“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”
Tenora Prime is Vaulted.
The Void Relics for this item have been removed from the drop tables and do not drop during missions at this time. Check the current Prime Resurgence rotation to see if Varzia offers relics for this item. Vaulted Void Relics already contained in player inventories are not affected and can still be either opened or traded between players.
Tenora Prime is the Prime variant of the 
Tenora assault rifle, acting as a direct upgrade with some expense to the Alternate Fire's fire rate. Tenora Prime was released alongside 
Octavia Prime and 
Pandero Prime.
Characteristics[]
- This weapon deals primarily
Puncture damage. - Primary fire requires a spool-up of 9 shots before optimal fire rate is achieved.
- Fire rate starts at 40% of the listed value, and increases by 7.5% per shot.
- Alternative fire charges a single powerful shot with perfect accuracy.
- Innate 1 meter punch through.
- Uses 10 ammo per shot.
- Charge is automatic and does not need to be held down.
- Increased accuracy the longer the weapon is fired.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Innate punch through helps bypasses thin obstacles and bodies.
- Fully Spooled (wiki attack index 1)
- High crit chance (30.00%)
- Very high magazine (200)
- Very high ammo max (1,000)
- Very high fire rate (12.67 attacks/sec)
- Above average crit multiplier (2.20x)
- Charged Attack (wiki attack index 2)
- High crit chance (40.00%)
- High magazine (200)
- Above average total damage (280)
- Very high ammo max (1,000)
- High crit multiplier (3.00x)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Spool-up creates a warm-up period of weakness for fire rate, making short engagements undesirable.
- Fully Spooled (wiki attack index 1)
- Low reload speed (2.50 s)
- Low total damage (28)
- Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x))
- Charged Attack (wiki attack index 2)
- Low reload speed (2.50 s)
- Below average fire rate (2.00 attacks/sec)
- Low status chance (20.00%)
- Low disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x))
See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.
Comparisons:
- Tenora Prime (Fully Spooled), compared to Tenora (Fully Spooled):
- Higher base damage per projectile (28.00 vs. 24.00)
- Higher total damage (28 vs. 24)
- Higher base critical chance (30.00% vs. 28.00%)
- Higher base critical multiplier (2.20x vs. 2.00x)
- Higher base status chance (24.00% vs. 16.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (38.08 vs. 30.72)
- Higher burst DPS (482.47 vs. 358.50)
- Higher sustained DPS (416.50 vs. 300.12)
- Higher fire rate (12.67 attacks/sec vs. 11.67 attacks/sec)
- Larger magazine (200 vs. 150)
- Larger max ammo capacity (1,000 vs. 900)
- Higher Mastery Rank required (14 vs. 10)
- Lower disposition (●●●○○ (1.00x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))
Acquisition[]
Lith, Meso, Neo, and Axi refer to Void Relics | (V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics | (B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic
 Blueprint
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Barrel | Receiver | Stock |
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 Axi I2 Common (V) Axi K10 Common (V) Lith O3 Common (V) Meso A3 Common (V) Meso P5 Common (V) Neo B7 Common (V) Neo N20 Common (V)
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Lith T5 Rare (V) Lith T9 Rare (V) Meso T5 Rare (V) Meso Z5 Uncommon (V) Neo T5 Rare (V) Neo T6 Rare (V)
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Axi T8 Rare (V) Meso T4 Rare (V) Neo T4 Rare (V) Neo T8 Rare (V)
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Axi C7 Uncommon (V) Axi G7 Uncommon (V) Axi P5 Uncommon (V) Axi S12 Uncommon (V) Axi T6 Uncommon (V) Lith R2 Uncommon (V) Meso Z4 Uncommon (V)
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| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
 Orokin Cell10 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: N/A
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Vaultings[]
- On December 14th, 2022, Octavia Prime, along with Tenora Prime and Pandero Prime, entered the Prime Vault and were retired from the reward tables. Any preexisting components or fully-built items will remain as is.
Notes[]
- As a Signature Weapon, Tenora Prime gains a bonus effect with Octavia or Octavia Prime, where headshot kills with the Alternate Fire have a 20% chance to instantly refill magazine.
- The refilled ammo is automatically deducted from ammo reserves, and does not generate ammo.
- No weak spots other than actual heads will trigger this effect.
- Tenora Prime's charge shot deals 28 damage for every 1 ammo consumed (a total of 280 damage with max consumption of 10 ammo) per shot. This is of equal ammo efficiency to its primary fire.
- Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty will be very apparent even at full spool.
Trivia[]
- Tenora Prime was released alongside Octavia Prime and Pandero Prime.
- Tenora is the Catalan word for Tenor, one of the highest classical male singing voices.
- Tenora may also be a reference to a type of Catalan Shawm, an oboe-like woodwind instrument typically used in Catalonia.
- While there are other weapons with spool-up time, like the Soma and Gorgon series, its accuracy being increased the longer the trigger is held is currently unique to the Tenora in the primary category and shared only with Aksomati Prime.
Media[]
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Tenora Prime, as it appears in the arsenal
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Poster for Pandero Prime and Tenora Prime
Warframe - Tenora Prime (Orokin Rifle) - Animations & Sounds - Octavia Prime Access
Tenora Prime 2021 (Guide) - The Percussive Repeater - Warframe
Tenora Prime Weapon & Full Build Showcase with God Riven
Patch History[]
Hotfix 29.9.1 (2021-02-24)
- Fixed Tenora Prime asking for the wrong item when unlocking the Exilus slot.
Update 29.9 (2021-02-23)
- Introduced.
See Also[]
- Tenora, the normal variant.
