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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[edit | edit source]
This weapon deals primarily Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash damage – effective against health.
- Tied with
Spira,
Spira Prime,
Lato Prime,
Euphona Prime, and
Pandero for third highest critical chance of all secondaries, behind
Athodai/
Plinx and
Akbolto Prime.
- Very high critical multiplier.
- Very high status chance.
- High ammo efficiency.
- Very fast reload speed.
- 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.
- Innate
polarity.
Disadvantages:
- Low
Impact and
Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Low magazine capacity.
- Primary fire has noticeable recoil.
- Alternate Fire prevents zoom and has high recoil and wide spread, making it inaccurate beyond short range.
- This prevents the buffs from
Hydraulic Crosshairs and
Sharpened Bullets from affecting this mode as a result.
- This prevents the buffs from
Comparisons:
- Pandero Prime, compared to Pandero:
- Higher base damage (104.0 vs. 72.0)
- Higher secondary attack damage (104.0 vs. 72.0)
- Higher primary status chance (24% vs. 10%)
- Different polarities (
vs. None)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (0.5 vs. 1.1)
Acquisition
Pandero Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.
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Lith I1 Common | Axi C6 Uncommon | Neo P2 Rare |
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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![]() 20,000 |
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![]() 10 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- 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.
- Because of this fact, 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.
- The base firerate of the alt-fire is 10 rounds per second, and is unaffected by negative fire rate affects.
- 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.
- Because of this fact, increasing the magazine size of the weapon such as with
Tips[edit | edit source]
Trivia[edit | edit source]
- 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[edit | edit source]
Pandero Prime Skins
Patch History[edit | edit source]
Lua error in Module:Version at line 22: Version 29.9.1 not found (add to Module:Version/data if needed).
- Fixed Pandero Prime's model reverting to the regular version while Dual Wielding.
- Introduced.
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