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Instigating

The Starfield Instigating Weapon legendary mod is a powerful and unique modification which can take your Weapon to even greater heights.

Instigating legendary mod overview

The Starfield Instigating mod is one of 63 Starfield legendary effects within the legendary weapon and legendary armor categories. The Instigating is a legendary modification for your Weapon.

By their very nature, legendary mods spawn randomly on applicable Weapons. This makes finding the specific collection of legendary effects you want quite difficult without grinding for legendary equipment by taking down high-level enemies.

Instigating legendary mod effect

Any Weapon with the Instigating mod equipped will have the following bonuses:

Deals double damage to targets with full health.

Instigating legendary mod items

Though finding the Instigating mod on a generic weapon is a matter of luck without a Starfield mod installed, you can find the Instigating reliably on these Starfield Weapons:

Instigating legendary mod location

While the Starfield base game doesn’t allow you to craft the Instigating mod, or unequip it from any Weapons that have it, you can potentially grind the Starfield loot tables to get it on the Weapon you want.

In the case of weapons, the easiest method is to use our Starfield legendary weapons farm exploit.

For armor, refreshing vendor inventories by waiting several in-game days seems the best way to cycle through the available options, though unfortunately this is a much slower method. Should a Starfield mod or exploit be discovered, we’ll include the method here.