Melee Fortification is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that causes melee kills to temporarily increase Armor for 10 seconds.



Effect[]



Rank

Armor Buff per kill


0
+35


1
+70


2
+105


3
+140


4
+175


5
+210


Acquisition
Awarded for killing The Fragmented on Effervo, Deimos.
Awarded for killing Whispers in Albrecht's Laboratories missions.
Awarded for killing Gruzzlings in non-Disruption Albrecht's Laboratories mission.
Can be bought from Bird 3 of Cavia for  5,000, requiring Rank 3 - Colleague.



Item

Source

Chance

Expected

Nearly Guaranteed



The Fragmented
12.50%
~ 8 Kills
51 ± 17 Kills



Scathing Whisper
12.50%
~ 8 Kills
51 ± 17 Kills



Mocking Whisper
12.50%
~ 8 Kills
51 ± 17 Kills


All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables.
See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Notes[]
Armor bonus can stack with multiple kills with each stack having its own duration.
This Arcane can be stacked up to 255 times. However, due to its 10-second duration, one must constantly keep killing to benefit effectively from the Armor buff. For the same reason, it is unlikely for this Arcane to be stacked beyond ~30x for +6300 Armor.
Does not trigger from Exalted Weapon kills.
Tips[]

Patch History[]

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

NEW ENEMY: GRUZZLING
Greedy creatures born from The Indifference, these little Murmur tricksters love to steal Conduit Dockets and other coveted items from Albrecht's Laboratory.
In any other Deimos/Albrecht’s Laboratory missions (including Netracells), these avaricious beings contain within them one of the following:

1x Common Entrati Melee Arcane:
Melee Fortification
Netracell Drop Table Changes
In the same vein as the above change to make Archon Shards more accessible, we’ve made the following changes to the Netracell Drop Tables. 
1. Removed all non-Legendary Arcanes (as listed below)

Melee Fortification
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

Introduced.




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