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[]
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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[]
Media[]
Orthos Prime Skins
Seasonal
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
Steam™ Exclusive
TennoGen
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)