Zakti

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Zakti
General Information
Type	Pistol
Mastery	10
Slot	Secondary
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Accuracy	26.7
Ammo Type	Pistol
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.25x)
Fire Rate	5
Noise Level	Alarming
Magazine Size	3
Max Ammo	210
Reload Time	0.8 s
Projectile Speed	66 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Dart Impact
12
18
Total Damage	30 (60%)
Crit Chance	2%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Fire Rate	5
Forced Procs	Impact
Multishot	1 (30 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Status Chance	20%
Projectile Speed	66 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Gas Cloud
80
Total Damage	80
Crit Chance	2%
Crit Multiplier	1.5x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 100% damage at 3.5 m 0% max reduction
Fire Rate	5
Multishot	1 (80 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Alarming
Range	3.5 m
Status Chance	20%
Projectile Type	AoE
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Tenno/Pistols/TnGuandoPistol/TnGuandoPistolGun
Introduced	Update 21.1 (2017-07-19)
Polarities
Variants	Zakti Prime

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 guaranteed  Impact proc, as well as the explosion causing enemies to stagger.

It can be sold for ‍5,000.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Gas damage.

Advantages:

• High  Puncture damage – effective against armor.
• High status chance.
  • Innate  Gas damage produces clouds that inflict  Gas damage – effective against Infested and Infested Flesh.
• 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.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
• Very fast reload speed.
• High ammo efficiency.
• Can benefit from  Fulmination ( Primed).
• Innate two polarities.

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.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion delay allows enemies to move out of explosion range if not directly hit by one of the bolts.

Comparisons:

• Zakti (Gas Cloud), compared to Zakti Prime (Gas Cloud):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (80 vs. 100)
    • Lower  Gas damage (80 vs. 100)
  • Lower total damage (80 vs. 100)
  • Lower base critical chance (2% vs. 8%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 1.8x)
  • Lower base status chance (20% vs. 42%)
  • Lower average damage per shot (80.8 vs. 106.4)
  • Lower burst DPS (404 vs. 532)
  • Lower sustained DPS (173.14 vs. 327.38)
  • Closer ending damage falloff distance (3.5m vs. 3.8m)
  • Smaller magazine (3 round(s) vs. 8 round(s))
  • Faster reload time (0.8 s vs. 1 s)
  • Different polarities ( vs. )
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 14)
  • Higher disposition (1.25 vs. 0.95)

Acquisition

The Zakti's blueprint can be researched from the Tenno Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements
15,000	8	350	6,500	5,000	Time: 12 hrs
					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
					Prereq: Akstiletto
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Notes

• 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.

Tips

• 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.

Trivia

• The Zakti is the first 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 visible 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.

Bugs

• 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.

Media

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 History

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

• (Undocumented) Explosions self-stagger.

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

• Mastery Rank increased from 6 to 10.

Hotfix 21.1.1 (2017-07-20)

• 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.

Update 21.1 (2017-07-19)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 24.2 (2018-12-18)

See Also

•  Zakti Prime, the primed counterpart of this weapon.