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[]
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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 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.