The Braton is an assault rifle manufactured by the Tenno. The damage, fire rate, and accuracy are all balanced, allowing the rifle to perform with surprising results against any faction and well suited against any situations. Its only downfall is ironically its well-balanced purpose, allowing a very limited specialization build.
This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
Characteristics
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Advantages:
- Well-balanced physical damages, effective against Sentient and Shadow Stalker.
- Low recoil.
- Among the fastest reload times of all Assault Rifles.
- Good accuracy.
Disadvantages:
- Sub-optimal ammo economy.
- Low critical damage.
- Low status chance.
- Relatively slow fire rate compared to other Assault Rifles, like Soma.
Comparisons: Comparisons:
Braton (Normal Attack), compared to MK1-Braton (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (24.00 vs. 18.00)
- Higher total damage (24 vs. 18)
- Higher base critical chance (12.00% vs. 8.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (1.60x vs. 1.50x)
- Higher base status chance (6.00% vs. 5.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (25.72 vs. 18.72)
- Higher burst DPS (225.12 vs. 140.4)
- Higher sustained DPS (162.08 vs. 112.32)
- Higher fire rate (8.750 attacks/sec vs. 7.500 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (45 vs. 60)
- Less accurate (28.6 vs. 40)
- Wider first-shot spread (2.00° vs. 1.00°)
- Wider maximum spread (5.00° vs. 4.00°)
Comparisons:
- Braton (Normal Attack), compared to Braton Prime (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (24.00 vs. 35.00)
- Lower total damage (24 vs. 35)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.60x vs. 2.00x)
- Lower base status chance (6.00% vs. 26.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (25.72 vs. 39.2)
- Lower burst DPS (225.12 vs. 375.53)
- Lower sustained DPS (162.08 vs. 294.62)
- Lower fire rate (8.750 attacks/sec vs. 9.580 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (45 vs. 75)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (540 vs. 600)
- Faster reload time (2.00 s vs. 2.15 s)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 8)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.25x))
Comparisons:
- Braton (Normal Attack), compared to Braton Vandal (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (24.00 vs. 35.00)
- Lower total damage (24 vs. 35)
- Lower base critical chance (12.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.60x vs. 2.00x)
- Lower base status chance (6.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (25.72 vs. 40.6)
- Lower burst DPS (225.12 vs. 304.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (162.08 vs. 241.18)
- Higher fire rate (8.750 attacks/sec vs. 7.500 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (45 vs. 50)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (540 vs. 550)
- Slower reload time (2.00 s vs. 1.75 s)
- Less accurate (28.6 vs. 33.33)
- Wider first-shot spread (2.00° vs. 1.50°)
- Wider maximum spread (5.00° vs. 4.50°)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (0 vs. 4)
- Higher disposition (●●●●● (1.35x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
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Acquisition
- The Braton can be purchased for 25,000 from the Market.
Tips
- When used extensively or playing solo, the ammunition of an unmodded Braton can burn down quite quickly. Consider switching to your pistol or utilizing melee combat when possible.
- When fighting at long ranges, consider firing in short bursts or taking a calculated risk and charging forward. The ammo saved from sustained long range fighting far and away compensates for any sizable amount of close range damage.
- Using Metal Auger and/or Shred makes the Braton useful for taking down large crowds without wasting too much ammo although the mods take up a sizable amount of mod capacity. The mod Split Chamber can have very similar effects, but it also takes up a large amount of mod capacity.
- Using the Rifle Ammo Mutation mod can help regain lost ammo when needed, due to the weapon's semi-quick ammo consumption.
- The Braton's reload time can be reduced to a mere 1.5 seconds with Fast Hands, making it ideal for speed-based builds that are looking for a fast-firing rifle that can be reloaded quickly.
