Stance Mod Locations – Warframe

A guide on Melee Stance mods. Who drops what, what fits on which weapon, and where to farm.

Farming Locations

Most Tenno know the best place to farm mods is either Defence or Survival missions depending on your tastes. Mobile Defence excellent if you don’t want to be stuck in a level for a long time. For the heavier mobs you’ll need to hang around Defence mission for 10+ waves before they start spawning, and for Survival it’s after 10 / 15 minutes.

Try to bring along a Nekros too, they shorten your farming time by a significant chunk.

If you want to share a good stance farming location, feel free to post in the comments.

Good luck Tenno.

One Handed Swords

Includes: Cronus, Dakra Prime, Dark Sword, Ether Sword, Heat Sword, Jaw Sword, Mire, Pangolin Sword, Plasma Sword, Skana, Skana Prime.

Iron Phoenix – Grineer – Lancer, Frontier Lancer, Arid Lancer, Hellion, Frontier Hellion, Heavy Gunner
Recommended Location – Cambria / Earth: Survival, Lua / Earth: Defence.

Crimson Dervish – Grineer – Bombard
Recommended Location – 10+ minutes on Grineer Survival or 10+ waves in Grineer Defence, Ceres has a fair few spawning in missions too.

Dual Swords / Axes

Includes: Dex Dakra, Dual Cleavers, Dual Ether, Dual Heat Swords, Dual Ichor, Dual Kamas, Dual Skana, Dual Zoren, Nami Skyla.

Crossing Snakes – Grineer – Elite Lancer, Elite Frontier Lancer, Elite Arid Lancer
Recommended Location – Grineer missions higher than level 21. They also show up in later levels of defence and survival.

Swirling Tiger – Grineer – Scorch, Corpus – Tech, Anti Moa, Warden
Recommended Location – Elara / Jupiter: Survival.

Nikanas

Includes: Nikana and Dragon Nikana.

Blind Justice – Stalker
Recommended Location – Anywhere the Stalker wants to try to kill you.

Decisive Judgement – Grineer – Warden, Heavy Gunner
Recommended Location – ?

Tranquil Cleave – Frontier Butcher, Arid Butcher
Recommended Location – Lua / Earth: Defence, Cambria / Earth: Survival, Kepler / Phobos: Defence
When they say this mod is rare, they mean it.

Single Daggers

Includes: Ceramic Dagger, Dark Dagger, Heat Dagger, Karyst, Sheev.

Homing Fang – Infested – Nauseous Crawler
Recommended Location – High level Infested Alerts and Invasions – Survival and Defence.

Pointed Wind – Corpus – Shockwave Moa
Recommended Location – Venara / Venus – Defence.

Dual Daggers

Includes: Ether Daggers, Fang, Fang Prime.

Gnashing Payara – Corpus – Elite Crewman
Recommended Location – Xini / Eris – Defence.

Sinking Talon – Corpus – Crewman (Detron) – Jupiter Only
Recommended Location – Jupiter – Corpus missions of your favourite flavour.

Machetes

Includes: Kama, Machete, Machete Wrath, Prova, Nami Solo, Prova Vandal.

Sundering Weave – Grineer – Trooper, Frontier Trooper, Arid Trooper, Eviscerator, Frontier Eviscerator, Arid Eviscerator
This drops everywhere. If you can’t wait for one just trade for one, it’ll cost almost nothing.

Fist Weapons

Includes: Ankyros, Ankyros Prime, Furax, Mk1-Furax

Seismic Palm – Infested – Leaper
Recommended Location – Dark Sector and Orokin Derelict missions.

Fracturing Wind – Infested – Charger
Recommended Location – Dark Sector and Orokin Derelict missions.

Sparring Weapons / Hands and Feet

Includes: Kogake, Obex

Grim Fury – Grineer – Power Fist
Recommended Location – Triton / Neptune: Survival.

Brutal Tide – Infested – Boiler, Toxic Ancient
Recommended Location – Dark Sector and Orokin Derelict missions.

