The Rakta Cernos is a modified Cernos bow exclusively available to the Red Veil. It features the fastest charge time of all bows, increased base damage, and innate Blight effect, at the expense of slightly lower critical chance and status chance.
Characteristics[]
This weapon deals primarily Impact damage.
Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Innate Blight effect.
- Uncharged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Very high crit chance (35.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- High total damage (235)
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- High crit chance (35.00%)
- Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
- High total damage (470)
Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):
- Innate Blight effect can put enemies into minor alert status during stealth.
- Uncharged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Low ammo max (72)
- Very low fire rate (1.000 attacks/sec)
- Low status chance (15.00%)
- Charged Shot (wiki attack index 2)
- Very low magazine (1)
- Low ammo max (72)
- Very low fire rate (1.000 attacks/sec)
- Low status chance (15.00%)
- Below average crit multiplier (2.00x)
Comparisons:
- Rakta Cernos (Charged Shot), compared to Cernos (Charged Shot):
- Higher base damage per projectile (470.00 vs. 380.00)
- Higher total damage (470 vs. 380)
- Lower base critical chance (35.00% vs. 36.00%)
- Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 18.00%)
- Higher average damage per tap (634.5 vs. 516.8)
- Higher burst DPS (1057.5 vs. 861.33)
- Higher sustained DPS (746.47 vs. 469.81)
- Greater projectile speed (100.0 m/s vs. 90.0 m/s)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Higher Mastery Rank required (12 vs. 6)
- Lower disposition (●●●●○ (1.25x) vs. ●●●●○ (1.30x))
- Innate Blight effect
- Rakta Cernos (Charged Shot), compared to Cernos Prime (Charged Horizontal/Vertical Shot):
- Higher base damage per projectile (470.00 vs. 184.00)
- Lower total damage (470 vs. 552)
- Lower base status chance (15.00% vs. 30.00%)
- Lower average damage per tap (634.5 vs. 745.2)
- Lower burst DPS (1057.5 vs. 1146.46)
- Higher sustained DPS (746.47 vs. 648)
- Lower multishot (1 vs. 3)
- Faster reload time (0.60 s vs. 0.65 s)
- Greater projectile speed (100.0 m/s vs. 95.0 m/s)
- More polarities ( vs. )
- Innate Blight effect
Acquisition[]
- The Rakta Cernos can be acquired by reaching the Rank of Exalted with the Red Veil, and spending 125,000 to purchase. As with all Syndicate Weapons, the Rakta Cernos cannot be chosen as the free offering upon ranking up to Exalted rank.
- Syndicate weapons can also be acquired via Trading, but only for unranked copies without Forma and Orokin Catalyst installed.
- Players must have a Mastery Rank of at least 12 to acquire the Rakta Cernos, either through trading or through the Syndicates themselves.
Notes[]
- Has a unique holster style where the bow is upside down on the Warframe's back instead of being slung across its shoulder.
Trivia[]
- The word "Rakta" can be traced back to the Sanskrit language, meaning "blood" or "coloured". It means the same in many other Indic languages derived from Sanskrit / Prakrit - like Marathi, Hindi etc.
Media[]
Rakta Cernos Skins
Patch History[]
Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)
- Ammo Changes
We understand the power fantasy of these weapons is very popular for some, so our first approach was to keep them powerful, but limit how often they can be used by making changes to ammo pick-up.
Ammo Pickup Overrides
The following weapons now have ammo pickup overrides, meaning they gain less from picking up ammo. This mostly applies to AoE weapons, in hopes that players will become more deliberate with their aim to make the most of their Ammo pools. The following lists the specific ammo pick up overrides per weapon category.
Primary Weapon Ammo Pick Up Overrides
15 Ammo per Pick Up:
- Rakta Cernos
Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)
- Normalized quick shots to have the same critical chance/damage and status chance as charged shots.
- While reviewing Bow stats the team has also refreshed all their FX (including the Lenz)!
- Quick Shot increased from 150 to 235
- Charged Shot increased from 250 to 470
Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Cernos, the normal counterpart.
- Cernos Prime, the Primed counterpart.
- Mutalist Cernos, the Infested counterpart.
- Proboscis Cernos, another Infested counterpart.