Proboscis Cernos

Infested Weapons

For the Helminth Charger mod, see Proboscis.

Proboscis Cernos
Statistics
Mastery	15
Slot	Primary
Type	Bow
Trigger Type	Charge
Utility
Ammo Type	Sniper
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Noise Level	Silent
Fire Rate	1
Accuracy	16.7
Magazine Size	1
Max Ammo	9
Reload Time	0.6 s
Disposition	●○○○○ (0.55x)
Charged Shot
103.2
30.7
145.1
Total Damage	279 ( 52.01%)
Trigger Type	Charge
Projectile Type	Projectile
Projectile Speed	? m/s
Fire Rate	1
Charge Time	0.7 s
Status Chance	43%
Crit Chance	7%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Charged Shot Explosion
1,003
Total Damage	1,003
Projectile Type	AoE
Fire Rate	1
Status Chance	43%
Crit Chance	7%
Crit Multiplier	1.9x
Radius	7 m
Damage Falloff	100% damage to 0 m 50% damage past 7 m
Miscellaneous
Exilus Polarity
Polarities
Introduced	Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)
Variants	Cernos Prime  Cernos  Mutalist Cernos  Rakta Cernos

CODEX

Each arrow spawns a swarm of sticky appendages on impact. These tongue-like probes latch onto nearby unfortunates and drag them close before bursting into a mess of diseased goo.

The Proboscis Cernos is an enhanced Mutalist Cernos Mutalist Cernos that launches appendages that pulls enemies in towards its zone of impact before releasing a large Viral Damage Viral explosion.

Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily Viral Damage Viral and Slash Damage Slash damage.

Advantages:

• High Slash Damage Slash and Impact Damage Impact damage – effective against health and shields.
• Third highest status chance of all bows, behind Daikyu Daikyu and Mutalist Cernos 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.
    • Appendages tick damage twice on all affected enemies before exploding.
    • Ticks do 90 damage, with a distribution of 56.25% Slash Damage Slash and 43.75% Viral Damage Viral.
  • Explosion has innate Viral Damage Viral damage – effective against Flesh and Cloned Flesh.
  • Explosion delay reduces likelihood of inflicting self-stagger.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
• Heavy Caliber 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 Firestorm (Primed Firestorm Primed) and Cautious Shot Cautious Shot.
• Fire rate mods apply double their bonuses.
• Innate two polarities.

Disadvantages:

• Low Puncture Damage Puncture damage – less effective against armor.
• Explosion has innate Viral Damage Viral damage – less effective against Machinery and Infested.
  • Explosion damage cannot be increased with Impact Damage Impact, Puncture Damage Puncture or Slash Damage Slash mods.
• Lowest critical chance of all bows.
• Below average critical multiplier.
• Third slowest charge speed of all bows, after Daikyu Daikyu and Lenz 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 Amalgam Furax Body Count.

Acquisition

The Proboscis Cernos's blueprint can be purchased from the Market.

Manufacturing Requirements
15,000	1	1,600	5	25,000	Time: 12 hrs
					Rush: 35
Market Price: 245			Blueprints Price:30,000

Notes

• 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 Thunderbolt causes the arrow to explode immediately after landing.
• Firestorm Firestorm only affects the radius of the final blast, and does not increase the range of appendages.

Tips

• Because of the weapon's appendages pulling enemies into a cluster, it synergizes extremely well with Warframe ability augment mods that require enemies within the said abilities' area-of-effect to trigger, such as Spectrosiphon Spectrosiphon and Pilfering Swarm Pilfering Swarm.
• Good primary weapon choice for Specters, because of its crowd control abilities and high base damage.
• Can be used to pull enemies into Xaku Xaku's Gaze to ensure their armor is reduced (or removed) before the explosion takes place.

Trivia

• A Proboscis is the elongated, tube-like mouthpart on insects like butterflies, mosquitoes, etc.

Media

• Proboscis Cernos when equipped in the arsenal
• The quiver for Proboscis Cernos

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Patch History

Hotfix 29.5.1 (2020-11-19)

• Removed Proboscis Cernos from Conclave.

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

• Introduced.

See Also

• Cernos Cernos, the normal counterpart.
• Rakta Cernos Rakta Cernos, the Red Veil custom counterpart.
• Cernos Prime Cernos Prime, the Primed counterpart.
• Mutalist Cernos Mutalist Cernos, another Infested Cernos counterpart that is used as a requisite ingredient.