The Zhuge is a Tenno automatic crossbow. It boasts impressive damage that is complimented by its very high status chance, limited by its projectile nature and very slow fire rate.
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 20,000 |  2,800 |  900 |  2 |  2 | Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  30
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 Market Price: 125
|  Blueprints Price: 20,000
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- Tied with Panthera for the highest base damage of all fully automatic weapons.
- High critical chance.
- Highest status chance of all fully automatic weapons.
- Can reach 100% status chance with Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, and Malignant Force.
- Can reach 100% status chance with
- High base accuracy.
- Very ammo efficient.
- High ammo reserve for its magazine size.
- Uses rifle ammo pickups instead of the scarcer sniper ammo pickups.
- Silent.
- On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Innate polarity.
- Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
- Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact damage – less effective against shields.
- Low reload speed.
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Third lowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, behind Attica and Panthera.
Comparisons:
- Zhuge, compared to Zhuge Prime:
- Higher base damage (100.0 vs. 50.0)
- Lower critical chance (20% vs. 26%)
- Higher status chance (35% vs. 30%)
- Lower fire rate (4.17 rounds/sec vs. 5.5 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (20 rounds vs. 30 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (2.5 s vs. 3 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 14)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Zhuge Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Zhuge 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
- Can be used on bow-only Sortie missions.
TipsEdit
- 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.
TriviaEdit
- 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.
MediaEdit
Tenno Reinforcements - Zhuge
Warframe Zhuge, Packing Even More Hard Wood - 5 Forma thequickdraw
Warframe Zhuge
Warframe Test Drive Zhuge 3 Forma
ZHUGE - Crossbow Supremacy 5 forma - Warframe
Zhuge Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Hotfix 22.12.3
- Changed the Zhuge’s critical chance to the intended 20%.
- Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 10.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 22.12.3
See alsoEdit
- Zhuge Prime, the primed counterpart.
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