“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Nagantaka Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.
Nagantaka Prime is the Primed variant of the Nagantaka Crossbow, sporting increased Damage, Critical Chance, burst Fire rate, and Magazine size. It was released alongside
Garuda Prime and
Corvas Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals mostly
Slash damage.
- Headshot kills from direct bolt damage boosts reload speed by 50%.
- Guaranteed
Impact proc.
- Guaranteed
Impact proc may make it hard to land consecutive headshots to trigger its passive.
- Guaranteed
- Alternate Fire shoots all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst, at approximately 2.3 times its listed standard Fire Rate.
- Benefits from magazine increasing mods to further increase the burst's damage.
- Abilities can be cast during the burst without interrupting it. However, Stagger effects such as a self-stagger from a
Thunderbolt explosion will interrupt the burst.
- Innate 1 meter Punch Through if used by
Garuda or Garuda Prime
- On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
- Can use the bow-exclusive
Thunderbolt mod.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Semi-Auto (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average crit chance (25.00%)
- Above average total damage (173)
- Above average ammo max (540)
- Very high status chance (39.00%)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.30x)
- Burst Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- Above average ammo max (540)
- High fire rate (5.00 attacks/sec)
- High status chance (39.00%)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Semi-Auto (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average reload speed (2.30 s)
- Below average magazine (11)
- Below average fire rate (2.50 attacks/sec)
- Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Burst Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- Low magazine (11)
- Below average disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Nagantaka Prime (Semi-Auto), compared to
Nagantaka (Semi-Auto):
- Higher base damage per projectile (173.00 vs. 159.00)
- Higher total damage (173 vs. 159)
- Higher base critical chance (25.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (229.22 vs. 190.00)
- Higher burst DPS (573.06 vs. 475.01)
- Higher sustained DPS (376.33 vs. 289.83)
- Larger magazine (11 vs. 9)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 9)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
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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Notes[]
- When used by
Garuda or
Garuda Prime, the Nagantaka Prime gains 1 meter innate Punch Through.
- Similar to its standard counterpart, the Nagantaka Prime's Alternate Fire will eject all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
- If buffed with unlimited ammo such as from the Reactant Buff, the weapon will only fire its magazine amount at a time, with small delays between each trigger pull.
- Unlike the
Pandero or
Wild Frenzy, the Nagantaka Prime can still be aimed during the burst, allowing the weapon to still benefit from Acolyte Mods. However, recoil can be a bit of an issue when trying to aim the entire burst at a single target especially if
Speed Trigger is used, so you may need to equip
Stabilizer to account for it.
- Given the much higher damage-per-shot of the Nagantaka Prime compared to other Burst and Auto rifles and its own standard counterpart, while in mid-burst the Nagantaka Prime has a higher total DPS rate than all of them.
Tips[]
- As with most weapons with the ability to unload an entire magazine in a single burst (such as the
Kuva Hek or the
Pandero), the Nagantaka Prime's alt-fire synergizes well with
Mag's short-tap
Magnetize bubble, as the quick torrent of shot can pulverize crowds of enemies caught in the bubble.
- Due to the weapon possessing 90% slash damage, mods such as Fanged Fusillade are highly effective on it, providing more damage bonus than pure 90% elemental mods.
Bugs[]
- Alt fire is not silent and will alert enemies if fired, but will not break
Prowl's cloak.
Media[]
Nagantaka Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 31.5 (2022-04-27)
- Fixed the Nagantaka Prime not applying custom colors to the crossbow string.
Hotfix 31.3.1 (2022-03-29)
- Fixed the Nagantaka Prime missing its own Riven Disposition number.
- It was using the Nagantaka Disposition instead of starting at 0.5 like all new weapons. Learn more about the Riven Disposition Guidelines here.
Update 31.3 (2022-03-28)
- Introduced.
See also[]
Nagantaka, the base counterpart of this weapon.