Exalted Blade | Explaining Every Exalted

[@CoolKid369]

Hey all, I want to add something here real quick: as of this video's making, the slide blind on Exalted Blade can blind Eximus units, but I opted to not include this in the video as I am reasonably certain it's a bug. I decided to just put it in a pinned comment so that I wouldn't have to mess with the video if it ever gets patched, hope you all understand. See you for Hysteria's episode here soon! I also swear I have a pop filter, I think this mic just needs replaced at this point lol

[@littletroble_07]

sell the mic like it’s gamer girl bath water.

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

Please, let Pablo know that Exalteds need their arcane slots (as well as stance capacity for melee exalteds). We have been waiting too long.

[@pigslayer275]

Exalted Blade & Mass Vitrify are my two favorite ability sounds in the game fr fr, I do be casting them just to hear the sound too.

[@robsquare2622]

@@CoolKid369 is this a simulacrum bug or does it work in missions

[@iwearkhakis8188]

john warframe

[@Movel0]

I like the skin that lets you turn into Arthur "John Warframe" Warframe

[@DrakoWulf]

Having two color to use for energy color completely fixes the "messes with your fashion" issue people have with Chromatic Blade. For example, I use a very dark brown to get heat, then my favorite blue energy color completely covers it up, as if there was no difference in my energy color.

[@AcexNightmarexX]

The first color is actually the secondary color. Because of people like excal and chroma

[@aquamarinerose5405]

I think the annoying thing is the fact that I needed to set up 3 different color-sets & 3 different arsenals with him just to keep up a few umbra playstyles.

[@DrakoWulf]

@@AcexNightmarexX Yep!

[@DrakoWulf]

@@aquamarinerose5405 Sure, it's a bit annoying, and I think they should change it, but it's only a mild inconvenience, rather than an actual hinderance.

[@thetideturner2187]

You can also use any black color or the darkest red in the valentine color pallete, they sometimes are just invisible

[@UmbralWuju]

As a 70% Use rate Umbra main with 5K hours in game. I have been crying about this stuff for a LONG time.

[@wolfofwarframe3807]

From one main to another, are you a Wrathful advance user or something else?

[@hekatesketch2622]

@@wolfofwarframe3807 I'm actually quite happy to see someone else using Wrathful Advance on Umbra. It feels -so- nice with him, arguably better than on Kullervo

[@UmbralWuju]

@wolfofwarframe3807 90% of the time, WA. 10% of the time I'm using xatas. I only swap to xatas when I am extraordinarily bored of clicking 1 then 3 over and over again. But my build is schizo due to me also using sht like Blade Charger and primary charger. I swap build every patch according to my mood.

[@UmbralWuju]

Personally. The only changes umbra needs (if they are going to continue to refuse allowing Exalteds to use the same tools other frames have such as arcanes/combo multi scaling/acolyte mods) Then please raise the base stats to compare TO THE OTHER EXALTEDS. Every other exalted has a ridiculous base crit chance . Exalted blade is the only one with subpar/trash stats. My SKANA hits harder.

[@hekatesketch2622]

@@UmbralWuju Oh 100% agree! That's what I've been doin' too. Prisma Skana, Incarnon, and like, 306% power strength to murder everything 160+ on Steel Path. rarely do I use my Exalted Blade

[@xanthacanthus]

exalted blade's base stats have been so powercrept that it's not even funny anymore, it's just sad.

[@davidmingle5910]

Yeah. Slash dash and exhaled blade really suck. Radial blind and javelin are fine, I guess.

[@wailfulcrab]

To the point that Slash Dash can be scaled to do more damage than Exalted itself due to a lot more stuff that buffs Slash Dash damage.

[@johngaynor4363]

@@davidmingle5910 slash dash is better, since it's a pseudoexalt, which can leverage stat sticks.

[@lolomanu1600]

true but if you do it right you can hit for 30mil consistently with wrathful advance

[@monsterdc0303]

Honestly man I have build my excal with rolling guard, two augment and forced myself to subsume wrathful advance on slash dash......now I get huge damage output always get damage in millions

[@ninjab33z]

Another point in cold's favour for chromatic blade is that it's proc increases critical damage, and iirc, primary frostbite can be raised by outside sources. They probably aren't huge game changers, but worth remembering

[@king0fsaiyanz18]

Xata's whisper is really good with his sword. It procs the void bubbles and hits targets multiple times with the waves, I use elec/gas and its so fun

[@emiliogarcia6028]

Didn’t know that the waves bounce off bubbles, will definitely use this once I get my helminth unlocked

[@Spritus3241]

omg i use this too! (but with corrosive/fire) its so handy for Duviri and onward with tons of overgaurded enemies too.

[@Odisher7]

1:09 thanks for making the video adhd accessible

[@thebadger4040]

I like that the Exalted Blade is one of the simpler ones, but you still had 20 minutes of talking about it in you. I love this community.

