Zhuge

Tenno Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Zhuge
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Crossbow
Mastery Rank Requirement	10
Max Rank	30
Slot	Primary
Trigger Type	Auto
Utility
Accuracy	40
Ammo Max	540
Ammo Pickup	80
Ammo Type	Primary
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.20x)
Fire Rate	4.170 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Magazine Size	20
Reload Time	2.50 s
Projectile Speed	90.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Spread	2.50° (0.00° min, 5.00° max)
Normal Attack
5 ( 5%)
75 ( 75%)
20 ( 20%)
Total Damage	100 (75.00%  Puncture)
Ammo Cost	1
Crit Chance	20.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	4.170 attacks/sec
Multishot	1 (100.00 damage per projectile)
Noise Level	Silent
Punch Through	0.0 m
Spread	2.50° (0.00° min, 5.00° max)
Status Chance	35.00%
Projectile Speed	90.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Projectile
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	PROJECTILE, ZHUGE, CROSSBOW
Riven Family	Zhuge
Exilus Polarity
Introduced	Update 18.6 (2016-03-16)
Polarities
Sell Price	7,500
Variants	Zhuge  Zhuge Prime
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
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CODEX

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 complimented by its very high status chance, limited by its projectile nature and very slow fire rate.

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Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages

• Tied with Panthera for the highest base damage of all fully automatic weapons.
  • High damage - effective against armor.
• High base accuracy.
• High critical chance.
• Highest status chance of all fully automatic weapons.
  • Can reach 100% status chance with  Thermite Rounds,  Rime Rounds,  High Voltage, and  Malignant Force.
• Very ammo efficient.
  • High ammo reserve for its magazine size.
  • Uses rifle ammo pickups instead of the scarcer bow/sniper ammo pickups.
• Ragdolls and pins the target to the wall on a kill.
  • Ragdolled bodies fly in a straight line and can damage other enemies in its path.
• Counts as a bow in regards to Fire Rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
• Silent.
• Can use the bow-exclusive  Thunderbolt mod.
• Has a polarity.

Disadvantages

• Low damage - less effective against shields.
  • Projectiles have travel time, making it more difficult to hit moving targets at long distances.
• Moderately slow reload speed.
• Third slowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, behind Attica and Panthera.

Comparisons Comparisons:

•  Zhuge (Normal Attack), compared to  Attica (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (100.00 vs. 80.00)
    • Higher  Impact damage ( 5 vs. 4)
    • Higher  Puncture damage ( 75 vs. 60)
    • Higher  Slash damage ( 20 vs. 16)
  • Higher total damage (100 vs. 80)
  • Lower base critical chance (20.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 3.00x)
  • Higher base status chance (35.00% vs. 10.00%)
  • Higher burst DPS (500.4 vs. 440.4)
  • Higher sustained DPS (328.94 vs. 289.86)
  • Higher fire rate (4.170 attacks/sec vs. 3.670 attacks/sec)
  • Faster reload time (2.50 s vs. 2.83 s)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 7)
  • Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●●● (1.42x))

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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.
•  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, 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 and 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 and Ballistica/Rakta Ballistica.

Zhuge Skins

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Media

• Zhuge in Codex.

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Tenno Reinforcements - Zhuge

Warframe Zhuge, Packing Even More Hard Wood - 5 Forma thequickdraw

Warframe Zhuge

Warframe Test Drive Zhuge 3 Forma

ZHUGE - Crossbow Supremacy 5 forma - Warframe

Patch History

• 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

See also

• Attica