Understand Ninkondi Prime
Useful when…
- Normal attacks combining Electricity, Impact, Slash, and Puncture damage.
- Electricity slam attacks as distinct area-damage modes.
How does its attack profile work?
Normal attacks list 234 total damage: 90 Electricity, 66 Impact, 50 Slash, and 28 Puncture. At speed 1, they have 22% critical chance, a 2.4× critical multiplier, and 36% status chance. The regular slam separately deals 468 Electricity damage in an area with 50% falloff by 6 m; heavy slam deals 702 Electricity damage with 30% falloff by 7 m. Range is 2.307992 m, follow-through 0.5, and heavy-attack wind-up 0.5 seconds.
What does the Prime improve for a build?
Compared with the standard Ninkondi, the Prime has higher listed critical chance, critical multiplier, and status chance, and its normal damage includes Slash and Puncture alongside Impact and Electricity. That supports considering either critical or status investment, depending on your build goals. It requires Mastery Rank 14 and comes with two Madurai polarities. The listed recipe includes a blueprint, one chain, two handles, and 15 Orokin Cells; build time is 43,200 seconds.
How do the other candidates differ?
Pulmonars is also a nunchaku, but its comparison entry supplies only its Mastery requirement and critical statistics, not an attack breakdown. Amanata is a polearm whose description ties a blessing roll to every 30 hits; that condition is unique to its stated mechanic. Amphis is a staff described as connecting with multiple enemies and enabling shock damage on jump attacks. These have distinct weapon types or effects, so they are alternatives only when those differences matter to your play.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- Higher Mastery requirement than standard Ninkondi.
- 36% status chance and 22% critical chance support multiple possible investment directions.
- Short listed range and 0.5 follow-through.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Do not assume all its damage is Electricity; normal attacks also include three physical types.
- Do not apply Amanata's hit-count blessing mechanic to this weapon.
- Do not confuse slam Electricity damage with normal attack damage.