The Spectra Vandal is the Vandal variant of the 
Spectra laser beam sidearm, sporting increased damage, critical chance and status chance, magazine size, max ammo capacity, and faster reload speed. It was released in Update 25.0 (2019-05-22) along with Operation: Hostile Mergers.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash and good Puncture damage – effective against health and armor. - High critical chance.
- Very high status chance.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Magnum Force's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Fast reload speed.
- Innate 0.5 meter Punch Through.
- Consumes 0.5 ammo per tick of damage.
- Can use the Spectra-exclusive Sequence Burn mod.
Disadvantages:
- No Impact damage – less effective against shields.
- Damage ramps up from 25% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 25% over 2 seconds.
- Limited range of 22 meters.
- Ruinous Extension can be equipped to extend the maximum range.
Comparisons:
- Spectra Vandal (Normal Attack), compared to Spectra (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (22 vs. 18)
- Higher total damage (22 vs. 18)
- Higher base critical chance (20.00% vs. 14.00%)
- Higher base status chance (28.00% vs. 22.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (26.4 vs. 20.52)
- Higher burst DPS (316.8 vs. 246.24)
- Higher sustained DPS (290.64 vs. 208.67)
- Larger magazine (80 vs. 60)
- Larger max ammo capacity (400 vs. 360)
- Faster reload time (1.2 vs. 1.8)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 4)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.49x))
Acquisition
This weapon was awarded for earning 1,000 points in a single Endurance Disruption Mission in Operation: Hostile Mergers, complete with a free weapon slot and a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.
This weapon's blueprint and components are now obtained from Veil Proxima Grineer-controlled territory Abandoned Derelicts in Empyrean missions. All parts can be traded between players.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
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 Handle |
Grineer Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.52% | ~ 15 B Caches | 102 ± 34 B Caches |
 Barrel |
Grineer Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.52% | ~ 15 B Caches | 102 ± 34 B Caches |
 Blueprint |
Grineer Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 8.70% | ~ 11 B Caches | 75 ± 25 B Caches |
 Gun Chassis |
Grineer Veil Proxima Resource Caches / B | 6.52% | ~ 15 B Caches | 102 ± 34 B Caches |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables.
See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
Drop chances are rounded to two decimal places, following the official drop tables repository.
Expected means a player can expect to obtain at least one of a drop every N attempts on average.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain
a 1 in 10^2,3, and 4 probability not to have recieved a single drop (99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to have received at least one drop).
The combined probability of multiple drops is 1 - ((1-A%) * (1-B%) * ...) (add drops in same rotation)
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Media[]
Patch History[]
Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)
- Fixed dual wielding the Spectra Vandal with a Glaive causing the Spectra Vandal to look like the ordinary Spectra.
Update 25.0 (2019-05-22)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Spectra, the normal counterpart.
- Operation: Hostile Mergers, the operation that introduced it.
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