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Arcane Guardian is an Arcane Enhancement that provides a 15% chance whenever the player receives damage to increase the Warframe's armor for 20 seconds.

Can be sold for Credits64 500.

Effect[]

Rank Flat Armor Bonus
0 +150
1 +300
2 +450
3 +600
4 +750
5 +900

Acquisition

Item Source Chance Expected Nearly Guaranteed
ArcaneGuardian Veil Proxima Orphix / C 5.63% ~ 17 C Rotations 119 ± 39 C Rotations
ArcaneGuardian Neptune Proxima Orphix / C 6.90% ~ 14 C Rotations 96 ± 32 C Rotations
ArcaneGuardian Eidolon Gantulyst Kill 15.68% ~ 6 Kills 40 ± 13 Kills
ArcaneGuardian Eidolon Gantulyst Capture 11.92% ~ 8 Kills 54 ± 18 Kills

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
For more detailed definitions and information, visit here.

History[]

Notes[]

  • The additional armor is not affected by mods and is additive to total armor. For example, a ChromaIcon272 Chroma with a max rank Mod TT 20px Steel Fiber, and active Rank 5 ArcaneGuardian Arcane Guardian will have an armor rating of:
    Base Armor × (1 + Armor Mods) + Arcane Guardian = 370 × (1 + 1.1) + 900 = 1,677 armor.
  • The Arcane Duration cannot be refreshed, while one instance is still active.
  • This Arcane cannot be activated while RevenantIcon272 Revenant's MesmerSkin130xWhite Mesmer Skin is active.

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Patch History[]

Update 31.6 (2022-06-09)

ARCANE STAT CHANGES PER RANK

We’ve adjusted the values of older Arcanes with the goal of making lower rank Arcanes more viable, and more desirable while collecting as a result. In short, there are three stats that each Arcane tends to have (speaking generally) -- for example, a percentage chance, a stat buff, and the duration of the buff.

Certain Arcanes increase all of these stats per rank (making them scale exponentially), but we are changing it so that only one stat is affected by rank (making it scale linearly). The other stats will now be at the max-rank value regardless of the Arcane Rank, thereby buffing lower-rank Arcanes as a result.

Arcane Guardian

On Damaged: 15% (was 3%) chance for +150/900 Armor for 20s

Update 22.12 (2018-02-09)

  • Armor applied is now an absolute amount (instead of relative) with a base value of 150.

Update 16.0 (2015-03-19)

  • Introduced.
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