Sarpa

Tenno Weapons

Sarpa
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Gunblade
Mastery Rank Requirement	8
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	Charge
Utility
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Block Angle	45°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.15x)
Follow Through	0.5x
Range	2.00 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.25 m
Normal Attack
16 ( 10%)
32 ( 20%)
112 ( 70%)
Total Damage	160 (70.00%  Slash)
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Crit Chance	14.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	28.00%
Ranged Attack
3.5 ( 10%)
10.5 ( 30%)
21 ( 60%)
Total Damage	35 (60.00%  Slash)
Accuracy	100
Burst Count	5
Burst Delay	0.0500 s
Burst Fire Rate	20.00 attacks/sec
Bursts Per Second	2.00 bursts/sec
Charge Time	0.3 s
Crit Chance	14.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Damage Falloff	20.0 m (100%) - 40.0 m (14.29%)
Fire Rate	3.330 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	300.0 m
Status Chance	28.00%
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Trigger Type	Charge
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	2,100
Slam Damage	1,680
Radial Damage	480
Slam Radius	6.0 m
Wind-up	0.3 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	480
Slam Radius	5.0 m
Radial Damage	160
Slam Radial Element	Impact
Radial Forced Proc	Impact
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	160
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	GUNBLADE_STANCE
Riven Family	Sarpa
Introduced	Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
Polarities
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Variants	Sarpa
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Tenno Weapons Slash Damage Weapons Gunblade Sarpa Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Base Silent Weapons Untradeable Weapons

CODEX

Makes sweeping cuts punctuated by bursts of heavy gunfire.

The Sarpa is a short range gunblade combining a keen blade with a burst-fire rifle. It normally fires five-round bursts, although some stance combo attacks fire ten rounds at half damage.

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Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price:20,000

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  damage.

Advantages:

• High damage – effective against Infested, Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
• Moderate charged attack damage.
• Can attack enemies at range using the charge attack function.
  • Fires 5 bullets in rapid succession.
  • Has innate Punch Through and does not use ammunition.
  • Has no recoil if you disable screen shake in the options.
  • Channeling affects the charged shot.
  • Shots benefit from the stealth melee damage multiplier.
  • Enemies hit by the shot have a chance to be stunned for a moment, while any enemy within 4 meters will be ragdolled.
  • Shooting builds up the combo counter very quickly as each bullet counts as a melee attack.
  • Unlike the Redeemer, status chance is not divided between bullets, and the bullets damage is physical and is increased by physical damage mods and works with  Shattering Impact.

Disadvantages:

• Shots have damage falloff starting at 20m (similar to the Redeemer).
• Shots have a wide spread.
• Low critical chance and critical damage.
• Mediocre status chance, is a lot better than it might seem due to the mechanics of the 5-round burst.
• Shots alert enemies.
• Long attack animations combined with the input queueing of melee attacks often leads to being locked into an attack and unable to evade attacks.

Notes

• This weapon has innate punch through on its charge attack when firing through enemies and non-terrain objects, i.e. Grineer Blunts.
• It appears that the bullets from the shot seek targets within 50m, and inside the reticle. (Needs to be confirmed)

Some stance combos fire twice the number of bullets. High Noon's combos work as follows:

• • 'Vagabond Blitz' - 3rd attack shoots 5 bullets
  • 'Final Showdown' - 3rd attack shoots 10 bullets
  • 'Desperado Zeal' - 4th attack shoots 10 bullets, 5th shoots 5
• This weapon has three different animations for charged attack: 1. the default animation (hold melee attack key, without switching to melee weapon); 2. charged animation using  High Noon (this animation applies to both charged attacks before and after switching to melee weapon); 3. charged animation using  Bullet Dance (this animation applies only to charged attack after switching to melee weapon).

Tips

• The charged shot can be chained, even while sliding, by pressing and holding E with the right timing (rather than making a first melee attack followed by a shot).
•  Shattering Impact works extremely well with this weapon; Each bullet fired reduces the targets base armor by 6.
•  Condition Overload with a status chance build is excellent on it.
• Each bullet counts as a separate hit on nullifier bubbles making it fairly good at destroying them.

Bugs

• The Sarpa may "jam" and refuse to shoot while still being able to use the attack animations, which will do very negligible amounts of damage. This is somewhat uncommon, but occurs if the player is knocked down at the right time while shooting in mid-animation. The bug effectively renders the Sarpa useless for the rest of the mission, and there is no known way to fix it except for the player to respawn after being downed.

Trivia

• Sarpa (सर्प) is the Sanskrit term for snake or serpent.

Media

• Sarpa in Codex.

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See Also

• Redeemer, the first gunblade weapon introduced.