Arca Plasmor

Corpus Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

The Arca Plasmor is a  Corpus-built plasma shotgun that fires highly damaging pulses of  Radiation with a guaranteed  Impact proc. The projectiles it fires are wide and have infinite Punch Through on bodies, making it highly effective in mowing down large groups of enemies, but suffers from a low critical multiplier and no bonus damage on headshots.

Characteristics[]

• This weapon deals high amounts of  Radiation damage.
• Shots have a guaranteed  Impact proc to enemies up to 14 meters.
  • Distance is affected by Projectile Speed.
• Killed enemies will have their corpses vaporized, good for Stealth gameplay if silenced with  Silent Battery due to no bodies being left behind.
  • Enemies defeated with this weapon disintegrate quickly, making it ill-suited to use alongside  Nekros'  Desecrate.
• Two innate polarities.
• Low zoom, making covering wide shots while aiming easier.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Projectiles have a thickness of 3 meters.
• Innate Infinite Body Punch Through.
• Very ammo efficient.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very high total damage (600)
  • Above average status chance (28.00%)

Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 33.33% from 10m to 20m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
• Projectile has travel time.
• Limited range of 30 meters (can be increased with Projectile Speed mods).
• Has a headshot multiplier of 1x.
• Innate punch through does not apply to surfaces if hitting with the central portion of the projectile, requiring punch through mods.
• Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very low active falloff slope (15.0m/%)
  • Very low maximum falloff distance (20.0 m)
  • Low reload speed (2.80 s)
  • Below average magazine (10)
  • Very low fire rate (1.10 attacks/sec)
  • Low ammo max (50)
  • Low disposition (●●●○○ (0.95x))
  • Very low crit multiplier (1.60x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Comparisons:

•  Arca Plasmor (Normal Attack), compared to  Tenet Arca Plasmor (Normal Attack):
  • Lower base damage per projectile (600.00 vs. 760.00) (excluding any Progenitor bonus)
    • Lower  Radiation damage ( 600 vs. 760)
  • Lower total damage (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (600 vs. 1,216)
  • Lower base critical multiplier (1.60x vs. 2.00x)
  • Lower base status chance (28.00% vs. 34.00%)
  • Lower average damage per tap (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (679.2 vs. 1483.52)
  • Lower burst DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (747.12 vs. 1483.52)
  • Lower sustained DPS (using max +60% Progenitor bonus if applicable) (571.19 vs. 1141.16)
  • Closer starting damage falloff distance (10.0 m vs. 18.0 m)
  • Closer max damage falloff distance (20.0 m vs. 36.0 m)
  • Greater max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (66.67% vs. 50.00%)
  • Higher fire rate (1.10 attacks/sec vs. 1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Larger max ammo capacity (50 vs. 40)
  • Faster reload time (2.80 s vs. 3.00 s)
  • Lesser projectile speed (60.0 m/s vs. 120.0 m/s)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 16)
  • Higher disposition (●●●○○ (0.95x) vs. ●○○○○ (0.55x))

Acquisition[]

The Arca Plasmor's blueprint can be researched from the Energy Lab in the dojo.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
25,000	Fieldron 5	Control Module 25	Cryotic 925	Forma 1	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 190			Blueprints Price:15,000
Energy Lab Research3,000
7,500	Fieldron Sample 200	Salvage 12,000	Circuits 3,750	Gallium 8	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: Lanka
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Notes[]

• Being that it is a pulse shotgun, accuracy mods seem to have no effect on spread.
  •  Vicious Spread however throws off accuracy by making shots veer wildly off from the aiming reticle at times, use at your own discretion.
    • This can be counteracted somewhat with  Hell's Chamber, which will cause the weapon to fire 2-3 waves of energy.
    • Vicious Spread can also be counteracted by using Mirages'  Hall of Mirrors ability, do note that projectiles fired by the clones bounce off solid surfaces instead of dissipating.
    • A possible bug,  Tainted Shell does not counteract Vicious Spread's accuracy decrease in any reasonable measure. Meaning that if you install both, the accuracy will still be significantly lower.
• The Plasmor's pulse has a range of 30m. This scales with Projectile Speed mods, including the  Jet Stream augment.
• Shots will only proc  Impact if the target is within 14m.
• The Plasmor has a reduced zoom by about 60% when aiming.
• While the critical chance of the weapon is good, the critical damage is only slightly better than normal.

Known Bugs[]

•  Galvanized Savvy is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits.

Tips[]

• Due to its innate body punch-through, the Plasmor is of great use in Arbitrations, easily passing through shielded enemies to get to shield drones.
• Because the range and damage falloff are determined by the weapon's Projectile Speed, adding in  Fatal Acceleration will increase the range and falloff limits by 40%, to 14m minimum falloff and 28m maximum falloff as well as increasing the range to 42m.
• Due to its innate  Radiation damage, the weapon can use elementals and dual elementals that use  Heat or  Electricity damage, such as  Corrosive VS Grineer or  Magnetic VS Corpus.
• Short corridors favor this weapon highly, as a few pulses are normally enough to make short work of enemy clusters as long as no Arctic Eximus or Nullifier Crewmen are present, and the added Impact and Radiation procs will keep enemies at bay.
• The description of surviving enemies being "consumed by radiation" simply means that their bodies will disintegrate on death. While this is undesirable for a Nekros's  Desecrate, it is good for stealth if silenced since there will be no corpses to alert enemies.
• It is exceedingly easy to perform headshots with this weapon. Although it has 1x headshot multiplier (meaning it does no extra damage), this can be increased using  Primary Deadhead.

Trivia[]

• The magazine for the weapon is a metal cylinder, which rotates clockwise after firing each shot and pumping the mechanism. No shells are ejected with each pump, perhaps implying the cylinder is filled with batteries or charge cells, which are depleted from a single pump and must be rotated to bring a new cell into position.
• Writings on the side of the weapon seem to translate as "G.S.1.1", and possibly "DANGER EXTREME HEAT".

Media[]

Arca Plasmor in Codex.

Arca Plasmor in Arsenal

Warframe Arca Plasmor, Critically Pumped - 2 Forma Build thesnapshot

Arca Plasmor Pump-Action Pulse Shotgun - Full Review (Warframe)

Warframe - Arca Plasmor - 3 Forma Build

Warframe - ARCA PLASMOR - Build, Tips and More

Warframe - All Corpus Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)

Warframe - All Corpus Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2012 - 2019)

Arca Plasmor Build 2020 (Guide) - The Boomstick

Arca Plasmor Skins

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Solstice
Tennobaum 2023

Hecaton

Zobov

Patch History[]

Last updated: Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)

See also[]

•  Arca Scisco, a secondary weapon part of the "Arca" series.
•  Arca Titron, a melee weapon part of the "Arca" series.
•  Tenet Arca Plasmor, the Tenet counterpart.
• Catchmoon, a Kitgun chamber that fires a similar projectile.
•  Fulmin, a Tenno rifle that fires a similar projectile.
•  Corvas Prime, a Primed Arch-gun that fires a similar projectile.

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