Kuva Drakgoon

Grineer

Kuva Drakgoon
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
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General Information
Type	Shotgun
Mastery Rank Requirement	13
Max Rank	40
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Charge
Utility
Accuracy	1.4
Ammo Max	120
Ammo Pickup	15
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.15x)
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	11
Reload Time	2.00 s
Projectile Speed	130.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spread	70.00° (60.00° min, 80.00° max)
Uncharged Shot
4.6 ( 20%)
4.6 ( 20%)
13.8 ( 60%)
Total Damage	230 (60.00%  Slash)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	19.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.10x
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Multishot	10 (23.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	0.0 m
Spread	70.00° (60.00° min, 80.00° max)
Status Chance	9.00%
Projectile Speed	130.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Charged Shot
4.6 ( 10%)
4.6 ( 10%)
36.8 ( 80%)
Total Damage	460 (80.00%  Slash)
Ammo Cost	1
Charge Time	0.3 s
Crit Chance	21.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.50x
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Multishot	10 (46.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Punch Through	1.5 m
Status Chance	9.00%
Projectile Speed	190.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod
Riven Family	Drakgoon
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Polarities	None
Sell Price	7,500
Users	Kuva Lich
Variants	Drakgoon  Kuva Drakgoon
Vendor Sources
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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 Lich variant of the  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.

Acquisition

The 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.

Characteristics

This weapon does primarily damage.

Advantages:

• High damage – effective against health.
• High critical chance and critical multiplier on charged shots.
• Very high status chance on charged shots.
  • Can achieve 100% status per pellet with  Scattering Inferno,  Frigid Blast,  Shell Shock, and  Toxic Barrage.
• 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.
• 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.
• Can use the Drakgoon-exclusive  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 , , , , , , or damage, based on the Kuva Lich's progenitor Warframe.

Disadvantages:

• Low and damage – less effective against shields and armor.
• Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the chance that at least one pellet will proc a status per shot; the actual base status chance per pellet is ~3.5%.
• Shrapnel projectiles have travel time.
  • Unlike its normal counterpart, shrapnel does not slow down after ricocheting.
  • Shrapnel will vanish after 2 seconds of leaving the weapon.

Comparisons:

•  Kuva Drakgoon (Charged Shot), compared to  Drakgoon (Charged Shot):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (46.00 vs. 70.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Impact damage ( 4.6 vs. 7)
    • Lower  Puncture damage ( 4.6 vs. 7)
    • Lower  Slash damage ( 36.8 vs. 56)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (736 vs. 700)
  • Higher base critical chance (21.00% vs. 7.50%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (2.50x vs. 2.00x)
  • Higher base status chance (9.00% vs. 6.90%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (967.84 vs. 752.5)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (3222.90 vs. 1505)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (2008.72 vs. 908.18)
  • Larger magazine (11 vs. 7)
  • Faster reload time (2.00 s vs. 2.30 s)
  • Greater projectile speed (190.0 m/s vs. 160.0 m/s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 5)
  • Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x) vs. ●●●●● (1.40x))

Notes

• The weapon will have a prefix of the name of the Kuva Lich it was acquired from (e.g. Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Drakgoon).
• 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 Mastery Rank Experience, giving 4,000 points in total.
  • 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 Kuva Drakgoon.
    • 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.
• Comes with an additional bonus damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich.
• After accounting for the enhanced critical chance and critical modifier, as well as the extra damage bonus (minimum 25%), an unmodded Kuva Drakgoon will do at least as much damage on a charged shot as will a standard Drakgoon. This advantage increases drastically with higher bonus damage and/or when using critical enhancing mods.

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

*Note that the Primed or Umbra version of a Warframe share the same element

Patch History

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Introduced.

See also

•  Drakgoon, the normal counterpart of this weapon.