The Tigris Prime is the Primed variant of the 
Tigris shotgun, sporting drastically higher damage and pellet count but at some expense to status chance. It was released alongside 
Nekros Prime and 
Galatine Prime.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages
- Second highest base damage of all primary shotguns, behind
Exergis.
- Very high overall status chance.
- Innate multishot of 8 pellets.
- Fairly fast reload speed.
- Efficient ammunition economy.
- Unique trigger type allows for two rapid shots against tough targets, or careful shot management against many weaker opponents. First shot on button press, the second on button release.
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages
- Low Impact and Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 51.28% from 10m to 20m target distance (distances are affected Projectile Speed).
- Low critical chance.
- Inefficient against groups, unless using Punch Through mods.
- Extremely low magazine size of just two rounds; requires frequent reloading.
Comparisons:
- Tigris Prime (Normal), compared to Tigris (Normal):
- Lower base damage per projectile (195 vs. 210)
- Higher total damage (1,560 vs. 1,050)
- Lower base status chance (11.25% vs. 16.8%)
- Higher average damage per shot (1,716 vs. 1,155)
- Higher burst DPS (3,432 vs. 2,310)
- Higher sustained DPS (1,225.71 vs. 825)
- Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (0.49x vs. 0.52x)
- Higher multishot (8 projectile(s) vs. 5 projectile(s))
- Different polarities ( vs. None)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (0.9 vs. 1.15)
- Tigris Prime (Normal), compared to Sancti Tigris (Normal):
- Lower base damage per projectile (195 vs. 210)
- Higher total damage (1,560 vs. 1,260)
- Lower base critical chance (10% vs. 15%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2x vs. 1.5x)
- Lower base status chance (11.25% vs. 14%)
- Higher average damage per shot (1,716 vs. 1,354.5)
- Higher burst DPS (3,432 vs. 2,709)
- Higher sustained DPS (1,225.71 vs. 1,083.6)
- Farther starting damage falloff distance (10m vs. 8m)
- Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (0.49x vs. 0.57x)
- Higher multishot (8 projectile(s) vs. 6 projectile(s))
- Slower reload time (1.8 s vs. 1.5 s)
- More accurate (9.1 vs. 6.5)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 12)
- Lower disposition (0.9 vs. 1)
- Lack of an innate Purity effect
Acquisition[]
| Blueprint | Barrel | Receiver | Stock |
|---|---|---|---|
 Axi T1 Rare (V) Lith T1 Rare (V) Lith T3 Rare (V) Neo T1 Rare (V)
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Axi S6 Uncommon (V) Lith K1 Uncommon (V) Lith V3 Uncommon (V) Lith V4 Uncommon (V) Neo B4 Uncommon (V) Neo H1 Uncommon (V)
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Axi V5 Uncommon (V) Lith S9 Uncommon (V) Meso K1 Uncommon (V) Meso N5 Uncommon (V) Meso S6 Uncommon (V) Meso T2 Uncommon (V) Neo S6 Uncommon (V) Neo V3 Uncommon (V)
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Lith B2 Common (V) Meso S1 Common (V) Neo B2 Common (V) Neo N11 Common (V) Neo V4 Common (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On June 5, 2018, it was announced that Tigris Prime, alongside Nekros Prime and Galatine Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on June 19, 2018. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
Tips[]
- Due to the weapon's low magazine size and tight spread, consider using Seeking Force and/or Seeking Fury in order to deal with large groups more effectively.
- Chilling Reload can also help to speed up the weapon's frequent reloads.
- All Tigris variants can reach 4 shells in the magazine by combining a max rank Ammo Stock with a rank 1 Burdened Magazine.
- Due to rounding, increasing Burdened Magazine to a higher level will never give any more than 4 shells, but it will still increase the reload speed penalty.
- Aiming down sights will increase weapon accuracy and decrease shotgun spread, making the Tigris more effective at medium ranges.
Media[]
Tigris Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Greater than 100% Status having meaning
Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.
Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.
- (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 4.36% to 11.25%.
Hotfix 22.12.3 (2018-02-12)
- Minor sound remastering updates have been made to the Tigris Prime.
Hotfix 22.10.3 (2018-01-29)
- Fixed Specters not reloading when equipped with a Tigris Prime as their loadout.
Hotfix 21.0.9 (2017-07-17)
- Fixed missing muzzle flash on the Tigris Prime.
Update: The Silver Grove 1.0 (2016-08-31)
- Removed a delay intended to fix frame rate when auto reloading the Tigris Prime due to frequent reloading.
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 3 (2016-08-23)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 22.19.1 (2018-05-03)
