Empowered Blades is an aura mod that increases status chance and status damage (where applicable) of Heavy Attacks, at the cost of draining a portion of shields per hit.
Stats[]
Rank | Status chance/Damage bonus | Shield Drain per hit | Cost * |
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0 | +10% | 15 | -2 |
1 | +20% | 30 | -3 |
2 | +30% | 45 | -4 |
3 | +40% | 60 | -5 |
4 | +50% | 75 | -6 |
5 | +60% | 90 | -7 |
* Aura mods increase the amount of Mod Capacity
Acquisition[]
Empowered Blades is dropped by the Feyarch Specter, available upon anointing a Silver Grove shrine with the Sunrise Apothic.
Drop Locations[]
Mission Drop Tables
Mission Type | Source | Rotations or Drop Table |
Chance[1] | Quantity[2] | Avg. per roll[3] | Star Chart Nodes |
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Enemy Drop Tables
Enemy | Drop Table Chance[4] | Item Chance[5] | Chance[6] | Expected Kills[7] | Quantity[8] | Avg. per roll attempt[9] |
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Feyarch Specter | 100% | 6.06% | 6.06% | 17 | 1 | 0.0606 |
Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.
Notes[]
- Status damage bonus will only apply to Toxin, Gas, Heat, Electricity and Slash procs.
- This bonus is multiplicative with other damage mods.
- The bonus to status chance is additive with other status chance mods.
- A Skana equipped with Melee Prowess and Empowered Blades will have
- 16% * (1 + 90% + 60%) = 40% status chance on heavy attack.
- Shield drain is per enemy hit, making it ineffective against large groups of enemies.
- Stacks additively with Ash's passive.
- This Aura does not affect the Zenistar disc.
- The buff can only affect one of your melee weapons at a time, decided at the start of the mission. Besides making testing in the Simulacrum inconvenient, this means that Exalted Weapons won't normally benefit. Entering the mission without a melee weapon equipped will solve the latter.
Tips[]
- Useful on Warframes with very high shields such as Hildryn, Frost Prime, Harrow and Mag Prime.
- Can work well in conjunction with shield regeneration mods or items, such as Augur Reach to regenerate a small portion of shields on ability cast, or Squad Shield Restore.
- A Hildryn or Mag Specter (Tenno) can be very useful for aiding in shield regeneration, thus allowing you to make use of this Aura more than once.
Patch History[]
Update 31.1 (2022-02-09)
- (Undocumented) Fixed +Status Damage applying twice.
Hotfix 26.0.5 (2019-11-06)
- Changed Empowered Blades Mods description from Charged Attacks to Heavy Attacks.
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 4 (2016-08-25)
- Fixed new Aura mods being untradable.
Hotfix: The Silver Grove 2 (2016-08-22)
- Fixed The Silver Grove new Aura rewards missing from the Codex.
Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
- Introduced via The Silver Grove quest.
Auras | |
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Madurai (Offensive) |
Dead Eye • Growing Power • Melee Guidance • Pistol Amp • Power Donation • Rifle Amp • Shotgun Amp • Steel Charge • Swift Momentum |
Vazarin (Defensive) |
Aerodynamic • Combat Discipline • EMP Aura • Infested Impedance • Physique • Ready Steel • Rejuvenation • Shepherd • Stand United • Toxin Resistance |
Naramon (Utility) |
Corrosive Projection • Enemy Radar • Energy Siphon • Empowered Blades • Holster Amp • Loot Detector • Mecha Empowered • Pistol Scavenger • Rifle Scavenger • Shield Disruption • Shotgun Scavenger • Sniper Scavenger • Sprint Boost |
Zenurik | Brief Respite |
Universal | Dreamer's Bond |
Unreleased | Affinity Amp • Electrical Resistance • Fire Resistance • Frost Insulation • Laser Deflection |
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)