The Vulkar is a Grineer sniper rifle used by Grineer Ballistas and sometimes used by Grineer Wardens. It mainly utilizes 
Impact damage and has a very high status chance, making a fair amount of shots inflict status procs.
This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
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 20,000 |  5 |  800 |  1,200 |  800 | Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 225
|  Blueprints Price: 20,000
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
Advantages:
- High Impact damage - effective against shields.
- High critical chance.
- Tied with Lanka and Vulkar Wraith for second highest status chance of all sniper rifles, behind the Vectis and Vectis Prime.
- Pinpoint accuracy while aiming; shots will hit exactly on the reticle dot, perfect for headshots.
- Low recoil.
- Staggers most enemies with every hit.
- High zoom capabilities.
- Zooming in increases headshot damage by +35% at 2.5x zoom, +55% at 4x zoom or +70% at 8x zoom.
- Can use the Vulkar-exclusive Lasting Purity mod, significantly increasing its scoped-in damage.
Disadvantages:
- Low Puncture and Slash damage - less effective against armor and health.
- Linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from 400m to 600m target distance (distances are affected by projectile flight speed).
- Tied with Vulkar Wraith for lowest critical chance of all sniper rifles.
- Slow reload speed.
- Rifle scope is ineffective in dark areas and at close range.
- Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.
- Inaccurate when fired from the hip, bullets may widely spread when fired.
- Purity effect from Lasting Purity causes a screen shake, disrupting aiming.
Comparisons:
- Vulkar, compared to Vulkar Wraith:
- Lower base damage (225.0 vs. 273.0)
- Lower fire rate (1.5 rounds/sec vs. 2 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (6 rounds vs. 8 rounds)
- Different polarities (None vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (3 vs. 7)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Vulkar Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Vulkar Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
- For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.
NotesEdit
- The Vulkar has the second longest shot combo reset time of the sniper rifles at 5 seconds, thus it can maintain its shot combo after reloading.
- It needs only 2 shots to initiate the shot combo counter's 1.5x damage bonus, allowing it to attain 2.0x bonus damage if all rounds of its magazine hit.
- The Vulkar, alongside the Snipetron, has the smallest minimum zoom magnification of the sniper rifles, with its minimum zoom having only 2.5x magnification. This makes the Vulkar more effective at shooting at closer range than other sniper rifles.
TipsEdit
- Use a short-ranged sidearm to compensate for closer targets.
- Try to aim for the head or other vulnerable points, take your time. Spraying and praying with this weapon does not work well, as with all snipers.
- Adding a maxed rank Wildfire will give the Vulkar 1 extra bullet, while a maxed rank Magazine Warp will add 2 extra shots. A maxed Tainted Mag will add 4 shots, and all of these mods will total up in a magazine capacity of 13.
- Maxed Point Strike and Vital Sense mods work well with this weapon because of its good critical chance and damage.
- Use the Sniper Ammo Mutation mod to greatly relieve the low total ammo or Sniper Scavenger to increase the amount of sniper rifle ammo picked up. Bring along Team Ammo Restores or use Carrier's Ammo Case.
- Rupture or Crash Course are the most effective physical mods to use, as they increase Vulkar's already decent Impact damage further. In combination they will grant a total of +150% Impact damage.
- Heavy Caliber can be used on the Vulkar with little noticeable effect on its long-range accuracy, as its slow rate of fire ensures that its shots will always land on its crosshair. Heavy Caliber will affect the spread of additional bullets created by Split Chamber however.
TriviaEdit
- It seems the Vulkar is based-off the name "Vulcan", the god of fire, the forge and the volcanoes in Roman mythology.
MediaEdit
Lets Max (Warframe) E3 - Vulkar and Lasting Purity plus Sniper Talk (60fps)
Vulkar Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 22.12
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 3
- Reduced the headshot damage of the Vulkar series in Conclave.
General Sniper Changes:
- Reticle sway removed from all zoom levels!
- 1 meter punch through added to all snipers without any to start with (snipers with innate punch through unchanged).
- 1 combo count removed at a time when duration runs out instead of all of them (decay vs. cooldown).
- 1 combo count removed on miss instead of all of them
- Additional bullets from multishot will each count as their own hits and misses in the combo counter
- Combo duration reduced to 2 seconds for all snipers apart from Lanka which is reduced to 6
- Damage fall off begins at 400 meters and ends at 600 meters with damage reduced to 50% past 600 meters.
Specific Sniper Weapon Changes: Vulkar
- First level zoom +15% Damage replaced with +35% Head Shot Damage
- Second level zoom 15% Damage replaced with +55% Head Shot Damage
- Second level zoom reduced from 6x to 4x
- Third level zoom 20% Damage replaced with +70% Head Shot Damage
- Third level zoom reduced from 12x to 8x
- Vulkar is now usable in Conclave!
- Visually updated the Vulkar Sniper scope.
- Augment: Vulkar: Lasting Purity: Adds 15% dead aim.
- Weapon Balance Changes: Vulkar: Damage increased from 145 to 200. Clip size increased from 4 to 6. Critical multliplier increased from 1.5x to 2.0x. Reload time reduced from 4 to 3 seconds.
- Vulkar now has increased damage and proc chance.
- Vulkar Desert Tactics Skin has been added to the market.
- The Vulkar Deal Pack has been added to the market.
- Introduced.
See AlsoEdit
- Ballistas, the Grineer sniper units that use this weapon
- Grineer Wardens, a Warden that has a chance to use this weapon.
- Lasting Purity, a Vulkar exclusive Syndicate mod.
- Vulkar Deal Pack, a removed bundle featuring the Vulkar exclusively.
