The Cestra is a Corpus-built sidearm added in Update 11.0. In essence, It is a scaled-down version of the 
Supra, where it has a brief spooling period before reaching its maximum fire rate.
This weapon can be sold for 
5,000; it is also a requisite ingredient for 
Dual Cestra (x2).
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 25,000 |  3,000 |  1,200 |  4 |  2 | Time: 24 hrs |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: 175
|  Blueprints Price: 20,000
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Characteristics
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This weapon deals primarily 
Puncture damage.
Advantages:
- High Puncture damage – effective against armor.
- High status chance.
- High magazine size.
- Very high accuracy.
- Fast fire rate.
Disadvantages:
- Low Impact and no Slash damage – less effective against shields and health.
- Does not benefit from Slash mods.
- Does not benefit from
- Projectiles have travel time.
- Very low critical chance.
- Below average critical multiplier.
- Has a short spool-up time before reaching optimal fire rate.
- High recoil when fully spooled.
- Poor ammo economy.
Comparisons:
- Cestra, compared to Dual Cestra:
- Lower fire rate (8.33 rounds/sec vs. 12.5 rounds/sec)
- Smaller magazine (60 rounds vs. 120 rounds)
- Smaller max ammo capacity (420 rounds vs. 480 rounds)
- Faster reload speed (2 s vs. 3.5 s)
- More accurate (33 vs. 20)
- Different polarities (None vs. )
- Lower Mastery Rank required (4 vs. 7)
Weapon LoadoutsEdit
- See Category:Cestra Build to see how players mod this weapon.
- See Category:Cestra 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
- Despite the high rate of fire, there is a significant and mandatory pause between releasing the fire button and being able to fire again, limiting the Cestra's ability to fire single shots or short bursts.
TipsEdit
- If you are planning to make extensive use of this weapon, Heated Charge and/or Expel Infested will be necessary to fight the Infested; as this weapon has no Slash Damage, neither Razor Shot nor Maim will have any effect.
- Pistol Ammo Mutation (or its Primed counterpart), Trick Mag, Pistol Scavenger or Squad Ammo Restores will be necessary to counteract the high rate of ammo consumption.
- While having good base accuracy, the Cestra has significant recoil that scatters its shots, making it ineffective for long range shooting. Steady Hands is a must if one plans to utilize the Cestra's high base accuracy effectively.
- To counteract the pause that occurs between releasing and pressing the fire button, use fire rate mods like Gunslinger or Lethal Torrent
TriviaEdit
- The Cestra's barrel rotates clockwise slowly when not in use, and spins faster as it is fired.
- The reload animation consists of the player pulling out the barrel, flipping it and reinserting it back into the Cestra, oddly making the revolving barrel the magazine itself.
- This may suggest that the cylinder may be composed of two separate batteries; one used to fire plasma shots while the other is collecting energy from the ammunition reserve of the user.
- The Cestra may be a numeral-derived name, just like other Corpus-designed weapons released around the time: the Tetra, which has a barrel with four blocks attached and a "quad-chambered magazine"; and the Penta, which has a five-grenade magazine. Cestra may be a corruption of Sexa-/Sext-, from sixth, and has a rotating section with six blocks.
- While Tetra- and Penta- are Greek numeral prefixes, Sexa-/Sext- is a Latin numeral prefix. The appropriate Greek prefix would be Hexa-.
BugsEdit
- Currently, the Cestra and its counterparts ( Dual Cestra and Secura Dual Cestra) cannot increase the damage of Antimatter Drop.
- When holding a Datamass in a mission, the Datamass will spin whilst reloading.
MediaEdit
Warframe Cestra
Warframe 11 ♠ Cestra
Warframe - Gameplay & Information Cestra (Full-Auto Pistol)
Warframe - All Corpus Secondaries - Weapon Animations & Sounds (2013 - 2019)
Cestra Skins
Patch HistoryEdit
Update 22.12
- Increased the speed fire rate ramps up.
- Status chance increased from 5% to 20%.
- Critical chance increased from 2.5% to 6%.
- Critical damage increased from 1.5 to 1.6x.
- Ammo capacity increased from 210 to 420.
- Cestra's conclave magazine reduced from 60 to 30.
- Fixed weapon skins not properly attaching to the Cestra.
- Fixed the Cestra’s barrel not properly sitting in the correct position after a reload.
- Reduced the damage of all Cestra weapons in PvP.
- Made various audio adjustments to the Cestra.
- Limited the max instances of Cestra fire sound effects.
- Fixed an issue with Cestra's barrel disappearing if a reload animation is interrupted.
- Introduced.
Last updated: Hotfix 24.1.5
See alsoEdit
- Supra, the Rifle version of this weapon.
- Dual Cestra, the dual wield version of this weapon.
- Secura Dual Cestra, the custom dual wield version of this weapon, used by The Perrin Sequence.
Start a Discussion Discussions about Cestra
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Cestra and Dual Cestra
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I'm just wondering why the Cestra is in the market but if you want 2 you need a dojo research for it... game logic? :P -
Dual Cestra was probably released on a later date than the single one. Since it is somehow of an advanced version and a corpus weapon it´s...
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Does the Cestra have a short "spin up" time? Are we being subjective by call it "short"?
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http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Cestra After experiencing the default Cestra and comparing it to other spin up weapons, I really have to won...
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Actually the Cestra has really good damage for a secondary. The fire rate is also really good and don't forget the 60 rounds magazine...
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