Glaives

Includes: Glaive, Glaive Prime, Halikar, Kestrel.

Astral Twilight – Tactical Alert – Overtake
Recommended Location – Tactical Alert – Overtake.

Gleaming Talon – Corpus – Leech Osprey, Sapping Osprey
Recommended Location – Xini / Eris: Defence, but seriously? Leech Osprey? How could you be so cruel DE?

Staves

Includes: Amphis, Bo, Bo Prime, Mk1-Bo, Tripedo.

Clashing Forest – Orokin – Corrupted Ancient
Recommended Location – Orokin Void missions of your preference.

Flailing Branch – Orokin – Corrupted Heavy Gunner, Corrupted Bombard
Recommended Location – Orokin Void missions of your preference.

Polearms

Includes: Tonbo, Orthos, Orthos Prime, Serro.

Shimmering Blight – Grineer – Seeker, Arid Seeker, Frontier Seeker
Recommended Location – Cambria / Earth: Survival, Lua / Earth: Defence.

Bleeding Willow – Orokin – Corrupted Moa
Recommended Location – Orokin Void Missions.

Whips

Includes: Atterax, Lecta, Scoliac.

Burning Wasp – Orokin – Corrupted Lancer, Grineer – Regulator
Recommended Location – Orokin Void missions of your preference.

Coiling Viper – Orokin – Corrupted Crewman
Recommended Location – Orokin Void missions of your preference.

Scythes

Includes: Ether Reaper, Hate, Reaper Prime.

Reaping Spiral – Corpus – Crewman, Power Carrier, Grineer – Power Carrier
Recommended Location – Kappa / Sedna: Mobile Defence, Venera / Venus: Defence.

Stalking Fan – Corpus – Sniper Crewman, Nullifier Crewman
Recommended Location – Corpus Missions of at least Level 15.

Heavy Blades / Two Handers

Includes: Galatine, Gram, Scindo, Scindo Prime.

Cleaving Whirlwind – Infested – Ancient Disruptor, Tar-Mutalist MOA
Recommended Location – Dark Sector and Orokin Derelict missions.

Rending Crane – Grineer – Napalm
Recommended Location – Napalms seem to spawn fairly frequently in Phobos.

Tempo Royale – Tactical Alert – Phoenix
Recommended Location – Tactical Alert – Phoenix.

Hammers

Includes: Fragor, Jat Kittag, Magistar.

Shattering Storm – Grineer – General Sargas Ruk
Recommended Location – Tethyrs / Saturn: Boss.

Crushing Ruin – Grineer – Seeker, Arid Seeker, Frontier Seeker
Recommended Location – Phobos – Survival / Defence and Mobile Defence.

Claws

Includes: Ripkas, Venka.

Malicious Raptor – Grineer – Powerfist
Recommended Location – ?

Four Riders – Grineer – Manic
Recommended Location – ?

Sword and Shield

Includes: Silva & Aegis.

Eleventh Storm – Infested – Lephantis
Recommended Location – Orokin Derelict Assasinate.

Tonfa

Includes: Kronen.

Gemini Cross – Orokin – Corrupted MOA, Excavation Reward
Recommended Location – Either Orokin Void missions or Excavation missions (Earth, Venus, Europa, Neptune and Phobos.

Gunblade

Includes: Redeemer.

High Noon – Infested – Brood Mother
Recommended Location – Phorid Assassination missions.

Thanks

Thanks to everyone on the Reddit and Official Warframe forums who posted any information about stance mods.

Thanks to the people who uploaded images of the mods onto the Warframe wiki.

Of course thanks to DE for this fine game.

And especially, thanks to everyone posting info and ideas in the comment section.

Happy hunting.

Work in Progress

Feel free to post praise, hate, and info in the comments and I’ll update it. Especially any advice for good farming locations as I’m pretty sure we’d all like to know that.

Thanks to everyone who has so far.

Sorry for not updating this for so long. I only just got back into Warframe.

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