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 weapon does blade damage.

Advantages
 * High charge damage.
 * Triple damage to Infested except Ancients.
 * Long range attacks with a wide radius.
 * Charge attack has large AoE and even hits a small area behind the player.
 * Hits up to 5 targets with AoE attacks.
 * Requires only a small amount of very common resources to craft.
 * Slide attacks have 100 damage and almost full AoE.

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 (like all heavy melee weapons), starting on the third swing animation.
 * Normal attacks have awkwardly placed swing hitboxes which vary with each swing animation, making it more difficult to hit enemies.
 * When equipped, air slides do not gain speed boosts.

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 (also known as Orthrus)  is the name of a two headed dog, brother of Cerberus.