Melee Exposure

Melee Exposure
Tradeable
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Max Rank Description
On Ability Cast Gain 60% Corrosive Damage on Melee strikes for 25s. Stacks up to 240%.
General Information
Type	Melee
Rarity	Rare
Refreshable	✔️
Max Rank	5
Arcanes Required to Max	21
Dissolution	24
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
Vendor Sources
Vendors Bird 3 (Rank 4: Scholar)  7500 for x1
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Melee Exposure is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that causes Ability Cast to apply  Corrosive Damage to melee strikes.

Effect

Rank	Corrosive Damage Buff	Corrosive Duration	Corrosive Limit
0	10%	25s	240%
1	20%	25s	240%
2	30%	25s	240%
3	40%	25s	240%
4	50%	25s	240%
5	60%	25s	240%

Acquisition

• Awarded for killing The Fragmented on Effervo, Deimos.
• Awarded for killing Whispers in Albrecht's Laboratories missions.
• Awarded for killing Gruzzlings in non-Disruption Albrecht's Laboratories mission.
• Can be bought from Bird 3 of Cavia for 7,500 Standing 7,500, requiring Rank 4 - Scholar.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
	The Fragmented	6.25%	~ 16 Kills	107 ± 35 Kills
	Scathing Whisper	6.25%	~ 16 Kills	107 ± 35 Kills
	Mocking Whisper	6.25%	~ 16 Kills	107 ± 35 Kills

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
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Notes

• Transference does not count as an Ability Cast for triggering this Arcane.
  • However, Focus abilities like  Void Strike do.
• Bonus stacks share the same duration, which refresh upon each trigger, and all will expire at once when the duration ends.
• Affects pseudo-Exalted abilities ( Atlas's  Landslide,  Gara's  Shattered Lash,  Khora's  Whipclaw).
  • Does not affect Exalted weapons like  Excalibur's  Exalted Blade.

Patch History

Update 35.5 (2024-03-27)

NEW ENEMY: GRUZZLING

Greedy creatures born from The Indifference, these little Murmur tricksters love to steal Conduit Dockets and other coveted items from Albrecht's Laboratory.

In any other Deimos/Albrecht’s Laboratory missions (including Netracells), these avaricious beings contain within them one of the following:

• 1x Common Entrati Melee Arcane:
  • Melee Exposure

Netracell Drop Table Changes

In the same vein as the above change to make Archon Shards more accessible, we’ve made the following changes to the Netracell Drop Tables.

1. Removed all non-Legendary Arcanes (as listed below)

• Melee Exposure

Hotfix 35.0.3 (2023-12-18)

• Fixed Melee Exposure counting Transference as an Ability cast.
  • Similarly to Arcane Power Ramp, the Arcane requires an ability be cast (Energy consumed) in order to trigger the Corrosive Damage buff on Melee strikes.

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Introduced.