Pyrana Prime is the Primed variant of 
Pyrana, sporting higher critical stats, longer range before damage falloff occurs, increased magazine size, and faster reload, at the expense of damage and slower fire rate. To compensate for these losses, when the weapon kills thrice in quick succession, a second ethereal Pyrana appears for a short time, transforming the weapon into an akimbo with doubled ammunition and firing speed. It was released alongside 
Limbo Prime and 
Destreza Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Slash damage. - 3 kills each within 2 seconds of the previous kill summons a second Pyrana Prime for 6 seconds, doubling its magazine size and increasing its fire rate by 40%.
- Innate two polarities.
Advantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Innate multishot of 10 pellets.
- Efficient ammo economy.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (24.00%)
- High total damage (240)
- Above average ammo max (210)
- High average number of procs per shot (0.36)
- Very high average number of crits per shot (2.4)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.20x)
Disadvantages over other Secondary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Has linear damage falloff from 100% to 25% from 18m to 36m target distance (distances are affected by Projectile Speed).
- Low overall status chance.
- Low accuracy.
- High recoil, especially on full auto and with the second Pyrana Prime.
- Shots go to the right and up. Horizontally it hits the rightmost side of the reticle at 3m, worsening at longer distances.
- Normal Attack (wiki attack index 1)
- Below average active falloff slope (24.0m/%)
- Below average magazine (12)
- Below average fire rate (4.00 attacks/sec)
- Very low status chance (3.60%)
- Very low disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Pyrana Prime (Normal Attack), compared to Pyrana (Normal Attack):
- Higher base damage per projectile (24.00 vs. 22.00)
- Lower total damage (240 vs. 264)
- Higher base critical chance (24.00% vs. 20.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.20x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (3.60% vs. 2.50%)
- Lower average damage per tap (309.12 vs. 316.8)
- Lower burst DPS (1236.48 vs. 1321.05)
- Higher sustained DPS (806.4 vs. 720.31)
- Farther starting damage falloff distance (18.0 m vs. 15.0 m)
- Farther max damage falloff distance (36.0 m vs. 30.0 m)
- Greater max damage reduction at ending falloff distance (75.00% vs. 72.73%)
- Lower fire rate (4.00 attacks/sec vs. 4.17 attacks/sec)
- Lower multishot (10 vs. 12)
- Larger magazine (12 vs. 10)
- Faster reload time (1.60 s vs. 2.00 s)
- More accurate (Very Low vs. Very Low)
- Tighter first-shot spread (14.00° vs. 18.00°)
- Tighter maximum spread (19.00° vs. 22.00°)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (13 vs. 12)
- Lower disposition (●○○○○ (0.60x) vs. ●●●○○ (0.95x))
Acquisition[]
| Barrel |  Blueprint
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Receiver |
|---|---|---|
 Axi A8 Common (V) Axi C4 Common (V) Lith L2 Common (V) Lith L3 Common (V) Meso E2 Common (V) Meso N7 Common (V) Neo A2 Common (V) Neo A9 Common (V) Neo V7 Common (V)
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Axi P1 Rare (V) Axi P2 Rare (V) Axi P3 Rare (V) Lith P1 Rare (V) Lith P2 Rare (V) Lith P7 Rare (V) Meso P1 Rare (V) Meso P6 Rare (V)
|
Axi C3 Uncommon (V) Axi D3 Uncommon (V) Axi K3 Uncommon (V) Lith D5 Uncommon (V) Neo C1 Uncommon (V) Neo G2 Uncommon (V) Neo Z2 Uncommon (V)
|
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
 15,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 Orokin Cell10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) | |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Notes[]
- Killing 3 enemies in quick succession while having 2 Pyranas will not refresh the duration of the ethereal Pyrana.
- Upon activating the ethereal Pyrana, the number of rounds in its modded magazine size are added to the magazine (e.g. if modded magazine size is 14, 14 rounds are added when ethereal Pyrana is conjured). When the ethereal Pyrana disappears, the magazine is reduced to the modded magazine size (e.g. if the modded magazine size is 14, any number of rounds in the current magazine will be reduced to 14, unless the number of rounds is below 14 as it will remain the same).
- The fire rate bonus is multiplicative to the modded fire rate.
- The Pyrana Prime generates a large amount of recoil, which is even more noticeable when dual-wielding with the ethereal Pyrana.
- Pyrana Prime's passive still applies while carrying an object, such as a Mobile Defense datamass.
- If you holster Pyrana Prime while the ethereal Pyrana is active its timer will pause, allowing you to save the buff for later and make more strategic use of it.
Media[]
Pyrana Prime Skins
Patch History[]
Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)
- Changed the Synth Charge Mod to now apply to the following weapons:
- Pyrana Prime
Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)
- Ammo Changes
We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.
Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.
Secondary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides
20 Ammo per Pick Up:
- Pyrana Prime
Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)
- Greater than 100% Status having meaning:
Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.
Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.
- (Undocumented) Status chance per projectile increased from 1.2% to 3.6%.
Update 25.8 (2019-10-01)
- October 2019 Riven Disposition Change
- Pyrana: 0.7->0.65
Hotfix 23.0.5 (2018-06-22)
- Fixed the Pyrana Prime auto-switching to another weapon when the magazine empties.
Hotfix 23.0.4 (2018-06-20)
- Fixed Pyrana Primes ethereal buff being permanent by Transferring to the Operator while the ethereal Pyrana buff runs out.
Hotfix 23.0.3 (2018-06-19)
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 23.10.8 (2018-10-25)
See also[]
- Pyrana, the regular variant.
