Flawed Mods (previously called Damaged Mods) are weaker versions of preexisting Mods intended for newer players, obtainable primarily during the Vor's Prize quest. They are identified by visible cracks on the mods' image as well as the word "FLAWED" in their descriptions.
Details[]
Flawed Mods only drop during the Vor's Prize Quest in lieu of their normal counterparts, and nine of these Flawed mods are rewarded as the player progresses through the quest. Flawed Mods will only drop during the questline missions, with the exception of the Mercury Junction which rewards flawed copies of Fast Deflection and Streamline. From Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22) onwards, these mods cannot be traded.
Flawed Mods still provide the same effects as their normal counterparts. However, as their name suggests, these mods have reduced power and/or rank. Flawed Mods come in three types:
- Reduced base capacity drain, reduced effect, and a maximum rank of 3.
- Reduced effect, and a maximum rank of 3, with base capacity drain unchanged.
- A maximum rank of 3, with base capacity drain and effect unchanged.
As a rule, most mods have only one flawed counterpart, selected from the pool of flawed variants above. For example, the mod Serration has a flawed mod with reduced drain, effect, and maximum rank, and no other flawed variants.
There is no way to "unflaw" a flawed mod.
These mods effectively give new players a hand when starting out, as normal mods may be too costly to rank up (both in terms of Credits and Endo), or too capacity hungry, especially without any Orokin Reactors or Orokin Catalysts to increase mod capacity on new players' equipment. Once players start gathering enough supplies and mods, they are free to convert these mods to Credits/Endo to strengthen their normal counterparts or keep them, with the first type still being useful for some loadouts due to a reduced capacity drain, thus being able to fit where a non-flawed mod would not fit.
List of Flawed Mods[]
Flawed mods with reduced base capacity drain and reduced base effect are shown 1. Those with unchanged base capacity drain and reduced base effect are shown 2. Those with unchanged base capacity drain and base effect are shown 3. (?) denotes that the wiki needs more information on the existence of these flawed mods.
Flawed Ammo Drum2
Flawed Ammo Stock2
Flawed Bane of Corpus1
Flawed Bane of Grineer1
Flawed Charged Shell1
Flawed Continuity1
Flawed Convulsion1
Flawed Deep Freeze1
Flawed Enemy Sense1
Flawed Equilibrium2
Flawed Expel Corpus1
Flawed Expel Grineer1
Flawed Fast Deflection2
Flawed Fast Hands2
Flawed Fever Strike3
Flawed Flow1
Flawed Fury3
Flawed Heated Charge1
Flawed Hellfire1
Flawed Hornet Strike1
Flawed Incendiary Coat1
Flawed Intensify1
Flawed Magazine Warp1
Flawed Molten Impact3
Flawed North Wind3
Flawed Organ Shatter3
Flawed Pathogen Rounds1
Flawed Pistol Gambit1
Flawed Point Blank2
Flawed Pressure Point3
Flawed Quickdraw2
Flawed Redirection1
Flawed Rush1
Flawed Serration1
Flawed Shell Compression2
Flawed Shocking Touch3
Flawed Shotgun Spazz1
Flawed Slip Magazine1
Flawed Smite Grineer3
Flawed Speed Trigger1
Flawed Steel Fiber1
Flawed Stormbringer1
Flawed Streamline1
Flawed Stretch1
Flawed Tactical Pump2
Flawed Target Cracker1
Flawed Thief's Wit2
Flawed Trick Mag2
Flawed True Steel3
Flawed Vitality2
Notes[]
- When it comes to installing mods on your equipment, Flawed Mods are considered identical to their normal counterparts and cannot be equipped simultaneously.
- Flawed Mods do not count towards the Codex entries of their respective normal mods.
- Flawed Mods cannot be obtained through Transmutation, even if all the mods used are flawed themselves.
Media[]

Patch History[]
Hotfix 23.1.1 (2018-07-19)
- ‘Damaged Mods’ are hereby called ‘Flawed Mods’ now. Welcome to a new era.
Hotfix 22.13.1 (2018-02-15)
- Fixed ‘Damaged’ Mods not having their iconic cracked image.
Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)
- Fixed an issue with 'Damaged' faction-specific damage mods all affecting Corpus even though they were for other factions.
Hotfix 18.6.2 (2016-03-22)
- Damaged Mods acquired via the new-player experience are no longer tradeable.
Update 14.0 (2014-07-18)
- Introduced.
See also[]
- Vor's Prize, the quest line where these mods appear.