Mods

Modules (Mods) are cards that can be equipped to warframes, weapons, and sentinels to enhance damage, power, survivability, speed, precepts, and utility. Mods can grant Passive Powers, Active Powers, Sentinel Precepts, and Utilities. Mods can be changed between items. There are actually 276 mods existing in the game.

For a visual guide to mods, see the video below.



Obtaining Mods
Mods are collected in a few ways:
 * Building or purchasing warframes and sentinels will provide a mod for each of their unique 4 abilities(warframe) or 2 precepts(sentinel).
 * Survival, Spy and Capture Missions offer a mod, blueprint, or credits as a mission reward on completion.
 * Every 5 waves of Endless Defense missions will offer you a reward chosen randomly from a faction specific drop table.
 * Dispatching enemies.
 * Higher level enemies do not have a higher drop rate.
 * All mods picked up from enemy drops are the same for every player.
 * Every enemy type has its own small drop table of mods. This information can be found in the mods' pages.
 * Mods can be obtained from the Orokin Void canisters and more commonly from treasure room canisters.
 * All mods picked up from canisters are different for every player and disappear after a length of time. With Update 9.6, mods were said to never disappear as drops but canister mods will still disappear.
 * Mod Transmutation can fuse 4 selected unranked mods to create a random mod.
 * Other special mods can only be obtained through completing special missions such as Alerts, Nightmare Mode and Orokin Derelict. More details can be found below.
 * Purchasing Mod Packs from the market.

Attributes
Mods have 7 attributes: (place on card)
 * Type: What the mod can be attached to. (Top left of description)
 * Rarity: How often a mod is dropped. (Bottom-right)
 * Power cost: How much power a mod consumes from equipment. (Top right, before Polarity)
 * Polarity: Adjusts power cost of mods. (Top right of card)
 * Level: Mod strength. (Left center, the black squares)
 * Conclave: Points toward Conclave. (Bottom, after Type)
 * Mod Rating: Points toward overall mod collection Rating. (Not shown on card)

Type
Mods can only be attached to their indicated type of item. They may be generally applicable to weapons, warframes, or sentinels (i.e. “Warframe Mod”) or specific to their respective class (i.e. “Trinity Mod”). The type is listed in the top left of the description of the mod.

Mod Rarity
Mods vary in rarity as indicated by the border color and denoted in the description. Obtaining rarer mods from enemies requires fighting higher level enemies.

Mod Power Cost
Warframes, sentinels, and weapons have “Mod Energy.” This reflects the items ability to maintain mods while in use. Warframes and sentinels have 10 slots for mods. Weapons and sentinel weapons have 8 slots. Without an Orokin Reactor or Orokin Catalyst, they can all handle 1 energy worth of mods per level (with a maximum of 30 energy at level 30). Supercharged items (with Reactor/Catalyst) can handle 2 energy per level (with a maximum 60 energy at level 30). Aura mods can increase this capacity up to 44 (74 supercharged)

Polarity
Most equipment slots generally accept any mod. However, some slots are “polarized.” Each type of Polarization has a unique associated symbol. Putting mods of the correct polarization into a polarised slot will lower the mod capacity used (rounded up) by 50%. however adding mods of the wrong polarization into a polarized slot will increase mod capacity cost by ~25-30%(depending on starting cost of mod).

Mod Rank
Mods have levels ranging from 0 to as high as 10 (typically 3-5; note that this means each mod has its max level +1 in total level ups). When the level of a mod is greater than zero, it is indicated by notches in the border centered vertically on the left side of the card.

Each rank requires twice the mod energy than the previous rank to level up and leveling up from rank 0 to 1 sets the base amount of mod energy for this calculation. See Fusion.

Press this for rank 10 mods list

Conclave Score
Conclave is a special player versus player (or PvP) mode that pits you against other players in specialized arenas. Each mod, weapon, sentinel, or Warframe is calculated through a Conclave score system. Mods that deal damage for example, such as Hornet Strike will make the weapon more powerful, thus requires more points to equip then Trick Mag which gives you more ammo. Conclave arenas are blocked by specific point requirements, to make it more of a fair fight between Tenno. If your build has a total of 1,000 conclave, for example, you cannot join a conclave map with a requirement of 400 maximum, and must choose a higher tier.

Mod Rating
Each Tenno's mod collection has an overall rating, which is visible in the upper-right corner of the Mod Collection screen. All mods contribute certain amounts of points toward one's overall mod collection rating. The points a mod gives are determined by rarity and rank, and otherwise are the same from mod to mod; fusion cores follow similar rules, but have their own quantities of rating points.

Press this for point tables


 * Since √2 is irrational, the decimal values listed are approximations, listed for reference only. Due to using irrational numbers in these calculations, rounding inconsistencies can introduce variance when calculating total mod ranking, but it should always be within +/- 1 of the correct value.

Installing Mods
To install mods on an item, drag a mod from the collection and drop it on a Mod slot. If the Mod’s drain is less or equal to the item’s remaining Mod Energy it will install and Mod Energy will be deducted. Drain can be modified by the slot type: The item now has the benefits of the Mod.
 * Matching polarity reduces drain: Rhino Stomp costs 10, but dropped into Power polarized slot costs only 5. (Cost is halved for matching)
 * Conflicting polarity increases drain by a third, rounded down, with a minimum of one added: mod levels 1-5 add 1, mods 6-8 add 2 -- mods 9-11 add 3 and so on.

Bonus Stacking
To prevent exponential bonus stacking, players can't put duplicate mods in a single piece of equipment. For example, a given pistol can only have one Hornet Strike mod in it at a time, however, a dual stat mod can be applied at the same time as a mod that gives one of it's stats. For instance, vitality and vigor can both be applied to one warframe, while vitality provides hit points, and vigor provides hit points and shields.

For mods increasing shield, health or power, bonuses are calculated from the warframe's base value. This prevents exponential increases with the passive leveling bonuses introduced in Update 7.6.

Mods increasing damage or adding special damage types don't conflict with each other. Given enough mod capacity, a single weapon could have mods increasing damage and adding fire, freeze, electrical and armor piercing damage at the same time, and they would all take effect at the same time when using that weapon. See the Damage page for more information on damage stacking.

Fusion
Mods can have their overall power increased by the process called Fusion. This takes mods or Fusion Cores and combines them together to increase the overall power of a Mod.

Special Mods
Types of mods that cannot be acquired through normal means are listed below:

Aura Mods
Aura Mods are special mods that benefit the entire Cell and also increase the player's total mod capacity.

Nightmare Mode Mods
Nightmare Mode Mods are essentially mods with dual stats. They can only be acquired through completing missions in Nightmare Mode.

Corrupted Mods
Corrupted mods can be obtained from the Orokin Derelict, using special Dragon Keys to unlock vaults located within. These mods have dual stats, one being a bonus, the other being a various negative side effect.

Mod List
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