[@Spritus3241]

Some extra things i've noted from my heavy use of Excal in chromatic state: - Attack speed alters how far the Waves can travel by account of them you know, going faster. - Base Attack Speed of Exalted Blade is afftected by Natural Talent, although you may not want to mod for that. - Xata's Whisper affects Exalted Blade, this is excellent for adding a flat buff to chromatic blade, as well as allowing Exalted Blade to more easily strip Overgaurd by both dealing Void Damage and creating it's bubble effect. - Modding for Excess power strength with Chromatic gives the blade more than enough to have 712% status chance at just 205% strength, allowing for some insane multi-stacks of corrosive, fire and other useful snapshotting statuses and strippers. - For Chromatic Blade, most dark reds, blues, purples and greens all still count as Fire Toxin, Cold, and Electric respectively, even if the visual emissive is nigh indistinguishable from black. (useful for maintaining a fashionframe and redcucing colour clash.)

[@yasacinar]

Another thing to add is that unlike any other melee arcane, Melee Duplicate works with Exalted Blade when it is equipped on your regular melee weapon. Don't tell DE 🤫, or do, and also tell them to give arcane slots to exalteds.

[@wickedraptor2651]

Could you imagine how much better most exalted weaoons would be if they could take arcanes and all of the mods from their weapon category?

[@Antondencoole]

THE EXALTED WEAPON(S) VIDEO IS REEEAAAALLLL!!!!!

[@NovaUmbral]

There will never be a rework like Excalibur in Warframe history ever again. You just had to be there. All the past Reworks before 16.9 were always stat shifts and numbers changes with *some* alterations of powers and some shifts in them but never to the level of Exalted Blade. It was flashy, cool, vibrant, exciting. Eventually becoming the new standard for a while.

[@ericyang7436]

For those looking for another way to survive with Excalibur, I've been liking subsuming Lycath's Hunt over his Slash Dash, running one purple archon shard for equilibrium, and Health Conversion. It lets me run Arcane Battery and Arcane Blessing while freeing up the Primed Flow slot and any potential blue shards for more options in those spots. Also means I can free up Synth Deconstruct on my companion for another mod that would increase its utility. :3

[@Polyblank69420]

good idea, i have been trying to make him work recently and survivality is my biggest problem on him. i think pairing him with vasca or panzer vulp would work well on him but i havent gotten into it yet. i tried arcan reaper + grace but he cant really keep up and still gets one to two shotted by a random emanity.

[@leonidas3885]

Coolkid I think this was a neat video but it vastly overshadowed what Umbra can really do when given the effort. I’ll be sharing my build as an example since it has reached level cap a few times and survived relatively well in a pub lobby. Warframe mods: Brief Respite, Handspring/Primed Sure Footed, All 3 Umbral (you can change this for whatever your preferences just keep intensify), Equilibrium, Blind Rage, Chromatic Blade (Cold), Furious Javelin, Adaptation/Primed Redirection/Rolling Guard (literally just pick one). Warframe arcanes: Molt Augmented & Arcane Strike Helminth: Nourish to replace his Radial Blind/Howl Archon shards: 2 Ability strength, 2 Energy, 1 Casting speed. Primary setup: Afentis with Amalgam serration and Primary Dexterity arcane. (The unique trait buff applies to melee attack speed.) Secondary setup: Augur Pact, Augur Seeker, Secondary Dexterity, and (optionally) Amalgam Barrel Diffusion. Melee Setup is more about preference. (Gladiator mods are optional unless you are fully committing to the exalted blade. I use Melee Duplicate and Galvanized Steel on my melee weapon and I’m not 100% sure if it does or doesn’t affect the exalted blade.) Exalted Blade: Discipline’s Merit, Sac Steel, Sac Pressure, Condition Overload, Shocking Touch, Primed Fever Strike, North Wind, Berserker’s Fury, Primed Reach. Focus school: Naramon (but any of them can work). Companion can be anything that procs statuses you want as long as it has Synth Deconstruct, Primed Animal Instinct, and Duplex Bond. (Optional) Parazon: Blood For Energy, Blood For Life, Hit And Run Notes: Throw Afentis down when you need the attack speed boost. Use Nourish often before radial javelin so you don’t waste javelin’s duration trying to keep nourish up. Slash dash grants health gating, which prevents your health from taking damage while it’s being cast, you can cancel the dash by jumping at any point to immediately get back into attacking with your weapons. You’ll be downing a lot of energy with this build so get used to spamming all your skills to survive. Exalted Blade does make use of combo counter with Tennokai, making it do big damage and benefiting off Sac Steel’s heavy attack cc increase. Cold damage is reliable on Exalted due to it doing double procs with the energy waves, enemies become nearly immobilized or frozen relatively fast. They freeze even fast if you’re using coolant leak or a cold damage companion that does crowd status applications. As for the Gemini skin “feature” mentioned in the video, if you set Arthur to have heat as his emissive color, you can force change the exalted blade into a blast procing machine which is fun against large crowds, and you’ll be diving into crowds often due to wanting to keep scoring high numbers on Furious Javelin’s buff. You effectively gain more damage the more you are overwhelmed. Always engage enemies with slash dash to give yourself momentum and never stop burning through the enemies. This build feels like overkill on lower level missions that aren’t steel path or late game survival due to needing a constantly high enemy density. That’s about it, feel free to let me know what adjustments you’d make or if this helped. Take care. ❤🗡️❤

