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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20,000	1	3,300	1,000	2	Time: 12 Hour(s)
20,000	1	3,300	1,000	2	Rush: 35
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.
Good critical chance.
Very high status chance.
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.
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against shields and armor.
Gunblade shots:
- Has 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).
- Has a very large spread.
- 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.
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).

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

Update 27.3 (2020-03-24)

Increased Status Chance for the Gunblade type weapons to match new Shotgun Status Chance values.

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)

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 '''Advantages:'''
 *High {{Icon|Proc|Slash|Text}} damage &ndash; effective against [[health]].
+*Good [[critical chance]].
+*Very high [[status chance]].
 *Gunblade shots functions similarly to a burst-fire rifle, firing out 5 bullets in quick succession.
-**Each bullet in a burst affects the [[Melee 2.0#Combo Counter|Melee Combo Counter]].
+**Each bullet in a burst affects the [[Melee#Combo Counter|Melee Combo Counter]].
 **Shots have a chance to stagger enemies.
 **Firing within 4 meters of an enemy will ragdoll them.
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 '''Disadvantages:'''
+*Lowest base damage of all gunblades.
-*Low {{Icon|Proc|Impact|Text}} and {{Icon|Proc|Puncture|Text}} damage &ndash; less effective against [[shield]]s and [[armor]].
+**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 14.29% from 20m to 40m target distance (distances are affected by [[projectile flight speed]], for melee weapons only via {{M|Jet Stream}}).
+*Gunblade shots:
-*Very low [[critical chance]].
+**Has 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 {{M|Jet Stream}}).
-*Low [[critical multiplier]].
+**Has a very large spread.
-*Low [[Status Chance|status chance]].
+**[[Noise Level|Alarming]].
-*Gunblade shots have a very large spread.
-*Gunblade shots are [[Noise Level|alarming]].
 ==Notes==
-*Shots from charged attacks do '''3x''' damage.
 *Shots have innate punch through when firing through enemies and non-terrain objects, e.g. Grineer [[Blunt]]s.
 *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.
-**Additionally, the Sarpa's gun will contribute to the "Swordsman" affinity quest.
 *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:
-**[[Melee 2.0#Channeling|Channeling]] and [[:Category:Channeling Mods|channeling mods]], such as {{M|Life Strike}}.
+**[[Heavy Attack]] mods, such as {{M|Life Strike}}.
 **Stealth [[Stealth#Melee Damage Multiplier|melee damage multiplier]].
-**[[Melee 2.0#Combo Counter|Melee Combo Counter]].
+**[[Melee#Combo Counter|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.
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 ==Patch History==
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+{{ver|27.3}}
+*Increased Status Chance for the Gunblade type weapons to match new Shotgun Status Chance values.
+{{ver|27.2}}
+*Fixed ugly and busted blast FX for the Sarpa.
+{{ver|26}}<br />
+''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.
 {{ver|25.7}}
 *Fixed incoming fire interrupting Gunblade charge attacks.
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 *Introduced.
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+{{Ver/Lu|26}}
 ==See Also==
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 [[es:Sarpa]]
 [[ru:Сарпа]]
+[[fr:Sarpa]]
 [[Category:Weapons]]
 [[Category:Melee Weapons]]