- For the Helminth Charger mod, see Proboscis.
The Proboscis Cernos is an enhanced Mutalist Cernos that launches appendages that pulls enemies in towards its zone of impact before releasing a large
Viral explosion.
Characteristics[edit | edit source]
This weapon deals primarily Viral and
Slash damage.
Advantages:
- High
Slash and
Impact damage – effective against health and shields.
- Third highest status chance of all bows, behind
Daikyu and
Mutalist Cernos.
- Arrows explode in a 7 meter radius after 1.7 seconds on impacting a surface or enemy.
- Impact releases appendages that stuns and pulls all enemies within 9 meters towards the impact zone.
- Explosion has innate
Viral damage – effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
- Explosion delay reduces likelihood of inflicting self-stagger.
Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
- Silent.
- On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging enemies in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
- Can benefit from
Firestorm (
Primed) and
Cautious Shot.
- Fire rate mods apply double their bonuses.
- Innate two
polarities.
Disadvantages:
- Low
Puncture damage – less effective against armor.
- Explosion has innate
Viral damage – less effective against Machinery and Infested.
- Lowest critical chance of all bows.
- Below average critical multiplier.
- Third slowest charge speed of all bows, after
Daikyu and
Lenz.
- Cannot be fired at partial charge.
- Arrows have travel time with slight arcing.
- Very low ammo reserves.
- Draws ammo from the rare sniper ammo pool.
- Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
- Explosion has linear damage falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.
- Explosion range cannot be increased with
Amalgam Furax Body Count.
Acquisition[edit | edit source]
The Proboscis Cernos's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.
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Time: 12 hrs |
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Notes[edit | edit source]
- Each tick and the final explosion can damage and proc status independently.
- Tendrils do not require line of sight to latch onto enemies, but cannot pull enemies through walls.
- Will not pull or damage enemies inside a Nullifier bubble. Will deal damage to the bubble on the arrow hit and on explosion, but not on pre-explosion damage ticks. This is the case whether firing outside the bubble or from within the bubble.
Thunderbolt causes the arrow to explode immediately after landing.
Firestorm only affects the radius of the final blast, and does not increase the range of appendages.
Tips[edit | edit source]
- Good primary weapon choice for Specters, because of its crowd control abilities and high base damage.
- Can be used to pull enemies into
Xaku's Gaze to ensure their armor is reduced (or removed) before the explosion takes place.
Media[edit | edit source]
Patch History[edit | edit source]
See Also[edit | edit source]
Cernos, the normal counterpart.
Rakta Cernos, the Red Veil custom counterpart.
Cernos Prime, the Primed counterpart.
Mutalist Cernos, another Infested Cernos counterpart that is used as a requisite ingredient.
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