The Vasto is a powerful and effective revolver. Striking a balance in damage and fire rate between the Lato and the Lex, it also sports a high critical chance, good accuracy, and a short reload, but suffers from low ammo capacity and moderate recoil.
This weapon can be sold for 5,000. It is also a requisite ingredient for the akimbo variant Akvasto (x2) and Redeemer.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average crit chance (20.00%)
- High reload speed (1.00 s)
- Above average total damage (90)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- High disposition (●●●●● (1.40x))
- Incarnon Form (wiki attack index 2)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- Above average maximum falloff distance (32.0 m)
- Above average reload speed (1.00 s)
- Above average total damage (180)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (1.8)
- High disposition (●●●●● (1.40x))
- Above average crit multiplier (2.80x)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low magazine (6)
- Low fire rate (2.50 attacks/sec)
- Very low status chance (8.00%)
- Below average crit multiplier (1.80x)
- Incarnon Form (wiki attack index 2)
- Low magazine (6)
- Below average fire rate (2.50 attacks/sec)
- Low average number of procs per shot (0.16)
- Very low status chance (2.67%)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Vasto (Normal Attack), compared to Vasto Prime (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (90.00 vs. 110.00)
- Lower total damage (90 vs. 110)
- Lower base critical chance (20.00% vs. 22.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.80x vs. 2.40x)
- Lower base status chance (8.00% vs. 22.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (104.4 vs. 143.88)
- Lower burst DPS (261 vs. 359.7)
- Lower sustained DPS (184.23 vs. 253.90)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 10)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.35x))
- Vasto (Normal Attack), compared to Akvasto (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Higher base critical chance (20.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Lower base status chance (8.00% vs. 12.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (104.4 vs. 101.52)
- Lower burst DPS (261 vs. 338.06)
- Lower sustained DPS (184.23 vs. 234.11)
- Lower fire rate (2.50 attacks/sec vs. 3.33 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (6 vs. 12)
- Faster reload time (1.00 s vs. 1.60 s)
- More accurate (Very High vs. High)
- Tighter first-shot spread (0.50° vs. 4.00°)
- Tighter maximum spread (12.00° vs. 14.00°)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 8)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
Acquisition[]
The Vasto blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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30,000 |
Neurodes 4 |
Alloy Plate 1,200 |
Ferrite 700 |
Polymer Bundle 1,000 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush: 25 | |||||
Market Price: 190 | Blueprints Price:30,000 |
Notes[]
- Although shown as being mostly silver colored, the pistol's default color is actually black.
Incarnon Genesis[]
- Upon completion of The Duviri Paradox and Angels of the Zariman, and unlocking The Steel Path, players can earn Vasto Incarnon Genesis from The Circuit's Steel Path to place on their Vasto with the help of Cavalero in the Chrysalith. This Incarnon Genesis form grants it evolutions to a transformation and newfound strength.
Evolution[]
- Installing the Vasto Incarnon Genesis requires 20 Pathos Clamps, 70 Yao Shrub, and 150 Saggen Pearl.
- When installed, the first Evolution tier is unlocked. The following Evolution tiers, their requirements for unlocking them, and their related perks, are shown below;
- Each challenge additionally grants 5,000 affinity to the weapon, affected by Affinity Boosters.
Evolution I[]
- Weakpoint hits charge Incarnon Transmutation; Alt Fire transmutes. Switching back will expend any remaining charge.
- Rapidly empty a full magazine.
- Incarnon Form transforms into a 6-round burst with increased Critical Chance and Critical Multiplier. However, it has reduced base damage and Status Chance per bullet, has significantly higher Recoil, and cannot Zoom.
- Mode switching is not instantaneous and has an animation equal to the weapon's reload speed.
- Incarnon Form is activated by filling the Incarnon Transmutation gauge that appears under the reticule by achieving weakpoint hits and then pressing the Alternate Fire button. 8 weakpoints will completely fill the gauge. A full gauge is not required to activate Incarnon Form.
- Charges do not generate on the backpacks of most MOA variants, or vulnerability spots generated by Sonar or Detect Vulnerability in places other than actual weakpoints.
- Weakpoints on corpses or Invulnerable targets do not build charges.
- Individual Multishot bullets can build charges.
- Instead of drawing ammunition from its reserves, the Vasto's Incarnon Form uses a separate "magazine" with each charge producing 3 rounds to a maximum of 24. Once all ammunition is expended, the Vasto reverts to its normal form.
- Due to its 6-round burst, Incarnon Form expends all its ammo after a maximum of 4 bursts from a full gauge.
- Bursts can be interrupted by rolling to avoid wasting ammo.
- Incarnon Form's magazine is not affected by mods.
- Incarnon Form is not affected by Ammo Efficiency (such as Energized Munitions).
- Charges and Incarnon Form persists through all activities, such as holstering, bleedout, or being disarmed. However, charges and Incarnon Form are removed upon death.
- Due to its 6-round burst, Incarnon Form expends all its ammo after a maximum of 4 bursts from a full gauge.
- Swapping to and from Incarnon Form will fully reload the normal form's magazine.
Evolution II[]
- Unlock Challenge: Complete a solo mission with this weapon equipped.
