The Viper Wraith is the Wraith version of the 
Viper that has higher damage with a slight boost to 
Impact damage in exchange for lower 
Slash, and higher critical chance, larger magazine size, and better accuracy, but with reduced status chance and reload speed.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Impact damage. - Can use the Viper-exclusive Skull Shots and Stinging Truth mods.
- Innate polarity.
Advantages:
- High accuracy.
- Tied with Viper for highest fire rate of all single-handed pistols.
- Normal Attack
- High effective fire rate
- High max ammo
- High reload speed
- High disposition
Disadvantages:
- Inefficient ammo economy.
- Normal Attack
- Very low damage
- Low status chance
Comparisons:
- Viper Wraith (Normal Attack), compared to Viper (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (18 vs. 17)
- Higher total damage (18 vs. 17)
- Higher base critical chance (19.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.0x vs. 1.5x)
- Lower base status chance (9.00% vs. 11.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (21.42 vs. 18.27)
- Higher burst DPS (308.01 vs. 262.79)
- Higher sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 152.87)
- Larger magazine (20 vs. 14)
- Slower reload time (0.8 vs. 0.7)
- More accurate (28.6 vs. 15.4)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.45x))
- Viper Wraith (Normal Attack), compared to Twin Vipers Wraith (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Lower burst DPS (308.01 vs. 535.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 238)
- Lower fire rate (14.38 vs. 25)
- Smaller magazine (20 vs. 40)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (420 vs. 440)
- Faster reload time (0.8 vs. 2)
- More accurate (28.6 vs. 11.1)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.41x))
Acquisition[]
The Viper Wraith can be potentially sold by Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 
75,000 and 
400. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
The weapon can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed. The trading recipient must also have a Mastery Rank of at least 4.
Trivia[]
- This is the first single-handed weapon that was added after its dual-wielding counterpart, Twin Vipers Wraith.
Viper Wraith Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- Fixed missing Viper Wraith disposition.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Status chance increased from 5% to 9%.
- Critical chance increased from 18% to 19%.
- Ammo capacity increased to 420.
Update 22.9 (2018-01-17)
- Viper Wraith damage reduced in Conclave.
Hotfix 22.8.4 (2018-01-11)
- Introduced via Baro Ki'Teer.
Last updated: Update 23.6 (2018-08-30)
See also[]
- Viper, the normal counterpart.
- Twin Vipers, the normal akimbo counterpart.
- Twin Vipers Wraith, the Wraith akimbo counterpart.
