Verglas

Artax

Burst Laser

Verglas

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Designed as the perfect mate for Nautilus, this Sentinel weapon projects an icy beam at nearby targets.

The Verglas is the default weapon for the Nautilus Sentinel that fires a continuous beam of Cold Damage Cold damage. This weapon accepts rifle mods.

This weapon can be sold for 1,250 Credits 1,250.

Characteristics

This weapon deals Cold Damage Cold damage.

Advantages:

Second highest base damage of all continuous and automatic sentinel weapons, behind Sweeper Sweeper and Sweeper Prime Sweeper Prime.
- Innate Cold Damage Cold damage – effective against Alloy Armor, Shielded, and Infested Sinew.
Second highest status chance of all continuous and automatic sentinel weapons, behind Cryotra Cryotra.
Highest fire rate of all continuous and automatic sentinel weapons.
Pinpoint accuracy.
- Heavy Caliber Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
High magazine size.
Kills create an extra corpse, synergizing with Nekros Nekros' Desecrate Desecrate.

Disadvantages:

Innate Cold Damage Cold damage – less effective against Infested Flesh and Fossilized.
- Damage cannot be increased with Impact Damage Impact, Puncture Damage Puncture or Slash Damage Slash mods.
Very low critical chance.
Damage ramps up from 20% to 100% over 0.6 seconds when firing. After firing stops for 0.8 seconds, the damage decays back to 20% over 2 seconds.
Fairly low reload speed.
Limited range of 24 meters.

Acquisition

This sentinel weapon is automatically acquired by acquiring Nautilus. Note that this weapon also takes up one Sentinel inventory slot.

Notes

Verglas has abnormally high damage-dealing potential for a sentinel weapon.
- Since Verglas' stats are identical to Glaxion Glaxion it has vastly greater power than other sentinel weapons, in particular completely outclassing its Cold-damage sentinel weapon beam predecessors: Cryotra Cryotra and Artax Artax.
Verglas benefits exceptionally well from Fired Up Fired Up as long as at least one of the Heat Damage Heat damage mods - Hellfire Hellfire, Thermite Rounds Thermite Rounds, and Wildfire Wildfire - is equipped.
- Since Verglas is a beam weapon with such high status chance, it can rapidly proc Heat Damage Heat causing large amounts of damage over time as well as reducing the enemies armor by up to 50%.
- The multiplicative nature of Fired Up Fired Up can increase the damage of the Verglas substantially.
  - If trying to utilize Fired Up Fired Up, it is best to use all three Heat Damage Heat damage mods for maximum bonus Heat Damage Heat damage.
  - The total Heat Damage Heat damage of Fired Up Fired Up is shown by default, with the mod equipped, in the Verglas modding window. However, the total damage can still be calculated by multiplying the total Heat Damage Heat damage on the Verglas by 1.6 (Overheat damage bonus is 60%).
    - Example with only Hellfire Hellfire and Thermite Rounds Thermite Rounds equipped:
      - Heat damage from heat mods: 26 × (0.9 + 0.6) = Heat Damage 39
      - Total heat damage after Fired Up: 26 × (0.9 + 0.6) × (1 + 0.6) = Heat Damage 62.4

Bugs

Verglas does not currently benefit from Sinister Reach Sinister Reach despite being able to equip it.

Trivia

Verglas is a thin layer of ice, originating from the French word Verglas which means black ice i.e. clear ice.
Upon release, Verglas Riven Mods were unveiled from Rifle Rivens as opposed to Companion Weapon Rivens; this was soon patched.

Patch History

Update 30.3 (2021-05-25)

The Verglas now has custom sounds for weapon fire!

Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)

Introduced.