The Viper Wraith is the Wraith version of the 
Viper that has higher damage with a slight boost to 
Impact damage in exchange for lower 
Slash, and higher critical chance, larger magazine size, and better accuracy, but with reduced status chance and reload speed.
Characteristics
- This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
- Can use the Viper-exclusive
Skull Shots and Stinging Truth mods. - Innate
polarity.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- High accuracy.
- Tied with Viper for highest fire rate of all single-handed pistols.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High reload speed (0.80 s)
- High ammo max (420)
- Very high fire rate (14.38 attacks/sec)
- High disposition (●●●●● (1.40x))
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Inefficient ammo economy.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low total damage (18)
- Low status chance (9.00%)
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
Viper Wraith (Normal Attack), compared to Viper (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (18.00 vs. 17.00)
- Higher total damage (18 vs. 17)
- Higher base critical chance (19.00% vs. 15.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.00x vs. 1.50x)
- Lower base status chance (9.00% vs. 11.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (21.42 vs. 18.27)
- Higher burst DPS (308.01 vs. 262.79)
- Higher sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 152.87)
- Larger magazine (20 vs. 14)
- Slower reload time (0.80 s vs. 0.70 s)
- More accurate (Very High vs. High)
- Tighter first-shot spread (1.00° vs. 1.50°)
- Tighter maximum spread (6.00° vs. 11.50°)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.45x))
- Viper Wraith (Normal Attack), compared to
Twin Vipers Wraith (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage
- Lower burst DPS (308.01 vs. 535.5)
- Lower sustained DPS (195.54 vs. 238)
- Lower fire rate (14.38 attacks/sec vs. 25.00 attacks/sec)
- Smaller magazine (20 vs. 40)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (420 vs. 440)
- Faster reload time (0.80 s vs. 2.00 s)
- More accurate (Very High vs. Medium)
- Tighter first-shot spread (1.00° vs. 5.00°)
- Tighter maximum spread (6.00° vs. 13.00°)
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (●●●●● (1.40x) vs. ●●●●● (1.41x))
Acquisition
The Viper Wraith can be potentially sold by Baro Ki'Teer in the Concourse section of the Tenno Relay for 
75,000 and 
400. Note that Baro Ki'Teer's stock changes with each appearance, and this weapon may not be available on a succeeding appearance.
The weapon can be traded, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed. The trading recipient must also have a Mastery Rank of at least 4.
Trivia
- This is the first single-handed weapon that was added after its dual-wielding counterpart, Twin Vipers Wraith.
Viper Wraith Skins
Patch History
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- Fixed missing Viper Wraith disposition.
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Status chance increased from 5% to 9%.
- Critical chance increased from 18% to 19%.
- Ammo capacity increased to 420.
Update 22.9 (2018-01-17)
- Viper Wraith damage reduced in Conclave.
Hotfix 22.8.4 (2018-01-11)
- Introduced via Baro Ki'Teer.
Last updated: Update 23.6 (2018-08-30)
See also
- Viper, the normal counterpart.
Twin Vipers, the normal akimbo counterpart.- Twin Vipers Wraith, the Wraith akimbo counterpart.