- It is recommended to use the Wildfire dual-stat mod in place of Hellfire, as the former will increase the Braton's magazine capacity to 54 while only suffering a loss of 30% elemental damage at the cost of 9 points compared to the latter's 11-point cost. This is also far more efficient than using Magazine Warp, as the former will only sacrifice 10% ammunition capacity for a far more beneficial 60% extra fire damage. Overall, it is most cost effective (9 points) than the alternatives to achieve similar benefits (20 points for both Hellfire and Magazine Warp).
Trivia
- Originally, the weapon shared the same model as the Latron, with similar damage and fire rate. It was then changed to have the same appearance as the old MK1-Braton with Corpus stylings.
- The Braton, along with its MK1 Variant, was assumed to be a Corpus weapon due to Corpus manufacturing symbols printed on the weapon. Update 19.10 (2017-02-09) gave the Braton a new model that had Tenno design and Orokin writing instead, removing the Corpus connections and making it more lore friendly.
- The old version of the Braton can still be seen when using legacy skins like the Forest Camo or the Shock Camo skins, which changes the model to the previous appearance.
- During Hotfix 10.6.1 (2013-11-01), an unreleased Nvidia skin was leaked (refer to gallery image 8 below). This was automatically applied to all Bratons, and was subsequently removed in the next hotfix with the redtext reading "just a small change, you probably won't even notice" referring to the fact that not many people knew of the mistake. It is unknown whether the skin will be officially released, or whether it was just a concept skin model.
- The Braton, as of February 2017, currently has the highest number of skins that can be used on a weapon, at a total of 8. It can use the following: IAH Games skin (Promotion, no longer available), Forest Camo, Shock Camo, Conclave, Day of the Dead skin (Limited time item, no longer available), PS4 Skin (Exclusive to PS4 pre-orders in North America), Kintsugi, and Nocturne. A Nvidia skin was also temporarily leaked but never actually officially used.
Media
![Super-Awesome IAH Games Braton Skin and my Excalibur Prime ;]](https://static.wikia.nocookie.net/warframe/images/6/62/Warframe_2013-10-14_19-45-33-24.png/revision/latest/scale-to-width-down/600?cb=20131014175834)
A maximized Braton vid
Braton Skins
Patch History
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Damage increased from 20 to 24
- Status chance increased from 5% to 6%
- Critical chance increased from 10% to 12%
Hotfix 19.11.5 (2017-02-28)
- Improved volume of the new firing sounds introduced in Update 19.10 in different environments for the Braton.
Update 19.11 (2017-02-15)
- Further minor firing sound improvement tweaks to the Braton.
Hotfix 19.10.1 (2017-02-14)
- Optimized remastered Braton firing sounds for lower frame rates.
- Fixed numerous Braton variants not having a physical magazine.
Update 19.10 (2017-02-09)
- Braton model reworked.
- Kintsugi and Nocturne weapon skins added.
- The Braton has also received newly remastered sounds as a major change to the way weapon firing sounds work.
Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
- Conclave Magazine Size changed from 45 to 30.
Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22)
- Braton series damage has been increased in Conclave.
- Fixed some audio FX not playing properly for the Braton.
Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)
- Conclave skin now available from Teshin.
Update 17.5 (2015-10-01)
- Reduced the damage of the Braton series in PvP.
Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
- The Braton has been given the PBR treatment.
Hotfix 16.6.1 (2015-05-28)
- Fixed the Braton’s stats not reading correctly in the Conclave Arsenal.
Update 16.3 (2015-04-09)
- Increased the damage of all Braton weapons in PvP.
Hotfix 14.0.11 (2014-07-30)
- Damage multiplier for Braton normalized.
Update 7.11 (2013-05-17)
- Market Cost: was 10,000 now 25,000; no longer costs Platinum.
Update 7.10 (2013-05-03)
- Damage buff.
Update 7.7 (2013-04-03)
- Reduced fire rate to 10.7 from 15.0.
Update 7.x Weapon Balance (2013-03-22)
- Damage now 17, was 16.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Introduced.
See Also
- MK1-Braton, the starter version of this gun.
- Braton Prime, the Prime counterpart of this gun.
- Braton Vandal, the Lotus-upgraded version of this gun.
