Cerata

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cerata
Statistics
Mastery	7
Slot	Melee
Type	Glaive
Utility
Projectile Type	Thrown
Projectile Speed	35 m/s
Noise Level	Alarming
Attack Speed	1
Range	1.25 m
Combo Duration	5 s
Block Angle	55°
Follow Through	70%
Disposition	●●●●● (1.36x)
Normal
19
36
52
76
Total Damage	183 (41.53%)
Attack Speed	1
Status Chance	30%
Crit Chance	15%
Crit Multiplier	2x
Throw
33
39
52
77
Total Damage	201 (38.31%)
Projectile Type	Thrown
Projectile Speed	35 m/s
Range	34 m
Attack Speed	1
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	19%
Crit Multiplier	2.1x
Throw Explosion
666
Total Damage	666
Projectile Type	AoE
Forced Procs	Toxin Damage Toxin, Impact Damage Impact
Range	4.8 m
Attack Speed	1
Status Chance	33%
Crit Chance	19%
Crit Multiplier	2.1x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 100% damage at 4.8 m 0% max reduction
Charged Throw
46
80
114
162
Total Damage	402 (40.3%)
Projectile Type	Thrown
Projectile Speed	35 m/s
Forced Procs	Toxin Damage Toxin, Impact Damage Impact
Range	34 m
Attack Speed	0.833
Charge Time	1.2 s
Status Chance	34%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	2.3x
Punch Through	1 m
Charged Throw Explosion
1,318
Total Damage	1,318
Projectile Type	AoE
Forced Procs	Toxin Damage Toxin, Impact Damage Impact
Range	4.8 m
Attack Speed	0.833
Charge Time	1.2 s
Status Chance	34%
Crit Chance	21%
Crit Multiplier	2.3x
Damage Falloff	100% damage up to 0 m 100% damage at 4.8 m 0% max reduction
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	0
Wind-up	1.2 s
Slam Damage	732
Slam Radius	6 m
Radial Damage	732
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	549
Slam Radius	5 m
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	Toxin Damage Toxin366
Miscellaneous
Stance Polarity
Exilus Polarity	None
Polarities
Introduced	Update 17.9 (2015-10-28)
Internal Name	/Lotus/Weapons/Infested/Melee/Glaives/PunctureGlaive/PunctureGlaiveWeapon

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 Toxin damage on melee and thrown attacks.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Toxin Damage Toxin damage.

Advantages:

• Innate Toxin Damage Toxin damage – effective against Flesh and bypasses Shields and Proto Shields.
• High Slash Damage Slash damage – effective against health.
• Good critical chance.
• Tied with Glaive Prime Glaive Prime and Pathocyst Pathocyst for the second highest status chance of all glaives, behind Falcor Falcor.
• Can be wielded in-tandem with a single-handed secondary weapon.
• Holding the melee button throws the glaive, which can bounce up to three times, travel up to 26 meters uncharged, and 33 meters fully charged before returning to the user, damaging anyone in its path. Meleeing while the glaive is in mid-flight commands it to return.
  • Primary and secondary weapons can be fired and reloaded normally with a thrown glaive, and retrieving the glaive does not interrupt these actions. Additional throws can also be "buffered" while the glaive is in mid-flight.
  • Innate 1 meter punch through.
  • Thrown glaive is silent.
  • Heavy Attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight produce a 4.8 meter explosion and forces the glaive to return.
    • Explosion has guaranteed Toxin Damage Toxin proc.
    • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
    • No damage falloff.
• Can use the Glaive-exclusive mods Combo Fury Combo Fury, Power Throw Power Throw, Quick Return Quick Return (Volatile Quick Return Volatile), Rebound Rebound (Volatile Rebound Volatile), and Whirlwind Whirlwind.
• Innate and polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Innate Toxin Damage Toxin damage – less effective against Machinery, Robotic, and Fossilized.
• Low Impact Damage Impact damage – less effective against shields.
• Exploding glaive has low Impact Damage Impact and Slash Damage Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
• Cannot use melee attacks or block while the glaive is in mid-flight.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.

Acquisition

The Cerata's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.

