Cernos

"Evoking the design of ancient bows, the high impact Cernos is perfect for hunting down highly shielded enemies."

- In-Game Description

Cernos is a Tenno weapon, along with the Soma, Vectis, Tigris and its relative bow, the Paris.

This weapon can be sold for.

Characteristics
This weapon deals mostly Impact damage.

Advantages:
 * Silent.
 * Fast charge attacks.
 * High Impact damage, good for shields.
 * Good critical chance (average for bows).
 * Can deal damage to enemies behind your target (caused by flying bodies).
 * Has one polarity.
 * In comparison to Paris:
 * Higher status chance.
 * Higher Charged Critical damage and chance.

Disadvantages:
 * Needs to be charged to deal max damage.
 * Low Puncture and Slash damage.
 * Low critical damage compared to Dread and Paris Prime.
 * Its Impact damage deals 25% less damage to unarmored, non-infested enemies.
 * Slow firerate renders the Cernos ill-suited for close-range combat.
 * In comparison to Paris:
 * Weaker physical damage.
 * Less effective against non-Corpus enemies.

Acquisition
Cernos can be purchased for and the blueprints for.

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

Tips

 * Due to the weapon's high Impact damage but low Puncture and Slash damage, consider using this to drain the enemies' shield first then finish them with other weapons which have higher damage where the Cernos lacks.

Trivia

 * The name "Cernos" means "See" in Latin.