“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Pandero 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.
Pandero Prime is the Primed variant of the 
Pandero semi-automatic pistol, sporting increased damage and status chance. Pandero Prime was released alongside 
Octavia Prime and 
Tenora Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Alternate Fire shoots all remaining ammunition in the magazine in a quick burst.
- Benefits from magazine increasing mods to further increase the burst's damage.
- Prevents Zoom.
- This prevents the buffs from Hydraulic Crosshairs and Sharpened Bullets from affecting this attack as a result.
- This prevents the buffs from
- Has high Recoil and wide spread, making it inaccurate beyond short range.
- Innate polarity.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- High ammo efficiency.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- High reload speed (1.00 s)
- Above average total damage (104)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- Above average status chance (24.00%)
- High crit multiplier (2.80x)
- Alt-Fire (wiki attack index 2)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- Above average reload speed (1.00 s)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- Above average fire rate (4.17 attacks/sec)
- Above average status chance (24.00%)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.80x)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Primary fire has noticeable recoil.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Low magazine (8)
- Low fire rate (3.00 attacks/sec)
- Below average disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x))
- Alt-Fire (wiki attack index 2)
- Below average magazine (8)
- Below average disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Pandero Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Pandero (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (104.00 vs. 72.00)
- Higher total damage (104 vs. 72)
- Higher base status chance (24.00% vs. 10.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (160.16 vs. 110.88)
- Higher burst DPS (480.48 vs. 332.64)
- Higher sustained DPS (349.44 vs. 241.92)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (●●●○○ (1.10x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.20x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Barrel |  Blueprint
|
Receiver |
|---|---|---|
 Axi C6 Uncommon (V) Axi N8 Uncommon (V) Lith C9 Uncommon (V) Lith H5 Uncommon (V) Neo N16 Uncommon (V) Neo N20 Uncommon (V) Neo T8 Uncommon (V)
|
Axi N9 Common (V) Axi P4 Common (V) Lith I1 Common (V) Lith N11 Common (V) Lith N8 Common (V) Meso N15 Common (V) Neo G4 Common (V)
|
Axi P5 Rare (V) Meso P8 Rare (V) Meso P9 Rare (V) Neo P2 Rare (V) Neo P4 Rare (V)
|
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 Orokin Cell10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On December 14th, 2022, Pandero Prime, along with Octavia Prime and Tenora Prime, entered the Prime Vault and were retired from the reward tables. Any preexisting components or fully-built items will remain as is.
Notes[]
- As a Signature Weapon, Pandero Prime gains a bonus effect with Octavia or Octavia Prime, where headshot kills with the Alternate Fire increases reload speed by 20%.
- No weak spots other than actual heads will trigger this effect.
- Headshots on invulnerable enemies will still grant this effect, but not with invulnerable bosses.
- No weak spots other than actual heads will trigger this effect.
- The Alternate Fire of the Pandero Prime will eject all of the remaining ammunition in the magazine in a single burst.
- The base firerate of the alt-fire is 10 rounds per second.
- Increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with Slip Magazine and using recoil reduction mods like Steady Hands can help to make its damage output more consistent and reliable.
- If buffed with unlimited ammo such as from the Reactant Buff, the weapon will only fire its magazine amount at a time, with small delays between each trigger pull.
- Can be canceled with quick melee.
- Aiming will be disabled for the duration of the burst; hence the alternate fire cannot benefit from Acolyte Mods.
Trivia[]
- Pandero is the Spanish word for Tambourine, a hand-held percussion instrument.
- The Pandero's last four shots sound slightly different to indicate low ammunition.
- The Pandero is actually an 8 shot, double action revolver, as indicated in the reload animation and the rapid manual cocking animation of the the hammer during alternate fire.
- The cylinder is very far forward, resulting in an extremely short barrel.
Media[]
Poster for Pandero Prime and Tenora Prime
Warframe - Pandero Prime (Orokin Revolver) - Animations & Sounds - Octavia Prime Access
Pandero Prime 2021 (Guide) - The Melodic Blaster - Warframe
Pandero Prime Build with God Riven -Warframe
Pandero Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 29.9.1 (2021-02-24)
- Fixed Pandero Prime's model reverting to the regular version while Dual Wielding.
Update 29.9 (2021-02-23)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Pandero, the standard counterpart.
- Tenora Prime, Octavia Prime's other signature weapon.
- Kuva Kraken, Tenet Detron and Cyanex, secondaries with similar alt-fire functions.
