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.
 * Secondary fire has a good critical hit chance
 * Projectiles can bounce, making them able to hit multiple targets.
 * High status chance on primary and secondary fire.
 * Can use the Panthera-exclusive Disarming Purity Augment mod.

Disadvantages:
 * Primary fire projectiles have travel time.
 * Secondary fire has an extremely limited range of 5 meters.
 * Secondary fire has relatively low damage per tick and ammo efficiency when contacting enemies.
 * Low and  makes it less effective against Shields and Armor.
 * Primary fire consumes 2 rounds per shot.
 * Cannot utilize Punch Through properly,.

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

Tips

 * The Panthera has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, similar to -focused melee weapons. This makes the Panthera 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, Latos (Lato, Lato Prime and Lato Vandal), Miter, Tigris and Vastos (Vasto, Akvasto and Vasto Prime).
 * This also applies to the secondary fire, which will not consume ammo when used on a corpse.
 * 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.
 * 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.
 * Multishot mods cause the sawblades to be fired adjacent to each other if no accuracy penalty mods are equipped. This may cause the blades to miss when firing directly at far targets.

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.