Understand Searing Steel
Useful when…
- Adding Heat and Status Chance to a compatible Archmelee weapon.
- Choosing a dual-stat elemental mod for Archmelee.
What does it do?
Searing Steel is a standard Madurai-polarity Archmelee mod. It gives +15% Heat and +15% Status Chance at rank 0, +45% to each at rank 2, and +60% to each at maximum rank 3. It occupies a standard mod slot with base drain 4.
Choosing an element
Cryo Coating, Infectious Injection, and Ion Infusion each list +60% Status Chance with Cold, Toxin, or Electricity respectively. They are alternatives when a different element is desired; each has the same listed slot type, polarity, base drain, and rank cap as Searing Steel. The elemental choice is the key stated difference.
Rank costs and sources
The listed costs are 30 Endo and 1,449 Credits for 0→1, 60 and 2,898 for 1→2, and 120 and 5,796 for 2→3. The supplied acquisition details name Razorback and Pyr Captain; a Comet Shredder Captain entry has no stated chance, so no chance can be inferred for it.
Limitations and tradeoffs
- Heat and Status Chance increase together, but both use the same Archmelee mod slot.
- The compared elemental variants offer different damage types while listing the same maximum Status Chance.
Common mistakes to avoid
- Expecting maximum-rank values at rank 0.
- Treating the Comet Shredder Captain acquisition entry as having a known chance.