ Harrow Prime).
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low reload speed (2.00 s)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Very low ammo max (20)
- Low status chance (10.00%)
- Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Knell Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Knell (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (180.00 vs. 150.00)
- Higher total damage (180 vs. 150)
- Higher base critical chance (40.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 1.50x)
- Higher base status chance (10.00% vs. 5.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (252 vs. 165)
- Higher burst DPS (126 vs. 82.5)
- Higher sustained DPS (114.54 vs. 73.33)
- Higher fire rate (5.00 attacks/sec vs. 4.00 attacks/sec)
- Larger max ammo capacity (20 vs. 10)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Barrel |  Blueprint
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Receiver |
|---|---|---|
 Axi K10 Rare (V) Axi K11 Rare (V) Axi K7 Rare (V) Axi K9 Rare (V) Lith K11 Rare (V) Meso K5 Rare (V) Neo K4 Rare (V)
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Axi B5 Common (V) Axi P4 Common (V) Axi W3 Common (V) Lith B11 Common (V) Lith S14 Common (V) Meso N12 Common (V) Meso S13 Common (V) Meso V7 Common (V)
|
Axi S15 Uncommon (V) Lith G6 Uncommon (V) Lith K10 Rare (V) Meso A3 Uncommon (V) Meso H4 Uncommon (V) Meso K4 Uncommon (V) Meso K6 Rare (V) Neo D7 Uncommon (V)
|
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 Orokin Cell5 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Notes[]
- When used by Harrow or Harrow Prime, the Knell Prime's Magazine size is increased by 1 round, for a total of 2 rounds.
- Death Knell adds a flat Critical Multiplier by 0.5x and a flat status chance by 20%. It also grants unlimited ammo. The buff lasts for 2 seconds and can be refreshed.
- Critical Multiplier and Status Chance bonus can stack up to 3 times. When the buff times out, one stack is lost and the buff duration resets.
- Critical Multiplier bonus is calculated as:
- Crit Multiplier = 2 × (1 + Crit Damage Mods) + 0.5 × Number of Stacks
- The buff triggers only on Headshots hits, and not other weakspots, such as the backpacks of most MOA variants. Similarly, shooting weakspots generated by either Sonar or Detect Vulnerability in places other than heads will have no effect either.
- Headshots on corpses can proc Death Knell.
- Individual Multishot bullets can proc Death Knell and can generate max stacks instantly from a single shot.
- As an indication that this buff is active, the scope design while zoomed in will evolve, as well as showing the Death Knell buff in the UI.
- The scope shows a 1.5x, 2.0x or 2.5x Critical Multiplier for the number of stacks respectively. However this does not represent the actual buff.
Gallery[]
Knell Prime seen holstered in Harrow Prime Access Promotional Screenshots.
Patch History[]
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- Fixed the Death Knell headshot buff not working properly if the player respawns after being downed.
Hotfix 31.0.6 (2022-01-04)
- Fixed the Knells unlimited ammo not functioning after you've Transferred to the Operator.
Hotfix 31.0.5 (2021-12-21)
- Fixed Harrow Prime not giving weapon passive bonus (additional shot in the magazine) to the Knell/Knell Prime.
- Fixed Knell Prime not displaying correctly when Dual Wielding.
Update 31.0 (2021-12-15)
- Introduced.
