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.
Advantages:
- High
Slash damage – effective against health. - Very high critical chance and 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 (Normal), compared to Pandero (Normal):
- Higher base damage per projectile (104 vs. 72)
- Higher total damage (104 vs. 72)
- Higher base status chance (24% vs. 10%)
- Higher average damage per shot (160.16 vs. 110.88)
- Higher burst DPS (480.48 vs. 332.64)
- Higher sustained DPS (349.44 vs. 241.92)
- Different polarities ( vs. None)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
- Lower disposition (0.85 vs. 1.15)
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Barrel | Receiver | Blueprint |
|---|---|---|
 Axi C6 Uncommon Neo N16 Uncommon
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Neo P2 Rare
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 Lith I1 Common Lith N8 Common
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 20,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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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[]
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.
