Hystrix Prime

Hystrix Prime is the primed counterpart of the quill gun, sporting increased damage, critical chance, and status chance, and marginally faster reload speed. Hystrix Prime was released alongside and .
==Characteristics==
*Alternate Fire cycles between , , , or elemental quills. Quills apply a guaranteed proc of the selected element.
*On kill, bodies will follow the quill that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
*Has an 8% chance to instantly reload on headshots when wielded by or .
*Two innate polarities.
Advantages:
*High critical chance.
*Above average critical multiplier.
*High fire rate.
*Fairly quick reload speed.
Disadvantages:
*Low status chance.
*Small magazine size.
**Coupled with its high fire rate, results in frequent reloading.
*Projectiles have travel time.
==Acquisition==
==Notes==
*Using the Alternate Fire button will cycle between the four quill types, each quill characterized by the four main elements (, , , ). The selected quill will proc the element of its name. For example, the Poison Quill will deal 36.1 base physical damage and proc .
*The Hystrix by default does not deal any elemental damage, only elemental procs.
*Quill elements are not affected by elemental mods of different elements. For example, using with the Fire Quill will not combine to either deal damage or a Radiation proc, even when both the and procs occur simultaneously.
**However, elemental mods of the same type will combine. For example, using with the Fire Quill will add to the guaranteed proc's damage over time as if Scorch were a base damage mod.
***Elemental mods of the same type will still combine even when paired with a different elemental mod too. For example, using and with the Fire Quill will add to the guaranteed proc's damage over time as if Scorch were a base damage mod, though Jolt will not be factored into the damage.
==Tips==
*Because elemental mods are not combined with the quill's element, this weapon synergizes well with and , allowing players to potentially get up to 9 separate proc types on a target (three physical damages, four primary elements, and two secondary elements).
**This can be further improved by incorporating elemental weapons like a 's disc, or 's gas clouds to provide the remaining secondary elements.
*Using over any of the +90% elemental mods may be preferable, when expecting to use several of the weapon's elemental effects.
**The former will increase the weapon's physical base damage types, and the damage-over-time component of its , or status effects.
**The latter will add its elemental damage type to all hits, but any damage-over-time effects from the primary elemental procs, will only be boosted when they match the elemental mod's type.
**It should be noted that, while the bonus given by both mods seems the same, the elemental damage mods will give much more benefit, as Augur Pact does the calculation alongside base damage mods (e.g. ), while the +90% elemental mods perform the calculation after base damage mods. This can be a significant deciding factor when trying to maximize damage output.
==Trivia==
*ὕστριξ (Hystrix) is Ancient Greek for porcupine.
==Media==
File:HystrixDualKeresPoster.png|Poster for Hystrix Prime and Dual Keres Prime
HystrixPrimeArsenal1.png|Hystrix Prime as shown in Arsenal
HystrixPrimeArsenal2.png
==Patch History==
uk:Гістрікс-прайм