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Melee Vortex is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that causes kills to an enemy with
Magnetic Status to have a chance to pull in nearby enemies.
Effect[]
| Rank | Chance | Radius |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 20% | 18m |
| 1 | 25% | 18m |
| 2 | 30% | 18m |
| 3 | 35% | 18m |
| 4 | 40% | 18m |
| 5 | 45% | 18m |
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
7,500, requiring Rank 4 - Scholar.
| Item | Source | Chance | Expected | Nearly Guaranteed |
|---|---|---|---|---|
 |
The Fragmented | 6.25% | ~ 16 Kills | 107 ± 35 Kills |
|
Scathing Whisper | 6.25% | ~ 16 Kills | 107 ± 35 Kills |
|
Mocking Whisper | 6.25% | ~ 16 Kills | 107 ± 35 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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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 Vortex
- 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 Vortex
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
- Introduced.
 Arcanes
| ||
|---|---|---|
| Eidolon • Arcane Helmets • Ostron • Operator • Amp • Solaris United • The Holdfasts • The Quills • Vox Solaris | ||
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13 comments
Also, this works specifically on Titania and Hound. You need both equipped, for whatever reason. You need magnetic applied by Hound, vortex on a stat stick melee, then you can use vortex on Dex Diwata... from what my friend tested, it does not work on any other Exalted than Dex Diwata. Very niche bug.
Just to be clear, this is about as useless as it comes. Who uses Titania for exalted melee??? Maybe low-level exterm clearing, but that's just about it... so you can't really use this bug, but it's there.
The melee of titania does good damage if built well. nothing extraordinary but it kills. so maybe the problem is your build
Tried this Dual Raza, does not work at all. Nothing happens.
This, melee vortex does not seem to work for pseudo exalted weapons, a bit sad
Is this a ragdoll, or a “slide?”
Slide
Thank you.
So, I had a silly idea. I wanted to try and make the Zenistar good for my Ember build, and I thought, "Y'know what I could really use? A grouping tool that inflicts heat!"
So, I got a riven for range, and slapped it on my Zenistar. But then I remembered that melee arcanes are a thing now, and I wondered if I could make any of them work. But I NEED my heat procs for Ember.
So, I had a silly idea. Magnetic doesn't need heat as a base element, so I slapped on some 60/60 mods and made a 100% status Zenistar with heat and magnetic. And also 8.0 range. I then modded it for attack speed only.
So, I went to the Simulacrum to test my theory. And it works. Very well.
The Zenistar's disk can't kill on its own, but so long as you have a weapon that can (and that weapon doesn't need to have Magnetic), enemies within range of the disk's range will be drawn towards IT, not YOU. And yes, that means if you tickle an enemy at the far edge of the disk with a Magnetic proc, they (and any other enemies nearby) get sucked straight to the DISK. And you don't even need to be holding the Zenistar to proc the arcane!
Tried this out in the Simulacrum, and it didn't seem to work? No matter how many enemies with a Magnetic proc I kill within the disc's area of influence, they don't get pulled into the disk. This is with a max rank Vortex. Killing them with the weapon itself worked just fine, but again, didn't go toward the disk. This might have been patched.
Gas/Magnetic users eating GOOD
Never have I wished more that Mag could inflict the Magnetic Status effect.
She has pull...far better than this.
Yea, but if Magnetize inflicted Magnetized, it’d mean you could throw a Verdilac or Stropha shot to a bubble and the bubble itself could suck in enemies after the target’s corpse vanishes.
Enemies impaled by blood altar or levitated by well of life will cause the mag bubble to keep sucking even after the target should be dead.
While that is certainly an option, I’d rather not spend my Helminth ability slot on a basic functionality like that.
I think the drop locations is missing an entry. The official Warframe PC Drops has two more sources listed: Scathing Whisper and Mocking Whisper.
Also, only activates if delivering the killing blow with a melee weapon with this on it
Not entirely true, during a round of tests i had it triggered by a DoT. It seems as long as you're holding the melee weapon at time of death, it only need a magnetic proc to be on the enemy when it dies.
While i'm here, along with that test, my others tests proved that it can be triggered by melee projectiles. I tested it with Ceramic Dagger (incarnon), Hate (incarnon) and Verdilac, all 3 triggered the pull on kill.
In case nobody else noticed, pulled enemies are opened up for finishers. Too bad we are limited to one arcane, would use it along with Melee Crescendo for easy stacks
True of many abilities that pull in enemies. I use Airburst to trigger finishers regularly, which can be used to stack Crescendo very quickly
This is hilarious on zephyr. Hitting a tornado with a magnetic melee weapon makes the vortex activate towards the tornado, not to you. This includes funnel clouds, which normally don't have a pull in effect, so you can have a whole bunch of tornados that periodically yank enemies all over the place. Unfortunately, ranged melee attacks, including exodia contagion and quassus, don't produce the vortex either directly via normal attacks, or indirectly via the tornadoes - so you'd have to be a pleb and hit the things on the ground.
Fun fact: using airburst on funnel cloud tornadoes will ragdoll enemies and allow the tiny tornadoes to pick them up as if they were normal tornadoes
Cant be trigered by exalted blade... But meanwhile mesa pacemeaker goes BRRRRRR with any arcane...
Would you mind testing if a finisher (Radial Blind, for example) with EB will trigger it?
It's possible it's Exalted Blade's waves being excluded (as usual...) while the blade itself might count.
Tested finisher, doesnt work, I did try to do close melee, Its common for waves to not trigger some melee things like combo counter
Thank you for testing.
Unfortunate results.
I really wanted to use this 2 green shards for 14 corrosive procs... Maybe in a future, or change to Syam or something like that...
Just use Sentinel Verglas with magnetic and toxic = profit