Conclave:Cronus

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A strong blade forged using ceramic.

The **Cronus** is one of the first weapons players can craft (along with the Heat Sword), and is wielded by Captain Vor. Compared to the Skana players can start with, the Cronus has a faster attack speed and greater damage, making it a reasonable upgrade for Sword wielders early in the game.

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The blueprint for the Cronus is a potential drop from Captain Vor, after defeating him on Tolstoj, Mercury. Neither his encounter on Ceres nor his Corrupted counterpart will drop this blueprint.

## Characteristics

This weapon deals primarily  damage.

**Advantages**

* Comes with a File:Madurai Pol.svg polarity, ideal for attack boosting mods.
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**Disadvantages**

* Can only hit one target at a time without Stances.
* Relatively low  damage.
* Low critical chance.

## Weapon Loadouts

* See Category:Conclave:Cronus Build to see how players mod this weapon.
* See Category:Conclave:Cronus Guides for guides on how to use this weapon effectively.
* For more general help with weapons, you may wish to browse Category:Weapon Guides.

## Notes

* The listed attack speed is a speed multiplier for longswords. The real attack rate of the Cronus is 2.2 hits per second (0.45 seconds to hit once). This is because the swing rate of melee weapons often gets skewed due to attack animations.
* As with most weapon components and blueprints dropped by certain enemies, the Cronus's blueprint drops as a pink orb when Vor is defeated.

## Tips

* The high slash damage is effective against Infested. However the fact that the Cronus only strikes one target at a time may make using the weapon inefficient against the hordes the Infested tend to come in.

## Trivia

* On {{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.8 }}{{#var:Update}}, the Cronus Blueprint was only a guaranteed reward the first time Tolstoj was completed and its drop chance would exponentially decrease with each future. This was put in place to prevent credit farming.
* The Cronus was the original melee weapon of the Stalker before update {{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.11 }}{{#var:Update}}.
* Cronus (alternatively Cronos or Kronos) is the youngest of the twelve titans in Greek mythology, father of Zeus, Hades, and Poseidon. But also Cronos was the Greek Primordial of Time.

## Media

* Vlcsnap-2013-09-24-12h49m04s78.png
* Cronus Codex.jpgCronus in the Codex
* Cronus Drop.pngThe Cronus blueprint drops with any conclave level and is shown on the mission reward screen.
* 2016-01-11 00001.jpgCronus drop orb after Update 18
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## Patch History

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 7.8 }}{{#var:Update}}
* Cronus blueprint now only a guaranteed drop the first time Tolstoj is completed, % chance to drop continues to decrease on additional runs.

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* Item introduced with game release.

## See also

* Dakra Prime, the possible Prime variant of this weapon
* Ceramic Dagger, the dagger variant.
* Captain Vor, the boss who uses the Cronus.
	+ Seer, another weapon wielded (and dropped) by Vor.

* Secondary
* Melee
* Archwing
* Research
* Prime
* Sentinel

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