Pandero Build 2023 Guide

The Pandero, a secondary weapon, is Octavia’s signature pistol, resembling an 8-shot revolver.

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WEAPON CHARACTERISTICS

The Pandero is a semi-automatic pistol that has a resemblance to an 8-shot revolver.

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Primary

  • Accuracy: Has an accuracy of 16 able to accurately hit enemies at low to medium ranges.
  • Critical Chance: Has a 30% chance to deal critical hits per shot.
  • Critical Multiplier: Shots deal 2.8x more damage on critical hits.
  • Fire Rate: Fires around 3 projectiles per second.
  • Magazine: Capacity of 8 shots per magazine.
  • Noise: Shots are alarming and will alert enemies when fired.
  • Reload: Takes 1 seconds to reload a new magazine.
  • Status: Has a 10% chance to proc status effects per shot.
  • Trigger: Semi – fires a shot every time trigger is pulled.
  • Damage Types: 18 Impact, 18 Puncture and 36 Slash

Secondary

  • Accuracy: Has an accuracy of 8.2 able to accurately hit enemies at low to medium ranges.
  • Critical Chance: Has a 30% chance to deal critical hits per shot.
  • Critical Multiplier: Shots deal 2.8x more damage on critical hits.
  • Fire Rate: Fires all rounds instantly.
  • Magazine: Capacity of 8 shots per magazine.
  • Noise: Shots are alarming and will alert enemies when fired.
  • Reload: Takes 1 seconds to reload a new magazine.
  • Status: Has a 10% chance to proc status effects per shot.
  • Trigger: Burst Special – Fires all round, emptying the magazine.
  • Damage Types: 18 Impact, 18 Puncture and 36 Slash 

The Pandero requires a Mastery Rank of 8 before it may be used by players and must be purchased from the market.

PROS
  • Good base damage
  • Moderate impact damage
  • Moderate puncture damage
  • Good slash damage
  • Fast reload speed
  • Ammo efficient
  • High critical chance
CONS
  • Low magazine capacity
  • Low status chance
  • High recoil
  • Accuracy decreases while firing

ACQUISITION

In order to acquire the Pandero, it must be crafted after obtaining its blueprint.

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The Pandero blueprint may be purchased from the in game market.It may also be bought for 190 Platinum and already built.

Sample Builds

With its well-balanced damage and its high critical chance, the Pandero can be easily modded for a good damage output.

Have two unique fire rates allows it to choose to deal shot after shot or unload a full barrage of bullets.

Customizing the weapon with a comfortable build will allow the user to make use of its different attack types.

Below are a few sample builds:

Critical Build

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In this build we use Hornet Strike for overall damage along with Lethal Torrent, Barrel Diffusion and Auger Pact for multishot.

With Primed Pistol Gambit/Pistol Gambit and Primed Target Cracker/Target Cracker, we get an increase in critical chance and critical damage.

Adding Maim increases the overall slash damage scaling from its base damage while Seeker is used to add an additional punch through to be able to pierce and hit multiple enemies.

This build makes use of the base physical damage and scales it while aiming to deal critical damage with most shots in order to deal high overall damage per second to single or multiple enemies.

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Elemental Critical Build

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Similar to the previous build we remove Maim and Seeker in order to make room for 2 elemental mods for a better focus on dealing elemental damage to enemies.

This build make use of a high critical chance along with dealing amounts of elemental damage which may deal extra damage depending on the weakness of the enemies.

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Hydraulic Crosshairs Build

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This build makes use of the Elemental Critical Build, however Vigilante Armaments has been replaced with Hydraulic Crosshairs which gives a buff that increase the critical chance after dealing a headshot.

The main use of the build is to deal more critical damage by increasing its chances using the Hydraulic Crosshairs mod in order to have a high damage output.

Being accurate may be required as it is required to deal headshot to gain the buff which then greatly increases the overall critical chance.

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Status Build

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This build makes use of the Hornet Strike mod for an overall damage increase along with the 3 multishot mods that are Augur Pact, Lethal Torrent, Barrel Diffusion.

The other mods have been replaced with elemental damage and status mods focusing more on dealing status effects and elemental damage to enemies.

The focus of this build is to cause elemental damage with the high chance of applying status effects to enemies.

An added bonus of the build is that it is capable of dealing damage over time, damage in an area or weakening the enemies affected depending on the elements.

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Hybrid Build

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This is a combination of the of the previous builds, focusing on both critical damage as well as elemental damage and status effects for multiple sources of damage.

Dealing critical damage will add to an overall damage per second as well as the status effects that deal area damage.

Certain status effects will damage over time or weak enemies making them either take more damage or become more susceptible to different kinds of damage.

Along with the critical chance and status change the elemental damage that scales from the base damage will also deal additional damage to enemies if they are weak against the element.

Choosing the right mods to create the desired element will benefit the user greatly.

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These are not the only builds available for the Pandero, but they are pretty useful in many situations.

There are tons of ways to mod this weapon and it all can vary depending on the user and their choice of mods.

Overview

The Pandero is a very unique weapon being able to deal a large amount of damage per due to its good base damage and its high critical chance.

Not only featuring one firing method, the Pandero has another attack which allow sit to completely unload its clip onto enemies in an instant.

When modded well this weapon can become very deadly and when used accurately it can kill several enemies in mere seconds.

Its high recoil may be a bother to others but one does not really need to fire many shots.

This is because the Pandero alone can already deal a sufficient amount of damage and when modded to certain extents, it can take on different enemies with ease.

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