Changes: Sarpa

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 Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.

Advantages:

High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against health.
Gunblade shots functions similarly to a burst-fire rifle, firing out 5 bullets in quick succession.
- Each bullet in a burst affects the Melee Combo Counter.
- Shots have a chance to stagger enemies.
- Firing within 4 meters of an enemy will ragdoll them.
- Shots do not use ammo.
- Shots have innate Punch Through.

Disadvantages:

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Gunblade shots have linear damage falloff from 100% to 16.67% from 20m to 40m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed, for melee weapons only via Jet Stream).
Very low critical chance.
Low critical damage multiplier.
Low status chance.
Gunblade shots have a very large spread.
Gunblade shots are alarming.

Notes

This weapon has innate punch through 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)
Charged shots are affected by the following:
- Channeling and channeling mods mods like Life Strike.
- Stealth melee damage multiplier.
- Melee Combo Counter.
  - Each target hit provides 1 hit to the counter.
- Attack speed mods.
- Warframe abilities.
  - Bullets are unaffected by Magnetize.
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:
- The default animation (hold melee attack key, without switching to melee weapon)
- Charged animation using High Noon (this animation applies to both charged attacks before and after switching to melee weapon)
- Charged animation using Bullet Dance (this animation applies only to charged attack after switching to melee weapon).

Despite the critical chance being listed at 5%, this weapon will not crit and will not gain Berserker stacks unless buffed by Arcane Avenger, Cat's Eye, or Harrow's Covenant.

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.

Trivia

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

Media

Sarpa in Codex.

Warframe SARPA Gunblade Setup Discussion

Warframe Sarpa, Better Bang than the Redeemer? thequickdraw

Redeemer VS Sarpa Side-By-Side Comparison

Warframe Leveling - Sarpa Episode 1

Sarpa Skins

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Patch History

Hotfix 22.13.2 (2018-02-16)

Updated and fixed some Sarpa firing sounds.

Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)

Introduced

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 '''Advantages:'''
 *High {{Icon|Proc|Slash|Text}} damage &ndash; effective against [[health]].
+*Gunblade shots functions similarly to a burst-fire rifle, firing out 5 bullets in quick succession.
-*Moderate charged attack damage.
+**Each bullet in a burst affects the [[Melee 2.0#Combo Counter|Melee Combo Counter]].
-*Can attack enemies at range using the charge attack function.
+**Shots have a chance to stagger enemies.
-**Fires 5 bullets in rapid succession.
+**Firing within 4 meters of an enemy will ragdoll them.
-**Has innate [[Punch Through]] and does not use [[Ammo|ammunition]].
+**Shots do not use [[ammo]].
-*Enemies hit by the shot have a chance to be stunned for a moment, while any enemy within 4 meters will be ragdolled.
+**Shots have innate [[Punch Through]].
-**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 {{M|Shattering Impact}}.
 '''Disadvantages:'''
-*Low {{Icon|Proc|Puncture|Text}} and {{Icon|Proc|Impact|Text}} damage &ndash; less effective against [[armor]] and [[shields]].
+*Low {{Icon|Proc|Impact|Text}} and {{Icon|Proc|Puncture|Text}} damage &ndash; less effective against [[shield]]s and [[armor]].
+*Gunblade shots have linear damage falloff from 100% to 16.67% from 20m to 40m target distance (distances are affected by [[Projectile Speed]], for melee weapons only via {{M|Jet Stream}}).
-*Low [[Critical Hit|critical]] chance and damage.
-*Low [[Status Effect|status]] chance.
+*Very low [[Critical Hit|critical]] chance.
-*Shots have damage falloff starting at 20m.
+*Low critical damage multiplier.
+*Low status chance.
-*Shots have a wide spread.
+*Gunblade shots have a very large spread.
-*Mediocre status chance, is a lot better than it might seem due to the mechanics of the 5-round burst.
+*Gunblade shots are [[Noise Level|alarming]].
-*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.
+*This weapon has innate punch through 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)
 *Charged shots are affected by the following: