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Focused Defense is an Exilus Weapon Mod for melee that increases Blocking angle.
Stats[]
| Rank | Block angle | Cost |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | +5 | 4 |
| 1 | +10 | 5 |
| 2 | +15 | 6 |
| 3 | +20 | 7 |
Drop Locations[]
Mission Drop Tables
| Mission Type | Source | Rotations or Drop Table |
Chance[1] | Quantity[2] | Avg. per roll[3] | Star Chart Nodes |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Necralisk Bounty | Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 2 & 3 | B | 6.85% | 1 | 0.0685 |
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| Necralisk Bounty | Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 4 | B | 5.38% | 1 | 0.0538 |
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| Necralisk Bounty | Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 1 | B | 12.5% | 1 | 0.125 |
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| Spy | Lua Spy | B | 7.49% | 1 | 0.0749 |
Enemy Drop Tables
| Enemy | Drop Table Chance[4] | Item Chance[5] | Chance[6] | Expected Kills[7] | Quantity[8] | Avg. per roll attempt[9] |
|---|
Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.
Trivia[]
- Prior to Update 26.0 (2019-10-31), this mod provided an armor bonus while Channeling at the cost of Channeling Efficiency.
- Because Channeling while blocking will negate all incoming damage (rendering the Armor increase irrelevant), the effect is only present when Channeling but not blocking. Even with the highest possible Armor before Abilities (a Valkyr with
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Steel Fiber and Armored Agility, for a damage resistance of 83.61%), a 20% increase to Armor only results in a 2.35% increase to damage resistance. Blocking but not Channeling with any melee weapon will reduce damage by a significantly greater amount (the lowest damage block of all melee weapons is 35%). - As the use of abilities blocks the use of channeling this mod has no effect on Warframe abilities.
- Because Channeling while blocking will negate all incoming damage (rendering the Armor increase irrelevant), the effect is only present when Channeling but not blocking. Even with the highest possible Armor before Abilities (a Valkyr with
Patch History[]
Hotfix 35.0.1 (2023-12-13)
- Fixed a script error in relation to having the Focused Defense Mod equipped.
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
- MELEE UPGRADE SEGMENT
Upon completion of the Whispers in the Walls Quest, players will receive a new Melee Upgrade Segment via their in-game Inbox. Installing it will further expand your Melee Arsenal with two new upgrade options:
Melee Exilus Slots
Fuse an Exilus Weapon Adapter into your Melee weapon to unlock the new Melee Exilus Slot. Players will be able to equip the following newly Exilus-compatible Mods:
- Focused Defense
Update 29.0 (2020-08-25)
- Now drops from level 30-40 Necralisk Bounties
Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
- Adds an additional 20 degrees to a weapons blocking angle (previously +20% Armor on Channeling, -140% Channeling Efficiency).
Hotfix 24.1.5 (2018-12-13)
- Updated Life Strike, Focused Defense, and Corrupt Charge Mod descriptions to read better.
Hotfix 18.4.1 (2016-01-25)
- Added to the game as an event-exclusive drop from Operation: Shadow Debt.
Last updated: Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)
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- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)
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62 comments
my favorite thing to do on this wiki is to see the description of these forgotten mods, like warm coat
Umm, it says Parry Angle and does not increase the Blocking Angle in my mod stats
I don't know if it was an unlisted patch but I can confirm that my 70 angle shield blokes with 90 while equipped. shows in states too.
Now that blocking reduces 100% damage, using this mod with guardian derision and a sword and shield weapon looks like a good choice. With Silva &Aegis+ this mod you get a 90° block angle.
Why don't they just change this to give youa flat increase to armor. Period.
Or an increase to armor when in melee mode and get rid of the need to channel. Been playing since the begining and I RARELY ever channel let alone need a mod that gives me a small boost while doing something I almost never do.
People overstate how bad this is. Valkyr without armour mods has 600/900 = 0.667 damage resistance, takes 0.333.
Valkyr with this has 720/1020 = 0.706 damage resistance, takes 0.294.
0.294/0.333 = 0.882. With other words, damage is reduced by nearly 12% compared to normal. That's still bad, but far better than what "damage resistance multiplied by 1.06" sounds like.
1. It's not 12% 2. With Valkyrs' base values it's more like 4 3. It's horrible, you have to have the melee equipped AND channeling and even then blocking does more good.
Yea, it's "just" 11.8%. There's a reason I said "nearly".
And it's a flat increase of 4%, yes. But a flat increase of 4% would make you completely invulnerable if you're allready at 96% damage reduction. In unmodded Valkyr's case, those 4% reduce damage compared to normal by the above-mentioned 11.8%.
I never said it's not horrible. Just not quite as bad as people like you make it seem.
Make this a flat modifier give 100/200/400/600 armor on levels 0/1/2/3 to make it worth taking on low armor warframes.
I like your Idea but I don't think it needs to be a channelling mod . Just add the armor when in melee mode.
We got four good acolyte melee mods, so we got one with enough shittiness for the five of them put together.
Perfectly balanced... as all things should be.
This is really useless, why would you channel your melee for extra armor?
It could have been useful if the mod gave you increased attack speed by channeling.
we already have a mod that does that
If you channel with this and then use abilities that gain from your armor rating like: Frost globe, Rhino iron skin, Nezha warding halo, it'll add points to them. That's about the only use for it.. but it's still not really worth it though.
Seems like you don’t understand (granted this mod IS useless). The idea isn’t to get extra armor by switching to channeling melee. The idea is that, while you’re melee channeling, you’ll take less damage from attacks beings as you can’t sit behind cover with a ranged weapon. THAT’S it’s use. Still useless.
useless mod...why there's so many this kind?
gotta be buffed to 50% to be anything tbh
You mean, 5000%
Channel Weapon
Cast Snowglobe / Iron Skin
the first Idea came to me when i saw it xD
All agreed, worst mod?
Shotgun savvy
Use it with NIdus as a passiv 20% armor buff .. just don't use melee attacks
Thats actually a very good idea, just change channel to togle and keep channeling while castung stuff, its a free 20% armor increase on a frame like nidus.
read these comments for a free +20% blood pressure
do you see the part where it says at MOST it gives a 2.35% damage reduction, on nidus it would be even lower, this mod is completely useless on any build. even if you are sitting there doing nothing with a possibly 1.3% damage reduction, it would be better if you switched that mod out for something that made your weapon deal more damage which would allow you to kill enemies faster which means you would definitely take less damage because there wouldn't be any enemies to take damage from
Hope OP learned to read since this time, as it clearly states it’s a channeling mod... Wouldn’t make it far in Warframe if they didn’t learn... OP seems like one of those (most of you) idiots that halfass reads a sign that gives them information, only to have to ask (or be told) for the SAME information later, because they were too stupid to actually read...
Forget not being worth the channeling cost lost, this thing is not even worth the slot it takes up.
Needs a MASSIVE buff to be worth a slot and channeling cost.
useless even if u get free slot
Even without the channeling cost this isn't worth the mod slot.
I don't believe this works with Iron Skin, Hysteria, or Snow Globe. It does not appear to offer any health points to Iron Skin or Snow Globe, either in the stats display (as Ironclad Charge does) or in actual gameplay. I did some testing on this because I thought it would synegize great with Electromagnetic Shielding on a high armored Rhino, but have been met with disappointment.
maybe it can use for Frost's Glove
This, quickening, true punishment and enduring strike need to be multiplicative with other mods. Fricken blood rush is, why can't these be?