Orthos Prime

"ORTHOS PRIME is an ancient Orokin martial weapon, forged from the purest rubidium making it extremely light-weight."

- In-Game Description

The Orthos Prime is a Primed Orthos, featuring a higher base damage, range, attack and charge attack speed. The Orthos Prime was added into the game in Update 9.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Highest base damage of all melee weapons (excluding Fang Prime which technically does more in one swing).
 * High charge damage.
 * Triple damage to Infested except Ancients.
 * Staggers on every hit.
 * Long range attacks with a wide radius, even wider than the regular Orthos.
 * Charge attack has large AoE and even hits a small area behind the player.
 * Hits up to 5 targets with AoE attacks.
 * Slide attacks have 100 damage and full AoE.
 * Relatively high attack speed. Faster normal and charge attack than Orthos.
 * Large jump attack AoE.

Disadvantages:
 * Requires ten Orokin Cells to craft.
 * Can only be obtained from the Void and is therefore difficult to acquire.
 * Jump attacks have no knockdown power, only staggers.
 * When swinging you will be reduced to a walking pace, starting on the third combo animation.
 * Normal attacks have awkwardly placed swing hitboxes which vary with each swing animation, making it more difficult to hit enemies.
 * Normal attacks do not ignore armor.
 * Doesn't have momentum (stagger resistance) like other heavy weapons.

Acquisition
Orthos Prime's blueprint and its components can be gathered from Orokin Void's capture missions, see the drop table for more details.



Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Trivia

 * This weapon used to have the same stats as normal Orthos. It was buffed in Update 9.5.2.
 * Note that the end-blades are not mirrors of each other and seem to have shapes that could fit together