Kullervo mains, two handed nikana heavy attacks guaranteed lift enemies. Put melee adffliction on Azothane, chuck on melee elementalist, and enjoy 6 nuclear slash procs on your enemies. Whatever you just heavy attacked with your 1 WILL die

The sampotes when you slam the waves can trigger the arcane multiple times on the same enemy so you can say use Garuda to apply slash light slam and you will apply the arcane 3-4 times on the enemy

quick note, not only does affliction proc on overguard, but it can generally on cc immune targets (under certain conditions, like status proc and forced cc proc on same hit, as on heavy attack scythes for example), thats why it can even be used to kill demolishers (showcased by dystopia, and they also explained all the quirks of the arcane)

I know you made a mention of tonfas already but the telos boltace is an incredibly good pairing with the arcane, since its passive groups and then knocks the enemies down with consecutive slide attacks. It’s a match made in heaven.

New sub right here. Dropped warframe for 8 years and came and restarted. Thank you so much!!!!

Don't sleep on fists for afflictions. Furax Wraith incarnon with the Seismic Palm stance neutral combo rag dolls enemies and it very effective with the perk that turns impact into slash damage

Cool I have this arcane already maxed out just as a byproduct from farming for all the other stuff. I’ll have to try it out!

Some things to note about this video: If you're using Tennokai, remember that it's a kind of heavy attack that has its own wind-up speed. Amalgam Organ Shatter does nothing to accelerate that wind-up because it's already faster and doesn't scale with mods, so you might as well use regular Organ Shatter since it costs less and it gives slightly more damage. Weapons that either have innate electricity (Ceti Lacera, Prisma Ohma, Kuva and Tenet weapons with Electric progenitor for example) or that can somehow guarantee an electric proc with a Special ability or even slam attacks/stuff like that (like the Korumm and Arca Titron) will most likely be way better with Melee influence. Regarding melee builds, you most likely either run Sacrificial Steel or Blood Rush, unless the weapon you're using has insane crit chance and you want to go for higher tier of crits if they let you do that. Anyway, this is a great informational video. It's also easier to obtain Melee Afflictions compared to Melee Influence assuming you just finished The New War quest so it's actually really useful. What about Staves by the way? I thought they were great at ragdolling enemies around, but maybe that's because they primarily deal impact damage and I don't know if they count for Afflictions.

Melee afflictions works great with Harmony since it has force knockdown on heavy attack. It works even on enemies immune to knockdowns such as Thrax and Demolysts. Thanks to Harmony's passive that makes dot deal all the dmg in one instance of dmg on heavy attack, pairing it with melee afflictions and some status duration mods you can reach dmg cap on every enemy in game. Note: you will need to hit a headshot for this to work (yes you can headshot with melee)

I finally got my hate last night! And while unnattentedly going into BotB in SP solo because I wasn't paying attention when everyone in the random group left 😂 got it built now so hopefully I can try this out with it tonight 😊

Of all weapons, somehow Dual Daggers are the ones that made out best with Afflictions. Dual Dagger heavys have 2 simultanious hits which both inflict forced slash and knock down. This results in even the Fang Prime being able to inflict 14 slash procs in a single heavy, with 80% follow through on top of a VERY generous hitbox for both hits. The result with a standard pure heavy attack (no combo) build is an average of 500k dps bleed procs being applied to the main target. Combine with a sentinel that has contagious bond and a heat modded weapon to cause cascading death. NOTE! To make this work, allow your companion to apply heat procs to an eximus unit THAT YOU CANNOT ONE SHOT, then heavy attack them. Sit back and watch for a moment, begin again.

Cyclone Kraken has the fist hit of the block combo lift enemies so you can use melee afflictions with something like the Prova Vandal, Machete Wraith, Nami Solo, or Slaytra

DE were very careful not to touch any Glaive interaction with this Arcane, huh?

From what I've tested certain frames can hold enemies while they still gain the lifted and knockdown effects. Although the enemies die to quickly for me to verify. But nezha(especially with his 4th augment) and zephyr's 4th

It's very good on staffs with Clashing Forest stave. In this stave only one combo hasn't a ragdoll/lift/knockdown. Bo Prime Incarnon with this arcane is destroying whole rooms in seconds.

