The Panthera Prime is the Prime variant of the 
Panthera with increased critical chance, status chance, fire rate, and magazine size, at some expense to accuracy, reload speed, and max ammo capacity. The primary fire sawblades gain explosive properties, while still being able to ricochet off surfaces.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - Primary fire shoots bouncing miniature saws in full automatic that explode in a 1.6 meter radius on impact with a surface or enemy, consuming 2 ammo per shot.
- Alternate Fire deploys a single levitating sawblade 8 meters away that deals continuous damage and staggers enemies, only consuming ammo when dealing damage.
Advantages:
- Can use the Panthera-exclusive Disarming Purity Augment mod.
- Normal Attack
- High magazine
- Above average status chance
- Radial Attack
- Above average magazine
- Above average effective fire rate
- Above average status chance
- Alt-Fire
- Above average crit chance
- Above average magazine
- Above average max ammo
- Above average status chance
- Above average disposition
- Can be deployed without consequence when no targets exist.
Disadvantages:
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Double ammo consumption reduces overall ammo efficiency.
- Normal Attack
- Below average crit chance
- Low reload speed
- Radial Attack
- Below average crit chance
- Very low damage
- Low reload speed
- Alt-Fire
- Low damage
- Low reload speed
Comparisons:
- Panthera Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Panthera (Normal Attack):
- Equal base damage, but different composition:
- Higher base critical chance (18.00% vs. 12.00%)
- Higher base status chance (30.00% vs. 24.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (118 vs. 112)
- Higher burst DPS (433.06 vs. 336)
- Higher sustained DPS (354.90 vs. 280)
- Higher fire rate (3.67 vs. 3)
- Larger magazine (80 vs. 60)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (320 vs. 540)
- Slower reload time (2.4 vs. 2)
- Less accurate (80 vs. 100)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 7)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●● (1.40x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
 Stock
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 Barrel
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 Blueprint
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 Receiver
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 Axi S10 Uncommon Meso G3 Uncommon Axi M2 Uncommon (V) Lith G3 Uncommon (V) Meso N10 Uncommon (V) Meso T5 Uncommon (V)
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Meso P7 Rare Lith P3 Rare (V) Lith P4 Rare (V) Meso P4 Rare (V)
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Axi O5 Common Axi S11 Common Neo K4 Common Axi C5 Common (V) Axi I1 Common (V) Axi Z1 Common (V) Neo P3 Common (V)
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Meso P5 Rare Meso P2 Rare (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 20,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
 10 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Notes[]
- Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
- Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 80% from central impact.
Trivia[]
- Panthera Prime was released alongside Inaros Prime and Karyst Prime.
- Tied with Panthera and Zhuge for the highest base damage of all fully automatic rifles.
- Tied with Attica for the second slowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, after Panthera.
Media[]
Panthera Prime when equipped in the arsenal
Panthera Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Hotfix 29.6.3 (2020-12-22)
- Fixed performance issues associated with the Panthera Prime and certain Mod combinations.
Hotfix 28.2.1 (2020-08-01)
- Fixed incorrect Riven Dispositions for Panthera Prime. They are at the correct Riven Disposition of 0.5.
Update 28.2 (2020-07-14)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Panthera, the normal variant.
