Melee Retaliation is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that grants bonus Melee Damage for every current Shields up to a certain amount. The bonus is halved for Overshields.

Effect[]

Rank Melee Damage Current Shields Shield Values for Damage Cap Shield Values for Damage Cap at maximum Overshields (Excluding Harrow) Shield Values for Damage Cap at maximum Overshields (Harrow)
0 5% 200 16,800 16,200 15,600
1 10% 200 8,400 7,800 7,200
2 15% 200 5,600 5,000 4,400
3 20% 200 4,200 3,600 3,000
4 25% 200 3,360 2,760 2,160
5 30% 200 2,800 2,200 1,600

Acquisition

Item Source Chance Expected Nearly Guaranteed
MeleeRetaliation The Fragmented 12.50% ~ 8 Kills 51 ± 17 Kills
MeleeRetaliation Scathing Whisper 12.50% ~ 8 Kills 51 ± 17 Kills
MeleeRetaliation 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[]

  • Damage bonus is additive to mods like Mod TT 20px Pressure Point.
  • Damage bonus is shown in the buff UI.
  • Damage bonus is given by the following equation:
    Damage Bonus = 30 % ⋅ ⌊ Current Shields 200 ⌋ + 15 % ⋅ ⌊ Current Overshields 200 ⌋ {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Damage Bonus}}=\,30{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Shields}}{200}}\right\rfloor +15{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Overshields}}{200}}\right\rfloor \end{aligned}}} {\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Damage Bonus}}=\,30{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Shields}}{200}}\right\rfloor +15{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Overshields}}{200}}\right\rfloor \end{aligned}}}
    • For example, a frame with 700 shields and 300 overshields give a
30% * floor (700/200) + 15% * floor (300/200) = 105% damage bonus.

Tips[]

  • This arcane goes exceptionally well on HildrynIcon272 Hildryn, whose high shields can allow Retaliation to get to max with ease, provided she is fitted with the proper shield boosting mods.

Patch History[]

Hotfix 36.0.8 (2024-07-25)

  • Fixed Melee Incarnons not displaying Incarnon charging UI for Clients with Melee Retaliation equipped.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

  • Fixed performance issues caused by placing a Warframe Articula that is using a Loadout that has the Melee Retaliation Arcane equipped.

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:
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)

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)