by boltzmannbrain
Overall Grade: A
The Arca Sisco, the pocket pistol that accompanies the large-and-in-charge Arca Plasmor and Arca Titron in the Arca bundle, is the least visually eye-grabbing of the three. But its small size belies a deadly sniper pistol with the supplemental stats for a lethal hybrid build that can proc status reliably while offering consistent critical hits.
Mechanics:
The Arca Sisco comes with a unique mechanic, Target Analysis. Every successive hit on an enemy offers an additional flat +4% bonus in status and critical chance, which stacks up to 5 times for 20% respectively. When no additional hits are present, the weapon’s stacks decay at a rate of one every 2 seconds, allowing you to easily keep Target Analysis at high stacks rather than having to restack it from 0 every time it decays. Every additional hit from multishot also counts as an additional hit, which means with the reliable 180% multishot from Lethal Torrent and Barrel Diffusion (which guarantees almost always three shots as opposed to one), you can fully stack Target Analysis in just two shots.
Pros:
- Good base critical chance
- Great base status chance
- 20% flat increase in critical chance and status chance offers a significant ramp-up to the damage output of this weapon
- Excellent fire rate, which synergizes with high status chance to offer superior armor stripping capabilities.
- Decent hip fire accuracy as opposed to other sniper weapons in-game
- Player does not get penalized for not using zoom, as it offers no bonuses.
Cons:
- No impact damage at base, requires alternate modding to be as effective against shields (and Corpus).
- Accuracy improves slightly with zoom, penalizing players who prefer hip fire combat.
Arca Scisco Builds:
- Budget (0 forma, catalyst only):
A very decent budget build. This weapon’s fantastic stats mean that it can already perform really well with these mods and no forma. Mod for corrosive to get through armor of tougher units.
- Corrosive Build (4 forma):
The standard high-end corrosive build is used here. Note that we do not need both dual stat elementals for corrosive, as with only one of them and multishot (since this is a high-fire rate pistol we can utilize post-multishot status chance in our calculations) the arca sisco reaches almost 80% status. This in addition to the 20% flat status chance from Target Analysis lets us proc status on almost every shot.
Stats At A Glance:
| Statistics | |
| Mastery Level | 10 |
| Magazine Size | 36 rounds per mag |
| Max Ammo | 288 rounds |
| Reload Time | 2.2s |
| Disposition Rank | 3/5 |
| Normal Attacks | |
| Crit Chance | 18.00% |
| Crit Multiplier | 1.6x |
| Status Chance | 26.00% |
| Puncture | 36 |
| Slash | 24 |