Vitus Essence is a special resource that only appears on Arbitrations.
Acquisition[]
- 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[]
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 in-game World State Window, must complete all nodes on Star Chart |
| Arbitrations | Arbitrations | B | 7% | 3 | 0.21 |
See in-game World State Window, must complete all nodes on Star Chart |
| Arbitrations | Arbitrations | C | 7% | 3 | 0.21 |
See 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[]
- 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.
15
Amprex Telos Skin
15
Atomos Telos Skin
15
Atterax Telos Skin
- Vitus Essence is also used to craft items, mainly Ephemeras.
Vitus drop.
| 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 |  x1  x3  x10  x30  x100
| ||||||||
Notes[]
- 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. Therefore players are advised to wait no longer than 1 minute for a Charm buff before looting it. 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 the Smeeta Kavat's Charm
- Arbitration Shield Drones are unaffected by Nekros Desecrate, Hydroid's Pilfering Swarm, Ivara's Prowl, Atlas Ore Gaze, Khora's Pilfering Strangledome and Chesa Kubrow's Retrieve.
Trivia[]
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[]
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)
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance)
- ↑ Chance to roll drop table
- ↑ Chance to roll item within drop table
- ↑ (Drop Table Chance × Item Chance)
- ↑ (1 / Chance), see WARFRAME Wiki:Expected & Nearly Guaranteed Numbers for more details
- ↑ Amount rewarded on successful roll
- ↑ (Quantity × Chance), average item quantity on a roll attempt (successful or not)