The Panthera is a 
Tenno blade launcher that launches circular sawblades. Its Alternate Fire levitates a spinning saw blade in front of it, dealing continuous damage to enemies within range.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage.
- Primary fire shoots miniature saws in full automatic.
- Projectiles can bounce off surfaces or enemies up to 3 times, enabling them to hit multiple targets.
- Consumes 2 ammo per shot.
- Alternate Fire shoots a single levitating sawblade that deals continuous damage and staggers enemies.
- Range of 6 meters.
- Only consumes ammo when dealing damage.
Advantages:
- Very high base damage.
- Primary fire:
- Projectile bouncing improves crowd damage.
- High status chance.
- Alternate Fire:
- Very high critical chance.
- Very high status chance.
- Can be deployed without consequence when no targets exist.
- Perfect accuracy.
- Can use the Panthera-exclusive Disarming Purity Augment mod.
Disadvantages:
- Primary Fire:
- Low critical chance.
- Double ammo consumption reduces overall ammo efficiency.
- Alternate Fire:
- Range is short, acting more like a melee weapon.
- Very slow fire rate.
- Projectiles have travel time.
Comparisons:
- Panthera (Normal), compared to Panthera Prime (Normal):
- Lower base critical chance (12% vs. 18%)
- Lower base status chance (24% vs. 30%)
- Lower average damage per shot (112 vs. 118)
- Lower burst DPS (336 vs. 433.06)
- Lower sustained DPS (280 vs. 354.91)
- Lower fire rate (3 round(s)/sec vs. 3.67 round(s)/sec)
- Smaller magazine (60 round(s) vs. 80 round(s))
- Larger max ammo capacity (540 round(s) vs. 320 round(s))
- Faster reload time (2 s vs. 2.4 s)
- More accurate (100 vs. 80)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (7 vs. 14)
- Higher disposition (1.4 vs. 1.15)
Acquisition[]
The Panthera's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
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 600 |
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Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  35
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 Market Price: 225
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 Blueprints Price: 20,000
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Notes[]
- The Panthera's primary fire mode shoots fast-moving sawblades that will ricochet off walls and enemies up to three times.
- The Panthera has a Alternate Fire mode initiated by holding down the alternate fire key (default MMB ). This levitates a spinning sawblade up to 6 meters in front of the weapon, dealing continuous damage to enemies that make contact with it, as well as staggering them.
- The sawblade floats out of the weapon towards its levitation point, taking around half a second to reach its maximum range. The sawblade retracts back into the launcher once the trigger is released.
- Ammo is only consumed when the weapon deals damage, whether to an enemy or a damageable object.
- If an enemy moves inside the space between the user and the sawblade, the sawblade will instantly retract to damage that enemy.
- Punch Through allows the secondary fire mode to hit enemies behind cover as long as the enemy is within the secondary fire's range, and the punch-through depth is sufficient to penetrate through the intervening cover.
- Can use both Combustion Beam and Sinister Reach. Combustion Beam works on kills made by the secondary attack and also the primary attack.
- The primary fire mode cannot be used while this is active.
- Although the Foundry will claim that the Panthera can be crafted if a Hikou Prime is present in the inventory, it won't allow the Hikou Prime to be consumed to build the weapon.
- Compared to the Miter (based on the ranged attacks and on uncharged shots):
- Lower total damage on uncharged attacks (100.0 vs 125.0)
- Faster fire rate (3.0 vs 0.526).
- Larger magazine size (60 vs 20).
- Primary fire consumes 2 ammo per shot, compared to one ammo per shot for the Miter.
- Larger ammo capacity (540 vs 72).
- Uses rifle ammo, unlike the Miter, which uses the relatively rarer sniper ammo.
Tips[]
- The Panthera has a high chance of cutting corpses into pieces, making it an ideal candidate for a Desecrating Nekros to bring along, as the game considers the cut corpses as separate entities, essentially giving multiple corpses to desecrate from a single enemy and thus yielding more chances to create more drops.
- This also applies to the secondary fire, which will not consume ammo when used on a corpse.
- As of Hotfix 24.2.15 (2019-02-15) Heavy Caliber affects this weapon differently. It increases the spread between shots with multishot. resulting in a uniform spread not randomness.
- Although the Panthera has lower total damage compared to uncharged Miter shots, it has higher Impact and Puncture damage, making it more effective against shields and armor.
- Multishot mods cause the sawblades to be fired adjacent to each other if no accuracy penalty mods are equipped. This may cause the blades to miss when firing directly at far targets.
Bugs[]
- With punchthrough equipped, the blades shot from the gun will go through terrain, but not enemies.
Trivia[]
- Panthera is a genus within the Felidae family that includes the tiger, lion, jaguar and leopard. They are characterized by morphological structures in their throats that allow them to roar.
- Despite the green decal depicted in the Panthera's portrait, the default decal color of the Panthera is blue.
- This is the third weapon that requires two different pre-made weapons in order to craft (following the Redeemer and the Tipedo), and the first weapon that requires weapons from 2 different factions (the Tenno-made Hikou and the Grineer-made Miter).
- The Miter, one of the prerequisite weapons needed to construct the Panthera, is similar in that it also fires sawblades.
- The Miter's sawblades are horizontally aligned, whilst the Panthera launches vertically aligned sawblades.
- The blades fired by Panthera have a design similar to the Glaive.
- Tied with Panthera Prime and Zhuge for the highest base damage of all fully automatic rifles.
- Slowest fire rate of all fully automatic rifles.
Media[]
Panthera in Codex.
The Panthera as it appears in the Codex.
Panthera as shown in the arsenal
Panthera projectile
Tenno Reinforcements - Panthera
Warframe - All Tenno Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2012 - 2019)
Warframe - All Tenno Weapon Reloads in 3 minutes (2012 - 2019)
Patch History[]
Update 22.20 (2018-05-17)
- Fixed Panthera’s Punch Through not going through enemies.
Hotfix 22.13.4 (2018-02-22)
- Panthera Alt Fire now consumes 1 Ammo instead of 4.
- Fixed the Panthera Alt Fire consuming Ammo when hitting surfaces other than enemies.
Hotfix 22.13.3 (2018-02-21)
- Alt-fire damage changed from 250 Physical per sec to 100 Physical per tick.
- Alt-fire fire rate increased from 1 to 2.
- Alt-fire range increased from 5m to 6m.
- 4 ammo consumed per hit (Not intended consumption - will be changing to 1 in next Hotfix).
- Please note that Ammo will be consumed when hitting surfaces other than enemies at the moment. We are aware and will fix as soon as we can!
Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)
- Status chance increased from 20% to 24% (Primary Fire).
- Critical chance increased from 10% to 12% (Primary Fire).
Hotfix 15.10.2 (2015-01-16)
- Adjusted Panthera audio when hitting flesh or metal. Firing your weapon on stone will now make the appropriate metal grinding noise!
Hotfix 15.10.1 (2015-01-16)
- Secondary fire Slash damage increased from 75 to 225.
- Increased secondary fire status chance.
- The Panthera’s secondary fire will now stagger enemies on impact.
- Increased secondary fire rate from 150 to 200.
See also[]
- Miter, a Grineer sawblade launcher used in the Panthera's construction.
- Hikou, a Tenno crafted throwing star weapon used in the Panthera's construction
- Panthera Prime, the primed variant.
