“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 Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.
Advantages:
- High Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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.
- Primary fire has good accuracy.
- High ammo efficiency.
- Very high 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.
Disadvantages:
- Low Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. and Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. 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 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
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Notes
- When used by Octavia, 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 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
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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
Update 29.9 (2021-02-23)
- Introduced.
