Melee Retaliation

Melee Retaliation
Tradeable
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Max Rank Description
Gain 30% Melee Damage for every 200 current Shields, up to 420% Bonus halved for Overshields.
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 Retaliation is a Melee Arcane Enhancement that grants bonus Melee Damage for every current Shields up to a certain amount. The bonus is halved for Overshields.

Effect

Rank	Melee Damage	Current Shields	Shield Values for Damage Cap	Shield Values for Damage Cap at maximum Overshields (Excluding Harrow)	Shield Values for Damage Cap at maximum Overshields (Harrow)
0	5%	200	16,800	16,200	15,600
1	10%	200	8,400	7,800	7,200
2	15%	200	5,600	5,000	4,400
3	20%	200	4,200	3,600	3,000
4	25%	200	3,360	2,760	2,160
5	30%	200	2,800	2,200	1,600

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

• Damage bonus is additive to mods like  Pressure Point.
• Damage bonus is shown in the buff UI.
• Damage bonus is given by the following equation:
  ${\begin{aligned}{\text{Damage Bonus}}=\,30{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Shields}}{200}}\right\rfloor +15{\%}\cdot \left\lfloor {\frac {\text{Current Overshields}}{200}}\right\rfloor \end{aligned}}$
  • For example, a frame with 700 shields and 300 overshields give a

30% * floor (700/200) + 15% * floor (300/200) = 105% damage bonus.

• Affects pseudo-exalted abilities such as  Landslide,  Slash Dash,  Shattered Lash, and  Whipclaw.
  • Does not affect exalted weapons.

Tips

• This arcane goes exceptionally well on  Hildryn, whose high shields can allow Retaliation to get to max with ease, provided she is fitted with the proper shield boosting mods.

Patch History

Hotfix 36.0.8 (2024-07-25)

• Fixed Melee Incarnons not displaying Incarnon charging UI for Clients with Melee Retaliation equipped.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

• Fixed performance issues caused by placing a Warframe Articula that is using a Loadout that has the Melee Retaliation Arcane equipped.

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 Retaliation

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 Retaliation

Update 35.0 (2023-12-13)

• Introduced.