Sporothrix

Sporothrix is an Sniper Rifle that shoots explosive delayed barbs, boasting a very high critical multiplier and status chance that is heavily offset by its near nonexistent critical chance.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*One zoom mode that has 2.7x zoom distance and +50% headshot damage.
*Shots explode in a 1.7 meter AoE radius after 0.9 seconds on impacting a surface or enemy.
**Explosion deals innate damage.
**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.
**Explosion does not affect combo counter.
*Can use the Sporothrix-exclusive mod.
*Can benefit from () and .
*Innate polarity.
==Acquisition==
The Sporothrix's blueprint and components can be acquired from Lvl 50-60 Isolation Vault Bounties (normal and Arcana). The blueprint and all components can be traded.
==Tips==
*Despite being a sniper rifle primarily intended against single targets, the exploding barbs make Sporothrix equally valuable as a crowd control weapon. Aiming at grouped enemies is a good way of maximizing the weapon's effectiveness.
*There are several ways to make use of the Sporothrix's high critical damage by adding flat critical chance bonuses:
** periodically grants an additive 60% boost to critical chance.
**'s periodically grants a fixed 200% critical chance as one of its possible effects.
**With another player using the 's Alternate Fire, shooting through the orb adds a flat +25% critical chance, in addition to +25% critical damage and extra .
**'s can add up to +50% additive crit chance, or +200% on headshots, after absorbing enough damage.
**A fully ranked has a 21% chance upon receiving damage to grant +45% flat critical chance.
**'s allows for a single bullet and subsequent explosion to gain an additive critical chance bonus, scaling with Ability Strength.
**'s spawns a large crystal growth on enemies, shooting the growth inflicts a fixed 300% critical chance.
**'s adds a flat +50% additive critical chance when attacking enemies inflicted with or .
==Trivia==
*This weapon shares its name with the real-world fungus genus Sporothrix. One particular species can cause Sporotrichosis in humans and animals, otherwise known as "Rose Gardener's Disease".
==Gallery==
Sporothrix (1).png|Sporothrix when shown in the arsenal
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File:Tim-bergholz-chamferzone-com-q-infestedsniper-3-4.jpg|Concept art
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==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, a secondary that shares the same visual theme.
*, a melee weapon that shares the same visual theme.
*, a war fan obtainable through the same missions.
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