The Cronus is a ceramic sword wielded by Captain Vor.
It can be sold for 
5,000.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily 
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash damage – effective against health. - Good status chance.
- Stance slot has polarity, matches Crimson Dervish, Swooping Falcon and Vengeful Revenant.
- Innate polarity.
Disadvantages:
- Lowest base damage of all swords.
- Very low critical chance.
- Low critical multiplier.
- Below average attack speed.
Acquisition
The Cronus's main blueprint can be obtained from defeating Captain Vor on Tolstoj, Mercury.
| Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main Blueprint | 5% | 20 kills | 135 ± 45 kills |
All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official droptables.
Expected refers to total number of attempts a player can expect to need in order to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to receive at least one of each drop associated with the respective values.
For more detailed definitions and information on how these number were obtained, visit here.
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 15,000 |
 1 |
 500 |
 75 |
Time: 12 hrs | |
Rush:  25
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 Market Price: N/A
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 Blueprints Price:N/A
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Trivia[]
- Cronus (alternatively Cronos or Kronos) is the youngest of the twelve titans in Greek mythology and father of Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon.
- Since Update 7.8 (2013-04-19), the Cronus Blueprint will only be a guaranteed reward the first time Tolstoj is completed and its drop chance exponentially decreases with each repetition. This was put in place to prevent credit farming.
- The Cronus was the original melee weapon of the Stalker before update Update 7.11 (2013-05-17).
- Despite being classed as a Tenno weapon, the Cronus is wielded by Captain Vor, who is a Grineer.
- This would make Cronus the only weapon in the game to be used by an enemy whose faction is not related to the weapon itself.
Media[]
Cronus Skins
Patch History[]
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Damage increased from 35 to 106.
- Range increased from 1 to 2.5.
- Status Chance increased from 10% to 18%.
- Critical Chance increased from 5% to 6%.
- Slam Attack increased from 70 to 318.
- Slide Attack increased from 75 to 106.
- Parry Angle set to 55.
Update 7.8 (2013-04-19)
- The Cronus blueprint is now only a guaranteed drop the first time Tolstoj is completed; the percentage chance for it to drop continues to decrease on additional runs.
Vanilla (2012-10-25)
- Item introduced with game release.
See Also[]
- Dakra Prime, the possible Prime variant of this weapon
- Ceramic Dagger, the dagger variant.
- Captain Vor, the boss who uses the Cronus.
- Seer, another weapon wielded and dropped by Vor.
