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:
- High ammo efficiency.
- Normal Attack
- High crit chance
- Above average damage
- High reload speed
- Above average status chance
- High crit multiplier
- Alt-Fire
- Second highest crit chance behind
Tenet Diplos
- Second highest crit multiplier behind
Catabolyst
- High effective fire rate
- Above average max ammo
- Above average damage
- High reload speed
- Second highest crit chance behind
Disadvantages:
- Primary fire has noticeable recoil.
- Normal Attack
- Low magazine
- Low effective fire rate
- Low disposition
- Alt-Fire
- Low magazine
- Low disposition
Comparisons:
- Pandero Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Pandero (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (104 vs. 72)
- 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 (●●●○○ (1.00x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.15x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
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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[]
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.