Here is something I figured out guess what also procs melee affliction with a lift state affect, using a zaw with exodia epidemic and no need for a specific stance

Best weapon for Melee Affliction works well with Harmony.

I just want a reason to bust out the scoliac and attterax again. They have such nice sound effects to be so lackluster after the maiming strike changes.

Try Tranquil Cleave standing block attack with a high status nikana prime build. The damage is just stupidly op.

What's the reason for Killing Blow over Melee Elementalist on some of these weapons? On many you're using both, and on some you just use Elementalist, but on a few you only use Killing Blow. My assumption is that when using Condition Overload with a good primer, the extra base damage on heavy attacks from KB shouldn't make as much as a difference as the 90% status damage from elementalist. Is there something I'm missing here?

So enemies that can't be CC'd (elietes, demos) are the best targets for obscene damage? I guess encumbered then hit with a C.O. and forced lifting (or knockdown) heavy attack??? That's quite a bit lol.

Thx for the video, hope you are doing better

I have a kullervo with %322 str and enough duration on my first to last 12 secs my gram prime has a base multiplier of 4.9+ kullervos 12.7 multiplier with melee duplicate gets about 9 hits or less to kill a level 300

i'm gonna run ascension for to max out melee afflictions and the new mods as well as arcane energize

So how often do you ragdoll? I really don't see the value in it as I don't see these effects occurring that often it's a rare occasion indeed. It might as well have a 5% chance at rank 5 to do what it says

plague zaw staff wipes the room with kullervo

I mean gas has a funny interaction, you just have to ignore it saying that the stacks are at 10

Putting this on my Pennant heavy build. Also, are you a Saffa?

Idk Why scindo prime galatine prime is just straight upgrade and gram prime is a straight upgrade for the latter

It's nice but influence is still just straight up better. Wait until we get 2 melee arcane slots to put both of them in lmao.

Hey, please can you edit the intermissions and pauses out of the new start series on live, really excited to watch but they’re a killer for me :)

Does it work with arcane exodia hunt ? Because it would be awesome

omg the yareli skin!!! >.

Melee back to top where it belonged a long way ago

Telos boltace can lift enemies by slides

About it getting patched. Just my opinion, but DE often patch up when it is too easy to replicate with bare minimum effort. You already addressed that you have to find weapon/stance types, you cannot slap just any element to the weapon, and you require the arcane that they intentionally introduced, and all the other mods specifically designed for status dmg playstyle. There is a lot more broken dmg designs that DE seems fine with and require less effort. This will, could, should be fine to be free from patching anytime soon.

Ive been running melee retaliation to give me +200 melee for every 200 shields halved for overshields, and i spec into crit since im hitting for more dmg, but status builds still work great with it, now im wondering if i can use both retaliation and affliction together

using wukong 2 and spamming the heavy slam with hammers makes the game a lot more fun to me. Melee afflictions just makes it even more crazier

Will sampotes slam attack triggered this arcane?

How do you tell if it's proced? it doesn't show in the right upper corner. I put it on my Hate with Reaping Spiral, is that going to work?

bro say aznvasionplays video about it and thought 'he cooking lemme just take quote on quote notes'

So can i make sevagoth Shadow melee OP too ?

Will this work on slam attacks?

If u use the arcane that knocks down on energy pick up would it proc it???

Just started and I am so confused😂

Do Zaws do knockback?

Soooooooo nobody is talking about mags ragdoll ability right when it lifts and ragdolls em in place.

i saw a vid of some guy using roar plus a elementalist mod plus a elemental dmg mod hitting like 500k plus dots

Kestrel.

I wonder how would that affect ash's build since naramon has a lifting perk. Priming enemies and then using naramon to lift them while doing the 4 should be good, right?

damn melee influence looks diffrent

Does it works good for broken War? Looking for a New build

Is glaive still good for cascade lvl9999?

Sampotes

Use tenet exec with saryn on it

Influence still goat

Hi nood question. I have Okina prime and I don’t know how can i add arcane slot to it.. please help 😢

Well well well you finall posted again. Remind me who you are?

Dude said everything but where o find it.

Hey, flomin, btw updated saryn build when my brother? 😊

Would it work on baruuks fists?

Weeee, 56 seconds ago nice

first 42 seconds

for me harmony is borderline useless cause of how badly the hit register for its heavy attack kills is

Ew, priming enemies instead of just smacking them to death