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.
Advantages:
- High
Impact damage – effective against shields. - High critical chance.
- Very high reload speed.
- High accuracy.
- Tied with Viper for highest fire rate of all single-handed pistols.
- Can use the Viper-exclusive Skull Shots and Stinging Truth mods.
- Innate polarity.
Disadvantages:
- Low Puncture and Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
- Low status chance.
- Small magazine size.
- Combined with its very fast fire rate results in frequent reloading.
- Inefficient ammo economy.
Comparisons:
- Viper Wraith (Normal), compared to Viper (Normal):
- Higher base damage per projectile (18 vs. 17)
- Higher total damage (18 vs. 17)
- Higher base critical chance (19% vs. 15%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2x vs. 1.5x)
- Lower base status chance (9% vs. 11%)
- Higher average damage per shot (21.42 vs. 18.27)
- Higher burst DPS (308.02 vs. 262.79)
- Higher sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 152.88)
- Larger magazine (20 round(s) vs. 14 round(s))
- Slower reload time (0.8 s vs. 0.7 s)
- More accurate (28.6 vs. 15.4)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower disposition (1.4 vs. 1.45)
- Viper Wraith (Normal), compared to Twin Vipers Wraith (Normal):
- Lower burst DPS (308.02 vs. 535.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 238)
- Lower fire rate (14.38 round(s)/sec vs. 25 round(s)/sec)
- Smaller magazine (20 round(s) vs. 40 round(s))
- Smaller max ammo capacity (420 round(s) vs. 440 round(s))
- Faster reload time (0.8 s vs. 2 s)
- More accurate (28.6 vs. 11.1)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (1.4 vs. 1.41)
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.
