Melee Influence

Melee Influence
Tradeable
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Max Rank Description
On Melee Electricity Status 20% chance for elemental Melee Status Effects to apply to enemies within 20m for 18s. Cannot refresh while active.
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 Influence is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that grants melee  Electricity status procs a 20% chance to grant a timed buff that causes melee elemental status effects to spread to enemies within range. The buff cannot have its duration refreshed.

Effect

Rank	Chance	Range	Duration
0	20%	10m	3s
1	20%	12m	6s
2	20%	14m	9s
3	20%	16m	12s
4	20%	18m	15s
5	20%	20m	18s

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

• Damage is affected by  Condition Overload and the critical multiplier.
• Eligible status effects that can be spread by Melee Influence include:
  • Primary Elemental ( Cold,  Electricity,  Heat,  Toxin)
  • Secondary Elemental ( Blast,  Corrosive,  Gas,  Magnetic,  Radiation,  Viral)
• Melee Influence cannot spread the following:
  • Physical ( Impact,  Puncture,  Slash)
  •  Void,  Knockdown,  Stagger,  Ragdoll,  Lifted, and  Microwave
• Melee Influence only triggers from direct melee strikes. Secondary melee effects such as  Caustacyst's sludge trail and  Dual Ichor Incarnon's toxin fields cannot trigger Melee Influence.
  • Melee projectiles passing through  Electric Shield can also trigger Melee Influence.
• This arcane not only transfers Status Effects to nearby enemies, but also deals damage equal to the amount of the procced elemental damage present on your melee's stat screen.
  • Example: A melee with 100 base dmg, modded with  Shocking Touch, if Melee Influence proc'd, it will deal 90 electricity dmg.
  • Damage spread is based on the amount of matching elemental damage after quantization.
  • Performing a finisher with a forced elemental proc will not spread any Finisher damage, as 0% of the damage dealt is made up of the elemental status that was procced.
• Proccing multiple elements at the same time will show the sum of the spread damage.
• Due to the nature of Faction Damage Bonuses, they are applied twice on damage done by Melee Influence and thrice on damaging status procs caused by it.
  • With the example above, a 90 electric dmg dealt by a skana that triggers Melee Influence, will now deal 360 electricity dmg with a 100% Roar, as it is applied twice.
• Examples: A  Skana modded with  Pressure Point,  Vicious Frost,  Virulent Scourge, and  Voltaic Strike.
  • A hit that procs  Electricity will do 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (0.6) = 158.4  Electricity damage to all enemies in range and apply an  Electricity proc dealing 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.6) ÷ 2 = 211.2  Electricity damage per tick.
  • A hit that procs  Viral will do 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (0.6 + 0.6) = 316.8  Viral damage to all enemies in range and apply a  Viral proc.
  • A hit that procs  Slash will do nothing.
  • A hit that procs  Electricity and  Viral will do do 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (0.6) = 158.4  Electricity damage and 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (0.6 + 0.6) = 316.8  Viral damage to all enemies in range, then apply a  Viral proc and an  Electricity proc dealing 120 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.6) ÷ 2 = 211.2  Electricity damage per tick.
• Can affect enemies outside the Rift Plane by hitting enemies inside it.
• Gaining elemental damage through abilities such as  Smite Infusion will also be spread by melee influence.

Weapons With Forced Electric Procs

Weapons that have a chance or guaranteed electricity status effect independent of weapon elemental damage types, that can activate Melee Influence. Note that slam attacks include any melee stance combo that also results in a slam attack.

•  Prova/ Prova Vandal: Slam attacks (100% chance) and  Static Discharge (chance)
•  Xoris: In-flight detonation (100%)
•  Falcor: In-flight detonation (100%)
•  Arca Titron: Slam attacks (chance), Slam Capacitor slam attacks (100%)
•  Obex/ Prisma Obex: Slam attacks (chance)
•  Ohma/ Prisma Ohma: Slam attacks (chance)
•  Lacera/ Ceti Lacera: Slam attacks (chance)
•  Galvacord: Slam attacks (chance)
•  Rumblejack: Slam attacks (100%), Heavy slam attacks (chance)
•  Lecta/ Secura Lecta: Slam attacks (chance), Heavy slam attacks (chance)
•  Ninkondi: Slam attacks (chance), Heavy slam attacks (chance)
•  Korumm: Unique block combo (100%)

Bugs

•  Electro Pulse and Synergized Prospectus can trigger Melee Influence.
• Raw damage oneshots cannot trigger or benefit from Melee Influence.
• Ice  Elemental Ward will count reflected bullet damage as melee damage, reflecting cold procs to surrounding enemies who shot you as if the cold damage was applied to your melee weapon, as long as melee influence is active.

Patch History

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

• Fixed the Melee Influence Arcane breaking the holding and holster animations for Tonfa skins.

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 Influence

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 Influence

Update 35.1 (2024-02-20)

• Fixed Melee Influence’s buffs applying to clones spawned from Warframe abilities (ex: Mirage’s Hall of Mirror clones).
  • While this has been a popular combination, it has also been the source of many severe performance issues that can crash players. We have removed this interaction in the name of stability for the game.
• Fixed Melee Influence being triggered by Dual Ichor Incarnon’s Toxin fields.
  • Melee Influence is intended to trigger “On Melee Electricity Status” and not from secondary effects (as they are not considered direct Melee hits). Since the Toxin fields deal damage independently of Melee attacks, it does not meet the Arcane’s criteria of triggering only if the Electricity Status originates from the weapon in hand.
• Fixed a crash caused by Status Effects spreading from Melee Influence.

Hotfix 35.0.4 (2023-12-20)

• Fixed Melee Influence spreading status effects applied to invulnerable enemies.
• Fixed Melee Influence being able to trigger Exodia Force.

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Introduced.