Kuva Drakgoon

Grineer

Kuva Drakgoon
Statistics
Mastery	13
Slot	Primary
Type	Shotgun
Trigger Type	Charge
Utility
Ammo Type	Shotgun
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	100 m/s
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	3.33
Accuracy	1.4
Magazine Size	11
Max Ammo	120
Reload Time	2 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.10x)
Uncharged Shot
4.6
4.6
13.8
5.75
Total Damage	287.5 ( 48%)
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	100 m/s
Fire Rate	3.33
Pellets	10 (28.75 damage per pellet)
Status Chance	9%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Charged Shot
4.6
4.6
36.8
11.5
Total Damage	575 ( 64%)
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	100 m/s
Charge Time	0.3 s
Pellets	10 (57.5 damage per pellet)
Status Chance	9%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	2.5x
Punch Through	1.5 m
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities	None
Users	Kuva Lich
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Variants	Drakgoon

CODEX

The Kuva Drakgoon flak cannon sends volleys of intensely hot shrapnel ricocheting around the room that do not slow down. Larger Magazine Capacity and Reload Speed. Can be fired in wide or concentrated bursts.

The Kuva Drakgoon is the Kuva variant of the Drakgoon Drakgoon flak cannon, featuring a larger magazine, faster reload speed, faster charge time, and much higher critical chance on charged shots, but at some expense to base damage.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
• High critical chance and critical multiplier on charged shots.
• Very high overall status chance.
• Very fast charge speed.
• High ammo efficiency.
• Shots ricochet once.
  • This allows one to fire at a wall and kill an enemy behind cover, albeit with some difficulty.
• Charged shots have innate 1.5 meter punch through.
• Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
  • Tied with MK1-Strun MK1-Strun, Strun Strun, Strun Wraith Strun Wraith, and Drakgoon Drakgoon for the highest pellet count of all pellet shotguns.
• Effective over multiple ranges due to charge/spread mechanic:
  • Uncharged shots fires wide-dispersal shots to soften up multiple enemies at mid/long range, or quickly hit a single target at short range.
  • Charged shots fires a tightly focused blast over longer ranges for high single-target damage.
• No damage falloff.
• Shrapnel does not slow down after ricocheting.
• Can use the Drakgoon-exclusive Fomorian Accelerant Fomorian Accelerant mod.
• Polarizing the weapon increases its max rank by 2, capping at rank 40 after 5 polarizations, granting the weapon additional mod capacity.
• Comes with an additional bonus Impact Damage Impact, Heat Damage Heat, Cold Damage Cold, Electricity Damage Electricity, Toxin Damage Toxin, Magnetic Damage Magnetic, or Radiation Damage Radiation damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe, which increases the listed base damage of the weapon by 25%-60%.

Disadvantages:

• Low Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
• Shrapnel projectiles have travel time.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Drakgoon (attack: Uncharged Shot), compared to Drakgoon (attack: Uncharged Shot):
  • Lower base damage (28.75 vs. 40)
    • Lower Impact Damage Impact damage (4.6 vs. 8)
    • Lower Puncture Damage Puncture damage (4.6 vs. 8)
    • Lower Slash Damage Slash damage (13.8 vs. 24)
    • Higher Lich System/Progenitor MinProgenitorBonus damage (5.75 vs. 0)
  • Lower total damage (287.5 vs. 400)
  • Higher base critical chance (21% vs. 7.5%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.5x vs. 2x)
  • Higher base status chance (9% vs. 6.9%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (483.92 vs. 430)
  • Higher burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,611.45 vs. 1,431.9)
  • Higher sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (1,003.74 vs. 683.76)
  • Larger magazine (11 round(s) vs. 7 round(s))
  • Faster reload time (2 s vs. 2.3 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 5)
  • Lower disposition (1.1 vs. 1.4)

Acquisition

Kuva Drakgoon is obtained by vanquishing a Kuva Lich who generated with one equipped. After the Lich is vanquished it will be in the player's Foundry ready to claim.

