The Vaykor Hek is a 
Hek variant available only from Steel Meridian. Boasting double the magazine capacity of the base variant, a faster rate of fire, and an increased critical chance, the Vaykor Hek also comes with an innate Justice effect. It does, however, take slightly longer to reload than the base variant.
Acquisition
- The Vaykor Hek can be acquired by reaching the Rank of General with Steel Meridian, and spending
125,000 to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Vaykor Hek cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to General rank. - Syndicate weapons can also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 12 to acquire the Vaykor Hek, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.
Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – effective against armor.
- Very high critical chance.
- Very high overall status chance.
- Tied with normal Hek and Corinth for the narrowest pellet spread of all shotguns.
- Good magazine size.
- Innate Justice effect.
- Innate Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Pol" does not exist. polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage – less effective against shields and Flesh.
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 26.67% from 10m to 25m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed).
- High recoil.
- Moderately slow reload speed.
- Cannot use the Hek-exclusive Scattered Justice mod.
Comparisons:
- Vaykor Hek (Normal Attack), compared to Hek (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Higher base critical chance (25.00% vs. 10.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (656.25 vs. 577.5)
- Higher burst DPS (1968.75 vs. 1253.17)
- Higher sustained DPS (1067.79 vs. 601.04)
- Farther max damage falloff distance (25.0 m vs. 20.0 m)
- Lesser max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (73.33% vs. 80.00%)
- Higher fire rate (3.000 attacks/sec vs. 2.170 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (8 vs. 4)
- Slower reload time (2.25 s vs. 2.00 s)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 4)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.15x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.20x))
- Innate Justice effect
Notes
- Can make good use of Accelerated Blast, due to its high innate Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Tips
- The Vaykor Hek has over double the critical potential of the normal Hek. This, combined with more rounds per magazine and a higher fire rate, means the Vaykor variant is more viable for a critical oriented build, and more powerful overall even with Hek's extra multishot afforded by Scattered Justice.
Media
Vaykor Hek 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 increased from 3.5714285714286% to 10.714285714286%.
Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)
- Introduced.
See Also
- Hek, the original variant.
- Steel Meridian, the Syndicate that offers this weapon.
