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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.
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Impact damage.
Advantages:
- Fourth highest base damage of all bows, behind Daikyu , Lenz and Kuva Bramma.
- Shoots 3 arrows.
- Alternate Fire can toggle a horizontal or vertical spread shot.
- Very high critical chance.
- Very high overall status chance.
- 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 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.
- 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)
- 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)
- Lower disposition (1.2 vs. 1.25)
- Cernos Prime, compared to Rakta Cernos:
- Higher base damage (276.0 vs. 235.0)
- 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
- Can reach over 100% status chance with:
- Four of the following: Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, Malignant Force, or Catalyzer Link.
- Rifle Aptitude and Hammer Shot combined with two of Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, Malignant Force, or Catalyzer Link.
- Rifle Aptitude or Hammer Shot combined with three of Thermite Rounds, Rime Rounds, High Voltage, Malignant Force, or Catalyzer Link.
- Four of the following:
- 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 increase the damage from Slash procs brought on by Hunter Munitions to finish them off.
MediaEdit
Warframe - All Prime Primaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Cernos Prime Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Hotfix 27.2.1
- Increased Cernos Prime 10% Status Chance per projectile to 30% Status Chance per projectile.
- Greater than 100% Status having meaning
Shotguns have a unique Role here based on a very patch-work history with how they interact with Status Chance. A Shotgun that shoots 99% Status Chance would give you 35% (roughly) status per pellet. 100% Status Gives you 100% Status per pellet. This huge jump in performance happens with just a 1% gain - why? Well, to answer that we have to look at our choice to make what the UI conveys reality. It would feel broken to shoot a Shotgun with 100% Status and not see a perfect spread of Effects. In reality, to make Status consistent we have to treat Shotguns as a special case.
Shotguns as a special case means we have buffed the Status Chance of all Shotguns by x3 or greater. The UI now behaves to show the reality that you are determining Status Chance per pellet.
- Normalized quick shots to have the same critical chance/damage and status chance as charged shots.
- While reviewing Bow stats the team has also refreshed all their FX (including the Lenz)!
- Quick Shot increased from 60 to 92
- Charged Shot increased from 120 to 184
- Flight Speed increased from 85 to 95
- Tightened the spread of the vertical fire mode and made the top arrow land on the reticle instead of the middle
- Fixed Cernos Prime equipped with Heavy Caliber causing Vertical Spread mode to function as a Horizontal Spread.
- Fixed an issue with Cernos Prime arrows fired by Mirage's Hall of Mirrors clones always hitting the floor.
- Fixed the Cernos (Prime) Energy color persisting as default on the strings.
- Cernos Prime has entered the Prime Vault.
- Fixed Cernos Prime’s vertical spread not using equipped arrow Skins.
- Cernos Prime Alt Fire is now silent as intended.
- Fixed numerous projectile weapons (Cernos Prime, etc) having incorrect Status Chance calculations.
- Mastery Rank increased from 8 to 12.
- Charge speed increased from 1s to 0.5s.
- Status chance increased from 10% to 30%.
- Reload speed increased from 1s to 0.7s (in note put 0.65).
- Added Secondary Fire Mode toggle that shoots a vertical spread of 3 arrows.
- Added innate +50% damage to headshots.
- Released via Valkyr Prime Access.
- Removed an unreleased Relic from the wild.
- Parts and Relics loaded to the build.
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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