Panthera

The Panthera is a Tenno blade launcher that launches circular sawblades. It also possesses a secondary fire mode that levitates a spinning saw blade in front of it, dealing continuous damage to enemies within range.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:
 * High damage - effective against Infested, Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
 * Pinpoint accuracy on primary fire mode.
 * Has a polarity.
 * Secondary fire (default ) allows for close quarters attacks that can deliver devastating procs in a short amount of time.
 * Secondary fire is ammo efficient; does not consume ammo unless in contact with an enemy.
 * Secondary fire staggers enemies.
 * Projectiles can bounce, making them able to hit multiple targets.

Disadvantages:
 * Primary fire projectiles have travel time.
 * Secondary fire has an extremely limited range of 5 meters.
 * Does not have any critical chance and damage stats.
 * Low and  makes it less effective against Shields and Armor.
 * Primary fire consumes 5 rounds per shot.

Acquisition
The Panthera's blueprint can be acquired from the Market for.

Tips

 * The has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, similar to -focused melee weapons. This makes the  a prime candidate for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
 * Other known firearms which shares the same property are the AkJagara, Braton Prime, Flux Rifle, Grakata, Kohm, Miter, Panthera, Tigris, Vastos (Vasto, Akvasto and Vasto Prime), Latos (Lato, Lato Prime and Lato Vandal).
 * Due to the Panthera's high base accuracy, Heavy Caliber can be used to enhance its damage without significant penalties to accuracy. This is especially true of its secondary fire mode, as its short attack range makes any accuracy penalties irrelevant to its effectiveness.
 * Note however, that the path of the second shot created by Multishot mods can be greatly affected by the reduced accuracy.
 * Volt's Electric Shield can be used to remove the range limit on the Panthera's secondary fire mode, allowing it to hit enemies at all ranges.
 * Although the Panthera has lower total damage compared to uncharged Miter shots, it has higher and  damage, making it more effective against shields and armor.

Trivia

 * Panthera is a genus within the Felidae family that includes the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. They are characterized by morphological structures in their throats that allow them to roar.
 * Despite the green decal depicted in the Panthera's portrait, the default decal color of the Panthera is blue.
 * This is the third weapon that requires two different pre-made weapons in order to craft (following the Redeemer and the Tipedo), and the first weapon that requires weapons from 2 different factions (the Tenno-made Hikou and the Grineer-made Miter).
 * The Miter, one of the prerequisite weapons needed to construct the Panthera, is similar to it, in that they are both capable of shooting sawblades.
 * The Miter's sawblades however, are horizontally aligned, as opposed to the Panthera, whose sawblades are vertically aligned.
 * The blades fired by Panthera have a design within the disc similar to the Glaive.