Shattering Impact

Shattering Impact
Tradeable
Can be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Impact damage reduces enemy armor by 6.
General Information
Type	Melee
Polarity	Vazarin
Rarity	Common
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	310
Credits Required To Max	14,973
Base Capacity Cost	4
Trading Tax	2,000
Introduced	Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Shattering Impact is a melee mod that permanently reduces an enemy's base armor by 1 per rank upon dealing  Impact damage with a melee weapon.

Stats

Rank	Armor Reduction	Cost
0	+1	4
1	+2	5
2	+3	6
3	+4	7
4	+5	8
5	+6	9

Drop Locations

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type	Source	Rotations or Drop Table	Chance	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
Drekar Butcher	3%	18.97%	0.5691%	176	1	0.005691

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

Notes

• Due to the nature of in-game damage calculation and quantization, some melee weapons have such a low base  Impact value that it is rounded to 0 damage, causing Shattering Impact to not apply. However, for the examples below, each weapon coincidentally deals pure  Impact on slam hits, allowing certain attacks to reduce armor anyways.
  •  Destreza
  •  Galatine
  •  Galatine Prime
• Shattering Impact takes effect on every melee hit from weapons with any Impact damage. It has no effect if the melee weapon's Impact damage is zero (for example ranged attacks of  Redeemer). Note that it is not necessary to proc the  Impact status effect to trigger the armor reduction.
• The amount of armor reduction per hit is a flat, constant value, independent of the amount of  Impact damage inflicted. Since the reduction is applied to the target's base armor, for a given enemy type it will always take the same number of hits to completely drain the enemy's armor, regardless of its level.
• Shattering Impact is applied before percentage-based base armor strips, such as  Corrosive Projection, and so the number of shots required to fully strip will be unaffected.
• Compared to  Corrosive status effect, Shattering Impact has the ability to reduce a target's armor to 0 permanently, instead of just by 80% for the duration of the status effect. Corrosive, however, only needs 10 stacks of the status effect to achieve this, while Shattering Impact from weapons (other than certain Gunblades which are able to strip armor very quickly - in 2-4 ranged shots) may require a substantially higher amount of hits for the same effect on enemies with high base armor.
• Shattering Impact is not considered a status effect and hence is able to affect status effect-immune enemies, such as bosses.
• Shattering Impact does not affect Archons.
• As of Hotfix 18.1.4 (2015-12-21) Shattering Impact doesn't reduce enemy armor when used with the charge attacks of thrown weapons. The charge attack from a Blade and Whip type weapon will however reduce enemy armor.

Tips

• The mod is most useful either on certain Gunblades ( Sarpa, and  Vastilok) that can strip enemy armor in a few ranged shots, or against enemies with low amounts of base armor, and at high enemy levels.
  • Both ranged and Heavy Attacks of these Gunblades and  Arum Spinosa all fire multiple projectiles that have a portion of  Impact damage, allowing players to strip armor quickly, and from a safer distance.
•  Valkyr,  Volt and  Gauss, with proper mods, can deplete even high base armor in a short time using  Warcry,  Speed and  Redline, and a stance with multi-hit combos.
• The mod is most useful on melee weapons with high attack speed, and on stances which involve applying multiple discrete instances of damage on the same keystroke. Due to its demand for high attack speed, this mod has good synergy with  Fury,  Berserker Fury,  Quickening and  Gladiator Vice.

Bugs

• This mod does not have a description in the Polish Warframe Client.
• Very often the armor reduction from Shattering Impact appears to only be able to be applied by the host as the health bar remains yellow for the clients. However, the actual effects from the armor stripping are applicable for the whole squad.

Patch History

Hotfix 17.0.5 (2015-08-07)

• Altered the text of the Shattering Impact Mod to be in line with the other parkour Mods.