Conclave:Grakata

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Equipped with a huge magazine and impressive rate of fire, the GRAKATA is the preferred weapon of Grineer Lancers.

*For the soundtrack, see Grakata (Soundtrack).*
The **Grakata** is a standard-issue Grineer assault rifle used by Lancers, Hellions and Commanders, capable of unloading a quick barrage of bullets upon enemies. Despite having a low amount of damage and very high recoil, the Grakata has a high critical chance and status chance. Coupled with its high fire rate, the Grakata is able to inflict a large amount of status effects and a deceiving amount of damage in short periods of time, at the cost of being extremely ammo inefficient and hard to control in sustained fire.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500File:Credits64.png‍ **7,500**; it is also a requisite ingredient for Twin Grakatas (x2)

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## Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  damage.

**Advantages:**

* Near-equal physical damage - effective against all factions, Sentient and Shadow Stalker.
* Very high critical chance.
* High status chance.
* High accuracy.
* Second fastest fire rate of all primary weapons, behind Prisma Grakata.
* Large reserve ammo size.

**Disadvantages:**

* Lowest base damage of all automatic rifles; very reliant on its high critical damage potential.
	+ Ill-suited against Object-based health as it nullifies any critical hits.
* High recoil makes it difficult to shoot down enemies beyond medium range.
* High rate of fire and recoil hinders the weapon's high accuracy.
* Slow reload speed.
* Inefficient ammo economy.
* Fairly low magazine size for such a high fire rate weapon.

**Comparisons:**
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## Weapon Loadouts

* See Category:Conclave:Grakata Build to see how players mod this weapon.
* See Category:Conclave:Grakata Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
* For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

## Tips

* The Grakata has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, similar to -focused melee weapons, despite the fact that the Grakata's primary damage type is . This makes the Grakata a good choice for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
	+ Other known firearms which shares the same property are the Akjagara, Braton Prime, Flux Rifle, Kohm, Latos (Lato, Lato Prime and Lato Vandal), Miter, Panthera, Tigris and Vastos (Vasto, Akvasto and Vasto Prime).
* Holding the trigger down and spraying bullets is not recommended, as the strong recoil of the weapon can easily waste of a lot of ammo. The Grakata's reload time also becomes far more of a problem on full auto, as the weapon discharges its entire magazine in 3 seconds without mods. Firing short bursts helps to increase your accuracy. Aim low when firing longer bursts to compensate for recoil.
* If you're leveling the weapon and running low on ammo, remember that weapons gain experience for assists as well, so one can damage an enemy with just one shot and then finish him with other weapon (Melee is recommended to avoid the switch time).
* Using {{#vardefine:Name|Rifle Ammo Mutation}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found can also help to recover ammo lost due to the weapon's habit of burning through ammo quickly. Alternatively, use {{#vardefine:Name|Rifle Scavenger}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found or Team Ammo Restores.
* There are various mods you can use to counteract the Grakata's high recoil.
	+ {{#vardefine:Name|Stabilizer}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found is recommended as it reduces the recoil without compromising its fire rate.
	+ {{#vardefine:Name|Critical Delay}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found can be used as an alternative as the increased critical chance brings higher damage output and the lower fire rate decreases the recoil. However, this will lower overall DPS.
	+ {{#vardefine:Name|Vile Precision}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found can be used as another alternative, reducing both recoil and fire rate. It will increase accuracy on medium and long distances, albeit at the cost of lowering overall DPS.
* {{#vardefine:Name|Heavy Caliber}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found is a good choice for the Grakata, as the weapon's deceptively high accuracy mitigates the accuracy penalty generated by the mod, reducing the overall bullet spread. However, this is difficult to fully utilize without the simultaneous addition of one of the mods mentioned above as Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty will be greatly exacerbated with the Grakata's high recoil.
* The Grakata will benefit the most from {{#vardefine:Name|Hammer Shot}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, as the weapon has a very high status chance compared to most fast-firing primaries. It will also receive a decent critical damage boost.
* Due to its high status chance and incredibly high firing speed, Grakata is able to proc many status effects rapidly.
	+ Although a large portion of procs will be physical-damage based, the Grakata is still easily capable of causing all possible procs in a single burst.
	+ Area-of-effect procs such as  and  damage are effective at all levels. Electric can also be used to stun targets.
		- The Gas & Electric combination can be remarkably effective against thick swarms of lower level light Infested.
	+ Grakata is ideal for rapidly stacking  effects to quickly strip higher level armored enemies of their thick armor, or for using  for crowd control.
	+ To significantly decrease time-to-kill for higher level content,  elemental procs are recommended, to instantly reduce an enemy's health significantly.
	+ Note that besides  and Slash, procs do not stack, which can still somewhat limit Grakata's effectiveness.

