“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Boltor Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables at this time and are no longer farmable. Vaulted Void Relics in player inventories are not affected and can still be opened.
The Boltor Prime is the Prime variant of the 
Boltor rifle, featuring higher damage, critical chance, critical multiplier, status chance, accuracy, fire rate, and slightly faster reload speed. It was released alongside 
Rhino Prime and 
Ankyros Prime.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High base damage.
- Tied with
Glaxion for the third highest status chance of all continuous primary weapons, behind Phantasma and Glaxion Vandal, and highest status chance of all fully automatic rifles. - Decent critical chance.
- High fire rate.
- Low recoil.
- High accuracy.
- On kill, bodies will follow the bolt that killed them, damaging anyone in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Innate and polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact and no Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Low reload speed.
- Projectiles have travel time with slight arcing.
- Inefficient ammo economy.
Comparisons:
- Boltor Prime (attack: Normal), compared to Boltor (attack: Normal):
- Higher base damage (46 vs. 25)
- Higher total damage (46 vs. 25)
- Higher base critical chance (12% vs. 10%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2x vs. 1.8x)
- Higher base status chance (34% vs. 14%)
- Higher average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (51.52 vs. 27)
- Higher burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (515.2 vs. 236.25)
- Higher sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (368 vs. 171.3)
- Higher fire rate (10 round(s)/sec vs. 8.75 round(s)/sec)
- Faster reload time (2.4 s vs. 2.6 s)
- More accurate (50 vs. 25)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 2)
- Lower disposition (1.15 vs. 1.25)
- Boltor Prime (attack: Normal), compared to Telos Boltor (attack: Normal):
- Higher base damage (46 vs. 30)
- Higher total damage (46 vs. 30)
- Lower base critical chance (12% vs. 30%)
- Lower base critical multiplier (2x vs. 2.4x)
- Higher base status chance (34% vs. 16%)
- Higher average damage per shot (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (51.52 vs. 42.6)
- Higher burst DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (515.2 vs. 397.46)
- Higher sustained DPS (max Progenitor bonus if applicable) (368 vs. 318.27)
- Higher fire rate (10 round(s)/sec vs. 9.33 round(s)/sec)
- Smaller magazine (60 round(s) vs. 90 round(s))
- More accurate (50 vs. 25)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 12)
- Lack of an innate Truth effect
Acquisition
Boltor Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.
| Blueprint |  Barrel
|
 Receiver
|
 Stock
|
|---|---|---|---|
| Lith B4 Rare (V) Neo B3 Rare (V) |
Meso M1 Common (V) Meso N6 Common (V) |
Lith B1 Uncommon (V) Neo R1 Uncommon (V) |
Axi R1 Common (V) Axi S3 Common (V) |
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  50
| |||||
 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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This weapon can be sold for 
7,500.
Vaultings[]
- On February 9th, 2016, it was announced that Boltor Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on February 16, 2016. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
- Boltor Prime along with Ankyros Prime, Boar Prime, Dakra Prime, Mag Prime, and Rhino Prime were unvaulted on June 27, 2017 to August 1, 2017.
- Boltor Prime, along with Ankyros Prime, Hikou Prime, Scindo Prime, Nyx Prime, and Rhino Prime, was once again unvaulted on July 24, 2018 to September 25, 2018. It resurfaced again together with the same line-up from July 16th, 2019 to September 3rd, 2019.
Notes[]
- The lack of Slash damage means that the mods
Sawtooth Clip and Fanged Fusillade will have no effect on this weapon. - The innate polarity matches Primed Cryo Rounds.
- Due to its above average status chance, users will often use Rime Rounds instead of Cryo Rounds to make Viral or Magnetic damage, which requires a polarity.
Tips[]
- The Boltor Prime has a knockback effect on kill that can be used instead of Punch Through so the mod slot can be used for something else.
- The knockback works in tandem with Punch Through mods, making a Boltor Prime with Shred or Metal Auger quite effective when fired against lines of enemies as it both punches through them and knocks any killed enemies back into the line.
- The knockback works in tandem with Punch Through mods, making a Boltor Prime with
Trivia[]
- Boltor Prime is the sixth primed Primary weapon ever released.
- Compared to previous Prime weapons, the Boltor and the Boltor Prime have a much closer resemblance to each other.
- The Boltor Prime's gold parts can be recolored as of Update 15.13 (2015-02-05).
Media[]
Warframe - All Prime Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
Boltor Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 22.16 (2018-03-15)
- Status chance increased from 32% to 34%.
- Updated the Boltor Bravura Skin material to appear more metallic (for improved reflections and highlighting) to better match the Octavia Maestra Skin.
Hotfix 22.14.2 (2018-03-02)
- Fixed Boltor Bravura Skin spawning multiple clips during the reload animation.
Hotfix 22.14.1 (2018-03-01)
- The Boltor Bravura Skin now has its own custom reload animation!
- Fixed missing reload sounds for the Boltor Bravura Skin.
Update 22.14 (2018-03-01)
- Boltor Bravura Skin added.
Hotfix 22.12.3 (2018-02-12)
- Minor sound remastering updates have been made to the Boltor Prime
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 2 to 13.
- Status chance increased from 10% to 32%.
- Critical chance increased from 5% to 12%.
- Damage decreased from 55 to 46.
Update 19.5 (2016-12-22)
- Conclave Magazine Size reduced from 60 to 36 for the Boltor Prime.
Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)
- Fixed Boltor (series) projectiles absorbing/preventing melee damage for a short time.
- Fixed projectile weapons (i.e. Boltor) with Punch Through not going through allies.
Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
- Fixed crash when you destroy a Blunt with projectiles stuck to it. (eg shoot it with Boltor)
Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22)
- Conclave damage has been reduced for the Boltor Prime.
Update 17.9 (2015-10-28)
- Day of the Dead skin added.
Update 17.4 (2015-09-09)
- Fixed missing weapon trails from projectiles created by the Boltor Prime.
Update 16.5 (2015-05-12)
- Available for use in Conclave.
Hotfix 16.2.1 (2015-04-06)
- Fixed Latron Prime Blueprint dropping from Reinforced Orokin Loot Crates instead of Boltor Prime Blueprint.
Hotfix 15.13.1 (2015-02-05)
- Fixed Boltor Prime's material colors not displaying properly.
Update 15.13 (2015-02-05)
- Received the PBR treatment.
Hotfix 14.2.4 (2014-08-23)
- Increased conclave ratings.
Hotfix 12.4.4 (2014-03-10)
- Fixed Rifle Ammo Mutation mod not being compatible with Boltor Prime.
Hotfix 12.4.1 (2014-03-06)
- Disabled skins on Boltor Prime.
Update 12.4 (2014-03-05)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Boltor, the original counterpart of this gun.
- Telos Boltor, the Arbiters of Hexis custom version.
- Prime, the Orokin enhancement to a Warframe or weapon.
