The Panthera Prime is the primed 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 miniature saws in full automatic that 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.
- Consumes 2 ammo per shot.
- 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.
- Alternate Fire shoots a single levitating sawblade that deals continuous damage and staggers enemies.
- Range of 8 meters.
- Only consumes ammo when dealing damage.
Advantages:
- Primary fire:
- High critical chance.
- Explosion has very high critical chance.
- Very high accuracy.
- Explosion can benefit from Firestorm ( Primed) and Cautious Shot.
- Alternate Fire:
- Very high critical chance.
- Pinpoint accuracy.
- Can be deployed without consequence when no targets exist.
- Very high status chance.
- Very large magazine size.
- Can use the Panthera-exclusive Disarming Purity Augment mod.
Disadvantages:
- Primary Fire:
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion range cannot be increased with Amalgam Furax Body Count.
- Double ammo consumption reduces overall ammo efficiency.
- Very slow fire rate.
- Alternate Fire:
- Range is short, acting more like a melee weapon.
- Very slow fire rate.
- Projectiles have travel time.
Comparisons:
- Panthera Prime (Normal), compared to Panthera (Normal):
- Higher base critical chance (18% vs. 12%)
- Higher base status chance (30% vs. 24%)
- Higher average damage per shot (118 vs. 112)
- Higher burst DPS (433.06 vs. 336)
- Higher sustained DPS (354.91 vs. 280)
- 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 (1.2 vs. 1.4)
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
| Stock | Barrel | Receiver | Blueprint |
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 Axi M2 Uncommon Lith G3 Uncommon (V) Meso N10 Uncommon (V) Meso T5 Uncommon (V)
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Meso P4 Rare Lith P3 Rare (V) Lith P4 Rare (V)
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Meso P5 Rare Meso P2 Rare (V)
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Axi O5 Common Neo P3 Common Axi C5 Common (V) Axi I1 Common (V) Axi Z1 Common (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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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 counterpart of this weapon.
