“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Spira Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.
The Spira Prime is the Prime variant of the 
Spira throwing daggers, featuring an increase in fire rate, reload speed, status chance, and critical multiplier in exchange for reduced damage. It was released alongside 
Saryn Prime and 
Nikana Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Ragdolls and pins the target to the wall on a kill.
- Ragdolled bodies fly in a straight line and can damage other enemies in its path.
- Capable of using the thrown-exclusive mod Concealed Explosives.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Tied with normal Spira for the highest critical chance of all throwing-type secondaries.
- Tied with Aksomati/ Aksomati Prime and Plinx for the third highest critical multiplier of all secondaries, behind Nukor and Kuva Nukor.
- Silent.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.75 s)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- Very high crit multiplier (3.00x)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Projectiles have travel time and travel in an arc, making it hard to hit at longer ranges and achieve headshots.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average magazine (12)
- Low fire rate (3.330 attacks/sec)
- Below average status chance (14.00%)
Comparisons:
- Spira Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Spira (Normal Attack):
- Lower base damage per projectile (60.00 vs. 82.00)
- Lower total damage (60 vs. 82)
- Higher base critical multiplier (3.00x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (14.00% vs. 8.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (96 vs. 106.6)
- Higher burst DPS (319.68 vs. 266.5)
- Higher sustained DPS (264.60 vs. 213.2)
- Higher fire rate (3.330 attacks/sec vs. 2.500 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (12 vs. 10)
- Faster reload time (0.75 s vs. 1.00 s)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (10 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●● (1.35x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Blade | Pouch |  Blueprint
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|---|---|---|
 Axi V9 Uncommon (V) Lith S5 Rare (V) Meso S6 Rare (V) Neo S10 Uncommon (V) Neo S3 Rare (V)
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Axi S5 Rare (V) Lith S1 Rare (V) Lith S3 Rare (V) Lith S6 Rare (V) Meso S3 Rare (V) Meso S9 Rare (V) Neo S8 Rare (V)
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Lith C5 Common (V) Lith N2 Common (V) Lith V4 Common (V) Meso S9 Common (V) Meso V1 Common (V) Meso V3 Common (V) Meso V5 Common (V) Neo S13 Common (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
 2 |
 2 |
 8 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On December 6th, 2017, it was announced that Spira Prime, alongside Saryn Prime and Nikana Prime, would enter the Prime Vault and its relics retired from the drop tables on December 12th, 2017. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.
Trivia[]
- The Spira Prime was originally released in July 2015 on the Chinese build of Warframe, along with Excalibur Umbra Prime and Nikana Prime.
- The Spira Prime was unintentionally leaked in the Codex following Hotfix 18.4.7 (2016-02-04).
- The drill tip on the Spira Prime spins, making it the only throwing knife secondary with a non-static animated model.
- "Spira" is the Latin word for "spiral" or "coil". The weapon is named this way due to its spinning tips.
Media[]
The Spira Prime as it appears in Codex.
Spira Prime projectile graphical glitch
Warframe Spira Prime Codex preview and animation
Warframe Test Drive Spira Prime 5 Forma
Warframe Spira Prime, Getting Drilled - 5 Forma thequickdraw
Warframe - All Prime Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Warframe - All Prime Weapon Reloads in 1 minute (2013 - 2019)
Spira Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)
- Fixed Spira Prime appearing too large in Teshin’s Cave.
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Spira: 1.1->1.15
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 10.
- Damage increased from 47 to 60.
- Status chance increased from 10% to 14%.
- Critical damage increased from 2.5x to 3x.
Hotfix 18.4.13 (2016-02-22)
- Spira Prime crit chance has been increased to 30%.
- Spira Prime crit multiplier has been increased to 2.5x.
Hotfix 18.4.12 (2016-02-16)
- Introduced.
