1. Warframe Viral Damage Explained

While you can get the normal version of the Boltor pretty early on, getting the Boltor Prime is a bit harder. You do have to farm all the required relics first and then get lucky with the drops. But once you manage to get your hands on all the parts needed, you are able to build yourself one of the strongest rifles in the game. The Boltor Prime features a high puncture damage combined with very good critical damage and chance, which will give you a super high damage output. Since it also has a very high base damage, your overall damage feels pretty good.

Tbh, you could probably skip the magnetic damage type for toxin, as toxin does if I'm not mistaken, go through shields and deal damage directly to health. It's rubbing salt in the wound. And also because you can't use toxin and shock without combining them, so you don't really have an edge against robots. Information in this guide was formed by a consensus of various Warframe forum posts and damage combo theory crafting discussions on Reddit. The end result below, are the most widely agreed upon effective combinations to use. This guide will assume you already know about basic damage combinations within Warframe. (Example: Cold + Toxin = Viral.

That said, there are some minor inconveniences you should be aware about: If you compare the Boltor Prime to its direct competitor (the Soma Prime), you notice quite the difference in the magazine size. And while you usually don’t need many bullets to kill one enemy, killing a whole mob group might take way more, especially if you ‘spray and pray’ (like most people do. Lets be honest, no one got time to aim!) you might find yourself in a lot of trouble. So make sure do be as efficient as possible or at least know how to hide while you reload your weapon.

• High puncture damage
• Good base damage
• High status chance
• Good critical chance
• Fine fire rate
• Nearly no recoil

• Low impact and slash damage
• Slow reload
• Bullets have travel time
• Ammo efficiency not the best

The different builds

Picking the right mods for your Boltor Prime should be fairly easy if you have ever build any rifle in the game: You should (almost) always use , and . Also you’re usually well equipped if you put in two elemental mods, with and being the standard choice. But you should always try to pick the elemental mod combination that will give you the best advantage against the enemies you are going to face in your next mission. You can use instead if you have that mod maxed, because it will increase your damage quite a bit. But that isn’t a must-have in any shape or form.

Tip:If you want to know more about the Boltor Prime and its abilities, feel free to take a look at the wikia page.

The Standard Build

To be honest, this build isn’t something special. It is upright, conservative and simply very strong. Two elemental mods, the usual mod support and are good in almost every rifle build. And since the Boltor Prime already features a good amount of critical chance, using feels super beneficial.

Just make sure to keep an eye on your ammo count and try not to spam too many bullets. You can even use over if you want to slow down your weapon (and if you feel like you don’t really need the extra base damage boost). That way you will automatically reduce your ammo waste and therefor never ever have any problems with your ammunition reserves.

Other mods you might want to think about are (fire rate an some punch through are always nice), to increase the already high puncture damage of your weapon and , which is super strong if your play style revolves around aiming and not hip-firing.

The Super Fast Fire Rate Build

If you want to shoot 25 bullets per second, then this build is where you want to go! Adding and to your build will give you the ability to empty your magazine in under three seconds – which is super strong if you want to simply slaughter mob groups. While this build lacks elemental mods and isn’t the greatest against higher level enemies you will still feel very strong during low and mid level missions. You could even add and and become even faster (but lose a good amount of damage output in the process). So feel free to experiment with this build and find the mod combination you do like the mos.

A few words of advice: You’re going to run out of bullets. Fast. So you really should use the Carrier (or it’s primed version) to increase your amount of ammo pickups. Otherwise you will have a lot of fun shooting your bullet – but only for a short amount of time.

The Mass Crit Build

Since the Boltor Prime already has a high critical chance, build around and increasing the critical chance even further seems like a good idea. And if you’re using this build, you’re actually getting a good amount of damage out of it. Sadly, your slash damage is very low, so won’t be all that effective. You might even want to use something like or instead.

Jul 28, 2017  A yellow crit is a tier 0 crit so its crit damage is just the listed one. A orange crit is a tier 1 crit so it becomes 'crit dmg'. 2 - 1. A red crit is a tier 2 crit so it's 'crit dmg'. 3 - 2. Jul 02, 2017  Red crits double the damage of orange crits. In other words, Orange crits deals the damage you have in crit damage, while reds is x2. (EX: 2.2x in O, 4.4x in R). Red crits don't double the damage. From yellow to orange crits, the effective critical damage bonus (shown multiplier -1x) is doubled, but not the whole damage. Yellow vs orange crit warframe dmg. Jul 08, 2017  With Harrow's enhancement to Criticals, we have slightly tweaked the colour gradient in which Critical hits are displayed. Introducing: Orange Crits! These now occur in between Yellow and Red Crits. Before, Crits became Red when 100% Crit Chance was achieved. Now Crits will be ORANGE in the 100.01-200% range, and Red will start at 200.01%+!

But you might also want to try and benefit from it against high level enemies or during boss fights. While this build isn’t on the same level as the standard Boltor Prime build it still does have a good amount of potential and sometimes you just want to try out something different.

Conclusion

Warframe Viral Damage Explained

There is no doubt that the Boltor Prime is one of the best primary weapons in the game. Some even say that it is the best rifle in Warframe, while others prefer the Soma Prime instead. Nonetheless, it is a weapon that shouldn’t be missing in your arsenal and if you ever get your hand on the blueprint and all the parts you need to craft it, go ahead and do so! You won’t regret it.