Talk:Cernos/@comment-25532101-20150427190527/@comment-70.15.158.98-20150511020754

Magnetic Damage is created when combining Cold Damage with Electric Damage, and inflicts extra damage against Shields and Proto Shields.

When this damage type procs, the target's current shields and maximum shield capacity will be reduced by75% over a duration of 4 seconds. After the effect expires, the target's shields and maximum shield capacity will be restored. Should multiple Magnetic status effects occur while one is already active, the duration will be extended, and the target's shields will be permanently reduced when the effect expires.

That's quoted from this Wiki. Really, any weapon modded with magnetic damage would do a bonus 75% damage to the sheilds and if the status procs twice, will near elimenate them. I personally never found sheild hard to take down becuase they don't seem to scale the way armor does. Armor give increasingly more damage reduction as it rises where's shields just get more shield pionts. Procs like Slash and Poison can bypass them and do direct health damage to a target.

All that considering, it would still seem that a Dread would have no problem taking out corpus because if can put bleed procs on their health and magnet damage destroys sheilds so if it red crits those shields are gone. To be completely honest, seem bows to be terrible against nullifier bubbles in my experience so I wouldn't take a bow to a Corpus survival unless I had a side arm specifically for them.

I think the biggest problem with Cernos is that it's crit potential isn't as good as Paris P's or Dreads. But hey, it's still a cool looking bow and fun to use.