Afentis

Afentis is a speargun that serves as the Signature Weapon of . It shoots ballistic projectiles that embed itself on a surface or enemy before exploding, dealing high damage but is burdened by low fire rate and low magazine. When thrown with Alternate Fire it impales enemies onto surfaces; impacting the ground instead produces a field that boosts ally Weapons' reload speed, fire rate, attack speed, reserve ammo and reduces recoil.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*Primary Fire shoots ballistic projectiles, causing a small 3 meter explosion after 0.8 seconds on impact with a surface or enemy.
**Explosion delay reduces likelihood of inflicting self-stagger, but may allow enemies to move out of the explosion range if not directly hit by the projectile.
**Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
**Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
**Can benefit from () and .
*Alternate Fire throws a duplicate of the Afentis, allowing the player to keep using the speargun instead of switching to their secondary arm:
**Throwing the spear consumes 1 ammo, then reloads the weapon.
**If it hits an enemy, they are impaled to the surface for 20 seconds.
***Shockwave inflicts self-stagger, despite dealing no radial damage.
**If it does not hit an enemy, the spear produces a 5 meter Ballistarii Might field.
***The field lasts for 10 seconds.
***Killing an enemy while player is within the Ballistari Might field will maintain the buff for 40 seconds which counts down upon leaving the field.
***Ballistarii Might grants the following buffs:
****+50% reload speed
****+20% fire rate and attack speed
****+100% reserve ammo
****-50% recoil.
***The buff affects both primary, secondary, melee, and atmospheric Archguns.
***The field does not benefit from (.)
**Only one spear can be deployed at a time. Throwing the spear again will remove existing spears.
***Thrown spear is unaffected by multishot.
*Reloads 33% of the magazine per second while holstered.
==Acquisition==
Afentis's blueprint is available from Chipper of Kahl's Garrison for 60 , requiring players to be at Rank 5 - Home to purchase.
==Notes==
*Currently, Afentis lacks a Signature Weapon bonus with .
*The Afentis is currently unique in terms of speargun primary fire usage, in which the crossbow component has its own manual reload animation sequence before launching another bolt, unlike other spearguns which are essentially simply point and fire.
*Due to the Afentis having high explosive shots with potentially massive damage and limited ammunition, the speargun is best treated as if it is a launcher-type primary.
**When combining multishot mods with , one of the bolts will fly towards the point of aim while the rest of the bolts will fan out slightly and explode extremely close to the point of aim even at long ranges.
*The primary fire's explosion will ragdoll all enemies caught in it, regardless if they are immediately killed by it or not.
*Planting a delayed explosive bolt on a surface before a nullifier bubble crosses it causes the resulting explosion to deal damage to anyone within the bubble, but not anyone outside it.
*Equipping Punch Through mods will cause the Afentis's bolts to knock down all enemies that they pass through.
*While the bolt's delayed explosion does not trigger headshot conditions, the bolt itself does.
**Triggering bonus critical chance from () or will therefore still reinforce the delayed explosion's critical multiplier.
*Ballistari Might does not apply to companions.
==Tips==
*When fighting from a holdout position in Survival and Defense missions, plant the Ballistarii Might field well within squadmates' reach so that everyone can easily benefit from the added firepower.
**Note that triggering the extended Ballistarii Might buff will not automatically grant the bonus ammunition reserves, so players must manually pick up the extra ammo while the buff is active or, alternatively, use a Squad Ammo Restore deployable for quick replenishment.
==Bugs==
*Afentis is able to equip , but not any other Ammo Mutation mod.
**Vigilante Supplies also does not function properly, picking up and consuming secondary ammo boxes without giving ammunition to the Afentis.
== Media ==
File:StyanaxSpeargun.jpeg
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*
Category:Speargun
uk:Ефентіс