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 increased normal attack speed, damage, and range, as well as an increased stagger chance. The Orthos Prime was added into the game in Update 9.

Characteristics
Advantages:
 * Highest base damage of all melee weapons
 * High charge damage.
 * Triple damage to Infested except Ancients.
 * Long range attacks with a wide radius, even wider than 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.
 * Large jump attack AoE.
 * Normal attacks can stagger most enemies whereas Orthos' normal attacks cannot.

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 staggering.
 * When swinging you will be reduced to a walking pace (like all heavy melee weapons), starting on the third swing animation.
 * Normal attacks have awkwardly placed swing hitboxes which vary with each swing animation, making it more difficult to hit enemies.
 * Doesn't have momentum (stagger resistance) like other heavy weapons.
 * Charge attacks hit ~270° around you, not 360° like other heavy weapons; enemies to the right are not hit(sometimes).

Acquisition
Components and the Orthos Prime Blueprint can only be obtained by completing Void Key Defence, Mobile Defense and Capture missions.



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