Melee Fortification

Melee Fortification
Tradeable
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Max Rank Description
On Melee Kill +210 Armor for 10s
General Information
Type	Melee
Rarity	Common
Refreshable	✔️
Max Rank	5
Arcanes Required to Max	21
Dissolution	18
Trading Tax	2,000
Introduced	Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)
Vendor Sources
Vendors Bird 3 (Rank 3: Colleague)  5000 for x1
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Melee Fortification is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that causes melee kills to temporarily increase Armor for 10 seconds.

Effect

Rank	Armor Buff per kill
0	+35
1	+70
2	+105
3	+140
4	+175
5	+210

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 5,000 Standing 5,000, requiring Rank 3 - Colleague.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
	The Fragmented	12.50%	~ 8 Kills	51 ± 17 Kills
	Scathing Whisper	12.50%	~ 8 Kills	51 ± 17 Kills
	Mocking Whisper	12.50%	~ 8 Kills	51 ± 17 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

• Armor bonus can stack with multiple kills with each stack having its own duration.
• This Arcane can be stacked up to 255 times. However, due to its 10-second duration, one must constantly keep killing to benefit effectively from the Armor buff. For the same reason, it is unlikely for this Arcane to be stacked beyond ~30x for +6300 Armor.
• Does not trigger from Exalted Weapon kills.

Tips

• This arcane's effects can trigger certain Incarnon perks that require Warframe armor to be at a certain value to gain additional effects, such as  Bo Incarnon Genesis's Stalwart Oak or  Boar Incarnon Genesis's Fortress Salvo.
  • As all of these perks require 450 armor to activate, two kills is sufficient as the lowest value for Warframe armor is either at 105 (for warframes in general) or 90 (exclusive to the  Stalker in Duviri).

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 Fortification

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 Fortification

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Introduced.