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

Notes

• When combining elemental damage mods, the Cerata's innate Toxin Damage Toxin damage is added last.
  • The innate Toxin Damage Toxin damage is ignored for elemental combinations when using throw attacks, thus the addition of a Toxin Damage Toxin damage mod is required to maintain any Toxin Damage 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 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.

Trivia

• 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.

Bugs

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

  

Media

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 Edit

Proto-Glaive

Patch History

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

MELEE / PRIMARY BALANCE CHANGES

In late 2020, we reworked the Glaive melee class to be more powerful and comfortable to use. Overall, we feel these changes had their intended effect as weapons like the Glaive Prime skyrocketed from obscurity to the top of the pile with their newfound ability to inflict huge damage using heavy attacks.

However, these changes also introduced a common issue: players with high melee attack speed would sometimes accidentally throw their Glaives when trying to perform simple melee strikes, and the “catch and release” mechanic sometimes resulted in multiple unintended throws. In reviewing our Melee system, we felt it was a good opportunity to address this concern, while also doing a balancing pass to reflect the power in this newly reworked melee class.

That said, our two changes to Glaives go hand in hand:

First, the heavy attack wind-up speed is being increased from 0.6 seconds to 1.2 seconds. With more time on the wind-up, it is much harder to accidentally throw when you are trying to swing.

With this increased wind-up speed, players are also more capable of performing quick throws. Right now the damage on quick throws is very close to fully charged, so in order to encourage more meaningful choice, our second change is to reduce quick throw damage to approximately 50% of the maximum charge. Exact number changes are as follows:

Cerata
Direct Hit Damage from 366 to 201
Radial Damage from 549 to 333

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

• Added guaranteed Toxin proc on Heavy Attack Detonation.
• Increased Critical Damage from 2.2 to 2.3x of throw.
• Reduced AoE fall off from 50% to 30%.
• Removed falloff from Throw Explosion and Charged Throw Explosion damage.
• (Undocumented) Throw Explosion damage increased from 549 to 1,098 Toxin damage.
• (Undocumented) Charged Throw Explosion damage increased from 659 to 1,318 Toxin damage.
• (Undocumented) Charged Throw and Charged Throw Explosion critical multiplier increased from 2.2x to 2.3x.

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)
Reduced the following AoE weapons Radial Damage Falloff from central impact that were all previously 90%:

• Cerata: 50%

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

Self Damage Changes

We are getting rid of Self Damage and replacing it with something else: instead of Self Damage, it’s now ‘Stagger’. This change completely removes the chance of killing yourself, and instead now creates scenarios where you will interrupt yourself - or ‘Stagger’ - to varying degrees if you aren’t careful.

The degrees of Self-Interrupt start with a small stumble all the way to full knockdown depending on how close you are to the center of explosion. Any Mods referring to Self Damage will be converted to acknowledge Stagger.

With this Self-Interrupt system, we have added dozens of new recovery animations that harness a ninja-like recovery experience. By pressing ‘Jump’ at the correct time, you can execute a ninja-skill-based knockdown recovery to ALL in-game knockdowns. This ninja recovery window is indicated by a glowing FX on your Warframe.

In the original Dev Workshop, we said:
As a result of this overall systemic change, Weapons with Stagger will be getting approximately a 20% buff in Damage, with any weapons with AOE receiving a 50% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact.

This is no longer accurate after continued testing. What we are doing now is:

No damage buffs have been added, but any weapons with AOE are receiving ~20% increase in Radius. Additionally, AOE weapons are receiving a 90% Radial Damage Falloff from central impact. This means on the very outer section of the explosion Radius 10% of the Damage will be dealt. Tactics will be deadly - aim true, Tenno.

Why: Several players brought up the history of the Tonkor and we want to make sure we ship this change in a place that’s conservative in its starting point from a balance perspective. The complete removal of Self Damage does change the pace of destruction with some of the game’s most powerful weapons, so we want to make sure we can iterate upwardly instead of releasing a bonanza of explosions with no other choices.

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
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 (2019-03-19)

• 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.

Update 17.9 (2015-10-28)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)