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Melee Retaliation

(Melee arcane)

Melee Retaliation

Gain 30% Melee Damage for every 200 current Shields, up to 420%. Bonus halved for Overshields.

Rarity
Common
Ranks
0 – 5
Goes on
Melee
Introduced
35

One of 12 melee arcanes on this site, and one of 2 at common.

(In the planner)

The planner shows this arcane on a build but does not add it to the stats. Its effect is not one the engine models — either it is derived from something the sheet does not track, or the wording does not pin a figure we could defend. The same rule governs mods whose values have not been checked: a figure this site prints is a figure it can defend, and one it cannot defend is left out rather than guessed at.

Melee arcanes do not have a slot in the planner yet — Warframe builds are the ones with arcane slots today.

(Where it comes from)

  1. Mocking Whisper Uncommon 12.5%
  2. Scathing Whisper Uncommon 12.5%
  3. The Fragmented Suzerain Uncommon 12.5%

Where the same place appears under several reward tables it is listed once, at the best odds it offers — that is the figure a farm can actually achieve. A dash means the source is known but carries no published chance, which is usually a vendor rather than a drop.

The effect text above is the Warframe Wiki's wording, CC BY-SA. The sources are the community export's. The counts and placements on this page are computed from our own dataset.