Orthos

"The Tenno-forged ORTHOS is a rare double bladed staff. Those who take the time to master it speak of its impressive striking distance and ability to hit multiple targets."

- In-Game Description

Characteristics
This is a Slashing weapon.

Advantages
 * High charge damage.
 * Fast charge attacks.
 * Triple damage to Infested except Ancients.
 * Very large cleave arc on base attack.
 * Basic attack can stunlock.
 * Has a long reach/range.
 * Requires only a small amount of very common resources to craft.
 * Charge attack has large AoE and even hits a small area behind the player.
 * Slide attack does 3x damage.
 * Can produce red crits.

Disadvantages
 * Has no Polarities.
 * Jump attacks have no knockdown power, only staggering with a medium-small AoE.
 * When swinging you will be reduced to a walking pace, starting on third swing animation (like all heavy melee weapons).

Acquisition
Orthos can be purchased for 180 and its blueprint for  20,000.

Weapon Loadouts
See the user build section for builds using this weapon.

Trivia

 * In greek mythology, Orthos is the name of a two headed dog, brother of Cerberus.