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Vitus Essence
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Description
Awarded by the Arbiters of Hexis to few Tenno capable of surviving Arbitration.
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General Information
Type
Resource
Drop Amount
1-1x
Sell Price
Cannot Sell
Introduced
Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)
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Vendor Sources
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Awarded by the Arbiters of Hexis to few Tenno capable of surviving Arbitration.
—In-game description

 Vitus Essence is a special resource that only appears on Arbitrations.

Acquisition[edit | edit source]

  • Vitus Essence is primarily obtained from Arbitrations:
    • 1 Vitus is guaranteed from completing a rotation, separate from the reward table.
    • Each rotation has a 7% chance to award 3 Vitus from the reward table.
    • Arbitration Shield Drones have a 6% chance to drop 1 Vitus on kill.

Drop Locations[edit | edit source]

Mission Drop Tables

Mission Type Source Rotations
or
Drop Table 		Chance[1] Quantity[2] Avg. per roll[3] Star Chart Nodes
Arbitrations Arbitrations A 7% 3 0.21

See alerts tab in in-game World State Window, must complete all nodes on Star Chart

Arbitrations Arbitrations B 7% 3 0.21

See alerts tab in in-game World State Window, must complete all nodes on Star Chart

Arbitrations Arbitrations C 7% 3 0.21

See alerts tab in in-game World State Window, must complete all nodes on Star Chart

Enemy Drop Tables

Enemy Drop Table Chance[4] Item Chance[5] Chance[6] Expected Kills[7] Quantity[8] Avg. per roll attempt[9]
Arbitration Shield Drone 6% 100% 6% 17 1 0.06

Sourced from the official drop table repository. See Module:DropTables/data to edit on the wiki.

Usage[edit | edit source]

  • Vitus Essence is used to buy items from the Arbitrations Vendor NPC in the Arbiters of Hexis room of any relay. Availability of wares are not affected by the player's reputation with the syndicate.
Click to view the items purchased with Vitus Essence.


  • Vitus Essence is also used to craft Ephemeras of the Body and Step series.
    Vitus drop.
Click to view the Blueprints requiring Vitus Essence
Blueprint Type Quantity
(Research)
 Ayatan Amber Star Resource 1
Blazing Step Ephemera Cosmetic 1
Bleeding Body Ephemera Cosmetic 1
Freezing Step Ephemera Cosmetic 1
Seeding Step Ephemera Cosmetic 1
Shocking Step Ephemera Cosmetic 1
Smoking Body Ephemera Cosmetic 1
 Synthula Resource (1)
Total 7 (+1)
Research Ghost Clan x1   Shadow Clan x3   Storm Clan x10   Mountain Clan x30   Moon Clan x100

Notes[edit | edit source]

  • To purchase everything from the Arbitrations Vendor at least once, players need 905 Vitus Essence.
  • Unlooted Vitus Essence from Arbitration Shield Drones will despawn after 5 minutes. They frequently disappear much earlier than this, most often between 1-3 minutes. Their waypoint UI is supposed to flash as they are about to disappear but this also does not work as intended, so do not wait for any flash before looting.
  • The Vitus Illumina decoration appears invisible unless GPU particles option is turned on to at least minimal in the graphics settings.
  • The Ayatan Amber Star blueprint is reusable. Each star requires  100,000, 2 Ayatan Cyan Stars and 1 Vitus Essence.
  • Vitus Essence dropped from Arbitration Shield Drones can be multiplied by a Resource Booster and  Loyal Retriever/ Resourceful Retriever.
  • Arbitration Shield Drones are unaffected by  Nekros's  Desecrate,  Hydroid's  Pilfering Swarm,  Ivara's  Prowl,  Atlas's  Ore Gaze,  Khora's  Pilfering Strangledome,  Titania's  Dex Pixia and Chesa Kubrow's  Retrieve.

Trivia[edit | edit source]

Old "Nitain" icon.
  • Prior to Hotfix 25.7.6 (2019-09-18), Vitus Essence's icon was a recolored Nitain Extract icon.
    • Similarly, while Nitain Extract is internally labeled as "Alertium", Vitus Essence is labeled as "Elitium" – Arbitrations were originally workshopped under the moniker of Elite Alerts.
  • Vitus means "of life" in Latin, the item's name can be taken literally as essence of life.

Patch History[edit | edit source]

Update 30.5 (2021-07-06)

  • Doubled the Vitus Essence drop rate from Arbitration Drones to 6% from 3%!
  • Vitus Essence will now remain on the ground for 5 minutes before disappearing. If the UI marker is blinking, be sure to get it before it’s gone!

Hotfix 25.7.6 (2019-09-18)

Reward and Rotation Changes
  • Arbiter Drones will now have a small chance to drop Vitus Essence on kill.
    • Vitus Essence dropped by destroyed Arbitration drones will have the special pickup notification.
New Arbitration Rewards
  • Added 3 x Vitus Essence bundle to the Arbitrations drop table.

Update 24.8 (2019-04-24)

General Arbitrations Changes
  • Reduced Vitus Essence crafting cost for the Amber Star Blueprint from 2 to 1.

Update 24.0 (2018-11-08)

  • A reusable Ayatan Amber Star Blueprint (available for 10 Vitus Essence) is purchasable from the Arbiters of Hexis in the Relay.

Hotfix 23.10.2 (2018-10-12)

  • Fixed Arbitration missions rewarding the incorrect amount of Vitus Essence at End Of Mission.

Update 23.10 (2018-10-12)

  • Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 25.7.6 (2019-09-18)

Resources / Components Edit

Common
 Alloy Plate •  Entrati Obols •  Ferrite •  Nano Spores •  Salvage
Uncommon
 Carbides •  Circuits •  Cryotic •  Cubic Diodes •  Hexenon •  Necracoil •  Oxium •  Plastids •  Polymer Bundle •  Rubedo •  Stela •  Thrax Plasm •  Voidgel Orb
Rare
 Argon Crystal •  Control Module •  Gallium •  Morphics •  Neural Sensors •  Neurodes •  Orokin Cell •  Tellurium •  Entrati Lanthorn
Research
 Antiserum Injector Fragment •  Detonite Ampule ( Detonite Injector) •  Fieldron Sample ( Fieldron) •  Mutagen Sample ( Mutagen Mass) •  Pigment •  Synthula
Warframe
 Lua Thrax Plasm •  Belric Crystal Fragment •  Rania Crystal Fragment •  Vainthorn •  Vessel Capillaries •  Vestigial Motes •  Fate Pearl
Navigation
 Animo Nav Beacon •  Cryptographic ALU •  Judgement Points •  Nav Coordinate •  Omega Isotope •  Granum Crown ( Exemplar Granum Crown,  Zenith Granum Crown)
Special
 Aya •  Ayatan Amber Star •  Ayatan Cyan Star •  Endo •  Intact Sentient Core •  Javlok Capacitor •  Kavat Genetic Code •  Nitain Extract •  Orokin Cipher •  Kuva •  Riven Sliver •  Somatic Fibers •  Steel Essence •  Synthetic Eidolon Shard •  Vitus Essence •  Void Traces •  Vosfor •  Spectral Debris

  1. ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
  2. ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
  3. ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
  4. ↑ Chance to roll drop table
  5. ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
  6. ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
  7. ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
  8. ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
  9. ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)
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