Drifting Contact

Drifting Contact
Tradeable
Untransmutable
Max Rank Description
+10s Combo Duration +40% Status Chance
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update: Recurring Nightmares (2016-10-27)
Drop Table Sources
Missions Nightmare (Nightmare) Rescue (Nightmare)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Drifting Contact is a rare Melee mod that extends the duration of the Melee Combo Counter and increases status chance.

Stats

Rank	Combo Duration	Status chance	Cost
0	+2.5 sec	+10%	2
1	+5 sec	+20%	3
2	+7.5 sec	+30%	4
3	+10 sec	+40%	5

Notes

• Drifting Contact is additive with similar mods. For example, a  Galatine with a max rank Drifting Contact and  Melee Prowess will have a 20% × (1 + 40% + 90%) = 46% status chance.
• Obtained from medium Nightmare Missions, which can be found on Phobos, Jupiter, Saturn, Void, Lua, Europa, Ceres and Kuva Fortress.
• At max rank, Drifting Contact increases the total melee combo counter time to 15 seconds.
  • Combined with  Body Count and  Gladiator Rush, the counter time is increased to 33 seconds.
  • With "Power Spike" (Naramon Focus node) the Melee Combo Counter decreases by a certain amount (at Rank 1, 20) each time that the Counter would run out. So, with a maxed Drifting Contact, it decreases the Counter every 13 seconds. Without mods, the Counter gets decreased every 3 seconds.
• Can be stacked with  Melee Prowess,  Volcanic Edge,  Vicious Frost,  Voltaic Strike and  Virulent Scourge for a total of 295% increase in Status Chance. On weapons with at least 26% base Status Chance, this allows them to achieve a total Status Chance value of 100%, allowing every strike to deal Status Effect proc. On weapons with 27% base Status Chance  Melee Prowess is no longer needed to achieve the 100% Status Chance value.
  •  Weeping Wounds can further increase the Status Chance depending on the Melee Combo Counter.
• Works well with other mods affecting Melee Combos like  Weeping Wounds,  Body Count,  Gladiator Rush,  Blood Rush,  Rising Storm and  Surging Dash.

Tips

• Because Drifting Contact only requires 5 mod capacity points at max rank, it is a more useful and economical mod than  Body Count for melee weapon builds that heavily rely on the combo counter for effectiveness, such as a damage and critical-based builds taking advantage of  Blood Rush.
  • Combine with max-rank  Primary and  Secondary Dexterity to further extend combo duration by 30 seconds, especially if a player prefers focusing on melee combat.

See Also

•  Body Count, another mod that increases combo duration.
•  Gladiator Rush, another mod that increases combo duration that is part of the gladiator set mods.
•  Melee Prowess, another mod that increases Status Chance.
•  Volcanic Edge,  Vicious Frost,  Voltaic Strike, and  Virulent Scourge, dual-stat mods that increases Status Chance and Elemental Damage.
•  Weeping Wounds, an Acolyte mod that increases Status Chance based on the Melee Combo Counter.
•  Primary Dexterity and  Secondary Dexterity, Arcanes for ranged weapons that grant combo duration bonuses at max rank.

Patch History

Hotfix 24.1.2 (2018-11-29)

• Fixed Chilling Reload, Streamlined Form, and Drifting Contact missing from Alerts.

Update: Recurring Nightmares (2016-10-27)

• Introduced.