Shocking enemies can be a real advantage in combat, especially when you have the tools to affect multiple targets with a single strike.
Melee Influence enhances this by spreading elemental status effects from your melee attacks to nearby enemies, amplifying your battlefield control and overall damage.
This Arcane works best with electricity-based melee setups or weapons that reliably apply elemental procs, letting every swing hit harder and impact more foes without extra effort.
How To Get Melee Influence?
Melee Influence can be obtained as a reward from certain high-level enemies, including The Fragmented, Whispers, and Gruzzlings in Albrecht’s Laboratories on Deimos.
It can also be purchased from Bird 3 of Cavia for 7,500 Credits once you reach Rank 4 Scholar, giving a reliable weekly option to collect copies.
For maximum efficiency, combine farming these enemies with weekly purchases to steadily gather enough copies to fully rank the Arcane without relying solely on random drops.
Melee Influence Effects
Melee Influence grants a chance for melee elemental status effects to spread to enemies near the target when you proc Electricity with melee attacks.
The buff has a fixed duration depending on rank, starting at 3 seconds unranked and reaching 18 seconds at max rank, but its duration cannot be refreshed.
The spread radius also increases with rank, beginning at 10 meters and maxing out at 20 meters, allowing multiple nearby enemies to be affected by the elemental proc.
This Arcane works with all melee elemental types except physical damage, Void, Knockdown, Stagger, Ragdoll, Lifted, and Microwave effects, letting you reliably amplify your melee’s elemental impact.
Melee Influence Ranks
Rank | Proc Chance | Spread Range | Effect Duration |
0 | 20% | 10m | 3s |
| 1 | 20% | 12m | 6s |
2 | 20% | 14m | 9s |
| 3 | 20% | 16m | 12s |
4 | 20% | 18m | 15s |
| 5 | 20% | 20m | 18s |
Weapons That Work Well With Melee Influence
Melee Influence works best on melee weapons that naturally proc Electricity or have slam/impact effects that can spread elemental status to multiple targets.
- Arca Titron – Slam attacks, Slam Capacitor slam attacks
- Galvacord – Slam attacks
- Lacera / Ceti Lacera – Slam attacks
- Lecta / Secura Lecta – Slam attacks, Heavy Slam attacks
- Ninkondi – Slam attacks, Heavy Slam attacks
- Korumm – Unique block combo (100%)
- Ohma / Prisma Ohma – Slam attacks
- Prova / Prova Vandal – Slam attacks, Static Discharge (chance)
- Rumblejack – Slam attacks, Heavy Slam attacks
- Xoris – In-flight detonation (100%)
Verdict
Melee Influence is a versatile Arcane that spreads elemental status effects from your melee attacks to nearby enemies, boosting both damage and crowd control.
It works exceptionally well with weapons that naturally proc Electricity, but almost any melee weapon can be utilized with the right mods to trigger Electricity procs and activate the Arcane.
This makes it a strong choice for solo or team play, letting you hit multiple enemies at once, trigger elemental synergies, and maintain consistent pressure in combat..