## Damage to Warframes

Since this weapon is used by three types of Grineer units, players will often have to face its damage output. The Grakata deals -11.48% reduced damage to Warframes' armored health, further reduced by the Warframe armor value counting x1.0477 times. Against Warframe shields, it deals +11.59% bonus damage. As such, it is not very specialized on either health or shield damage, with a mild preference to shield damage.

However, the sheer numbers that Lancers can arrive in can result in massive barrages being levied against a player, so these numbers can be deceptive, especially with higher leveled Lancers approaching.

## Notes

* The Grakata was released on April 19, 2013 with {{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.8 }}{{#var:Update}}.
* This weapon is treated as a side-grade to the Soma, trading out critical chance, low recoil, and damage multiplier in exchange for a greater status chance, rate of fire and slightly more damage. it also does not require a spin-up period to fire at full speed.
* Due to its inefficient ammo economy, one can find themselves running out of ammo very quickly.
* With a fully ranked {{#vardefine:Name|Ammo Drum}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, the Grakata can hold up to 1,035 rounds, magazine included.
* As of {{#vardefine:Update|Update 18.0 }}{{#var:Update}} the Grakata blueprint can be acquired as a Daily Tribute reward.
* {{#vardefine:Update|Update 17.0 }}{{#var:Update}} allowed two Grakata to be built into the Twin Grakata, akimbo secondary rifles.

## Trivia

* The magazine is the round ball on the bottom of the grip, not the box on the front end of the barrel. This is similar to some SMGs that have the magazine inside the grip such as the Mac-11.
	+ The spherical magazine suggests that Grakata uses a very small-caliber and helical layout.
	+ The large box assembly may be a gas block, suggesting the Grakata uses the gas operated method of auto-loading.
* The Grakata's standard fire rate of 20 rounds per second equates to 1,200 RPM, similar to that of the fastest available submachine guns today.
	+ Along with the Ignis, the Grakata has four visible lines of text on various parts of the gun. The ones marked by a red Grineer symbol, File:Grineer W.svgFile:Grineer A.svgFile:Grineer N.svgFile:Grineer T.svg File:Grineer T.svgFile:Grineer O.svg File:Grineer K.svgFile:Grineer N.svgFile:Grineer O.svgFile:Grineer W.svg translates to "Want to know" (close to the trigger) and File:Grineer G.svgFile:Grineer R.svgFile:Grineer I.svgFile:Grineer N.svgFile:Grineer E.svgFile:Grineer E.svgFile:Grineer R.svg meaning "Grineer" (closest to the muzzle), while the other two lines of text are just random letters, numbers and symbols.
* The Grakata used to share the same reload animation and sound as the Ignis, probably because they both share the same basic model. The reload sound does not seem to fit the Grakata however, as it sounds as if a tank of gas or fuel is being replaced rather than a magazine of bullets.
	+ This was eventually fixed in {{#vardefine:Update|Update 18.5 }}{{#var:Update}}, with the animation simply cutting short.

## Media

* Grakata.jpg
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* Grakata3.png
* Grataka desert skin.pngGrakata Desert Skin
* Grakatadarthmufin.png
* Grakata Colour Customization.pngGrakata Colour Customization
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## Patch History

{{#vardefine:Update|Hotfix 22.12.4 }}{{#var:Update}}
* Fixed Grakata low magazine sounds being audible by all players when used by friendly AI.

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 22.12 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Mastery Rank increased from 0 to 5

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 21.0 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Thought the Grakata couldn’t get any better? Well now it’s firepower sounds even more satisfying! We’ve improved it’s 3D sound to use stereo samples, which gives the Grakata a meatier sound when in close proximity to it. This gives ally and enemy Grakatas a more dynamic feel in 3D! Clem will be pleased.

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 18.5 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Fixed the Grakata improperly using the Ignis' reload animation

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 16.5 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Grakata damage increased in PvP
* Grakata has been given the PBR treatment!

{{#vardefine:Update|Hotfix 15.13.7 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Updated audio quality on the Grakata

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 15.13 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Improvements to the Grakata's audio

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 14.2 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Ammo capacity increased from 675 to 750

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 13.3 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Fixed an issue with the Grakata not properly aiming if the player attempted to aim while in the middle of a reload animation

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 11.3 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Buffed Grakata - Higher Proc/Crit chance. Higher damage (9 to 11)

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 10.3 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Fixed Grakata playing reload sound twice

{{#vardefine:Update|Hotfix 10.0.1 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Grakata critical rate buff

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 9.5 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Added custom reload sound for Grakata

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.9 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Increased base Crit Chance and damage on Grakata

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.8 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Introduced to the game

## See also

* Lancers, the Grineer infantry that use this weapon.
* Hellions, specialized Lancers that also use this weapon.
* Commanders, the Grineer heavy units that use this weapon.
* Prisma Grakata, the Prisma version of this weapon.
* Twin Grakatas, for the Akimbo variant of this weapon.

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