The Zhuge is a Tenno automatic crossbow. It boasts impressive damage that is complemented by its very high status chance, limited by its projectile nature and very slow fire rate.
This weapon can be sold for 7,500
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.
- On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
- Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
- Innate polarity.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Tied with Panthera/ Panthera Prime for the highest base damage of all fully automatic weapons.
- High base accuracy.
- Silent.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Above average ammo max (540)
- High status chance (35.00%)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Third lowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, after Attica/ Panthera Prime and Panthera.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average crit chance (20.00%)
- Low reload speed (2.50 s)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Zhuge (Normal Attack), compared to Zhuge Prime (Arrow Impact):
- Higher base damage per projectile (100.00 vs. 50.00)
- Higher total damage (100 vs. 50)
- Lower base critical chance (20.00% vs. 26.00%)
- Higher base status chance (35.00% vs. 30.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (120 vs. 63)
- Higher burst DPS (500.4 vs. 346.5)
- Higher sustained DPS (328.94 vs. 223.54)
- Lower fire rate (4.17 attacks/sec vs. 5.50 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (20 vs. 30)
- Larger max ammo capacity (540 vs. 270)
- Larger ammo pickup count (80 vs. 60)
- Faster reload time (2.50 s vs. 3.00 s)
- Greater projectile speed (90.0 m/s vs. 80.0 m/s)
- Less polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))
- Bolts do not explode on impact by default; thus no self-stagger effect.
Acquisition[]
The Zhuge's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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20,000 |
Cryotic 2,800 |
Polymer Bundle 900 |
Nitain Extract 2 |
Argon Crystal 2 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush: 30 | |||||
Market Price: 125 | Blueprints Price:20,000 |
Notes[]
- Can be used on bow-only Sortie missions.
Tips[]
- While possessing an Auto trigger, the Zhuge is best used when fired in bursts to better aim shots and manage its small magazine. On the other hand, its automatic fire combined with its native knockback makes it good when strafing against multiple enemies, or shooting a single tough enemy multiple times.
- Thunderbolt synergizes well with the Zhuge due to the weapon's magazine size and automatic trigger, giving it a very high chance of triggering explosions within a shorter amount of time than conventional bows. This makes the Zhuge more proficient at crowd-control than single-shot bows like the Dread, with its full-auto fire allowing one to strafe an area with explosive bolts to deal damage against multiple enemies.
Trivia[]
- The Zhuge was originally introduced in Warframe China as a timed-exclusive item, alongside the Ninkondi and Spira.
- The Zhuge is named after the Chinese word for the repeating crossbow, Zhūgé nǔ (諸葛弩), literally meaning "the Zhuge [Liang] crossbow", in turn named after its purported inventor Zhuge Liang. Zhuge Liang was a Chinese chancellor that lived during the Three Kingdoms Period of China, and is considered one of the greatest strategists of the era.
- The Zhuge is the fourth crossbow introduced in the game, after the Attica and Ballistica/ Rakta Ballistica.
Media[]
Zhuge Skins
Patch History[]
Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)
- Fixed energy color not applying to Zhuge’s bow string.
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Zhuge: 1.25->1.15
Hotfix 22.12.3 (2018-02-12)
- Changed the Zhuge’s critical chance to the intended 20%.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 10.
Update 18.6 (2016-03-16)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 22.12.3 (2018-02-12)
See also[]
- Zhuge Prime, the primed counterpart.