Cernos Prime

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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	1	1	1	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 50
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price:N/A
Drop Locations Blueprint Neo S13 Uncommon Lith A2 Uncommon (V) Lith Z1 Uncommon (V) Neo V7 Uncommon (V) Axi B1 Uncommon (V) Axi V4 Uncommon (V) Grip Lith V6 Common Axi S5 Common Meso V5 Common (V) Neo V4 Common (V) Neo V6 Common (V) Axi H3 Common (V) Axi K3 Common (V) Lower Limb Lith C5 Rare Lith C2 Rare (V) Meso C3 Rare (V) Axi C1 Rare (V) Axi C2 Rare (V) String Meso N8 Uncommon 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 Meso N8 Common 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 (276.0 vs. 190.0)
    • Higher Impact damage (248.4 vs. 171.0)
    • Higher Puncture damage (13.8 vs. 9.5)
    • Higher Slash damage (13.8 vs. 9.5)
  • Lower charged critical chance (35% vs. 36%)
  • Higher charged status chance (30% vs. 18%)
  • Higher charge attack damage (552.0 vs. 380.0)
  • Lower base critical chance (35% vs. 36%)
  • 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 (276.0 vs. 235.0)
    • Higher Impact damage (248.4 vs. 211.5)
    • Higher Puncture damage (13.8 vs. 11.75)
    • Higher Slash damage (13.8 vs. 11.75)
  • Higher charged status chance (30% vs. 15%)
  • Higher charge attack damage (552.0 vs. 470.0)
  • Slower charge time (0.5 s vs. 0.25 s)
  • 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.

MediaEdit

• Cernos Prime in Codex.

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Patch HistoryEdit

Last updated: Update 23.9

See alsoEdit

• Cernos, the normal counterpart.
• Rakta Cernos, the Red Veil custom counterpart.
• Mutalist Cernos, the Infested counterpart.

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