Primary Dexterity

Primary Dexterity
Tradeable
📝 Update Infobox Data
Max Rank Description
On Melee Kill/Passive +60% Damage for 20s. Stacks up to 6x. +7.5s Combo Duration
General Information
Type	Primary
Rarity	Rare
Refreshable	✔️
Max Rank	5
Arcanes Required to Max	21
Dissolution	20
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Primary Dexterity is a Primary Arcane that on melee kill increases primary weapon damage for 20 seconds and stacks up to 6 times. At max rank, it also passively increases Melee Combo Counter duration.

Can be sold for 1,000 Credits 1,000.

Effect

Rank	Damage per Stack	Total at 6 stacks	Combo Duration
0	10%	60%	-
1	20%	120%	-
2	30%	180%	-
3	40%	240%	-
4	50%	300%	-
5	60%	360%	7.5s

Acquisition

Awarded for defeating Acolytes in The Steel Path.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
	Mania	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 Kills
	Angst	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 Kills
	Violence	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 Kills
	Torment	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 Kills
	Misery	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 Kills
	Malice	16.67%	~ 5 Kills	37 ± 12 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

• When the buff times out, one stack is lost and the buff duration resets.

Tips

• If players would rather prefer to focus on melee and not on shooting targets, they can opt to equip this Arcane and  Secondary Dexterity, both at max rank, on their ranged weapons simply to provide their passive melee combo counter buffs that grant up to 15 seconds.

Patch History

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

1. b) Holster Speed Buffs & Mod Changes

These changes to Ammo encourage swapping between weapons, so we’ve taken the opportunity to dramatically increase the swapping speed between Primary and Secondary. The real purpose of your Secondary weapon is for it to be a backup to your Primary, but with the holster speeds the way they were before that vision was not realized - until now!

In light of the overall speed buff to holster speed, we have made the following changes to the mods and Arcanes that offered holster speed stat increases:

(All stats below are shown at max rank)

Primary Dexterity Arcane:

• Removed their “+60% Holster Speed” bonus.

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

• Introduced.

See Also

•  Secondary Dexterity, the secondary equivalent.