Pandero Prime

Orokin Weapons

Pandero Prime
Statistics
Mastery	14
Slot	Secondary
Type	Pistol
Trigger Type	Semi-Auto
Utility
Ammo Type	Pistol
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Noise Level	Alarming
Fire Rate	3
Accuracy	16
Magazine Size	8
Max Ammo	210
Reload Time	1 s
Disposition	●●○○○ (0.75x)
Normal Attack
26
26
52
Total Damage	104 ( 50%)
Projectile Type	Hit-Scan
Fire Rate	3
Status Chance	24%
Crit Chance	30%
Crit Multiplier	2.8x
Secondary Attack
26
26
52
Total Damage	104 ( 50%)
Trigger Type	Burst
Fire Rate	7.69
Accuracy	8.2
Burst Rate	4.167
Burst Delay	0.1 s
Status Chance	24%
Crit Chance	30%
Crit Multiplier	2.8x
Ammo Cost	8
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 29.9 (2021-02-23)
Variants	Pandero

CODEX

Pound the beat for a dance of death with Octavia's signature prime pistol.

Pandero Prime is the Primed variant of the Pandero Pandero semi-automatic pistol, sporting increased damage and status chance. Pandero Prime was released alongside Octavia Prime Octavia Prime and Tenora Prime Tenora Prime.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High Slash Damage 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 Damage Impact and Puncture Damage 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 Hydraulic Crosshairs and Sharpened Bullets Sharpened Bullets from affecting this mode as a result.

Comparisons:

• Pandero Prime, compared to Pandero:
  • Higher base damage (104 vs. 72)
    • Higher   damage (26 vs. 18)
    • Higher   damage (26 vs. 18)
    • Higher   damage (52 vs. 36)
  • Higher total damage (104 vs. 72)
  • Higher primary status chance (24% vs. 10%)
  • Different polarities ( vs. None)
  • Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 8)
  • Lower disposition (0.75 vs. 1.1)
  • 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)

Acquisition

Pandero Prime's main and component blueprints are acquired from the following Void Relics.

Blueprint	Barrel	Receiver
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
20,000	1	1	10		Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A

Notes

• As a Signature Weapon, Pandero Prime gains a bonus effect with Octavia Octavia or Octavia Prime 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.
• 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 Slip Magazine and using recoil reduction mods like Steady Hands 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.

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

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.