The Orthos Prime is the primed variant of the 
Orthos polearm, acting as a direct upgrade.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash damage – effective against health. - Third highest critical chance of all polearms, behind Guandao and Guandao Prime.
- Above average critical multiplier.
- Second highest status chance of all polearms, behind Lesion.
- Tied with the Cassowar for the fastest attack speed of all polearms.
- Stance slot has polarity, matches Shimmering Blight stance.
Disadvantages:
Comparisons:
- Orthos Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Orthos (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (234 vs. 185)
- Higher total damage (234 vs. 185)
- Higher base critical chance (24.00% vs. 6.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.2x vs. 1.5x)
- Higher base status chance (36.00% vs. 18.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (301.39 vs. 190.55)
- Higher burst DPS (352.62 vs. 174.73)
- Higher sustained DPS (352.62 vs. 174.73)
- Higher attack speed (1.17 vs. 0.91)
- Different Stance Polarity ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 2)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.70x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.00x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
 Blade
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 Blueprint
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 Handle
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 Neo N16 Uncommon Lith B2 Uncommon (V) Lith B3 Uncommon (V) Lith B5 Uncommon (V) Lith C4 Uncommon (V) Meso D1 Uncommon (V) Meso I1 Uncommon (V)
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Neo C2 Uncommon Axi A13 Uncommon (V) Axi B2 Uncommon (V) Axi C1 Uncommon (V) Axi M1 Uncommon (V) Axi V3 Uncommon (V) Lith B6 Uncommon (V) Lith B7 Uncommon (V) Lith H2 Uncommon (V) Lith S10 Uncommon (V) Lith S11 Uncommon (V) Lith S8 Uncommon (V) Meso B1 Uncommon (V)
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Meso P5 Common Neo M4 Common Axi A6 Common (V) Axi K2 Common (V) Axi L2 Common (V) Lith A3 Common (V) Lith D4 Common (V) Lith N10 Common (V) Meso A1 Common (V) Meso B1 Common (V) Meso D1 Common (V) Meso D4 Common (V) Meso G2 Common (V) Meso K1 Common (V) Meso K2 Common (V) Meso K3 Common (V) Meso N4 Common (V) Neo H1 Common (V) Neo P3 Common (V) Neo Z1 Common (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
2 |
1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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Notes[]
- The Orthos Prime's polarity for its Stance slot makes it ideal for slotting in Shimmering Blight immediately. While the Orthos Prime can also use Bleeding Willow, its polarity will reduce the number of its bonus mod capacity, unless changed using Forma.
- The Orthos Prime (and its normal counterpart the Orthos) has a unique equipped normal attack animation where it performs thrusting and stabbing attacks against an enemy. This attack is completely replaced upon equipping any of the polearm Stance mods.
- The Orthos Prime's immense range (especially with Primed Reach) on top of having decent attack speed allows it to build up combo counter exceedingly fast in a relatively crowded environment, making it a viable candidate to Blood Rush and Body Count build to compensate its relatively low stats in late game environment.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Hotfix 9.5.2 (2013-08-12), this weapon used to have the same stats as normal Orthos.
- Note that the end-blades are not mirrors of each other and seem to have shapes that could fit together. The blades are asymmetrical.
- In real life, Rubidium is an alkali metal element that is very soft, ductile and silvery-white in color.
- It is not good for a blade as it's not hard enough to scratch other materials. (Brinell hardness of 0.216MPa, thousands of times worse than iron, which has 490MPa).
- Being ductile, it is also easy to bend, so it won't keep an edge (or any shape for that matter) when striking an object.
- Rubidium, as with most alkali metal (like Sodium), oxidizes violently when coming into contact with water, sufficient to produce a small explosion.
- This could possibly relate how it can inflict a Blast proc, even when contacting land.
- This could possibly relate how it can inflict a
- It can spontaneously combust in air, so it is usually stored in sealed containers with an inert liquid (mineral oil) as a buffer.
- Despite the Orthos Prime's description, Rubidium is actually denser than Iron, by ~53%.
- Rubidium has useful properties in laser science, atomic clocks, nuclear physics research, and solar panels. This can lead to speculation that the "rubidium" in the Orthos blade is either some kind of engineered material or it is used to focus/channel something.
- It is also possible that Rubidium in the universe of Warframe is based on Rubedo, and therefore a different chemical or material altogether.
- Along the blade reads the text "The longest arm is the law," written in the Tenno alphabet. This might be a hidden joke, referring to the Orthos Prime Handle being substantially longer than the Orthos' handle.
Gallery[]
Orthos Prime in Codex.
orthos prime jump attack
Media[]
Warframe 10 ♠ Corrupted Orthos Prime
Warframe Let's Build Orthos Prime (Melee 2.0)
Warframe Orthos Prime Pro builds 2 Forma Update 13.3.0-0
Lets Max (Warframe) E55 - Orthos Prime
Warframe - ORTHOS PRIME BUILD Shimmering Blight - Update 16.11
Warframe Test Drive Orthos Prime
Orthos Prime Skins
Day of the Dead
Seasonal
Seasonal
Magesty
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Phocys
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Diva
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Lympharis
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Aphria
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Skopos
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Jotunheim
TennoGen
TennoGen
Ion
TennoGen
TennoGen
Osiris
TennoGen
TennoGen
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Mastery Rank increased from 2 to 12.
- Damage increased from 65 to 234.
- Status Chance increased from 15% to 36%.
- Critical Chance increased from 10% to 24%.
- Critical Damage increased from 2x to 2.2x.
- Slam Attack increased from 130 to 702.
- Slide Attack increased from 144 to 468.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
- Follow Through reduced from 0.8 to 0.6.
Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
- Fixed the Orthos (Prime) changing sizes randomly when cycling through skin options for it, predominantly the Forest-Camo and Tekelu skins.
Update 22.6 (2017-12-07)
- Fixed polearms clipping on some Warframes when using the standard holster position.
Update 18.4 (2016-01-22)
- Reduced the damage of the Orthos Prime in Conclave.
Hotfix 17.4.1 (2015-09-10)
- Fixed some weapons that expand on use not properly collapsing when use is finished (Glaive, Orthos, etc).
Update 10.4 (2013-10-16)
- Fix for Orthos Prime appearing on Dakra Prime blueprint.
Update 10.0 (2013-09-13)
- Added missing elemental FX to Orthos Prime.
Hotfix 9.5.2 (2013-08-12)
- Buffs to Orthos Prime, Slightly faster, bit higher base damage. Longer reach.
Update 9.3 (2013-07-26)
- Orthos Prime elemental FX update.
Hotfix 9.1.5 (2013-07-17)
- Fix for not being able to build Orthos Prime in Foundry.
Update 9.0 (2013-07-13)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
