Drifting Contact

Drifting Contact
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
+10s Combo Duration +40% Status Chance
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Rare
Incompatibility Tags	SENTINEL_WEAPON, HOUND_WEAPON
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)
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

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes
Nightmare Mode	Nightmare Mode Rescue	B	22.56%	1	0.2256	See in-game World State Window for active Nightmare Mode nodes
Nightmare Mode	Nightmare Mode Missions	B	22.56%	1	0.2256	See in-game World State Window for active Nightmare Mode nodes

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.

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.