Empowered Blades

Empowered Blades is an aura mod that increases status chance and status damage (where applicable) of charged melee attacks, at the cost of draining a portion of shields per hit.

StatsEdit

Rank	Status chance/Damage bonus	Shield Drain per hit	Cost *
0	+10%	15	-2
1	+20%	30	-3
2	+30%	45	-4
3	+40%	60	-5
4	+50%	75	-6
5	+60%	90	-7

* Aura mods increase the amount of Mod Capacity

AcquisitionEdit

Empowered Blades is dropped by the Feyarch Specter, available upon anointing a Silver Grove shrine with the Sunrise Apothic.

NotesEdit

• Status damage will only apply to Toxin, Gas, Heat, and Slash procs.
• This Aura does not affect the Zenistar disc.
  • The buff can only affect one of your melee weapons at a time, decided at the start of the mission. Besides making testing in the Simulacrum inconvenient, this means that Exalted Weapons won't normally benefit. Entering the mission without a melee weapon equipped will solve the latter.
• The bonuses to status chance and damage are additive with existing status. A weapon with a base status chance of 10% would gain an additional 6%.

TipsEdit

• Useful on Warframes with very high shields such as Hildryn,  Frost Prime, Harrow and  Mag Prime, or those with no shields at all like Inaros and Nidus as the shield reduction will have little to no effect.

Patch HistoryEdit

Auras
Madurai	Dead Eye •  Growing Power •  Melee Guidance •  Pistol Amp •  Power Donation •  Rifle Amp •  Shotgun Amp •  Steel Charge •  Swift Momentum
Vazarin	Aerodynamic •  Combat Discipline •  EMP Aura •  Infested Impedance •  Physique •  Rejuvenation •  Shepherd •  Stand United •  Toxin Resistance
Naramon	Corrosive Projection •  Enemy Radar •  Energy Siphon •  Empowered Blades •  Loot Detector •  Mecha Empowered •  Pistol Scavenger •  Rifle Scavenger •  Shield Disruption •  Shotgun Scavenger •  Sniper Scavenger •  Speed Holster •  Sprint Boost
Zenurik	Brief Respite
Unreleased	Affinity Amp •  Electrical Resistance •  Fire Resistance •  Frost Insulation •  Laser Deflection