Soma Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

CONCLAVE (PvP)

CODEX

Known for taking down whole squads with its single massive magazine, few weapons were as feared as the Prime Soma.

The Soma Prime is the Primed variant of the Soma assault rifle, featuring a greater magazine size, greater ammo reserves, faster spool-up, and a slight increase to status chance. It was released alongside Nova Prime and Vasto Prime.

Characteristics[edit | edit source]

This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.

Advantages:

High Slash and Puncture damage – effective against health and armor.
Tied with Prisma Gorgon, Soma, Telos Boltor, and Tenora Prime for the second highest critical chance of all fully automatic rifles, behind Battacor/ Acceltra.
Tied with Soma, Attica, and Baza/ Baza Prime for the highest critical multiplier of all fully automatic rifles.
Very high fire rate.
High accuracy.
Fastest spool-up of all auto-spool rifles, with optimal fire rate achieved after a spool-up period of 4 shots.
- Fire rate starts at 25% of its listed value, and increases by 30% per shot.
Large magazine size and ammo reserves.
Can use the Soma Prime-exclusive Hata-Satya mod.
Innate two polarities.

Disadvantages:

Tied with normal Soma for the second lowest damage of all fully automatic rifles, after Grakata; very reliant on its high critical damage potential.
- Ill-suited against Object-based health as it nullifies any critical hits.
Low Impact damage – less effective against shields.
High fire rate generates high recoil, hindering accuracy.
Low reload speed.
Sub-optimal ammo efficiency.

Comparisons:

Soma Prime, compared to Soma:
- Higher status chance (10% vs. 7%)
- Larger magazine (200 rounds vs. 100 rounds)
- Larger max ammo capacity (800 rounds vs. 540 rounds)
- Faster spool-up (4 rounds vs. 8 rounds)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 6)
- Lower disposition (1 vs. 1.1)

Acquisition

Soma Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.

Blueprint	Barrel	Receiver	Stock
Lith M1 Uncommon (V) Meso B3 Common (V) Neo N12 Common (V) Neo S1 Common (V)	Lith M2 Common (V) Meso D5 Common (V) Neo S3 Common (V)	Lith K4 Uncommon (V) Lith S3 Uncommon (V) Neo N1 Uncommon (V) Neo N9 Uncommon (V)	Lith S2 Rare (V) Meso S1 Rare (V) Axi S4 Rare (V) Axi S7 Rare (V)

^{Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic}

Manufacturing Requirements
15,000	1	1	1	10	Time: 12 hrs
15,000	1	1	1	10	Rush: 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

Vaultings[edit | edit source]

On November 15th, 2016, it was announced that Soma Prime, along with Nova Prime and Vasto Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on November 22nd, 2016. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
On October 31st, 2017, Soma Prime became available for acquisition through Twitch Prime along with Frost Prime. This limited time offer lasted until December 31st, 2017.
Soma Prime, along with Mag Prime, Nova Prime, Dakra Prime, Boar Prime, and Vasto Prime, were unvaulted from November 13th, 2018 to January 29th, 2019.
Soma Prime, along with Trinity Prime, Nova Prime, Dual Kamas Prime, and Vasto Prime, were unvaulted once again from May 26th, 2020 to September 29th, 2020.

Tips[edit | edit source]

A critical focused build using Point Strike and Argon Scope combined with Vital Sense and Bladed Rounds, and/or Hammer Shot is the best way to mod this weapon to take advantage of its high critical chance to increase its otherwise meager base damage.
- If you are low on slots, Point Strike, Vital Sense, and Bladed Rounds provide the most overall increase in DPS.
- Critical Delay, enables maximising critical chance, but when used together with the superior options mentioned above, it has a fairly weak effect due to diminishing returns. It's negative attribute, on the other hand, has a strong detrimental effect: The weapon is best fired in short bursts (reducing spread in order to land more headshots, and increasing uptime), but this causes frequent respooling, producing a reduction in potential DPS. For this reason, the weapon suffers disproportionately from fire rate decreasing mods, while benefiting from fire rate increasing mods which increase the power and "responsiveness" of said bursts.
Reload time can be shortened by using a melee attack or dodge roll when the reload timer reaches about 3/4. This works because, like many older weapons, the magazine is updated at this time instead of at the end, making the remaining time extraneous.
Due to the weapon's high rate-of-fire combined with its low base damage, the Soma Prime can be ammo inefficient. Using Rifle Ammo Mutation and/or Rifle Scavenger can be used to recover a steady supply of ammo. Alternatively, ammo can be instantly replenished using Squad Ammo Restores. Additionally, Carrier's Ammo Case mod grants more reserve ammo and turns unused ammo drops into ammo for equipped weapons.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

The Soma Prime was one of the first prime items which had colorable gold parts. This trait was shared with the Vasto Prime, Nova Prime and the Pyra Prime Syandana.
The ring-like formation through which the Warframe holds the weapon with their left hand rotates while firing, making this one of the few primary weapons that have firing animations.
- Like its non-prime version, the Soma Prime's magazine passes up through its receiver as it fires, with the portion of the magazine consumed indicating the amount of ammo left.
The Soma Prime is also the only Primed weapon in the game that keeps its original counterpart's base damage.