Zakti

Tenno

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Zakti

Statistics

Utility

Dart Impact

12.0

18.0

Gas Cloud

Radius

3.5 m

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 21.1

CODEX

Fires razor-sharp darts that anchor themselves in their target before erupting in a plume of toxic gas.

The Zakti Tenno pistol fires darts that explode with Gas damage after a short period, with a chance to proc. Each dart also has a 100% chance to proc Impact, as well as the explosion causing enemies to stagger.

Manufacturing Requirements
15,000	8	350	6,500	5,000	Time: 12 hrs
15,000	8	350	6,500	5,000	Rush: 35
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:15,000
Tenno Lab Research 4,000
10,000	3	2,250	2,000	5,500	Time: 72 hrs
10,000	3	2,250	2,000	5,500	Prereq: Akstiletto
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Gas damage.

Advantages:

High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
Darts have a guaranteed Impact proc on direct hits.
Darts explode in a 3.5 meter area radius after 1 second on impacting a surface or enemy, dealing Gas damage.
- Innate Gas damage – effective against Infested and Infested Flesh.
- Exploding darts will stagger enemies, making them vulnerable to melee finishers and susceptible to stealth damage multipliers.
- Explosion has no damage falloff.
High status chance.
- Innate Gas damage produces clouds that inflict Gas damage – effective against Infested and Infested Flesh.
Very fast reload speed.
High ammo efficiency.
Can benefit from Fulmination.

Disadvantages:

Darts have no Slash damage – less effective against health.
- Damage cannot be increased with Slash mods.
Dart explosion has innate Gas damage – less effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
- Exploding darts cannot deal Impact, Puncture, and Slash damage; does not benefit from mods that increase these damage types.
Extremely low critical chance.
Low critical multiplier.
Very low magazine capacity of just 3 rounds; requires frequent reloading.
High recoil, even more so when firing from the hip.
Darts have travel time.
Darts explode after a brief delay rather than on impact, somewhat delaying each shot's total damage from being dealt at once.
Explosion inflicts self-stagger.

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

See Category:Zakti Build to see how players mod this weapon.
See Category:Zakti 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

Darts deal 30 damage and will anchor into the target with a guaranteed Impact proc. ~1 second after attaching to the target they will explode, dealing 80 Gas damage and temporarily staggering any enemies within 5m of the explosion.
- Dart explosions will make enemies vulnerable to melee finishers (default E ) and susceptible to stealth damage multipliers.
- Darts can detonate off of objects and terrain as well, enemy hits are not required.
  - Darts that land on objects (corpses, defense targets, containers, etc.) will detonate without delay.
This weapon synergizes very well with abilities that boost finisher damage, such as augments for Radial Blind ( Radiant Finish) and Silence ( Savage Silence).
- More so with Banshee's Silence ability, as enemies are only stunned when the ability is cast and/or when enemies enter the radius of the ability. This weapon allows Banshee to re-stun enemies and take full advantage of the augment.
- It also synergizes with melee weapon mods that improve finishers, such as Finishing Touch or Covert Lethality
While the weapon's innate Gas damage does not apply to the dart - only the explosion - combining Heat or Toxin mods can be used to apply it to the dart impact itself.
Due to the explosion's innate Gas damage, this weapon allows combined elements that require Heat ( Radiation or Blast) or Toxin ( Corrosive or Viral) to be paired with Gas.

TipsEdit

The explosions will cause the player to stagger slightly as well, interrupting attacks, so the player may want to wait for the explosion to occur then rush the enemy after if they wish to take advantage of the finisher openers.

TriviaEdit

The Zakti is the first, and currently the only, weapon to have Gas as its primary damage type.
śaktí is a Hindi and Sanskrit word meaning force, energy, or potency.
The Zakti's reload animation involves ejecting a real life pistol magazine from the top and receiving an invisible magazine from the bottom, although the magazine has an overtravel stop (seen when ejected). This is clearly visible in Captura, and the magazine can be seen on the ground after reloading, still with a round (visually similar to a 9m) in the magazine.

BugsEdit

Dart explosion audio will sometimes cut short.
Darts sometimes lodge themselves in terrain without detonating.
The Zakti cannot equip some conclave mods such as Hydraulic Barrel.
When shot by Mirage 's clones during her Hall Of Mirrors ability, the clones' darts will detonate on contact instead of after a delay.

MediaEdit

Zakti in Codex.
Closeup of Dart Projectile.

Warframe Zakti, FINISH HIM!! - 2 Forma Build thesnapshot

Warframe ULTIMATE Dual Wield Weapon? Zakti MURDERS lvl 150s thesnapshot

WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Zakti Glaive Prime

Banshee Zakti 660% SAVAGE (Warframe)

Zakti Mutalist Quanta Combo (Warframe)

Warframw Zakti Pistol 3x Forma Setup (U21.2.0.1)

Warframe - Zakti - Synergies with Mirage - 2 Forma Build

ZAKTI SPOTLIGHT - Poisonous Farts 3 forma - Warframe

Warframe - All Tenno Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Warframe - All Tenno Weapon Reloads in 3 minutes (2012 - 2019)

Patch HistoryEdit

Update 27.2

(Undocumented) Explosions self-stagger.

Update 22.12

Mastery Rank increased from 6 to 10.

Hotfix 21.1.1

Reload sounds will now play properly when Dual-wielding the Zakti with thrown Melee weapons.
Fixed the Zakti projectiles not hitting enemies in Mag’s Magnetize field.
Fixed the Zakti projectiles never exploding with toxic gas when killing enemies or hostile objects.
Reduced the AoE damage radius of the Zakti in Conclave.