Proboscis Cernos

Infested Weapons

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[]

• This weapon deals primarily  Viral and  Slash damage.
• 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 and 43.75%  Viral.
  • Appendages are not affected by status chance mods, such as  Rifle Aptitude.
  • Appendages cannot crit.
• Arrows explode in a 7 meter radius after 1.7 seconds on impacting a surface or enemy.
  • Explosion has innate  Viral damage.
  • Explosion delay reduces likelihood of inflicting self-stagger.
  • Initial hit and explosion apply status separately.
  • Explosion and appendages does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
  • The explosion can benefit from  Firestorm ( Primed) and  Cautious Shot.
• On kill, bodies will follow the arrow that killed them, damaging enemies in their path and pinning the corpse to walls.
•  Heavy Caliber's accuracy penalty is minimal on this weapon.
• Fire rate mods apply double their bonuses.
• Innate two polarities.

Advantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Third highest status chance of all bows, behind  Daikyu and  Mutalist Cernos.
• Silent.
• Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
  • High total damage (279)
  • Very high status chance (43.00%)
• Appendages (wiki attack index 2)
  • Very high reload speed (0.60 s)
  • High status chance (43.00%)
• Charged Shot Explosion (wiki attack index 3)
  • High reload speed (0.60 s)
  • Very high total damage (1,003)
  • High status chance (43.00%)

Disadvantages over other Primary weapons (excluding modular weapons):

• Lowest critical chance of all bows.
• Third slowest charge speed of all bows, after  Daikyu and  Lenz.
  • Cannot be fired at partial charge.
• Arrows have travel time with slight arcing.
• Extremely poor ammo economy.
  • Very low ammo reserves.
  • Only restores 1 unit of ammunition per ammo pickup.
• Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
• Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
• Explosion has linear Damage Falloff from 100% to 50% from central impact.
• Charged Shot (wiki attack index 1)
  • Very low crit chance (7.00%)
  • Very low magazine (1)
  • Very low ammo max (7)
  • Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
  • Below average crit multiplier (1.90x)
• Appendages (wiki attack index 2)
  • Very low active falloff slope (-infm/%)
  • Very low crit chance (7.00%)
  • Low maximum falloff distance (9.0 m)
  • Very low magazine (1)
  • Below average total damage (90)
  • Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Very low ammo max (7)
  • Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
  • Low crit multiplier (1.90x)
• Charged Shot Explosion (wiki attack index 3)
  • Low active falloff slope (14.0m/%)
  • Low crit chance (7.00%)
  • Below average maximum falloff distance (7.0 m)
  • Very low magazine (1)
  • Very low fire rate (1.00 attacks/sec)
  • Very low ammo max (7)
  • Very low disposition (●●○○○ (0.75x))
  • Very low crit multiplier (1.90x)

See WARFRAME Wiki:Stat Comparison/Percentiles for more details.

Acquisition[]

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

Manufacturing Requirements 📝 Edit blueprint requirements
15,000	Mutalist Cernos 1	Polymer Bundle 1,600	Nitain Extract 5	Nano Spores 25,000	Time: 12 Hour(s)
					Rush: 45
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 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.
• Direct hits on enemies will immobilize them during the tendril pull as they panic, including enemies with Overguard.

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 with  Gara's  Spectrosiphon and  Hydroid's  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'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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Proboscis Cernos Skins

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Patch History[]

See Also[]

•  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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