Boltor Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

CONCLAVE (PvP)

CODEX

Fires Orokin designed bolts that are faster and sharper but with reduced range

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.

This weapon can be sold for 7,500‍7,500.

Characteristics[edit | edit source]

This weapon deals primarily Puncture damage.

Advantages:

High base damage.
- High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
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, compared to Boltor:
- Higher base damage (46.0 vs. 25.0)
  - Higher Impact damage (4.6 vs. 2.5)
  - Higher Puncture damage (41.4 vs. 20.0)
  - Lower Slash damage (0.0 vs. 2.5)
- Higher critical chance (12% vs. 10%)
- Higher critical multiplier (2x vs. 1.8x)
- Higher status chance (34% vs. 14%)
- Higher fire rate (10 rounds/sec vs. 8.75 rounds/sec)
- Faster reload speed (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, compared to Telos Boltor:
- Higher base damage (46.0 vs. 30.0)
  - Higher Impact damage (4.6 vs. 3.0)
  - Higher Puncture damage (41.4 vs. 27.0)
- Lower critical chance (12% vs. 30%)
- Lower critical multiplier (2x vs. 2.4x)
- Higher status chance (34% vs. 16%)
- Higher fire rate (10 rounds/sec vs. 9.33 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (60 rounds vs. 90 rounds)
- More accurate (50 vs. 25)
- Lack of an innate Truth effect
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 12)

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
15,000	1	1	1	10	Rush: 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

Vaultings[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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[edit | edit source]

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.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

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.
- A possible explanation is the manufacturing faction. The Boltor is a Tenno produced weapon, like, for example, the Braton.
The Boltor Prime's gold parts can be recolored as of Update 15.13.

Media[edit | edit source]

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Boltor Prime in Arsenal

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Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)

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Boltor Prime Skins Edit

Patch History[edit | edit source]

Update 22.16

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

Fixed Boltor Bravura Skin spawning multiple clips during the reload animation.

Hotfix 22.14.1

The Boltor Bravura Skin now has its own custom reload animation!
Fixed missing reload sounds for the Boltor Bravura Skin.

Update 22.14

Boltor Bravura Skin added.

Hotfix 22.12.3

Minor sound remastering updates have been made to the Boltor Prime

Update 22.12

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

Conclave Magazine Size reduced from 60 to 36 for the Boltor Prime.

Update 19.0

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