Kuva Hind

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Hind
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
7.5
Total Damage	37.5 (48%)
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Fire Rate	10
Multishot	1 (37.5 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300 m
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Auto
Semi-Auto
18
18
54
22.5
Total Damage	112.5 (48%)
Accuracy	28.6
Ammo Cost	3
Crit Chance	37%
Crit Multiplier	2.9x
Fire Rate	2.5
Multishot	1 (112.5 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
7.5
Total Damage	37.5 (40%)
Burst Count	5
Burst Delay	0.07 s
Burst Rate	5
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.1x
Fire Rate	9.09
Multishot	1 (37.5 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300 m
Status Chance	33%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Burst
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Grineer/KuvaLich/LongGuns/Hind/KuvaHind
Introduced	Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)
Polarities
Users	Kuva Lich

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):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (37.5 vs. 30)
    • Lower  Impact damage (6 vs. 7.5)
    • Lower  Puncture damage (6 vs. 7.5)
    • Higher  Slash damage (18 vs. 15)
    • Higher  MinProgenitorBonus damage (7.5 vs. 0)
  • Higher total damage (37.5 vs. 30)
  • Higher base critical chance (21% vs. 7%)
  • Higher base critical multiplier (1.9x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher base status chance (33% vs. 15%)
  • Higher average damage per shot (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (57.07 vs. 31.05)
  • Higher burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (570.72 vs. 194.06)
  • Higher sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (454.56 vs. 162.76)
  • Higher fire rate (10 round(s)/sec vs. 6.25 round(s)/sec)
  • Larger magazine (90 round(s) vs. 65 round(s))
  • Slower reload time (2.3 s vs. 2 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (15 vs. 0)
  • Lower disposition (1.05 vs. 1.42)

Acquisition

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

• 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 damage stat, dependent on the Warframe that summoned the Lich/Sister.
  • This damage 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 base damage type that is added after all elemental mods.

  View detailed explanation about element merging  ▾▾

• • If the weapon innately has a primary element type ( Heat,  Cold,  Electricity,  Toxin) AND has a different primary element as its bonus stat, the elements on the weapon will combine in a unique way: Whichever of the two primary elements comes first in this element order -  Heat >  Cold >  Electricity >  Toxin, or "HCET" for short - will be placed second to last in the element combine order, while the other primary element will be placed last in the combine order. This order can be subsequently shifted based on the order of the equipped mods.
  • For example, if the weapon innately has  Cold, using an  Electricity progenitor Warframe to add base  Electricity damage to the weapon will change the weapon's base element to  Magnetic.
    • Because  Cold comes before  Electricity in the HCET element order,  Cold will be placed second to last in the element combine order, and  Electricity will be placed last.
    • If the weapon is then modded with only  Heat, the elements will be arranged in the order  Heat,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in the weapon having  Blast +  Electricity. If the weapon is instead modded with only  Toxin, the elements will be arranged in the order  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, which will create  Viral +  Electricity.
    • If modded with  Electricity and  Heat, the  Electricity will be moved earlier in the combine order due to now being a modded element, so the new combine order will be  Electricity,  Heat,  Cold, resulting in  Radiation +  Cold. If modded with  Heat and  Toxin, the combine order will be  Heat,  Toxin,  Cold,  Electricity, resulting in  Gas +  Magnetic.

HCET Damage Priority Results

Bonus Element + Modded Element / Innate Element	Innate  Heat ( Tenet Spirex)	Innate  Cold ( Tenet Envoy)	Innate  Electricity ( Tenet Agendus)	Innate  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Cold	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Cold	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Heat + Modded  Toxin	-	Gas +  Cold	Gas +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Heat	-	-	Blast +  Electricity	Blast +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Cold	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Cold + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Cold	-	Viral +  Electricity	-
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Electricity	-	Radiation +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Electricity	-	-	Magnetic +  Toxin
Bonus  Electricity + Modded  Toxin	Gas +  Electricity	Viral +  Electricity	-	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Heat	-	Blast +  Toxin	Radiation +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Cold	Blast +  Toxin	-	Magnetic +  Toxin	-
Bonus  Toxin + Modded  Electricity	Radiation +  Toxin	Magnetic +  Toxin	-	-

*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.