Zhuge Prime

The Zhuge Prime is a primed variant of the Tenno automatic crossbow, with higher critical chance, fire rate, magazine size, and altered damage that favors , but with less reserve ammo. To compensate for its decrease in total damage, status chance, and reload speed, the bolts fired by the Zhuge Prime explode shortly after impact, and reloads faster from an empty magazine. Zhuge Prime was released alongside and .
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
*Bolts explode in a 2.6 meter radius after 0.6 seconds on impacting a surface or enemy.
**Explosion delay reduces likelihood of inflicting self-stagger, but allows enemies to move out of explosion range if not directly hit by one of the bolts.
**Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
**Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
*Reloads 50% faster from a fully depleted magazine.
*Can benefit from () and .
*Counts as a bow in regards to fire rate mods, doubling the fire rate bonus.
*Innate three polarities.
*Bolts explode on impact by default.
==Acquisition==
===Vaultings===
*On May 11th, 2021, it was announced that Zhuge Prime, along with and , would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on May 25th, 2021. Any preexisting components or fully-built items will remain as is.
==Notes==
*Can be used in bow-only Sortie missions.
*Reload time is reduced to 2 seconds when the magazine is empty.
*Despite being capable of using the mod, it has no effect due to the weapon's innate explosion.
*Enemies killed with the initial bolt are ragdolled and launched forward, dealing the same damage to other enemies in their path. In such cases, the explosion will not arm until the slain enemy's corpse strikes a wall, the floor, or any other piece of level geometry. The bolt will then create its detonation field at the point where the corpse 'lands'.
*Punch Through affects the location of the bolt explosions. The weapon's explosions are applied at the final point of contact where the bolt ends rather than where the bolt penetrates an enemy or object.
==Trivia==
*The Zhuge Prime, alongside , , , , , , , , , and are the only Prime weapons that do not require Orokin Cells as crafting ingredients.
==Media==
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File:Zhuge Prime- (1).png|Zhuge Prime, on display in the arsenal
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Warframe - All Prime Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, the normal counterpart.
Category:Prime Weapons
Category:Update 25
Category:Weapons with Passives
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