Panthera Prime

Category:Launcher (Primary)
The Panthera Prime is the Prime variant of the 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. Panthera Prime was released alongside and .
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily 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.
**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 deploys a single levitating sawblade 8 meters away that deals continuous damage and staggers enemies, only consuming ammo when dealing damage.
**Can be deployed without consequence when no targets exist.
**Considered as beam, the range can be extended with Beam Length mods like .
**When modded for Punch Through, each individual targets hit consume additional ammo.
*Can use the Panthera-exclusive Augment mod.
==Acquisition==
===Vaultings===
*On July 16th, 2022, Panthera Prime, along with and , entered the Prime Vault and were retired from the reward tables. Any preexisting components or fully-built items will remain as is.
==Trivia==
*Tied with and for the highest base damage of all fully automatic rifles.
*Tied with for the second slowest fire rate of all fully automatic weapons, after .
==Media==
Panthera Prime 1.png| Panthera Prime when equipped in the arsenal
Panthera Prime 2.png
Panthera Prime reveal.jpg|thumb|Panthera Prime splash art, with karyst Prime also
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, the normal variant.
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