Secondary Weapon concept: Hel Cycralist

[(XBOX)Skullstachio]

Codex entry:

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Gifted with the Strain of the Helminth, this bio-mechanical sidearm can suffocate foes as easy as it can regenerate the Bio-organic munitions it fires.

• Manufacturing requirements:
  • 50,000 Credits.
  • 1 Cycron
  • 4 Mutagen Mass
  • 50 mutagen sample
  • 45,000 nano spores
• Statistics:
  • Mastery: 12
  • Slot: Secondary
  • Type: Pistol
  • Trigger Type: Auto
  • Ammo type: Pistol
  • Noise Level: Alarming
  • Fire rate: 9.0 Rounds per second
  • Accuracy: 86.0
  • Magazine Size: 60 Rounds per mag
  • Max Ammo: 60 Rounds
  • Reload Time: 1.4 s
  • Normal Attacks: 16.0, 8.0, 20.0
  • Crit Chance: 10%
  • Crit Multiplier: 1.6x
  • Status Chance: 34%
  • Ammo Cost: 1 round per shot
  • Polarities: 

Characteristics: (currently ongoing)

This Weapon deals primarily  Gas Damage

• Advantages:
  • High Puncture & Innate Gas Damage -effective vs. Armor, Infested and Infested Flesh.
  • Highest Status Chance of all Automatic Secondaries.
    • Can Achieve 100% Status Chance with just 3 of either Scorch, Frostbite, Pistol Pestilence and/or Jolt.
    • Innate  Gas Damage produces clouds that inflict  Toxin Damage - effective vs. Flesh and Ferrite armor and ignores shielded and proto-shields.
  • Does not use ammo pickups; ammo regenerates over time.
    • Has a 1.4 second delay after the weapon stops firing before regenerating ammo.
      • Regenerates 30 ammo per second; takes 2 seconds to regenerate a fully depleted clip.
• Disadvantages:
  • Innate  Gas Damage - less effective against flesh and cloned flesh. furthermore, Toxic ancients aura provides 80% damage reduction to  Gas and 100% to  Toxin.
  • Low Impact and no Slash damage - less effective vs. health and shields.
  • Low critical chance.
  • below average critical multiplier
  • slow recharge, takes longer to fully reload.

Edited December 21, 2018 by (XB1)Skullstachio