Cerata

The Cerata is an Glaive that primarily deals damage on melee and thrown attacks.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
*Can be wielded in-tandem with a single-handed secondary weapon.
*Holding the melee button throws the glaive, which can bounce up to three times, travel up to 26 meters uncharged, and 33 meters fully charged before returning to the user, damaging anyone in its path. Meleeing while the glaive is in mid-flight commands it to return.
**Primary and secondary weapons can be fired and reloaded normally with a thrown glaive, and retrieving the glaive does not interrupt these actions. Additional throws can also be "buffered" while the glaive is in mid-flight.
**Innate 1 meter punch through.
**Thrown glaive is silent.
**Heavy Attacks while the glaive is in mid-flight produce a 4.8 meter explosion and forces the glaive to return.
***Explosion has guaranteed and proc.
***Explosion does not need direct line of sight to deal damage and will penetrate walls.
***No Damage Falloff.
***Explosion inflicts self-stagger.
***Explosion has a headshot multiplier of 1x and cannot trigger headshot conditions.
**Cannot use melee attacks or block while the glaive is in mid-flight.
*Can use the Glaive-exclusive mods , , (), (), and .
*Stance slot has polarity, matching , and (Conclave only) stance.
*Innate and polarities.
==Acquisition==
The Cerata's blueprint can be researched from the Bio Lab in the dojo.
==Notes==
*When combining elemental damage mods, the Cerata's innate damage is added last.
**The innate damage is ignored for elemental combinations when using throw attacks, thus the addition of a damage mod is required to maintain any -based elemental combos for the throw attack.
*When equipping the Cerata, the player can throw it and then press the melee button to detonate the Cerata, dealing high AoE damage and making it return to the player immediately. This is true for all thrown melee weapons.
**This is very useful for regenerating health with .
**It can explode in this manner when not equipped and thrown, but the explosion timing cannot be controlled and will often damage the user in close quarters.
**It should be however noted that finisher attacks can still be executed while the weapon is in the air.
==Trivia==
*Cerata (from the Greek word keras/keratos meaning “horn”, a reference to the shape of these structures) are anatomical structures found externally on nudibranches. They are typically used to aid respiration but are sometimes used for attack and defense.
==Bugs==
* The Cerata will appear very small in the codex, after the selected Warframe holds the weapon upwards it will become normal sized again.
==Media==
CerataCodex.png|Cerata in Codex.
Warframe0193.jpg|Cerata Codex glitch
Warframe Cerata, But Can I Eat it Too? thequickdraw 
Warframe Cerata
WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Cerata Charged Throw and Discharge
WARFRAME - Thrown Melee Buff Highlights Cerata Charged Throw Navigator
Warframe Cerata Absolute Predator
==Patch History==
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