While the weapon itself is not tradeable, a converted Kuva Lich generated with the weapon can be traded to another player. The trade is performed inside a Clan Dojo's Crimson Branch room, and the recipient must not have any active Lich. Once traded, the recipient must fight and vanquish the Lich to claim its weapon.

Notes

• As with all Kuva and Tenet weapons, the player does not have to meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon. It can simply be claimed from the foundry after the Kuva Lich or Sister carrying it has been vanquished.
• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Lich/Sister it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm).
• The weapon's max rank caps at 40 after 5 polarizations (max rank increases by 2 per Forma added).
  • Additional polarizations can be added when the weapon reaches its new max rank at that polarization level.
  • Each additional rank also gives 100 Mastery Rank experience, giving 4,000 points in total at level 40.
  • Mod capacity scales with the additional ranks, and can reach a total of 80 at rank 40 with an Orokin Catalyst installed.
    • Without an Orokin Catalyst, the max is 40. Combined with the five polarized mod slots required to reach that point, an Orokin Catalyst might not be required to finish modding the weapon.
    • After polarizing a weapon, any additional mod capacity above 30 (60 with an Orokin Catalyst) will not take effect until the weapon's rank reaches 31 and above.
      • Legendary Mastery Rank increases the minimum mod capacity for such weapons, without the weapon needing to be rank 31 and above. For example, Legendary 1 increases the minimum capacity to 31 (62 with an Orokin Catalyst).
• Comes with an additional bonus damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This bonus stat ranges between 25%-60%, and is randomly generated by the Lich/Sister. It can be brought up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a modded damage type that is added after all other elemental mods, and will combine with the weapon's primary element type if it has one. The order heirarchy will set the weapon's primary element as second to last, and the Valence element as last, which can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
    • For example, if the weapon innately has Cold Damage Cold, using a Toxin Damage Toxin progenitor Warframe will change the weapon's base element to Viral Damage Viral.
    • However, if the weapon is modded with only Heat Damage Heat, the innate Cold Damage Cold will combine into Blast Damage Blast instead, with Toxin Damage Toxin as a leftover.
    • If modded with Heat Damage Heat and Electricity Damage Electricity, the weapon becomes Radiation Damage Radiation (modded Heat Damage Heat + Electricity Damage Electricity) and Viral Damage Viral (base Cold Damage Cold + bonus Toxin Damage Toxin).

*Note that the Primed and Umbra versions of a Warframe share the same element (including altered, exalted, spectral or enhanced forms such as Atlas using Rumbled, Titania in Razorwing, or Sevagoth's Shadow).

• Despite the lower base damage, with the minimum elemental damage bonus of 25%, and increased critical stats, the Kuva Drakgoon will deal more damage on average for charged shots than the original Drakgoon. And a damage bonus of over 42.1723% will cause the uncharged shot to deal more damage on average as well. This is accounting only for base critical hit stats; the higher status chance will also increase status-based damage.
  • Any mods that enhance critical hit chance or damage will increase the advantage of the Kuva Drakgoon over the original.
  • Because the Kuva Drakgoon has the same status chance for charged vs uncharged shots and the Drakgoon has a lower status chance on uncharged shots, the uncharged shot on the Kuva Drakgoon will deal more status-based damage.
  • Important to note however is due to a lower Riven disposition, Damage and Multishot riven mods will allow the standard Drakgoon to obtain significantly higher base damage, though lacking the critical power of the Kuva version, making non crit shots deal more damage on the normal variant.

Media

• Kuva Drakgoon, as shown in the arsenal

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Patch History

Hotfix 29.6.6 (2021-01-12)

• Fixed equipping Unreal Skins to Kuva weapons overriding their stats to perform like their base version.

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Greater than 100% Status having meaning

Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.

Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.

• (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 3% to 9%.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Introduced.

See also

• Drakgoon Drakgoon, the normal counterpart of this weapon.