Empowered Blades

Empowered Blades is an aura mod that increases status chance and status damage (where applicable) of Heavy Attacks, at the cost of draining a portion of shields per hit.
==Stats==
Rank	Status chance/Damage bonus	Shield Drain per hit	Cost *
0 	+10% 	15 	-2
1 	+20% 	30 	-3
2 	+30% 	45 	-4
3 	+40% 	60 	-5
4 	+50% 	75 	-6
5 	+60% 	90 	-7
* Aura mods increase the amount of Mod Capacity
==Acquisition==
Empowered Blades is dropped by the Feyarch Specter, available upon anointing a Silver Grove shrine with the Sunrise Apothic.
==Drop Locations==
==Notes==
*Status damage bonus will only apply to , , , , and procs.
**This bonus is multiplicative with other damage mods.
*The bonus to status chance is additive with other status chance mods.
**A equipped with and Empowered Blades will have 
::: status chance on heavy attack.
*Shield drain is per enemy hit, making it ineffective against large groups of enemies.
**Shield drain does not scale with multiple Empowered Blade auras in your squad. 
**Bonus damage is not applied if your Warframe does not have at least one shield point available to be consumed, making it impossible to benefit from on , or 
*Stacks additively with 's passive.
*This Aura does not affect the disc.
**The buff can only affect one of your melee weapons at a time, decided at the start of the mission. Besides making testing in the Simulacrum inconvenient, this means that Exalted Weapons won't normally benefit. Entering the mission without a melee weapon equipped will solve the latter.
==Tips==
*Useful on Warframes with very high shields such as , , and .
*Can work well in conjunction with shield regeneration mods or items, such as to regenerate a small portion of shields on ability cast, or Squad Shield Restore.
*A or Specter (Tenno) can be very useful for aiding in shield regeneration, thus allowing you to make use of this Aura more than once.
==Patch History==
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