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Warframe has received a new Prime weapon to celebrate the game's tenth-year anniversary and Tennocon 2023. The Gotva Prime is visually similar to the Aeolak, although the weapons aren't related in any way. It's closer to the Baza and Soma in terms of functionality, acting as a high-damage assault rifle without compromising on status procs or accuracy.

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Anyone who watched the main Tennocon 2023 stream will have this weapon sent to their inbox, but any Tenno who missed the event will be able to receive this weapon in the future. For those fortunate enough to receive the Gotva Prime, this guide will showcase the best builds you can create for this weapon to dominate Star Chart and Steel Path content.

How To Obtain The Gotva Prime

The Gotva Prime was a Twitch drop available during Tennocon 2023. If you missed this stream drop, Digital Extremes has clarified that the weapon will become available at a future date. If it's handled anything like the Aklex Prime or Afuris Prime, it'll most likely be released as Relics exclusively from Baro Ki' Teer during a future visit, although this hasn't been confirmed.

Gotva Prime Stats And Features

Gotva Prime Stats

Damage

Puncture: 25

Total Damage

25

Multishot

1

Fire Rate

13.33

Critical Chance

23%

Critical Multiplier

2.5x

Status Chance

27%

Misc.

Weapon Type

Rifle

Trigger Type

Auto

Accuracy

100

Magazine

84

Reload Speed

2.0 Seconds

MR Requirement

Mastery Rank 14

The Gotva Prime is an assault rifle that behaves identically to the Karak and Baza. No unique mechanics are present on this weapon, although it features a solid stat package with above-average critical chance, a high critical multiplier, and high status chance. This makes the Gotva a solid workhorse weapon for Star Chart content and, with some investment, most Steel Path nodes.

What is unique about the Gotva is its damage spread, or lack thereof. The Gotva only deals Puncture damage, lacking Impact and Slash in its damage pool entirely. Puncture procs will scale your critical chance additively with this gun, allowing it to land critical hits quite reliably with a moderate investment into critical chance and status chance. This also makes the weapon a great candidate for Hunter Munitions and Viral damage.

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Gotva Prime Builds

The Gotva Prime is a fairly easy weapon to create builds for, especially thanks to the gun's three default polarities. We will be sharing two builds for the Gotva, one aimed at newer players who received the weapon as a Twitch drop and a second build for endgame use. Our first build requires no Forma, while the second build uses four Forma and Exilus Adapters for Arcane enhancements and utility mods.

Gotva Prime Riven Mods

None of the builds listed below require Riven mods to function. With that said, any Riven mod with critical chance, critical damage, elemental damage, base damage, or multishot will perform well on the Gotva Prime.

Starter Build (0 Forma)

  • Forma: 0

This loadout is intended for newer players. Use as many of these mods as you currently own, and focus on maxing the 5-rank mods first before 10-rank mods like Serration.

This starter configuration only requires an Orokin Catalyst to use, a small price to pay for how strong this build is. We start by scaling the base damage with Serration and multishot with Split Chamber, respectively. We then scale our critical chance with Critical Delay, tripling our critical chance to 68%. Paired with Puncture procs, this weapon will consistently crit. Vital Sense will then increase the Gotva Prime's critical multiplier to 5.5x, massively increasing this weapon's damage.

Elemental damage is a great way to further scale a weapon's damage, so we'll be making Viral by combining Cold and Toxin. We do this by using Rime Rounds and Infected Clip, both of which are fairly easy to obtain. We still have a few points left, so we'll give this weapon a boost against armor by equipping Hunter Munitions. This gives critical hits a 30% chance to inflict a Slash proc, causing the target to bleed for a few seconds. This ignores armor and scales with Viral's status effect that increases HP damage taken, making these Slash procs quite powerful for all Star Chart content.

The last few points can be used on any mod you please. We opted to use an R1 Speed Trigger to counteract the negative fire rate from Critical Delay, but feel free to use a quality-of-life mod instead.

Endgame Build (4 Forma)

  • Forma: 4 (3V, D)

Our endgame build should look familiar to veteran Warframe players, as this is a popular configuration for most assault rifles. Unlike most builds, we don't use Galvanized Aptitude because this gun only inflicts two elemental effects. Scaling the Gotva's critical chance or critical multiplier will lead to a more noticeable damage boost. If you're buffing your damage through Warframe abilities like Nourish, feel free to use Galvanized Aptitude over Galvanized Scope.

We start by scaling our base damage with Primary Merciless, scaling our damage up to +360% with enough kills. We then scale our multishot with Galvanized Chamber to gain +230% multishot after five kills. Critical mods stay the same with this configuration, using Critical Delay and Vital Sense to scale our critical chance and multiplier values, respectively. Our core element is still Viral, except we'll be using Primed Cryo Rounds and Malignant Force to gain more Viral damage than our starter build. To counteract the slower fire rate from Critical Delay, we use Primed Shred to scale our fire rate and punch through. If you don't have this mod, use any other fire rate mod.

To ensure that this weapon always crits, this build uses Galvanized Scope to gain a massive boost to the Gotva's critical chance by landing headshot kills. At max stacks, this weapon will always land critical hits with a 42% of landing an orange crit. For the final mod slot, we use Hunter Munitions to proc Slash bleeds from these guaranteed critical hits, allowing this gun to damage heavily armored targets in Steel Path content. The Exilus mod is down to preference. We use Vigilante Supplies to give this weapon a small chance to enhance its critical chance by one tier, causing this weapon to land red crits.

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