Build it. The Orthos Prime excels at quickly building combo due to its high attack speed and exceptional range, making it a top-tier melee weapon. Its main weakness is its reliance on mods to boost its critical and status chances to competitive levels.
The Orthos Prime has immense range, allowing it to hit multiple enemies from a distance and build combo counter rapidly.
The Orthos Prime is a formidable polearm, serving as a direct upgrade to the standard Orthos. It boasts a primarily Slash damage profile, which is highly effective against most enemy types.
This weapon stands out among polearms for its impressive critical chance and status chance, ranking among the highest in its class. Coupled with one of the fastest attack speeds, it’s designed for rapid, wide-sweeping attacks.
Its unique equipped normal attack animation, featuring thrusting and stabbing, is replaced upon equipping any polearm stance mod, which is a common practice for optimizing melee performance.
How to get the Orthos Prime
- The Orthos Prime is dropping right now. Its relics are in the mission drop tables:
- Handle: Lith V11 (dropping now).
- Blueprint: Axi S20 (dropping now).
- Blade: Axi D6 (dropping now).
- Run the fissure tier that matches each relic, refine the rare part’s relic to Radiant, and pick the best of the four results with a squad.
- Build the parts, then the weapon: 12 hours each, or rush with platinum.
Check the Relic finder for live odds per refinement; the set price on this page is what the built set trades for on warframe.market.
Stats
| Class | Melee |
|---|---|
| Mastery Rank | 12 |
| Attack Speed | 1.17 |
| Range | 3 m |
| Blocking Angle | 55° |
| Combo Duration | 5 s |
| Follow Through | 0.6 |
| Wind Up | 0.9 s |
| Slam Attack | 702 |
| Heavy Attack | 1404 |
| Critical Chance | 24% |
| Critical Multiplier | 2.2x |
| Status Chance | 36% |
| Set Price | 10p on warframe.market (48h average) |
| Riven Disposition | (0.7) |
| Damage | 234 total |
|---|---|
| Impact | 35.1 |
| Puncture | 35.1 |
| Slash | 163.8 |
The Orthos Prime has a riven disposition of 0.7, which is on the lower side. This means rivens for this weapon will provide smaller stat bonuses compared to weapons with higher dispositions.
Builds
Given its high critical and status chances, the Orthos Prime is an excellent candidate for a hybrid build. Focus on increasing both critical stats and status duration to maximize Slash procs. Its high attack speed and range make it ideal for quickly accumulating combo count, further boosting critical chance with Blood Rush.
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SET: Melee| Mod | Why it’s here |
|---|---|
| Condition Overload | +80% Melee Damage per Status Type affecting the target |
| Blood Rush | +40% Critical Chance stacks with Combo Multiplier |
| Weeping Wounds | +40% Status Chance per Combo Multiplier |
| Organ Shatter | +90% Critical Damage |
| Primed Reach | +3 Range |
| Berserker Fury | On Melee Kill: +35% Attack Speed for 10s. Stacks up to 2x. |
| Primed Fever Strike | +165% Toxin |
| Sacrificial Steel | +220% Critical Chance (x2 for Heavy Attacks); x1.33 Damage to Sentients |
Melee Influence when the build carries an Electricity source (an Electricity proc spreads every elemental status to enemies nearby). Melee Crescendo for Heavy Attack builds. Arcane Fury or Arcane Strike as the cheap fallback.
Reviewed September 2026.
Pros and Cons
Pros
- High critical chance for a polearm
- High status chance for a polearm
- Fastest attack speed among polearms (tied)
- Exceptional range for crowd control and combo building
- Primarily Slash damage, effective against health
Cons
- Relatively low riven disposition
- Requires significant mod investment for late-game viability
- Base critical damage multiplier is average
The Orthos Prime remains a strong contender in the melee weapon category, particularly for players who enjoy fast, wide-sweeping combat. Its ability to quickly build combo and apply status effects makes it a versatile choice for various missions. While its riven disposition is not ideal, its inherent strengths can be amplified with a well-optimized build.