Hard Engage

Hard Engage
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
Engages enemies within 10m with melee attacks, dealing 90 Impact Damage. Melee attacks are enhanced by Mods equipped in the Moa's weapon.
General Information
Type	MOA
Polarity	Penjaga
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	930
Credits Required To Max	44,919
Base Capacity Cost	2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Hard Engage is a rare MOA mod allowing the MOA to target enemies within 10m with melee attacks, kicking them to deal  Impact damage. This mod is acquired by building a Nychus-Model MOA.

Stats

Rank	Damage	Cost
0	15	2
1	30	3
2	45	4
3	60	5
4	75	6
5	90	7

Notes

• At close range, the MOA will always prefer melee attacks over shooting the equipped weapon.
• Melee attacks have a decent status chance.
  • Can be increased by equipping status chance-increasing mods on the MOA's equipped weapon.
• Melee attacks have no (or a very low) base critical chance.
  • Can achieve critical hits when the MOA is buffed by  Covenant.
• Melee attacks trigger Seismic Bond and Vicious Bond, unlike Blast Shield

• Hard Engage is NOT affected by the MOA's equipped weapon stats, including any innate elements. Hard Engage is, however, affected by most of the weapon's equipped mods.
  • The weapon's type (such as Shotgun, Rifle, or Pistol) will determine which mods are available.
  • Multishot, Fire Rate, Reload, and Ammo mods have no effect, due to not applying to melee attacks.
  • Mods that increase Impact damage, such as  Full Contact, will increase the damage dealt.
  • ( Prime)  Sweeper may be a good candidate; like Hard Engage, it primarily deals Impact damage, has usable Status Chance, and poor Critical stats, and can utilize multiple +Damage mods (( Primed)  Point Blank,  Vicious Spread, and  Blaze), since multishot does not apply.
  • Hard Engage can proc modded elements from the MOA's equipped weapon via  Manifold Bond. The status chance seems to be Hard Engage's hidden status chance.
  • Shivering Contagion does NOT apply to melee attacks.

Trivia

• Currently the only rare/non-common mod exclusive to MOAs.
  • It is unknown if this is for any particular reason.
  • In addition, as one of the mods with a max rank of 5, it ends up costing significantly more to max, compared to other MOA mods (though still on the low-end overall).

Patch History

Update 28.0 (2020-06-11)

• Introduced.