Magnus Prime is the Primed variant of the Magnus heavy pistol, with improvements to its critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance, and slightly faster reload speed. Its shots also uniquely have a chance to grant it 100% Ammo Efficiency for a short duration. It was released alongside Nidus Prime and Strun Prime.
It is also a requisite ingredient for Akmagnus Prime (x2).
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
- Landing a successful hit (including from Multishot) or inflicting Status damage ( Slash, Heat, Toxin, Electricity, and Gas procs) with Magnus Prime has a 4% chance to grant the "Chamber Cascade" buff, increasing Ammo Efficiency by 100% for 4 seconds and can be refreshed on subsequent shots.
- Can use the Magnus-exclusive Deadly Maneuvers mod.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (28.00%)
- Above average total damage (98)
- Above average status chance (28.00%)
- High crit multiplier (2.80x)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- High recoil.
- Has a slight horizontal recoil as well as vertical, which increases spread when fired quickly.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low magazine (8)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Magnus Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Magnus (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Higher base critical chance (28.00% vs. 22.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.80x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (28.00% vs. 22.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (147.39 vs. 119.56)
- Higher burst DPS (736.96 vs. 517.69)
- Higher sustained DPS (368.48 vs. 262.22)
- Higher fire rate (5.00 attacks/sec vs. 4.33 attacks/sec)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (160 vs. 210)
- Faster reload time (1.60 s vs. 1.80 s)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●● (1.53x))
Comparisons:
- Magnus Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Akmagnus Prime (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Lower burst DPS (736.96 vs. 835.71)
- Lower sustained DPS (368.48 vs. 419.48)
- Lower fire rate (5.00 attacks/sec vs. 5.67 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (8 vs. 16)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (160 vs. 210)
- Faster reload time (1.60 s vs. 2.80 s)
- Tighter first-shot spread (0.50° vs. 2.00°)
- Tighter maximum spread (12.00° vs. 16.00°)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 15)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●○○○ (0.70x))
Acquisition[]
Barrel | Receiver | Blueprint |
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Axi M5 Rare (B) Axi M2 Rare (V) Neo M4 Rare (V) |
Axi M5 Uncommon (B) Axi T8 Uncommon (V) Neo C2 Uncommon (V) Neo C3 Uncommon (V) Neo G4 Uncommon (V) Neo N22 Uncommon (V) Neo T5 Uncommon (V) |
Axi M5 Common (B) Axi C7 Common (V) Axi K10 Common (V) Axi S14 Common (V) Axi T10 Common (V) Lith H8 Common (V) Lith Z3 Common (V) Meso B6 Common (V) Neo N18 Common (V) |
Crafting[]
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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15,000 |
1 |
1 |
Orokin Cell 10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush: 50 | |||||
Market Price: N/A | Blueprints Price:N/A |
Trivia[]
- Magnus is Latin for "Big" or "Great".
Bugs[]
- When wielded in tandem with a glaive, the weapon parts do not properly move during the reload as with the standard Magnus.
Media[]
Magnus Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 32.2 (2022-11-30)
- SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON CHANGES
While reviewing the stats of some weapons with a semi-automatic mode, we noticed that certain weapons had an unsustainably high fire rate for most players. We adjusted the stats of the following semi-automatic weapons whose maximum potential was only being reached with the use of macros (to learn more about third-party use in Warframe visit our support article). Since not everyone is an avid macro user (within the boundaries allowed), we lowered fire rates to a more humanly achievable level and improved their damage or reload stats to compensate.
Magnus Prime
- Reduced fire rate from 5.83 to 5.
- Increased damage from 76 to 98.
- Increased reload time from 1.2 to 1.6.
Update 30.7 (2021-09-08)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Magnus, the base counterpart of this weapon.
- Akmagnus, the akimbo version of Magnus.
- Akmagnus Prime, the Primed counterpart and akimbo version of Magnus Prime.
- Deadly Maneuvers, a Magnus augment mod.