Focused Defense

Focused Defense
Tradeable
EXILUS
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
+20 Parry Angle
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Common
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	70
Credits Required To Max	3,381
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	2,000
Introduced	Hotfix 18.4.1 (2016-01-25)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

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	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 2 & 3	B	6.85%	1	0.0685	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 4	B	5.38%	1	0.0538	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Necralisk Bounty	Necralisk Bounty Lvl 30-40 Stage 1	B	12.5%	1	0.125	Cambion Drift/Necralisk, Deimos; talk to Mother
Spy	Lua Spy	B	7.49%	1	0.0749	Pavlov, Lua

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt

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  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.

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)