Laser Rifle
Weapon · WeaponAssaultRifle3★Fires high-energy laser bolts — heavy damage with forgiving handling.
Laser Rifle is 21st of 70 assault rifles by attack, at 1,687 against the 15,000 of Charge Rifle.
This is where the crafting chain ends — nothing downstream consumes it, so a stockpile earns you nothing.
Details
At 18 weight each it eats carry capacity fast, so bring a mount or park a chest nearby. At 503,030 gold it is worth real money to a merchant.
Laser Rifle Crafting Recipe
Pal Metal Ingot
Plasteel×70
Bio Battery
Computer×5
Ancient Civilization Parts
Ore×809
Wood×280
Paldium Fragment×174
Crude Oil×170
Pure Quartz×107
Coal×36
Flame Organ×28
High Quality Pal Oil×20
Electric Organ×18
Sulfur×10Crafting it takes 174 materials across 5 types.
Where to Find Laser Rifle
The recipe is not on the Technology tree — it is locked behind a schematic you have to find first. The best single source is sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Snowfields at 3.7% per container, and the table below lists every tier and where each one drops.
Every Tier of Laser Rifle
The same piece exists at 5 rarities, and the gap is not cosmetic: attack runs 1250 to 1875, a 1.5x swing. Which one you end up with is decided by the rarity of the schematic you built from, not by the recipe — so a legendary copy of this is worth more than the next item up built from a common one.
| Rarity | Item | Attack | Durability |
|---|---|---|---|
| 0★ | Laser Rifle | 1250 | 3000 |
| 1★ | Laser Rifle | 1437 | 4500 |
| 2★ | Laser Rifle | 1562 | 6000 |
| 3★ | Laser Rifle (this one) | 1687 | 9000 |
| 4★ | Laser Rifle | 1875 | 12000 |
Ammunition Laser Rifle Uses
Laser Rifle fires Energy Cartridge, and nothing else — running dry mid-fight is the usual way this weapon lets you down, so keep the recipe unlocked before you rely on it.
| Ammo | Yield | Craft cost |
|---|---|---|
 Energy Cartridge | ×20 | Bio Battery ×1, Pal Metal Ingot ×2 |
Schematics That Unlock Laser Rifle
The Technology tree hands you the plain Laser Rifle at level 51 for 5 Technology points, but nothing above that base version — the rarer builds are schematic-only. One schematic grants the recipe, and they are world loot — chests, boss Pals and the late-game pools — rather than anything you research. Higher-rarity copies of the same schematic raise the quality of what you end up crafting.
Fastest route. Two routes to the top-tier Laser Rifle schematic, and they are not measured in the same thing: about 33 kills hunting it directly from lyleen Noct (alpha), or roughly 68 containers farming the 3★ copy from sea base enemy camp boss stashes in the Snowfields and fusing five. Which is faster depends on how long one of each takes you. Schematics fuse five-to-one, so a lower tier with better odds can beat the top tier outright. Counts are containers of that source, not time.
| Schematic | Rarity | Where it comes from |
|---|---|---|
 Laser Rifle Schematic 3 | 3★ | Snowfields sea base camp stashes, Treasure map digs (tier 4), Crates on the oil rigs +10 more — best 3.7% (grade 2/5/6) |
Alternatives and Upgrades
Heavy Assault Rifle sits just above it at 1,695 attack — only 8 more, close enough that it is a sidegrade rather than an upgrade. The next real step is Heavy Assault Rifle at 1,776; below it is Single-Shot Rifle at 1,650.
Other assault rifles at a similar tier, for when you want to weigh this against the rest of its class:
