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Revision as of 17:32, 24 March 2020
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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 20,000 |
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 3,300 |
 1,000 |
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Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 175
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 Blueprints Price:20,000
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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.
- Good critical chance.
- Very high status chance.
- Can reach 100% status chance with
Volcanic Edge, Vicious Frost, Voltaic Strike, Virulent Scourge, and Drifting Contact.
- Can reach 100% status chance with
- 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:
- Lowest base damage of all gunblades.
- Gunblade shots have linear damage falloff from 100% to 14.29% from 20m to 40m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed, for melee weapons only via Jet Stream).
- Gunblade shots have a very large spread.
- Gunblade shots are alarming.
Notes
- Shots have innate punch through when firing through enemies and non-terrain objects, e.g. Grineer Blunts.
- Missed shots do not influence the accuracy rating in the mission progress table. Shots that hit, however, do.
- Firing the gun does not invalidate the "The Sword Alone" achievement.
- Charged shots do not pass through Frost's Snow Globe if players are standing outside the globe.
- Jumping cannot be done until the charge shot animation has ended.
- Charged shots are affected by the following:
- Heavy Attack mods, such as Life Strike.
- Stealth melee damage multiplier.
- Melee Combo Counter.
- Each target hit provides 1 hit to the counter. Multiple pellets striking a single target will count each pellet as one hit.
- Attack speed mods.
- Warframe abilities.
- Pellets are unaffected by Magnetize.
- Pellets are unaffected by
- Heavy Attack mods, such as
- Some stance combos fire twice the number of bullets. High Noons 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 two different animations for charged attack:
- Charged animation using High Noon (this animation applies to charged attacks while using the melee weapon)
- Charged animation using Bullet Dance (this animation applies to charged attacks while using the melee weapon).
- Charged animation using
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
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
Ravurex
New War Supporter Pack Exclusive
New War Supporter Pack Exclusive
Patch History
Update 27.3 (2020-03-24)
- Increased Status Chance for the Gunblade type weapons to match new Shotgun Status Chance values.
- (Undocumented) Increased status chance per projectile from 5.6% to 16.8%.
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Fixed ugly and busted blast FX for the Sarpa.
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
Actual patch notes made a mistake on new range.
- Damage increased from 70 to 160.
- Range increased from 0.5 to 2.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 28%.
- Critical Chance increased from 5% to 14%.
- Critical Damage increased from 1.5x to 2x.
- Slam Attack increased from 140 to 480.
- Slide Attack increased from 210 to 320.
- Parry Angle set to 45.
Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
- Fixed incoming fire interrupting Gunblade charge attacks.
- Fixed a flickering issue with the Sarpa Day of the Dead Skin.
- Fixed Ash’s Rising Storm combo building much faster than intended due to an interaction with Relentless Combo and a Gunblade weapon.
Hotfix 25.2.1 (2019-06-20)
- Adjusted Gunblade holster position on Wisp for the Sarpa.
Hotfix 22.13.2 (2018-02-16)
- Updated and fixed some Sarpa firing sounds.
Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
See Also
- Redeemer, the first gunblade weapon introduced.
