Lighting Ksana

> "*Shooting a teammate deploys a DMG blocking shield. DMG being blocked or causing no-scope Crit Hits gains charges. Scoped shots consume charges for Enhanced Shots with higher CritX.*"
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Hitting an enemy with a critical hit while not  Scoping? will grant a charge for every critical hit.

While scoping, each shot will consume a charge, increasing the weapon's CritX by +50% with a guaranteed  Shock? effect. This will not occur if you do not have any charges remaining.

Shooting a teammate will create a blue shield around them, negating the damage of a single hit before breaking. When damage is negated, you gain 2 charges. If that teammate already has a blue shield, the duration of that shield will be refreshed and the projectile will pass through that teammate and move on.

## Impactful Inscriptions

Lighting Ksana receives average bonuses from most inscriptions compared to other weapons. **Stability** is useful to keep aiming at weak spots.

* **Projectiles** are very effective, as not only do they increase damage and the trigger more elemental effects, but charges gained will also increase.
* **Elemental procs** are quite reliable, the chance to inflict Shock is about 46% each second.
* ◆ When scope is on for 0.5s, hits deal Crit DMG is excellent for enhanced shots, as it will trigger the +50% CritX without having to hit weak spots.

## Ineffective Inscriptions

* **CritX** improvements has very diminished returns.
* **Accuracy** has minor benefit, even when scoping.
* ✦ *CritX share*(full text) is even less effective than other CritX bonuses, as the +50% CritX from enhanced shots will ignore the CritX shared from the other weapon.

## Possible Exclusive Inscriptions

◈ Deploy a shield on yourself after dealing 2 Crit Hits with Enhanced Shots. +50% total Weapon DMG while the shield is active is exclusive to Lighting Ksana. After landing 2 critical hits with enhanced shots, you gain the same shield that you can place on other players, including recovering 2 charges when it breaks. It also gives +50% damage output while active. If used with perfect aim and breaking the shield every 2 shots, it can effectively make enhanced shots free.

* ◈ *Scope auto-crit*(full text) improves damage output if player weak spot accuracy is low, and it will also benefit from enhanced shot CritX bonus.
* ◈ *Two shot magazine*(full text) increases damage output by +?%, which increases to +?% with ● -40% Reload Time.
* ◈ Projectiles +1, Consumption +100% increases damage output by +50%. ● -40% Reload Time increases it to +88%, ● Magazine +60% increases it to +88%. It also doubles charge gain rate per shot, and makes each charge twice as effective for enhanced shots.
* ◈ *+65% DMG vs any elemental effect*(full text) is decently reliable, the chance to inflict Shock is about 46% each second. Enhanced shots guarantee elemental effects, making it extremely reliable after firing one.
* ◈ *+15% total DMG each elemental effect*(full text) stacks at a decent speed that is sped up with enhanced shots, but stacks slower if you're also shooting teammates.
* ◈ +10% Lucky Shot Chance for 3s whenever hit an enemy (up to 150%). stacks slowly, increasing damage by up to +100%. It stacks even slower if you're also shooting teammates.

## Notes

* It is possible to receive this weapon without owning the Visitors of Spirit Realm DLC by picking the  Gifted Man "Get a "patrimonial" sniper rifle." choice as  Lei Luo.

## Trivia

* If this weapon has any charge, the scope will be flashing blue.
* The weapon's name is most likely a typo, and was meant to be **Lightning** Ksana instead of **Lighting** Ksana, as evidenced by its innate Lightning damage and the gun's electric-blue appearance.
* This weapon has the second highest elemental effect chance of all natural lightning weapons right after File:Flowing Light.png Flowing Light.
	+ However due to Flowing light not having access to the ◆ +100% Elemental Effect Chance of this weapon inscription, Lighting Ksana can achieve a higher elemental effect chance using both the inscription and the elemental enhancement (up to +80% elemental effect chance), resulting in 112% elemental effect chance total.

## Update History

* 08/25/2023 update: Added behavior when passing a teammate already having a shield.
* 06/01/2023 update: Exclusive inscription "Deploy a shield on yourself after 3 Crit Hits with Enhanced Shots" changed to "Deploy a shield on yourself after dealing 2 Crit Hits with Enhanced Shots. +50% total Weapon DMG while the shield is active".
* 08/29/2022 update: Added to the game.