Drifting Contact

Drifting Contact is a rare Melee mod that extends the duration of the Melee Combo Counter and increases status chance.
==Stats==
Rank	Combo Duration	Status chance	Cost
0 	+2.5 sec 	+10% 	2
1 	+5 sec 	+20% 	3
2 	+7.5 sec 	+30% 	4
3 	+10 sec 	+40% 	5
==Drop Locations==
==Notes==
*Drifting Contact is additive with similar mods. For example, a with a max rank Drifting Contact and will have a status chance.
*Obtained from medium Nightmare Missions, which can be found on Phobos, Jupiter, Saturn, Void, Lua, Europa, Ceres and Kuva Fortress.
*At max rank, Drifting Contact increases the total melee combo counter time to 15 seconds.
**Combined with and , the counter time is increased to 33 seconds.
**With "Power Spike" (Naramon Focus node) the Melee Combo Counter decreases by a certain amount (at Rank 1, 20) each time that the Counter would run out. So, with a maxed Drifting Contact, it decreases the Counter every 13 seconds. Without mods, the Counter gets decreased every 3 seconds.
*Can be stacked with , , ,  and  for a total of 295% increase in Status Chance. On weapons with at least 26% base Status Chance, this allows them to achieve a total Status Chance value of 100%, allowing every strike to deal Status Effect proc. On weapons with 27% base Status Chance  is no longer needed to achieve the 100% Status Chance value.
** can further increase the Status Chance depending on the Melee Combo Counter.
*Works well with other mods affecting Melee Combos like , , , , and .
==Tips==
*Because Drifting Contact only requires 5 mod capacity points at max rank, it is a more useful and economical mod than for melee weapon builds that heavily rely on the combo counter for effectiveness, such as a damage and critical-based builds taking advantage of .
**Combine with max-rank and to further extend combo duration by 30 seconds, especially if a player prefers focusing on melee combat.
==See Also==
*, another mod that increases combo duration.
*, another mod that increases combo duration that is part of the gladiator set mods.
*, another mod that increases Status Chance.
*, , , and , dual-stat mods that increases Status Chance and Elemental Damage.
*, an Acolyte mod that increases Status Chance based on the Melee Combo Counter.
* and , Arcanes for ranged weapons that grant combo duration bonuses at max rank.
==Patch History==
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