Cernos Prime

Orokin

Weapons

Prime

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Cernos Prime

Statistics

Utility

Uncharged Shot

162.0

9.0

Charged Shot

324.0

18.0

Miscellaneous

Introduced

Hotfix 19.0.7

Variants

Cernos
Mutalist Cernos
Rakta Cernos

CODEX

A noble bow to hunt hellish beasts.

The Cernos Prime is the Prime variant of the Cernos. Aside from increased damage, the Cernos Prime is unique in that it fires three arrows per shot in a horizontal spread, and has an Alternate Fire mode that shoots vertically, and deals bonus damage on headshots.

On September 11th, 2018, it was announced that Cernos Prime would enter the Prime Vault and be retired from the reward tables on September 25th, 2018. Any preexisting components or fully-built weapons will remain as is.

Manufacturing Requirements

15,000

1

Time: 12 hrs

Rush:

50

Market Price:

N/A

Blueprints Price:N/A

Drop Locations

Blueprint	Lith A2 Uncommon (V) Lith Z1 Uncommon (V) Neo V7 Uncommon (V) Axi B1 Uncommon (V) Axi V4 Uncommon (V)
Grip	Meso V5 Common (V) Neo V4 Common (V) Neo V6 Common (V) Axi H3 Common (V) Axi K3 Common (V)
Lower Limb	Lith C2 Rare (V) Meso C3 Rare (V) Axi C1 Rare (V) Axi C2 Rare (V)
String	Lith B3 Uncommon (V) Meso O1 Uncommon (V) Meso S6 Uncommon (V) Neo A1 Uncommon (V) Axi A3 Uncommon (V) Axi K2 Uncommon (V)
Upper Limb	Lith V3 Common (V) Meso C2 Common (V) Meso K1 Common (V) Meso O2 Common (V) Meso S7 Common (V) Neo N6 Common (V) Axi N4 Common (V)

Lith/Meso/Neo/Axi refer to Void Relics
(V) Denotes Vaulted Void Relics
(B) Denotes Baro Ki'Teer Exclusive Void Relic

CharacteristicsEdit

This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.

Advantages:

Third highest base damage of all bows, behind Daikyu and Lenz.
- High Impact damage – effective against shields.
Shoots 3 arrows.
- Alternate Fire can toggle a horizontal or vertical spread shot.
Very high critical chance.
Very high status chance.
- Can reach 100% status chance with Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, and Malignant Force, making every arrow proc.
Deals 50% bonus damage on headshots.
Charged shots have innate 1 meter Punch Through.
Pinpoint accuracy when aiming (RMB ).
Silent.
On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging enemies in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
Innate two polarities.
Can use the bow-exclusive Thunderbolt mod.
Fire rate mods apply double their bonuses.

Disadvantages:

Low Puncture and Slash damage – less effective against armor and health.
Damage and status chance is split between each of its three arrows, requiring simultaneous hits to maximize damage and status procs, exacerbated by the large spread.
- Projectiles generated by multishot will deal the same damage as normal projectiles; adding multishot will not decrease the damage per arrow.
- Before 100% status chance, the listed status chance is the base chance per shot that at least one arrow will proc a status; the actual base status chance per arrow is ~11.21%.
Arrows have travel time with slight arcing.
Draws from the rare sniper ammo pool.

Comparisons:

Cernos Prime, compared to Cernos:
- Higher base damage (180.0 vs. 110.0)
  - Higher Impact damage (162.0 vs. 99.0)
  - Higher Puncture damage (9.0 vs. 5.5)
  - Higher Slash damage (9.0 vs. 5.5)
- Lower charged critical chance (35% vs. 36%)
- Higher charged status chance (30% vs. 18%)
- Higher charge attack damage (360.0 vs. 220.0)
- Higher base status chance (30% vs. 18%)
- Slower reload speed (0.65 s vs. 0.6 s)
- Different polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 6)

Cernos Prime, compared to Rakta Cernos:
- Higher base damage (180.0 vs. 150.0)
  - Higher Impact damage (162.0 vs. 135.0)
  - Higher Puncture damage (9.0 vs. 7.5)
  - Higher Slash damage (9.0 vs. 7.5)
- Higher charged status chance (30% vs. 15%)
- Higher charge attack damage (360.0 vs. 250.0)
- Slower charge time (0.5 s vs. 0.25 s)
- Lower base critical multiplier (1.5x vs. 2x)
- Higher base status chance (30% vs. 15%)
- Slower reload speed (0.65 s vs. 0.6 s)
- Lack of an innate Blight effect
- Different polarities ( vs. )

Weapon LoadoutsEdit

See Category:Cernos Prime Build to see how players mod this weapon.
See Category:Cernos Prime Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

NotesEdit

The Cernos Prime's shots fire multiple arrows in a fanning spread. The number of arrows is affected by multishot mods, similar to shotguns.
Alternate Fire toggles a Horizontal Spread or Vertical Spread fire.
Heavy Caliber will decrease accuracy by a small amount, making each arrow fire slightly off from its normal trajectory.
- As of Hotfix 19.11.2 this was increased dramatically, making the weapon act more like a wildly-spreading shotgun than a fan of arrows.
- The arrows seem to be spread in a formation where some arrows are lower than the others, rather than being wider spread than others, this might make it difficult to get headshots with multiple arrows.
- Although Heavy Caliber dramatically affects the Horizontal mode, firing the Cernos Prime in Vertical mode will shoot the arrows in a horizontal formation with great accuracy

TipsEdit

Cernos Prime is capable of orange crits with Point Strike and Argon Scope averaging approximately 1015 orange crit damage with a single arrow.
The horizontal arrow spread is effective against groups of enemies, while the vertical spread is effective against a single target.
While capable of reaching 100% status (before multishot) making every arrow proc, often the Cernos Prime's power comes with modding for Hunter Munitions, which is not affected by status chance. Building for Viral with Malignant Force and Rime Rounds is sufficient for the arrows to proc Viral often enough to half enemies health for the Slash procs brought on by Hunter Munitions to finish them off.