- Perk 1: Lone Gun:
- Increase Damage by +66 (Vasto) / +24 (Prime).
- Damage increase is applied to each bullet in Incarnon Form, increasing damage by +396 (Vasto) / +144 (Prime).
- With No Primary Equipped:
- Increase Damage by +40
- Increase Magazine Capacity by +14.
- Increased Magazine Capacity does not affect Incarnon Form.
- Increase Damage by +66 (Vasto) / +24 (Prime).
- Perk 2: Deathtrap Trigger:
- Increase Damage by +66 (Vasto) / +24 (Prime).
- Damage increase is applied to each bullet in Incarnon Form, increasing damage by +396 (Vasto) / +144 (Prime).
- On Equip From Primary:
- Increase Critical Chance by +30% for 3s.
- Increase Critical Damage Multiplier by +2.2x (Vasto) / +0.8x (Prime) for 3s.
- Increase Damage by +66 (Vasto) / +24 (Prime).
Evolution III[]
- Unlock Challenge: Kill 100 enemies with this weapon's Incarnon Form.
- Perk 1: Extended Volley:
- Increase Magazine Capacity by +6.
- Does not apply to Incarnon Form.
- Increase Magazine Capacity by +6.
- Perk 2: Marksman's Hand:
- -50% Weapon Recoil.
- Perk 3: Awakened Readiness:
- +20% Magazine Reloaded per second when Holstered.
- Does not apply to Incarnon Form's Magazine.
- +20% Magazine Reloaded per second when Holstered.
Evolution IV[]
- Unlock Challenge: Kill 30 enemies while airborne.
- Perk 1: Commodore's Fortune:
- Increase Critical Chance by +16% (Vasto) / +18% (Prime).
- Perk 2: Survivor's Edge:
- Increase Critical Chance by +10%.
- Increase Status Chance by +10%.
- Status Chance increase for Incarnon Form is divided by the innate multishot, leading to a base Status Chance increase from 2.67% (Vasto) / 6.67% (Prime) to 4.34% (Vasto) / 8.34% (Prime).
- Perk 3: Reaper's Plenty:
- On Headshot: +100% Ammo Efficiency for 2s.
- Does not apply to Incarnon Form.
- On Headshot: +100% Ammo Efficiency for 2s.
Tips[]
- Due to the semi-auto nature of the Vasto, for longer ranged targets it is better to fire more slowly due to the vertical recoil. Otherwise, the faster you pull the trigger, the more likely it will fire bullets above the enemy and miss.
- If required, the recoil can be decreased by the Steady Hands mod, increasing its viability as a long-range weapon.
- Consider using a mod slot to fit a Pistol Gambit - this can bring the crit chance up to 44% at max rank. Combined with the weapon's high rate of fire, it can easily tear through tougher opponents.
- While it is fairly ammo efficient at base, when focusing on a build based on fire rate and reload speed, you can run out of ammunition quickly.
- In Defense-Missions this isn't much of a problem as pistol ammo pickups are more clustered and steadily avilable to replenish your reserves. For other missions consider taking Squad Ammo Restores along just in case.
- The Vasto has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, making it a prime candidate for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
Trivia[]
- Vasto is a Latin verb, meaning "I destroy / I lay waste / I ravage."
- The Vasto's cylinder revolves with every shot and upon reload, making it the fourth weapon with a non-static model.
- The Vasto appears to be a double-action revolver of intermediate caliber, rather than a high caliber single action akin to those used in the 19th century West, like the Colt Single Action Army. The handle/grip is flush with the rest of the weapon, leaving no exposed hammer to manually cock. However, there appears to be a rocker on the rear of the Vasto that could be a hammer lever.
- Unlike real revolvers, however, the Vasto ejects cartridges after each shot.
Media[]
Vasto Skins
Patch History[]
Update 32.2 (2022-11-30)
- SEMI-AUTOMATIC WEAPON CHANGES
While reviewing the stats of some weapons with a semi-automatic mode, we noticed that certain weapons had an unsustainably high fire rate for most players. We adjusted the stats of the following semi-automatic weapons whose maximum potential was only being reached with the use of macros (to learn more about third-party use in Warframe visit our support article). Since not everyone is an avid macro user (within the boundaries allowed), we lowered fire rates to a more humanly achievable level and improved their damage or reload stats to compensate.
Vasto
- (Undocumented) Reduced fire rate from 5 to 2.5.
- (Undocumented) Increased damage from 58 to 90.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 4.
- Damage increased from 50 to 58.
- Status chance increased from 5% to 8%.
- Critical chance increased from 15% to 20%.
- Critical damage increased from 1.5 to 1.8x.
Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
- Fixed the Vasto Day of the Dead skin not appearing as ‘Owned’ in the Market.
Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)
- Conclave skin now available.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- Vasto now available for use in Conclave.
Update 11.5 (2013-12-19)
- Vasto received unique reload sound.
Update 9.3 (2013-07-26)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)
See also[]
- Akvasto, the akimbo version of this gun.
- Vasto Prime, the prime version.
- Vasto Incarnon Genesis, the Incarnon power-up for the Single-Vasto series.