The Rakta Ballistica is an exclusive version of the 
Ballistica available only from the Red Veil. The Rakta Ballistica has a higher portion of 
Puncture damage than its default version, and features a larger magazine as well as innate Blight effect.
Acquisition
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- The Rakta Ballistica can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Exalted with the Red Veil, and spending 100,000 to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Rakta Ballistica cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Exalted rank.
- Syndicate weapons can be also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 6 to acquire the Rakta Ballistica, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.
CharacteristicsEdit
This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High base damage.
- Charged shots have high critical chance.
- Charged shots consume 1 ammo.
- Silent.
- No projectile arcing.
- On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Innate Blight effect.
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact and Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Projectiles have slight travel time.
- Burst-fire projectiles have very low critical chance.
- Low critical multiplier.
- Low status chance.
- Burst-fire consumes 4 ammo per shot, resulting in a 5-shot magazine.
- Burst-fire has low accuracy and spreads horizontally.
- Has fairly strong horizontal recoil associated with this which players may be unaccustomed to compensating for.
- Has a slightly lower than average zoom.
- Burst-fire is linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with five projectiles, which requires an entire second burst/charge to be fired.
Comparisons:
- Rakta Ballistica, compared to Ballistica:
- Higher critical chance (20% vs. 15%)
- Higher attack damage (300.0 vs. 100.0)
- Higher secondary attack damage (75.0 vs. 25.0)
- Higher secondary mode critical chance (5% vs. 3.75%)
- Larger magazine (20 rounds vs. 16 rounds)
- Innate Blight effect
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 2)
- Rakta Ballistica, compared to Ballistica Prime:
- Slower charge time (1.0 s vs. 0.8 s)
- Smaller magazine (20 rounds vs. 32 rounds)
- Slower reload speed (2 s vs. 1.2 s)
- Innate Blight effect
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (6 vs. 14)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Rakta Ballistica Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Rakta Ballistica Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
NotesEdit
- The Rakta Ballistica has an innate Blight effect identical to that found in Red Veil Weapon Augment Mods. Upon accumulating sufficient affinity, the Rakta Ballistica will release an AoE radial blast that deals Viral damage and proc, restores 25% of the Warframe's base maximum Energy, and temporarily buffs movement speed by 10% for 30 seconds.
- The innate polarity can somewhat limit elemental modding potential, thus making it a less desirable polarity for elemental modding. If you wish to focus more on elemental damage, then it is recommended to either ignore the polarity or use Forma to turn it into a more suitable polarity.
- With Update 15.13, Deep Freeze's elemental damage has been increased to 15% per rank, making it equal to that of the other elemental mods.
- Rolling when a shot is charged will actually fire the weapon, rather than reset the charge.
TriviaEdit
- This is the second item in the game with the "Rakta" prefix, the first one being the Rakta Syandana.
- Rakta is derived from the Sanskrit word rakta , meaning blood.
- Prior to Update 16.0, the Rakta Ballistica could not be recolored, with only its energy color being customizable.
- Its appearance prior to Update 16.0 appeared to be based on Wraith weapons. The weapon's current inventory icon shows what the Rakta Ballistica formerly looked like.
- When the Rakta Ballistica was first introduced, its charged attack dealt primarily Impact damage instead of Puncture damage. The primary damage type changed in Update 15.16 (along with several other improvements to the weapon) to be more consistent with the regular version.
MediaEdit
Warframe Syndicates Rakta Ballistica, Getting Punctured thequickdraw
Lets Max (Warframe) E53 - Rakta Ballistica
Rakta Ballistica Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 17.8
- Fixed enemies becoming alert to players using a charged Ballistica shot.
- Grineer Forest Camo now works on the Rakta Ballistica.
- Fixed the Rakta Ballistica not sitting on Chroma when holstered.
- Fixed Red Veil allies in Syndicate Missions using the incorrect skin on their Ballistica.
- Increased charged bolt damage of Rakta Ballistica from 100 to 300.
- Increased uncharged bolt damage of Rakta Ballistica from 25 to 75 per bolt.
- Rakta Ballistica is now a fully Silent weapon.
- Rakta Ballistica now deals 30 damage per uncharged bolt. The damage type is broken down to 15 Puncture, 7.5 Impact and 7.5 Slash.
- Rakta Ballistica's crit chance has been buffed from 15 to 20 on charge.
- Ratka Ballistica's damage on charge has been changed to 5 Slash, 5 Impact, 90 Puncture.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.8
See alsoEdit
- Ballistica, the original version.
- Red Veil, the Syndicate that offers this weapon.
- Syndicate Weapons
