Panthera Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

Panthera Prime

Statistics

Utility

Projectile Type

Projectile

Range

6 m

Normal Attack

20

10

70

Projectile Type

Projectile

Ammo Cost

2

Secondary Attack

100

Projectile Type

Continuous

Range

6 m

Ammo Cost

1

Radial Attack

20

Projectile Type

AoE

Radius

1.6 m

Damage Falloff

100% damage to 0 m
80% damage past 1.6 m

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 28.2 (2020-07-14)

Variants

CODEX

The max-velocity saw-launcher perfected. Features a larger magazine, faster fire rate, and a radial, slashing ricochet.

The Panthera Prime is the primed variant of the Panthera Panthera, sporting increased critical chance, status chance, fire rate, and magazine size, at some expense to accuracy, reload speed, and max ammo capacity. The primary fire also gains the ability to shoot explosive sawblades, while still being able to ricochet off surfaces. It was released alongside Inaros Prime Inaros Prime and Karyst Prime Karyst Prime.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals primarily Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
Very high status chance.
Primary fire shoots miniature saws in a fully automatic fashion.
- Tied with Panthera Panthera and Zhuge Zhuge for the highest base damage of all fully automatic rifles.
- Good critical chance.
- Shots explode in a 1.6 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy.
- Projectiles can bounce off surfaces or enemies up to 3 times, enabling them to hit multiple targets.
  - Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  - Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
  - Explosion can benefit from Firestorm Firestorm (Primed Firestorm Primed) and Cautious Shot Cautious Shot.
Alternate Fire shoots a single levitating sawblade that deals continuous damage and staggers enemies.
- Very high critical chance.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Only consumes ammo when dealing damage.
Can use the Panthera-exclusive Disarming Purity Disarming Purity Augment mod.
Innate and polarities.

Disadvantages:

Primary Fire:
- Low Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 80% from central impact.
- Explosion range cannot be increased with Amalgam Furax Body Count Amalgam Furax Body Count.
- Consumes 2 rounds per shot.
- Tied with Attica Attica for the second slowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, after Panthera Panthera.
Alternate Fire:
- No Impact Damage Impact and Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
  - Damage cannot be increased with Impact Damage Impact or Puncture Damage Puncture mods.
- Limited range of 8 meters.
- Tied with Panthera Panthera for the slowest fire rate of all continuous primaries.
Slow reload speed.
Projectiles have travel time.

Comparisons:

Panthera Prime, compared to Panthera:
- Higher primary critical chance (18% vs. 12%)
- Higher primary status chance (30% vs. 24%)
- Higher fire rate (3.67 round(s)/sec vs. 3 round(s)/sec)
- Larger magazine (80 round(s) vs. 60 round(s))
- Smaller max ammo capacity (320 round(s) vs. 540 round(s))
- Slower reload time (2.4 s vs. 2 s)
- Less accurate (80 vs. 100)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (1.15 vs. 1.4)
- Higher average damage per shot (118 vs. 112)
- Higher burst DPS (433.06 vs. 336)
- Higher sustained DPS (354.91 vs. 280)

Acquisition

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

Blueprint	Barrel	Receiver	Stock
Axi I1 Common Axi O5 Common Axi C5 Common (V) Axi Z1 Common (V)	Meso P4 Rare Lith P3 Rare (V) Lith P4 Rare (V)	Meso P5 Rare Meso P2 Rare (V)	Meso T5 Uncommon Lith G3 Uncommon (V) Meso N10 Uncommon (V)