The Talons are throwing bombs, functioning like throwing knives that stick to targets when thrown, dealing
Blast damage in a small radius when manually detonated via Alternate Fire.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
20,000 |
2 |
1,500 |
1,200 |
1 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: | |||||
Tenno Lab Research 3,000
| |||||
5,000 |
1 |
650 |
300 |
400 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
| Prereq: Castanas | |||||
Characteristics
This weapon deals
Blast damage.
Advantages:
- Innate
Blast damage - effective against shields. - Pinpoint accuracy.
- Very fast reload speed.
- High projectile velocity, making them easy to use at range.
- Mines can stick to surfaces, including enemies and allies.
- Silent - will not be present on opponent's minimap.
- User can detonate charges on command via Alternate Fire, giving the player precise timing in detonation.
- Up to four deployed mines can be ready for detonation at the same time.
- Small blast radius and controlled detonation makes self damage unlikely.
- Two
Polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Innate
Blast damage - less effective against health.
- Projectiles have very slow travel time with arcing.
- Explosions can cause self-damage.
- Semi-automatic fire, unlike other throwing weapons.
- Extremely ammo inefficient.
- Tied with
Pox for second lowest magazine size of all throwing-type secondaries, behind
Castanas/
Sancti Castanas. - Extremely low ammo capacity of 16; requires just 4 reloads to fully deplete all ammo reserves.
- Tied with
- Can only have eight deployed mines out at once.
Acquisition
The blueprint may be purchased from the Tenno Lab for
15,000, or pre-made with an inventory slot and pre-installed Orokin Catalyst from the Market for
175.
Media
Patch History
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
Conclave:
- Reduced the ammo pool of the Talons.
- Increased the effect of gravity on the Talons.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Made the additional projectiles of Talons and Castanas from Multishot spread in a more uniform/predictable pattern.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 5 to 8
- Status chance increased from 10% to 26%
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 22%
- Critical damage increased from 1.5x to 2x
- Multishot now spreads additional projectiles horizontal only
- Ammo capacity decreased from 20 to 12
| Research • Clan • Dojo | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
|


































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































































