Kuva Hind

Grineer Weapons

Kuva Hind
Statistics
Mastery	15
Slot	Primary
Type	Rifle
Trigger Type	Burst / Semi / Auto
Utility
Ammo Type	Rifle
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	9.09
Accuracy	33.33
Magazine Size	90
Max Ammo	540
Reload Time	2.3 s
Disposition	●●●○○ (1.05x)
Burst
7.5
7.5
15
7.5
Total Damage	37.5 ( 40%)
Trigger Type	Burst
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Fire Rate	9.09
Burst Count	5
Burst Rate	5
Burst Delay	0.07 s
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	2.1x
Semi-Auto
18
18
54
22.5
Total Damage	112.5 ( 48%)
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Fire Rate	2.5
Accuracy	28.6
Status Chance	21%
Crit Chance	37%
Crit Multiplier	2.9x
Ammo Cost	3
Auto
6
6
18
7.5
Total Damage	37.5 ( 48%)
Trigger Type	Auto
Fire Rate	10
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Users	Kuva Lich
Introduced	Update 27.1 (2020-02-04)

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 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 Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High Slash Damage 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 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 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 – less effective against shields and armor.
• Burst-fire mode:
  • Tied with Burston Burston and Hind 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 Hind and Nagantaka Nagantaka for the third slowest fire rate of all semi-automatic rifles, after Grinlok Grinlok/Prisma Grinlok Prisma Grinlok and Kuva Chakkhurr Kuva Chakkhurr.
• Full-auto mode has below average critical multiplier.
• Slow reload speed.

Comparisons:

• Kuva Hind, compared to Hind:
  • Higher base damage (37.5 vs. 30)
  • Higher total damage (37.5 vs. 30)
  • Higher primary critical chance (25% vs. 7%)
  • Higher primary critical multiplier (2.1x vs. 1.5x)
  • Higher primary status chance (33% vs. 15%)
  • Higher fire rate (9.09 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)
  • Higher average damage per shot (61.2 vs. 31.05)
  • Higher burst DPS (556.31 vs. 194.06)
  • Higher sustained DPS (451.44 vs. 162.76)

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 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).

Media

• Kuva Hind when equipped in the arsenal

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