Dual Cleavers

Grineer Weapons

CONCLAVE (PvP)

Dual Cleavers
Untradeable
General Information
Type	Dual Swords
Mastery	5
Slot	Melee
Utility
Block Angle	60°
Combo Duration	5 s
Disposition	⬤⬤⬤⬤◯ (1.20x)
Attack Speed	0.833
Follow Through	50%
Range	1.7 m
Noise Level	Silent
Normal Attack
23.55
23.55
109.9
Total Damage	157 (70%)
Crit Chance	25%
Crit Multiplier	3x
Attack Speed	0.833
Noise Level	Silent
Status Chance	10%
Heavy Attack
Heavy Damage	628
Slam Damage	628
Radial Damage	628
Slam Radius	9 m
Wind-up	0.7 s
Slam Attack
Slam Damage	314
Slam Radius	8 m
Radial Damage	157
Slide Attack
Slide Damage	314
Miscellaneous
Riven Family	Dual Cleavers
Exilus Polarity	None
Introduced	Update 8.0 (2013-05-23)
Polarities
Stance Polarity
Users	Butcher Corrupted Butcher
Variants	Prisma Dual Cleavers
Vendor Sources

CODEX

Butcher your foes with brutal blades in each hand.

The Dual Cleavers are  Grineer blades, with singles used by Butchers.

This weapon can be sold for 5,000 Credits 5,000. It is also a requisite ingredient for  Ripkas.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High  Slash damage – effective against health.
• Very high critical chance and critical multiplier.
• Can use the Dual Cleavers-exclusive  Justice Blades mod.
• Stance slot has a polarity, matches  Crossing Snakes,  Carving Mantis and  Dividing Blades stances.
• Innate polarity.

Disadvantages:

• Low  Impact and  Puncture damage – less effective against shields and armor.
• Low status chance.
• Tied with  Dual Skana and  Dex Dakra for the slowest attack speed of all dual swords.

Comparisons:

• Dual Cleavers (Normal Attack), compared to Prisma Dual Cleavers (Normal Attack):
  • Higher base damage per projectile (157 vs. 133)
    • Higher  Impact damage (23.55 vs. 13.3)
    • Higher  Puncture damage (23.55 vs. 13.3)
    • Higher  Slash damage (109.9 vs. 106.4)
  • Higher total damage (157 vs. 133)
  • Lower base status chance (10.00% vs. 25.00%)
  • Higher average damage per tap (235.5 vs. 199.5)
  • Lower burst DPS (196.17 vs. 199.5)
  • Lower sustained DPS (196.17 vs. 199.5)
  • Lower attack speed (0.83 vs. 1)
  • Lower Mastery Rank required (5 vs. 9)
  • Higher disposition (●●●●○ (1.20x) vs. ●●●○○ (1.10x))

Acquisition

The Dual Cleavers's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.

Manufacturing Requirements
20,000	5	1,000	800	1,200	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 40
Market Price: 225			Blueprints Price:25,000

Trivia

• The Dual Cleavers' glowing blade is believed to stem from a super-heated element in the blade, a trait shared with two other Grineer melee weapons: the  Machete and the  Sheev.

Media

Dual Cleavers

Dual Cleavers sheathed

Dual Cleavers (Frost) by Xodahs

Dual Cleavers Skins Edit

Nightwatch

Cyskis

Nari & Vali

Patch History

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

• Mastery Rank increased from 3 to 5.
• Damage increased from 35 to 157.
• Range increased from 1 to 1.7.
• Slam Attack increased from 70 to 314.
• Slide Attack increased from 210 to 314.
• Parry Angle set to 60.
• (Undocumented) Follow Through decreased from 0.6 to 0.5.

Update 8.0 (2013-05-23)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)

See Also

• Butcher, a Grineer melee unit who uses a single Cleaver.
•  Justice Blades, a Dual Cleavers exclusive Syndicate mod.
•  Prisma Dual Cleavers, the Void Trader exclusive Prisma version.