Empowered Blades

Empowered Blades
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Squad receives +60% Status Chance and Status Damage on Heavy Attacks, but lose 90 Shields per hit.
General Information
Type	Aura
Polarity	Naramon
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	5
Endo Required To Max	930
Credits Required To Max	44,919
Base Capacity Cost	-2
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)
Vendor Sources
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

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 *
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	Quantity	Avg. per roll	Star Chart Nodes

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy	Drop Table Chance	Item Chance	Chance	Expected Kills	Quantity	Avg. per roll attempt
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.
  • Shield drain does not scale with multiple Empowered Blade auras in your squad.
  • Bonus damage is not applied if your Warframe does not have at least one shield point available to be consumed, making it impossible to benefit from on  Nidus,  Inaros or  Kullervo
• 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.