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Quassus Prime is the Primed counterpart of 
Quassus warfan, acting as a direct upgrade. Quassus Prime was released alongside 
Xaku Prime and 
Trumna Prime on November 13, 2024.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Stance slot has polarity, matching Slicing Feathers and Votive Onslaught stance.
- Heavy Attacks throws a horizontal spread of ethereal daggers, with each dagger doing 76 base damage.
- The first heavy attack throws 18 daggers, each with a 2.5x damage multiplier; the second heavy attack in sequence throws 9 daggers, each with a 5x damage multiplier,
- Damage of the daggers are affected by mods.
- Daggers are considered a heavy attack. Their damage will scale from the combo counter and mods such as Killing Blow.
- Daggers have a guaranteed Slash proc.
- Daggers have innate 2 meter Punch Through.
- Dagger damage does not diminish with distance.
- Have travel time.
- Cannot use Thrown Melee mods Combo Fury, Power Throw, Quick Return ( Volatile), Rebound ( Volatile), and Whirlwind.
- Multiple projectile hits from one attack against a single enemy may occasionally get merged into a single "instance" of the attack and Bleed proc, reducing the effectiveness of per-hit mods like Relentless Combination.
- Daggers are subject to gravity and are substantially inaccurate over long distances, with vertical deviation being especially apparent.
- When wielded by Xaku/ Xaku Prime, accuracy is greatly increased, with both vertical and horizontal deviations almost completely eliminated. The base spread of the daggers is unaffected.
- When wielded by
- Innate two and one polarities.
Advantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high crit chance (35.00%)
- High total damage (260)
- High crit multiplier (2.50x)
- First Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high average number of procs per shot (18.18)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (6.3)
- Very high total damage (3,420)
- High attack speed (2.00x animation speed)
- Very high crit chance (35.00%)
- Very high crit multiplier (2.50x)
- Second Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 3)
- Very high average number of procs per shot (9.18)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (3.15)
- Very high total damage (3,420)
- High attack speed (2.00x animation speed)
- Very high crit chance (35.00%)
- Very high crit multiplier (2.50x)
Disadvantages over other Melee weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low attack speed (0.83x animation speed)
- Very low attack range (1.70 m)
- Low status chance (18.00%)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
- First Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 2)
- Below average attack range (1.70 m)
- Very low status chance (1.00%)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
- Second Heavy Attack - Ethereal Daggers (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low status chance (2.00%)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Quassus Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Quassus (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage (260.00 vs. 230.00)
- Higher total damage (260 vs. 230)
- Higher base critical chance (35.00% vs. 30.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.50x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (18.00% vs. 12.00%)
- More polarities ( vs. None)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.50x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.00x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
Crafting[]
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
 2 |
 2 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | ||
Rush:  50
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Notes[]
Trivia[]
- Quassus is Latin for "shaking".
Media[]
Quassus Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 37.0.10 (2024-11-13)
- Made the following stat increases to the Quassus Prime (these were intended to go out with the launch earlier today):
- Status Chance: Increasing from 15% to 18%.
- Projectile Critical Chance: Increasing from 30% to 35%
- Projectile Critical Damage: Increasing from 2x to 2.5x.
- Fixed offset issues with the Alumeti Sugatra when equipped on the Quassus Prime.
Hotfix 37.0.9 (2024-11-13)
- Introduced.
