The Prisma Gorgon is the Prisma variant of the Gorgon, featuring higher critical chance, critical multiplier, status chance, fire rate, accuracy, magazine size and capacity, faster spool-up, and reload, at a slight expense of damage.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Impact damage.
- Requires a spool-up of 7 shots before optimal fire rate is achieved.
- Fire rate starts at 20% of the listed value, and increases by 13.33% per shot.
- Burst firing maintains spool-up.
Advantages:
- Fully Spooled
- High crit chance
- Very high magazine
- Very high effective fire rate
- High max ammo
- Above average crit multiplier
Disadvantages:
- Spool-up creates a warm-up period of weakness for fire rate, making short engagements undesirable.
- Fully Spooled
- Very low damage
- Low reload speed
- Low status chance
Comparisons:
- Prisma Gorgon (Fully Spooled), compared to Gorgon (Fully Spooled):
- Lower base damage per projectile (23 vs. 25)
- Lower total damage (23 vs. 25)
- Higher base critical chance (30.00% vs. 17.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.3x vs. 1.5x)
- Higher base status chance (15.00% vs. 9.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (31.97 vs. 27.12)
- Higher burst DPS (453.01 vs. 339.06)
- Higher sustained DPS (334.51 vs. 214.14)
- Higher fire rate (14.17 vs. 12.5)
- Larger magazine (120 vs. 90)
- Larger max ammo capacity (840 vs. 540)
- Faster reload time (3 vs. 4.2)
- Faster spool-up (7 vs. 9)
- More accurate (20 vs. 12.5)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (11 vs. 3)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x) vs. ●●●●● (1.40x))
- Prisma Gorgon (Fully Spooled), compared to Gorgon Wraith (Fully Spooled):
- Lower base damage per projectile (23 vs. 27)
- Lower total damage (23 vs. 27)
- Higher base critical chance (30.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.3x vs. 1.9x)
- Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 21.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (31.97 vs. 30.64)
- Higher burst DPS (453.01 vs. 408.49)
- Higher sustained DPS (334.51 vs. 282.82)
- Higher fire rate (14.17 vs. 13.33)
- Larger magazine (120 vs. 90)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (840 vs. 900)
- Slower spool-up (7 vs. 6)
- More accurate (20 vs. 16.7)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (11 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.30x) vs. ●●●●● (1.35x))
Acquisition[]
The Prisma Gorgon is potentially sold by Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 50,000 and
600. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
The weapon can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed. The trading recipient must also have a Mastery Rank of at least 11.
Notes[]
- While the Prisma Gorgon has the same vertical recoil behavior as the
Gorgon and the
Gorgon Wraith, it has significantly reduced horizontal recoil, which combined with higher accuracy stats makes the weapon overall more manageable at longer ranges.
Tips[]
- Like the
Gorgon and the
Gorgon Wraith, the Prisma Gorgon has a spool-down period in which it can retain its maximum rate of fire after releasing the trigger. Firing the weapon to maximum rate of fire, releasing the trigger and then firing before the spool-down period finishes allows the weapon to be fired in short bursts.
- Firing in bursts is essential for conserving ammo when used against groups of weaker enemies. Reserve using sustained full-auto fire at maximum spool for larger, tougher targets like Napalms and Corpus Techs.
Speed Trigger and/or
Shred speeds up the rate of fire, which subsequently reduces the time needed to spool up to maximum fire rate. Doing so will hasten the rate at which the weapon consumes ammo, however.
- The Prisma Gorgon's high rate of fire makes it ammo inefficient.
Rifle Ammo Mutation and/or
Rifle Scavenger mods can be used to maintain a steady supply of ammo. Alternatively, use Squad Ammo Restores to instantly replenish ammo. Due to the weapon's large ammo reserve capacity,
Ammo Drum will also have a higher and more beneficial impact. You can also make use of the Carrier Sentinel equipped with
Ammo Case.
- Adding Punch Through via Shred or Metal Auger can aid ammo efficiency when dealing with large groups of enemies, particularly the Infested.
Trivia[]
- The Prisma Gorgon was leaked as an entry in the player Profile under Equipment before it was formally introduced.
- Parts of the Prisma Gorgon have animated textures to differentiate it from its previous variants.
- The Prisma Gorgon also has modified firing sounds similar to a Prime weapon.
- The Prisma Gorgon's colors can be customized, a trait shared with its variants.
- The Prisma Gorgon was the first item to have the "Prisma" prefix in its name.
- Tied with
Soma/
Soma Prime,
Telos Boltor, and
Tenora Prime for the second highest critical chance of all fully automatic rifles, behind
Battacor and
Acceltra.
Media[]
Prisma Gorgon Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 4 to 10.
- Status chance increased from 5% to 15%.
- Critical chance increased from 15% to 30%.
- Critical Damage increased from 2x to 2.3x.
- Damage decreased from 25 to 23.
See Also[]
Gorgon, the normal variant.
Gorgon Wraith, the Wraith variant.
- Prisma, the void-touched items sold by Baro Ki'Teer.
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