Understand Melee Prowess
Useful when…
- Increasing Status Chance on a compatible melee weapon.
Effect and application
Melee Prowess adds +15% Status Chance at rank 0, +60% at rank 3, and +90% at rank 5. It is a standard Melee mod with Vazarin polarity and is explicitly incompatible with Flawed Melee Prowess. Its listed effect is chance, not Status Damage.
Rank and investment
The mod has base drain 2 and maximum rank 5. Listed costs include 10 Endo/483 Credits for rank 0 to 1, 40/1,932 for rank 2 to 3, and 160/7,728 for rank 4 to 5. Partial ranks give smaller Status Chance increases when a lower investment suits the build.
Compare by the stat needed
Flawed Melee Prowess has the same listed polarity and drain but reaches only +60% at its maximum rank 3. Melee Elementalist instead increases Status Damage and Heavy Attack Wind Up Speed, while Amalgam Organ Shatter and Auger Strike list Critical Damage/wind-up speed and Puncture respectively. These effects are not interchangeable with Status Chance.
Acquisition
The supplied enemy entries include General Sargas Ruk and a range of Trooper, Eviscerator, Drone, Osprey, and Crewman units. The provided list names individual sources; it does not establish one combined drop chance.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- It uses a standard melee mod slot.
- It cannot be equipped alongside Flawed Melee Prowess.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Confusing Status Chance with Status Damage.
- Equipping it with the incompatible Flawed variant.
- Ranking it fully without needing the additional chance enough to justify the cost.