Phage

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Statistics

Mastery Level

6

Weapon Slot

Primary

Weapon Type

Shotgun

Trigger Type

Held

Utility

Flight Speed

Hit-Scan

Fire Rate

1.0 rounds/sec

Pellet Count

7 pellets/round

Accuracy

50.0*

Recoil

0

Magazine Size

40 rounds/mag

Reload Time

2.0s

Normal Attacks

Elemental Type

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Viral

Elemental Dmg

330.0

Crit Chance

10.0%

Crit Multiplier

200x

Status Chance

15.0%

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 12.0

CODEX

Fires seven beams of continuous biochemical energy which instantly corrode any surface they contact.

The Phage is an Infested shotgun that fires seven beams in a fairly wide spread. Zooming in focuses these beams closer together, allowing the Phage to perform well against groups or individual targets when needed. Contrary to its description, it deals Viral damage.

Holding Zoom narrows from an extremely wide spread to Synapse-like accuracy over about 1.5 seconds. Every time you hold the trigger, it must readjust before it can focus it's firepower.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	4	1,500	6,000	1	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	4	1,500	6,000	1	Rush: 35 Platinum 35
Market Price: 175			Blueprints Price: 15,000
Bio Lab Research
22,500	30	600	1,350	1,650	Time: 72. hrs
22,500	30	600	1,350	1,650	Prereq: Mutagen Mass
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

Characteristics

Advantages:

Extremely low ammo consumption rate, roughly 1 unit of ammo per second.
Deals
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Viral damage, making it good against most Corrupted, Grineer and Corpus.
Good status chance even for a shotgun, excellent for a continuous weapon.
Multiple fire modes, changed by holding zoom.
Has innate Punch Through of less than 0.5 meters, allowing it to bypass a Shield Lancer's shield.

Disadvantages:

The starting spread is quite wide, and it takes some time to focus the beams together.
It will lose focus the instant you stop firing, land from a jump, or step off a ledge.
Deals reduced damage against Chargers and Leapers.
Limited range of 25 meters, on par with the Flux Rifle.

Weapon Loadouts

Main article: Category:Phage Build

See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Tips

The "Focus" of the beams can be paused at an intermediate stage by releasing zoom. This can be used to dispatch different groupings of enemies more efficiently.
Vicious Spread and Tainted Shell will only affect the initial spread of the beam.
- The time required to focus the beams cannot be modified by any means.
Hell's Chamber will increase the amount of beams fired, with the extra beams clearly separate from one another.
Firing the beams through Volt's Electric Shield will cause the beams to focus into straight lines and gain very long (although not infinite) range.
Using Seeking Force will allow the beams to go through objects.
Due to its spread being controllable and damage being continuous, this weapon is quite effective at destroying reactor cores for Sabotage missions.

Notes

Sprinting, falling or otherwise interrupting your movement will result in the Phage's focus being reset to its max width.
The Phage can be treated as a hybrid of both the Flux Rifle and the Synapse, due to Phage's instantaneous charge spread across seven beams that can be synchronized together.
Shooting the Phage with a short tap may not seem to consume ammo, but each ammo unit of the Phage is split up into many, so you are actually consuming a fraction of ammo.
The damage listed is a combination of all the Phage's streams. The actual damage per stream is a little above 47, as there are 7 streams.

Trivia

Phage is the Greek word for "devour". The Phage itself may derive its name from Bacteriophages (viruses that consume bacteria) or Macrophages (cells that consume bacteria and cellular debris).
This is the first shotgun to have a continuous-firing feature, as well as the first Infested shotgun. It is also the first purely elemental shotgun.
The oval light near the trigger beats like a heart, which suggests that this weapon is alive.

Media

Saryn Holding Phage
Phage as first seen in dev vid
phage as seen on arsenal
phage color, the secondary color is the blob elliptical thing near the handle/trigger
attack without aiming (right mouse button)
phage attack whilst aiming
phage attack whilst aiming able to focus fire on enemies further away able to fight med+ range
Phage's projectile streams as they go through Volt's Electric Shield