The Prime Laser Rifle is the default weapon for the 
Wyrm Prime Sentinel, which is the Prime version of the 
Laser Rifle featuring all-around improved damage. This weapon accepts rifle mods.
This weapon can be sold for 
1,250.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High
Puncture damage – effective against armor. - Good critical chance.
- Tied with Deth Machine Rifle Prime for the fastest fire rate of all Sentinel weapons.
- Fast reload speed.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- More effective with Fired Up than other sentinel weapons, due to its short overheat time and long cooldown time.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact and Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Low critical multiplier.
- Very low status chance.
- Low magazine size.
- Combined with its fast fire rate results in frequent reloading.
Comparisons:
- Prime Laser Rifle (Normal Attack), compared to Laser Rifle (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (12 vs. 8)
- Higher total damage (12 vs. 8)
- Higher base critical chance (15.00% vs. 2.50%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 1.3x)
- Higher base status chance (5.00% vs. 2.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (12.9 vs. 8.06)
- Higher burst DPS (129 vs. 13.46)
- Higher sustained DPS (37.94 vs. 9.60)
- Higher fire rate (10 vs. 1.67)
Acquisition[]
The Prime Laser Rifle is automatically acquired upon claiming the Wyrm Prime from the Foundry. Note that this weapon also takes up one Sentinel inventory slot.
Trivia[]
- The Prime Laser Rifle can be visually distinguished from the Laser Rifle by its golden yellow projectiles while firing, as opposed to the latter's blue projectiles.
- The Prime Laser Rifle is the first Primed Robotic Weapon, and the first Primed item to have the term "Prime" as prefix rather than a suffix.
- Despite the weapon itself being based off the Laser Rifle, the Prime Laser Rifle's icon is a primed version of the Burst Laser.
- When the Wyrm Prime was first introduced, it came equipped with the standard Laser Rifle on PC version, but it came equipped with the Prime Laser Rifle on the PS4. This technically makes the Prime Laser Rifle the first piece of content to appear on consoles first before the PC. This discrepancy was fixed in Hotfix 13.9.2 (2014-07-09).
See also[]
- Laser Rifle, the normal counterpart.
