The Lex Prime is the Primed version of the 
Lex pistol, featuring improved damage, critical chance, status chance, fire rate, and magazine size.
It is a requisite ingredient for 
Aklex Prime (x2).
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Innate polarity.
Advantages:
- High accuracy.
- Normal Attack
- High crit chance
- High damage
- Above average status chance
Disadvantages:
- High recoil.
- Normal Attack
- Low magazine
- Very low effective fire rate
- Low reload speed
- Below average disposition
Comparisons:
- Lex Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Lex (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (150 vs. 130)
- Higher total damage (150 vs. 130)
- Higher base critical chance (25.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Higher base status chance (25.00% vs. 10.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (187.5 vs. 156)
- Higher burst DPS (390 vs. 168.48)
- Higher sustained DPS (242.08 vs. 118.39)
- Higher fire rate (2.08 vs. 1.08)
- Larger magazine (8 vs. 6)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 3)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
- Lex Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Aklex Prime (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Lower burst DPS (390 vs. 500.62)
- Lower sustained DPS (242.08 vs. 333.61)
- Lower fire rate (2.08 vs. 2.67)
- Smaller magazine (8 vs. 16)
- Faster reload time (2.35 vs. 3)
- More accurate (16 vs. 9.8)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (8 vs. 15)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●○○ (0.95x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
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 Axi A2 Common (B) Lith N12 Common Meso N11 Common Axi K1 Common (V) Axi M1 Common (V) Axi N5 Common (V) Axi V7 Common (V) Lith A2 Common (V) Lith B6 Common (V) Lith H2 Common (V) Lith L3 Common (V) Lith N7 Common (V) Lith T2 Common (V) Lith V2 Common (V) Meso C6 Common (V) Meso S11 Common (V) Meso S5 Common (V) Meso S9 Common (V) Meso T2 Common (V) Meso T3 Common (V) Meso V4 Common (V) Neo A3 Common (V) Neo N3 Common (V) Neo S1 Common (V) Neo Z5 Common (V)
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Axi A2 Common (B) Axi O5 Common Axi V10 Common Axi V8 Common (B) Lith G5 Common Axi C1 Common (V) Axi C7 Common (V) Axi E2 Common (V) Axi H2 Common (V) Axi N2 Common (V) Axi N6 Common (V) Axi R2 Common (V) Lith B5 Common (V) Lith B7 Common (V) Lith D1 Common (V) Lith K8 Common (V) Lith M1 Common (V) Meso D2 Common (V) Meso N5 Common (V)
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Axi A2 Uncommon (B) Lith N11 Common Neo V9 Uncommon Axi A9 Common (V) Axi D3 Common (V) Axi G3 Common (V) Axi O4 Common (V) Lith A3 Common (V) Lith C3 Common (V) Lith P5 Common (V) Lith S4 Common (V) Lith S7 Common (V) Lith V5 Common (V) Meso C3 Common (V) Meso D1 Common (V) Meso D4 Uncommon (V) Meso P3 Common (V) Neo N2 Common (V) Neo P3 Common (V) Neo S10 Common (V) Neo Z2 Common (V)
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Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  50
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Tips[]
- Take advantage of your slower firing rate to plan your shots. Both the Lex and Lex Prime are optimal long-range pistols.
- Alternatively, with maxed out Fire Rate mods and Reload mods, the Lex Prime can work as a close quarters pistol. However, beware of the high recoil when shooting it fast.
- As with the standard Lex, Steady Hands can be used to counteract this weapon's high recoil. Alternatively, one can manage the Lex Prime's recoil by simply pacing one's shots.
- Steady Hands however is still very useful to quickly place follow up shots onto the target which will be necessary in high levels where even fully modded, the enemy is capable of surviving at least a single hit from Lex/Lex Prime to the head, this is especially crucial if the weapon is not modded for close combat.
- The Lex Prime pairs well with close quarter or otherwise less accurate primary weapons, to cover ranged enemies.
- If the player prefers, Seeker can be utilized to quickly finish off enemies that are lined up, particularly in bottlenecked areas such as doors or narrow hallways.
Trivia[]
- A large portion of the weapon is animated, complete with an exchanged magazine and blow-back slide. This makes the Lex Prime one of the few pistols with firing animations for a conventional weapon.
- Lex Prime is the icon for the Secondary weapons category in the Foundry.
- The Lex Prime can be seen in Loki Prime's Decoy.
- The Lex Prime and its akimbo and regular variants share similar weapon sounds to the Hammer 1895, a revolver featured in Dark Sector.
Media[]
Lex Prime in Codex
Lex Prime
Lex Prime
Polarity
Lex Prime in-game
Lex Prime
Warframe-U18-Lex Prime Builds
Lets Max (Warframe) E33 - Lex Prime
Warframe Lex Prime Pro Builds 4 Forma Update 13.2.4-0
Warframe Lex Prime
LEX PRIME - A MUST HAVE PISTOLA 4 forma - Warframe
Warframe - All Prime Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
Lex Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
- Fixed Lex Prime’s clip being offset and rotated horizontally with the Lex Conclave skin equipped.
Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)
- Fixed duplicate clip eject on Lex Prime when the Oscira Pistol Skin is equipped.
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Lex: 0.9->1.05
Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
- Fixed Lex Prime not using its proper reload animation.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 5 to 8.
Hotfix 22.10.3 (2018-01-29)
- Fixed the Lex Onyx Skin not removing the clip attachment when equipped on the Lex Prime.
Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
- Increased Mastery Rank requirement from 0 to 5.
- Lex Prime damage increased in Conclave.
Hotfix: Specters of the Rail 2.1 (2016-08-10)
- Fixed incorrect materials on Lex Prime attachments.
Update: Specters of the Rail 2 (2016-08-03)
- Lex Prime has received the PBR treatment!
Hotfix 18.4.10 (2016-02-11)
- Increased the damage of the Lex series in Conclave.
- Increased the headshot multiplier of the Lex series in Conclave.
Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)
- Lex Conclave Skin added.
Hotfix 17.0.3 (2015-08-04)
- Reduced the damage of Lex Prime in PvP.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Unlisted Changes (Listed in 17.0.2)
- Damage increased from 85 to 150.
- Status chance increased from 20% to 25%.
- Critical chance increased from 20% to 25%.
Update 15.7 (2014-12-17)
- Added Orokin Ducat cost to Lex Prime Blueprint.
Update 13.2 (2014-05-01)
- Increased the volume on the Lex Prime sound effects.
Hotfix 13.0.1 (2014-04-10)
- Fixed Placeholder Lex Prime description & wrong stats.
Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.6.2 (2018-08-31)
See also[]
- Lex, the original counterpart.
- Aklex, the akimbo version of the normal counterpart.
- Aklex Prime, the primed akimbo counterpart
