The Melee Arcane Adapter is a special item that can be fused with a Melee Weapon to unlock a Melee Arcane Slot, which is a special additional slot that can be slotted with Melee Arcane Enhancements for Melee Weapons. Each Melee Weapon has a single Melee Arcane Slot.
Acquisition[]
- Can be purchased from Bird 3 for
50,000 requiring Rank 3 - Colleague with
Cavia.
- Can be awarded from Netracell missions.
- Can be awarded from Deep Archimedea missions.
- Can be purchased from the Market for
20. Will not appear until the player has completed the Whispers in the Walls quest.
How to Use[]

Warframe mod slots (blue) with aura (green) and exilus mod slot (pink) marked
With at least one Melee Arcane Adapter in your inventory, go into the Mod screen of any Melee weapon and click on the Arcane slot in the upper right corner to install the adapter, allowing for the use of one arcane.
Patch History[]
Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
- Introduced.
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8 comments
Over one full day worth of standing w cavia for an L4 to buy one of these fkn things.
Whoever thought of this crap can go #¤%& themselves.
so why couldn't this be in teshin's shop.
Why cant i buy it? weird aah hidden requirement
Can put arcanes in warframes inb4
Haven't edited a page in a while, forgot to give a reason and mark it as minor:
Previous iteration mistakenly listed Cavia Rank - 3 as named "Angel", The Holdfasts' Rank - 5
Why are you guys crying how "expensive" this is... its literally 20 minutes of farming it
It's literally not 20 minutes of farming.
Sure, its 20 mins of farming, if you got a maxed out build and maxed out MR and no longer need to do it at all ever. Sure i will do it in 20 mins if you give me your account in plat lol.
Its 7,500 per steel path high level mission, if your running the missions at a good pace its about 3-5 minutes. So its 19.8 to 30 minutes but it's spread out over three days and this is a fast pace. I don't think this is the main system they want you to use to get them it seems to be more of a pity system.
Sure, we can get it before steel path, but 50k standing is a lot for something like this, and not having a steel essence option is really bad
Can someone do the Math and let us know if its Cheaper getting from Bird 3 (50,000 standing with Cavia) or Market (20 Plat) or if its a regular drop from Netracells?
It is cheaper to buy it from the market. 50K standing is 5 good arcanes which sell for more than 20p. And Netracells also drop it occasionally.
50 000 rep for 1 adapter, it's insane, 2 days of farm for the most leveled up players.
Or you get them for just doing weekly netracells and don't have to worry over-much.
What's nuts is that you can buy arcanes for the same amount of standing, trade them, buy the arcane adapter from the market AND STILL HAVE EXTRA PLAT