Talk:Energy Siphon/@comment-89.123.29.109-20140207173354/@comment-71.122.114.188-20140216233206

The mod is useful for some frames, especially frames that seem built for melee such as rhino, oberon, ash, valkyr, excalibur..etc. Saryn would be good with this mod too, not only because she's one of the most rugged frames, but because all of her powers are built more for melee than they are for guns.

Also, Remember, it's an aura card...which means it stacks. So 4 players using this card gives your whole team 220% extra melee damage on top of the melee damage mods you have equipped.

I remember I had a team doing a high level infested mobile defense mission once. We all used melee the whole mission, no ultimates used at all, no bullets fired at all...I was using steel charge on my rhino with galatine doing 20k+ damage per swing, easy peasy. I'm not sure what aura's the others had, but I think there was at least one other steel charge aura. We completed the mission with ease and the objective took ZERO damage. It was the most fun I have ever had in this game without question.

So don't give me that crap about aura's like this one is useless....sure it's useless if you just want to run and gun all the time or run solo...but if you like to melee too (like me) and you have a good competent team, then this mod is definitely worth having and using. Whether your whole team goes melee or just the tank, it can help. But certainly 28 extra mod space is so far from useless. Anyone who says they don't want or need 28 mod slots, probably just run level 10 missions all the time. At high levels, mod slots mean far more than 0.1 energy siphon or enemy radar or such. I mean those extra mod slots could be what allows a frame to max out equlibrium, vitality, redirection or some other mod that you normally can't max becuase all the power effecting mods are using up the mod points.

Last thing, melee 2.0 is coming soon...I know that steel charge will be a valuable mod when that update comes out. When melee weapons get their boosted base damages (like guns), then aura's and mods that boost melee damage will become very valuable. Just watch all the people trying to sell maxed steel charges in trade channel when melee 2.0 comes out.