Melee Retaliation

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

• 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  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[]

• Damage bonus is additive to mods like  Pressure Point.
• Damage bonus is shown in the buff UI.
• Damage bonus is given by the following equation:
  ${\displaystyle {\begin{aligned}{\text{Damage Bonus}}=\,30{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Shields}}{200}}\right\rfloor +15{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Overshields}}{200}}\right\rfloor \end{aligned}}}$
  • For example, a frame with 700 shields and 300 overshields give a

30% * floor (700/200) + 15% * floor (300/200) = 105% damage bonus.

• Affects pseudo-exalted abilities such as  Landslide,  Slash Dash,  Shattered Lash, and  Whipclaw.
  • Does not affect exalted weapons.

Tips[]

• This arcane goes exceptionally well on  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[]

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