Cerata

Infested

Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cerata

Statistics

Utility

Normal Attacks

19.0

36.0

52.0

76.0

Throw Attacks

38.0

72.0

104.0

701.0

Slam Attacks

Radial Damage

183.0

Slam Radius

5.0 m

Heavy Attacks

Radial Damage

732.0

Slam Radius

6.0 m

Other Attacks

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Update 17.9

CODEX

Twisted and tortured from exposure to the Infestation, this glaive becomes an absolute predator in the hands of the right Tenno.

The Cerata is an Infested glaive that primarily deals Toxin damage on melee attacks and Puncture damage on thrown attacks.

Manufacturing Requirements
30,000	4	2,500	1,200	1	Time: 24 hrs
30,000	4	2,500	1,200	1	Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:50,000
Bio Lab Research 3,000
5,000	25	600	1,200	800	Time: 72 hrs
5,000	25	600	1,200	800	Prereq: Scoliac
x1 x3 x10 x30 x100

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals Toxin damage on melee attacks and primarily Puncture damage on thrown attacks.

Advantages:

Innate Toxin damage – effective against Flesh and Ferrite Armor and bypasses Shielded and Proto Shields.
Good critical chance.
Tied with Glaive Prime and Pathocyst for the highest status chance of all glaives.
- Can reach 100% status chance with Volcanic Edge, Vicious Frost, Voltaic Strike, and Virulent Scourge.
Possesses momentum during regular swings, which resists interruption such as stagger or knockdown.
Heavy Attack throws the glaive, which can bounce up to three times or travels up to 30 meters before returning to the user, damaging anyone in its path.
- Thrown glaive has high Puncture damage – effective against armor.
- Primary and secondary weapons can be fired and reloaded can be used normally with a thrown glaive, and retrieving the glaive does not interrupt these actions.
- Thrown glaive is silent.
- Glaive can explode mid-flight by pressing the melee button which also forces a return.
Can be wielded in-tandem with a single-handed secondary weapon.
Innate and polarities.

Disadvantages:

Second lowest base melee damage of all glaives, after Glaive and Kestrel.
Innate Toxin damage – less effective against Machinery, Robotic, and Fossilized.
- Melee damage cannot be increased with Impact, Puncture, or Slash damage mods.
Exploding glaive has low Impact and Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
Short melee range.
Cannot use melee attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight.

NotesEdit

The thrown attack deals physical damage, with Puncture damage as the dominant damage type.
- Physical damage mods (like Sundering Strike) increase this damage.
When combining elemental damage mods, the Cerata's innate Toxin damage is added last.
- The innate Toxin damage is ignored for elemental combinations when using throw attacks, thus the addition of a Toxin damage mod is required to maintain any Toxin-based elemental combos for the throw attack.
When equipping the Cerata, the player can throw it and then press the melee button to detonate the Cerata, dealing high AoE damage and making it return to the player immediately. This is true for all thrown melee weapons.
- This is very useful for regenerating health with Life Strike.
- It can explode in this manner when not equipped and thrown, but the explosion timing cannot be controlled and will often damage the user in close quarters.
- It should be however noted that finisher attacks can still be executed while the weapon is in the air.

TriviaEdit

Cerata (from the Greek word keras/keratos meaning “horn”, a reference to the shape of these structures) are anatomical structures found externally on nudibranches. They are typically used to aid respiration but are sometimes used for attack and defense.

BugsEdit

The Cerata will appear very small in the codex, after the selected Warframe holds the weapon upwards it will become normal sized again.

MediaEdit

Cerata in Codex.
Cerata Codex glitch

Warframe Cerata, But Can I Eat it Too? thequickdraw

Warframe Cerata

WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Cerata Charged Throw and Discharge

WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Cerata Charged Throw Navigator

Warframe Cerata Absolute Predator

Cerata Skins

Patch HistoryEdit

Update 26.0

As a general note, self damage has been removed from Glaive power throws. As this decision made it through the testing pipeline, some mentioned this impacts a specific Chroma interaction, but positively impacts 41 other Warframes.

Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 7.
Damage increased from 44 Toxin to 183 (19 Impact, 36 Puncture, 52 Slash, and 76 Toxin).
Range increased from 0.5 to 1.25
Slam Attack increased from 88 to 549
Slide Attack increased from 220 to 366.
Parry Angle set to 55.
Follow Through increased from 0.5 to 0.7.

Hotfix 24.5.3

Changed the Glaive recall to be done with Melee instead of Melee Channel so its consistent again (Channel being a toggle-only messed up this function).
Fixed an error where, after Dual-Wielding gun and Glaive, throwing the Glaive in the "normal" Melee only mode could result in a turbo throw that is only supposed to apply for Dual-Wield.