Kuva Hind

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Hind
Tradable (indirectly through Lich trading)
Innate Progenitor Bonus
General Information
Type	Rifle
Mastery	15
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Burst / Semi / Auto
Utility
Accuracy	33.33
Ammo Type	Rifle
Disposition	⬤⬤⬤◯◯ (1.05x)
Fire Rate	10
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	90
Max Ammo	540
Reload Time	2.3 s
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Auto
6
6
18
Total Damage	30 (60%)
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Fire Rate	10
Multishot	1 (30 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300 m
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Auto
Semi-Auto
18
18
54
Total Damage	90 (60%)
Accuracy	28.6
Ammo Cost	3
Crit Chance	37%
Crit Multiplier	2.9x
Fire Rate	2.5
Multishot	1 (90 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300 m
Status Chance	21%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Burst
7.5
7.5
15
Total Damage	30 (50%)
Burst Count	5
Burst Delay	0.07 s
Burst Rate	5
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.1x
Fire Rate	9.09
Multishot	1 (30 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300 m
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Burst
Miscellaneous
Default Upgrades	InnateDamageRandomMod
Riven Family	Hind
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)
Polarities
Users	Kuva Lich
Variants	Hind
Vendor Sources

CODEX

This powerful Grineer burst rifle has been retrofitted to add semi-automatic and automatic firing modes.

The Kuva Hind is the Kuva variant of the  Hind, featuring overall higher stats but with slower reload speed. In addition to its five-round burst and semi-automatic fire, the Kuva Hind sports a fully-automatic fire mode, all of which can be cycled through the Alternate Fire.

Characteristics

This weapon primarily deals  Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High  Slash damage – effective against health.
• Three firing modes: 5-round burst, semi-auto, and full-auto.
• Burst-fire mode:
  • High critical chance.
  • Above average critical multiplier.
  • Highest status chance of all burst-fire rifles.
  • High fire rate.
• Semi-auto mode:
  • Second highest critical chance of all semi-automatic rifles, behind  Kuva Chakkhurr.
  • High critical multiplier.
  • High status chance.
• Full-auto mode:
  • High critical chance.
  • Very high status chance.
  • High fire rate.
• High magazine size.
• High accuracy.
• Innate polarity.
• 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,  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Magnetic, or  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 and  Puncture – less effective against shields and armor.
• Burst-fire mode:
  • Tied with  Burston and  Hind for the lowest base damage per bullet of all burst-fire rifles.
  • Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with six bullets, which requires an entire second burst to be fired, or a change to Fire Mode.
• Semi-auto mode:
  • Consumes 3 ammo per shot.
  • Tied with  Hind and  Nagantaka for the third slowest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles, after  Grinlok/ Prisma Grinlok and  Kuva Chakkhurr.
• Full-auto mode has below average critical multiplier.
• Slow reload speed.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Hind (Auto), compared to Hind (Burst Mode):
  • Equal base damage, but different composition: (individual damage types below exclude any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Impact damage (6 vs. 7.5)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (6 vs. 7.5)
    • Higher  Slash damage (18 vs. 15)
  • Higher total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (48 vs. 30)
  • Higher base critical chance (21.00% vs. 7.00%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (1.9x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher base status chance (33.00% vs. 15.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (57.07 vs. 155.25)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (570.72 vs. 64.68)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (454.55 vs. 60.79)
  • Higher fire rate (10 vs. 6.25)
  • Larger magazine (90 vs. 65)
  • Slower reload time (2.3 vs. 2)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (15 vs. 0)
  • Lower disposition (●●●○○ (1.05x) vs. ●●●●● (1.42x))

Acquisition

Main article: Lich System/Weapons#Kuva Acquisition (edit)

Kuva Hind 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

Main article: Lich System#Notes (edit)

Kuva/Tenet Notes

• For weapons obtained from vanquishing the Kuva Lich or Sister:
  • 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 Lich/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. a Kuva Kohm might be called "Odizrigg Agekk Kuva Kohm").
• Refraining from Mercy killing a lich candidate will remove their weapon from the pool of potential lich weapons until each has been refused, but only if the mission is completed. Weapons rejected from aborted missions will remain in the current cycle.
• For weapons obtained from Ergo Glast's shop:
  • The player must meet the Mastery Rank displayed to obtain this weapon, as it is claimed from an NPC shop rather than the foundry.
• 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 damage stat.
  • For Lich/Sister-obtained weapons this is dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • For Ergo Glast shop a random bonus stat will be offered for each weapon and changed every 4 days (96 hours).
  • This damage stat randomly ranges between 25%-60%. It can be upgraded up to its maximum value with Valence Fusion using another copy of the weapon.
  • This bonus stat is considered a base damage type and will be applied after all elemental mods for the purposes of elemental combinations.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• Weapons with an innate primary element and a different primary element provided by the progenitor both behave as innate elements and combine with each other. They will also recombine with modded elements in the following order:
  • Mod slot 1 -> Mod slot 2 -> ... -> Mod slot 8 -> Innate  Heat -> Innate  Cold -> Innate  Electricity -> Innate  Toxin

HCET Priority Results from Modding an Element

Bonus Element + Modded Element	Innate  Heat E.g.  Tenet Spirex	Innate  Cold E.g.  Tenet Envoy	Innate  Electricity E.g.  Tenet Agendus	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Cold	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	Gas	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	Gas
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	Blast	Blast	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	Viral	Viral +  Electricity	Viral
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	Radiation	Blast +  Electricity	Radiation	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	Magnetic	Magnetic	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	Corrosive	Corrosive
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	Gas	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	Gas
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	Viral	Magnetic +  Toxin	Viral
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	Corrosive	Corrosive

Main article: Lich System/Progenitor (edit)

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

Media

Kuva Hind when equipped in the arsenal

Patch History

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

• Fixed the Kuva Nukor, Kuva Hind, and Kuva Bramma weapon progression showing as complete in the Codex when at Rank 30 instead of it’s true completed Rank of 40.

Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

• Introduced.

See also

•  Hind, the normal counterpart of this weapon.
•  Tiberon Prime, a primed Tenno rifle with functionally equivalent firing modes.