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“You're not supposed to be in here! You're going to ruin the surprise!”
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Hunhow's gift, carved from the bones of his kin. Shots can be charged and held; release them just before the full charge for maximum effect.
A weapon as old as those you hunt. Nataruk.
Nataruk can fire fast and true... But you will need to time your release with the weapon's rhythm if you hope to pierce the blighted skin of an Archon.
Nataruk is Hunhow's bow, forged from Sentient remains. It has infinite ammo, and releasing the shot just before a full charge will perform a "perfect shot" that is more effective.
Contents
- 1 Characteristics
- 2 Acquisition
- 3 Notes
- 4 Tips
- 5 Known Bugs
- 6 Trivia
- 7 Nataruk Skins
- 8 Gallery
- 9 Patch History
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Releasing the shot after 70% of a full charge, indicated by white brackets and the reticle turning yellow, will perform a "Perfect Shot", with higher critical chance and critical multiplier over a fully Charged Shot.
- Both Charged and Perfect Shots feature a significantly larger projectile and Infinite Body Punch Through.
- Four innate polarities.
- Quick shots have a forced Impact proc.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Infinite ammo.
- Quick Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- High total damage (450)
- Above average status chance (30.00%)
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- Very high crit chance (50.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- Very high total damage (900)
- Very high status chance (50.00%)
- Perfect Shot (wiki attack index 3)
- Very high crit chance (60.00%)
- High reload speed (0.60 s)
- Very high total damage (900)
- High status chance (50.00%)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Quick and Perfect Shots have a headshot multiplier of 1x.
- Quick Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average crit chance (20.00%)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low fire rate (0.67 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Low crit multiplier (1.80x)
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low fire rate (0.67 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
- Perfect Shot (wiki attack index 3)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Very low ammo max (0)
- Very low fire rate (0.67 attacks/sec)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.65x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Acquisition[]
Nataruk is given upon completion of The New War, complete with a free weapon slot and a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst.
Additional copies of Nataruk can be bought from Cephalon Simaris for 
100,000.
Notes[]
- Charged and perfect shot arrows are coated with Void-like trails and "explodes" on impact.
- However, despite the visuals, the weapon has no area of effect properties.
- The projectile hitbox of both the perfect shot and the charged shot is quite large, allowing the player to hit enemies and even achieve headshots without needing to be perfectly precise.
- Arrows do not arc while travelling.
- Arrows also have infinite travel distance, traveling in a straight line until they hit an obtacle or go out of bound.
- Charged shots and perfect shots have infinite Punch Through against bodies.
- Quick shots deal forced Impact procs.
- Not Silent, making it ill-suited for stealth.
- No headshot multiplier on charged or perfect shots. Quick shots will still benefit from headshots, however.
Tips[]
- The larger projectiles and lower Fire Rate (each shot is a more significant portion of the damage) make (Primed) Shred's Punch Through a good choice to ignore small pieces of terrain and corners that it might otherwise clip.
- Equipping mods that boost fire rate such as SpeedTrigger can make it harder to fire a perfect shot.
- This makes it an excellent candidate for using CriticalDelay over PointStrike.
- Be also mindful when in a squad with allied Warframes that have base or augmented abilities boosting fire rate (such as Wisp), and the respective adjustment needed to still land perfect shots.
- This makes it an excellent candidate for using
- The perfect shot's large hitbox and ease in achieving headshots benefits from headshot-focused mods and arcanes such as (Galvanized)ArgonScope, ArcaneRage and PrimaryDeadhead, as well as Warframe abilities like Covenant.
- Due to charged and perfect shot having large and long lasting visual effects, it is recommended to use darker energy colours to reduce screen noise.
- The size and intense glow of the Perfect Shot projectile can make it difficult to control if combined with Ivara's Navigator, so if both are going to be used together, darkening the energy color will be beneficial.
- The quick shot's guaranteed Impact proc makes InternalBleeding more viable over HunterMunitions.
- Nidus can make devastating use of this weapon in conjunction with TeemingVirulence; cluster enough enemies with Larva and use Virulence to trigger the augment's effects, then finish off any surviving targets caught in the mass.
Known Bugs[]
- Despite listing 0.1s reload time (0.05s rounded up), the reload time is actually 0.5s.
- GalvanizedAptitude is multiplicative to base damage sources on direct hits from perfect and charged shots.
Trivia[]
- Nataruk is an archeological excavation in Kenya where the remains of 27 people were found, all of whom have died 10,000 years prior to their discovery in 2012. The choice of name reflects how the bow was forged from Sentient remains by Hunhow, much like War before it.
- The name could also be a reference to Natah, as the bow was forged by Hunhow to help the Drifter save her life.
- With the inclusion of this bow, there is now at least one bow representing every major faction in WARFRAME; Tenno (Paris, Cernos, and Daikyu, among others), Orokin (ParisPrime and CernosPrime), Infested (MutalistCernos and ProboscisCernos), Corpus (Lenz), Grineer (KuvaBramma), and Sentient (Nataruk).
- As indicated by its game files, Nataruk was originally called Omicrus.
Nataruk Skins
Eros Arrows
Seasonal
Gallery[]
Patch History[]
Update 35.6 (2024-05-15)
- Fixed Nataruk’s Magazine stat (and by relation, its secondary Reload Time stat) not being visible in the Arsenal.
Hotfix 35.5.7 (2024-04-17)
- Fixed Wukong’s Celestial Twin indicating it needs ammo while using the Nataruk (silly monkey the Nataruk has infinite ammo).
- Fixed issue with Valkyr Prime not holding Nataruk’s arrow in her hand while her Noble Animation Set is equipped.
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- Fixed Nataruk bow shots, which are charged to the end of the sweet spot, are shot as uncharged shots.
Update 32.3 (2023-02-15)
- (Undocumented) Added new "BATTERY" CompatibilityTag.
Update 32.2 (2022-11-30)
- Fixed extreme screen shake when using the Nataruk’s charged shot and Mag’s Magnetize together.
- Fixed Nataruk’s arrow being half the size it's supposed to be.
Hotfix 31.0.2 (2021-12-16)
- A post-New War Quest item is available in Simaris’ Offerings for those who sell theirs.
Update 31.0 (2021-12-15)
- Introduced.
