The Vasto is a powerful and effective sidearm that strikes a balance between the Lato and the Lex. Whilst it has less base damage than the Lex, it is exceedingly accurate, and features a rate of fire on par with the Lato. It also has a high crit rate.
High materials cost, low ammo capacity, and moderate recoil stand out as its major weak points.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000, it is also a requisite ingredient for Akvasto (x2) and Redeemer.
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 30,000 |
 4 |
 1,200 |
 700 |
 1,000 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price:  190
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 Blueprints Price:  30,000
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Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High damage.
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against Infested, Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
- Fast fire rate.
- Very accurate.
- Very fast reload speed.
- One Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarity slot.
- Higher chance to stagger than other weapons.
- Fastest reload speed among non-thrown secondary weapons, tied with Bronco.
- Good critical chance.
Disadvantages:
- Small magazine size.
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against shields or armor.
Comparisons 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))
Comparisons:
- 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 (2.500 attacks/sec vs. 3.330 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (6 vs. 12)
- Faster reload time (1.00 s vs. 1.60 s)
- More accurate (16 vs. 11.1)
- 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))
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Tips
- Due to the semi-auto nature of the Vasto, for longer ranged targets fire more slowly, as the recoil will fire bullets higher the faster you pull the trigger.
- When focusing on a build based on speed (Fire rate and reload speed) you can run out of ammo quickly. On defense this isn't much of a problem as pistol ammo pickups are more clustered and easier to replenish your ammo, but for other missions consider taking a pistol ammo box along just in case.
- Consider using a mod slot to fit a high-level Pistol Gambit - this can bring the crit chance up to around 30%. Combined with the weapon's high rate of fire, it can easily tear through tougher opponents.
- The recoil can be decreased by the Steady Hands mod, making this a more viable long-range weapon.
- The Vasto has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, similar to Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist.-focused melee weapons. This makes the Vasto 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.
- Other known firearms which shares the same property are the Akjagara, Braton Prime, Flux Rifle, Grakata, Kohm, Latos (Lato, Lato Prime and Lato Vandal), Miter, Panthera, Tigris and other Vasto variants (Akvasto and Vasto Prime).
Notes
- The Vasto was added in Update 9.3 (2013-07-26).
- Although shown as being mostly silver colored, the pistol's default color is actually black.
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.
- Thanks to its high Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage, the Vasto has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces.
Media
Tenno Reinforcement - Vasto
Warframe Vasto
Vasto Skins
Patch History
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)
- Vasto introduced.
See also
- Akvasto, the akimbo version of this gun.
- Vasto Prime, the prime version.
