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This devastating automatic crossbow is the perfect marriage of ancient Earth weaponry and Tenno technology.

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 ‍Credits64 7,500

Characteristics[]

  • This weapon deals primarily DmgPunctureSmall64 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 Mod TT 20px Thunderbolt mod.
  • Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
  • Innate Madurai Pol polarity.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Tied with Panthera Panthera/PantheraPrime 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 Attica/PantheraPrime Panthera Prime and Panthera 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:

  • 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
📝 Edit blueprint requirements
Credits
20,000
Cryotic Cryotic
2,800
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle
900
NitainExtract Nitain Extract
2
ArgonCrystal Argon Crystal
2
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 30
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 125 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price:Credits20,000

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.
  • Mod TT 20px 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 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 Ninkondi and Spira 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 Attica and Ballistica Ballistica/RaktaBallistica Rakta Ballistica.

Media[]

Zhuge Skins

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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[]

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