Cerata

Infested Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cerata
Untradeable
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General Information
Type	Glaive
Mastery Rank Requirement	7
Max Rank	30
Slot	Melee
Trigger Type	N/A
Utility
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Block Angle	55°
Combo Duration	5.0 s
Disposition	●●●●○ (1.25x)
Follow Through	0.7x
Range	1.25 m
Noise Level	Silent
Sweep Radius	0.25 m
Normal Attack
19 ( 10.38%)
36 ( 19.67%)
52 ( 28.42%)
76 ( 41.53%)
Total Damage	183 (41.53%  Toxin)
Attack Speed	1.00x animation speed
Crit Chance	15.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.00x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	30.00%
Throw
33 ( 16.42%)
39 ( 19.4%)
52 ( 25.87%)
77 ( 38.31%)
Total Damage	201 (38.31%  Toxin)
Crit Chance	19.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.10x
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Range	34.0 m
Status Chance	33.00%
Projectile Speed	35.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Thrown
Throw Bounce Explosion
333 ( 100%)
Total Damage	333 (100.00%  Toxin)
Crit Chance	19.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.10x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 4.8 m (70.00%)
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Range	4.8 m
Status Chance	33.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Throw Recall Explosion
666 ( 100%)
Total Damage	666 (100.00%  Toxin)
Crit Chance	19.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.10x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 4.8 m (100.00%)
Fire Rate	1.000 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Toxin,  Impact
Noise Level	Silent
Range	4.8 m
Status Chance	33.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Charged Throw
46 ( 11.44%)
80 ( 19.9%)
114 ( 28.36%)
162 ( 40.3%)
Total Damage	402 (40.30%  Toxin)
Charge Time	1.2 s
Crit Chance	21.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.30x
Fire Rate	0.833 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Toxin,  Impact
Noise Level	Silent
Punch Through	1.0 m
Range	34.0 m
Status Chance	34.00%
Projectile Speed	45.0 m/s
Projectile Type	Thrown
Charged Throw Bounce Explosion
666 ( 100%)
Total Damage	666 (100.00%  Toxin)
Charge Time	1.2 s
Crit Chance	21.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.30x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 4.8 m (70.00%)
Fire Rate	0.833 attacks/sec
Noise Level	Silent
Range	4.8 m
Status Chance	34.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Charged Throw Recall Explosion
1,318 ( 100%)
Total Damage	1,318 (100.00%  Toxin)
Charge Time	1.2 s
Crit Chance	21.00%
Crit Multiplier	2.30x
Damage Falloff	0.0 m (100%) - 4.8 m (100.00%)
Fire Rate	0.833 attacks/sec
Forced Procs	Toxin,  Impact
Noise Level	Silent
Range	4.8 m
Status Chance	34.00%
Projectile Type	AoE
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	0
Slam Damage	732
Radial Damage	732
Slam Radius	6.0 m
Wind-up	1.2 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	549
Slam Radius	5.0 m
Radial Damage	183
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	183
Slide Element	Toxin
Miscellaneous
Compatibility Tags	GLAIVES_STANCE
Riven Family	Cerata
Introduced	Update 17.9 (2015-10-28)
Polarities
Sell Price	5,000
Stance Polarity
Variants	Cerata
Vendor Sources
Article Categories
Weapons Infested Weapons Toxin Damage Weapons Glaive Cerata Melee Weapons N/A Weapons Base Silent Weapons Weapons with Area of Effect Untradeable Weapons Available In Conclave

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  damage on melee attacks and damage on thrown attacks.

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
30,000	4	2,500	1,200	1	Time: 1 Day(s)
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 150			Blueprints Price:50,000
Bio Lab Research3,000
5,000	25	600	1,200	800	Time: 3 Day(s)
					Prereq: Scoliac
x1   x3   x10   x30   x100

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages:

• Innate damage – effective against Flesh and Ferrite Armor and bypasses Shielded and Proto Shields.
• High damage – effective against health.
• Good critical chance.
• Tied with  Glaive Prime and  Pathocyst for the second highest status chance of all glaives, behind  Falcor.
  • Can reach over 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.
  • 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:

• Innate damage – less effective against Machinery, Robotic, and Fossilized.
• Low damage – less effective against shields.
• Exploding glaive has low and damage – less effective against shields and health.
• Cannot use melee attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.

Notes

• The thrown attack deals physical damage, with damage as the dominant damage type.
  • Physical damage mods (like  Sundering Strike) increase this damage.
• When combining elemental damage mods, the Cerata's innate damage is added last.
  • The innate damage is ignored for elemental combinations when using throw attacks, thus the addition of a damage mod is required to maintain any -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.

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

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Patch History

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)