Melee critical builds can sometimes provide you with insane amounts of damage, especially when your mods all come together to improve your critical chance and critical damage.
Galvanized Steel enhances both by boosting critical chance while also increasing critical damage through stacking bonuses gained from kills.
It is designed for melee setups that can maintain steady combat momentum, turning repeated eliminations into sustained critical scaling over time.
How To Get Galvanized Steel?
Galvanized Steel is purchased from the Arbitration Honors vendor located inside the Arbiters of Hexis room accessible through any Relay station hub.
It requires twenty Vitus Essence, which is earned exclusively by completing Arbitration missions that rotate through high level endurance based activities and reward rotations.
Since it is locked behind a fixed vendor system, acquisition depends entirely on repeated Arbitration farming rather than randomized drops or enemy loot tables.
Galvanized Steel Effects
Galvanized Steel increases critical chance for melee weapons, with a doubled effect applied to heavy attacks for significantly higher burst scaling potential.
On melee kill, it grants a temporary critical damage buff that increases overall damage scaling during sustained combat engagements.
This buff can stack up to four times, allowing continuous kills to steadily amplify critical damage output over time.
The combination of increased crit chance and stacking crit damage makes it especially effective in builds that rely on frequent eliminations and sustained melee pressure.
It performs best when paired with fast attacking melee weapons that can consistently trigger kills to maintain and refresh its stacking bonuses.
Galvanized Steel Stats
Rank | Critical Chance | Critical Damage On Melee Kill | Max Bonus | Capacity |
0 | +10% | +2.7% | +10.8% | 2 |
| 1 | +20% | +5.5% | +22% | 3 |
2 | +30% | +8.2% | +32.8% | 4 |
| 3 | +40% | +10.9% | +43.6% | 5 |
4 | +50% | +13.6% | +54.4% | 6 |
| 5 | +60% | +16.4% | +65.6% | 7 |
6 | +70% | +19.1% | +76.4% | 8 |
| 7 | +80% | +21.8% | +87.2% | 9 |
8 | +90% | +24.5% | +98% | 10 |
| 9 | +100% | +27.3% | +109.2% | 11 |
10 | +110% | +30% | +120% | 12 |
Verdict
Galvanized Steel is a must-have for melee critical builds, giving you both consistent crit chance and scaling crit damage as you stack kills.
Pairing this with mods like Blood Rush and Organ Shatter can result in extremely high damage, especially on weapons that build combo quickly through fast attack speeds.
It works best in aggressive melee setups where you are constantly killing enemies, since maintaining stacks is key to keeping your critical damage output high.
