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This modified Ballistica is the weapon of choice used by Red Veil Assassins to take out high-priority marks.

The Rakta Ballistica is an exclusive version of the Ballistica Ballistica available only from the Red Veil. The Rakta Ballistica has a higher portion of DmgPunctureSmall64 Puncture damage than its default version, and features a larger magazine as well as innate Blight effect.

Characteristics[]

  • This weapon deals primarily DmgPunctureSmall64 Puncture damage.
  • Uncharged shots burst-fires four bolts consecutively.
  • Charged shots fire a single round.
  • On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
  • Innate Blight effect.
  • Innate Vazarin Pol and Madurai Pol polarities.

Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • High base damage.
  • Silent.
  • No projectile arcing.
  • Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
    • Above average crit chance (20.00%)
    • Very high total damage (300)
    • Above average ammo max (210)
  • Burst Shot (wiki attack index 2)
    • Above average magazine (20)
    • Above average ammo max (210)
    • High fire rate (6.670 attacks/sec)

Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

  • Projectiles have travel time.
  • Burst shots have low accuracy and high horizontal recoil.
  • Burst shots consume 4 ammo per shot, resulting in a 5-shot magazine. Linearly less efficient – sometimes a target may only die with five projectiles, which requires an entire second burst to be fired.
  • Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
    • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
    • Low fire rate (3.330 attacks/sec)
    • Low status chance (10.00%)
    • Very low crit multiplier (1.50x)
  • Burst Shot (wiki attack index 2)
    • Very low crit chance (5.00%)
    • Low reload speed (2.00 s)
    • Low total damage (75)
    • Very low status chance (5.00%)
    • Very low crit multiplier (1.50x)

Comparisons:

Acquisition[]

  • The Rakta Ballistica can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Exalted with the Red Veil, and spending ReputationLarge 100,000 to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Rakta Ballistica cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Exalted rank.
  • Syndicate weapons can be also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
  • Players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 6 to acquire the Rakta Ballistica, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.

Notes[]

  • Rolling when a shot is charged will actually fire the weapon, rather than reset the charge.

Trivia[]

  • This is the second item in the game with the "Rakta" prefix, the first one being the Rakta Syandana.
    • Rakta is derived from the Sanskrit word rakta , meaning blood.
  • Prior to Update 16.0 (2015-03-19), the Rakta Ballistica could not be recolored, with only its energy color being customizable.
    • Its appearance prior to Update 16.0 (2015-03-19) appeared to be based on Wraith weapons. The weapon's current inventory icon shows what the Rakta Ballistica formerly looked like.
  • When the Rakta Ballistica was first introduced, its charged attack dealt primarily DmgImpactSmall64 Impact damage instead of DmgPunctureSmall64 Puncture damage. The primary damage type changed in Update 15.16 (2015-02-25) (along with several other improvements to the weapon) to be more consistent with the regular version.

Media[]

Rakta Ballistica Skins

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Patch History[]

Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)

October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
  • Ballistica: 1.05->1.1

Hotfix 25.0.7 (2019-05-30)

  • Fixed the Ballistica (Rakta) Energy color persisting as default on the strings.

Update 17.8 (2015-10-21)

  • Fixed enemies becoming alert to players using a charged Ballistica shot.

Hotfix 16.8.1 (2015-06-10)

  • Grineer Forest Camo now works on the Rakta Ballistica.

Hotfix 16.3.4 (2015-04-16)

  • Fixed the Rakta Ballistica not sitting on Chroma when holstered.

Update 16.0 (2015-03-19)

  • Fixed Red Veil allies in Syndicate Missions using the incorrect skin on their Ballistica.

Update 15.16 (2015-02-25)

  • Increased charged bolt damage of Rakta Ballistica from 100 to 300.
  • Increased uncharged bolt damage of Rakta Ballistica from 25 to 75 per bolt.
  • Rakta Ballistica is now a fully Silent weapon.

Hotfix 15.15.0.1 (2015-02-18)

  • Rakta Ballistica now deals 30 damage per uncharged bolt. The damage type is broken down to 15 Puncture, 7.5 Impact and 7.5 Slash.

Update 15.13 (2015-02-05)

  • Rakta Ballistica's crit chance has been buffed from 15 to 20 on charge.
  • Ratka Ballistica's damage on charge has been changed to 5 Slash, 5 Impact, 90 Puncture.

Update 15.5 (2014-11-27)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.8 (2018-10-25)

See also[]

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