[@sage-sama7273]

Just want to say for survivability advice, DE recently patched slash dash in 1999 to make Excalibur fully invulnerable during it’s duration instead of only making his health invulnerable, so it’s good in a pinch to use. Haven’t tested it much to see if it was actually patched since I haven’t been able to play the update but it’s a nice tool for survivability when paired with other methods.

[@DragonxFlutter]

One thing I wish they'd do is give synergy with Radial Blind that makes Slash Dash either perform a Finisher or at least do increased damage on Blinded enemies. I feel like that'd give Slash Dash better usefulness in a fight.

[@thestarryeyedobserver]

thEY FINALLY DID IT?!

[@mindaugaskazlavickas]

Excited for Sabuuchi’s all mods tier list. Amen 🙏

[@Doomness87]

he stopped procrastinating boys we finally got the exalted weapon video cant wait to watch it

[@sammy_wills]

My main gripe with the weapon swap buff is that it removed the sound of exalted blade being deactivated. That sound was equally as cool as the activation sound and i miss it soooo much.

[@samuraiwarren4475]

I haven't tried it yet because I don't have extras of Cyte-09 yet, but I heard that Cyte-09's evade is very good on excalibur for survivability, and the mods we got this update regarding extra boosts while invisible can help in the damage department.

[@briixus]

i miss when channeling was still in the game and with Life Strike it gave pretty good healing

[@teo2216]

Glad to see more videos videos for excal, I brought the exalted blade to level cap recently and it went really well I do wish excal would get 1 or 2 more QoL changes

[@youraveragechroma2139]

Waow, Exalted blade is so cool! I hope there isn't another ability in Excalibur's kit that has less downsides, is just as strong, and is more straight forward due to the ever powercrept stats stick tools!

[@d01nut3]

is the move in question slash dash

[@youraveragechroma2139]

@ yeah, I personally find it equally viable to Exalted.

[@wickedraptor2651]

Stat sticks my beloathed

[@Wookie-]

As my main i can agree that Exalted blade along Excalibur are really strong and fun to play, but with enemies becoming stronger and new Warframes becoming more powerful, it starts to show he needs some adjustments, but its still a good Warframe, i use him with full corrosive and its a funny thing, i might add the new magnetic mod so it can deal better with eximus, cool vid

[@darknesdeepfromhell]

Yet another well made video ChillGuy369. I genuinely think that splitting the wider video idea into a seperate series will make it both much easier on you and much more benefitial as well, given that it would be easier for people to binge, watch videos for warframes they care about, rather than have to sit through a massive 3 hour long documentary on guns made of fungus war crime bones. Probably give you a better pay out too, getting the same viewer base on a dozen shorter videos. lol

[@sansthememe5316]

You really did your research, I felt so smart with my Toxin-Blast Exalted blade😂, mod Viral-Heat on a Magnetic Kuva Nukor and Gas-Cold with Shivering Contagion on my Sentinel Weapon and I'm easily hitting in the millions, which gets multiplied further thanks to Blast being as broken as it is. Great video keep up the good work 👏👏

[@Gamer3427]

For a brief moment before starting the video I forgot how in depth Warframe's mechanics can be, so I questioned how in the world a video talking about one ability on one frame could be 20 minutes long. It's one of those things I've just become so used to after putting so many hours in over the years that it doesn't feel "complex" until I see it broken down again.

[@julio1759]

Heat on exalted blade can also be used with heat inherit setups! Which scales pretty well on longer mission settings/priority targets (demos, higher lvl thrax etc).

[@aquamarinerose5405]

6:17 I think the primary advantage of Exalted Blade in this regard is the fact that even if the waves *technically* do less damage, they're still capable of extending your effective AoE. Slashing everything in a line in front of you, primarily dealing the highest damage to the guy you're actually cutting while also cutting 4 dudes behind him is better than it seems.

[@Arbyjar]

In my experience, tharros strike is actually pretty good with excal, as it strips armor, has a smidgen of cc potency, and bumps your surviability. For some reason though when I was building it I pumped range instead of duration (and strength ofc) which made furious javelin a little harder to manage, but definitely more potent. Also made him a thirsty boy, but that’s pretty solved with flow/equilibrium and arcane energize. Should revisit that I think Edit: I also subsumed over his 2??? Not a big deal cause of the slide radial blind but the range makes it a very funny movement option (~50m)

[@robsquare2622]

Chromatic blade is not bad for exalted blade, its literally the best dps mod for it, its bad because exalted blade itself(in the current meta at least) is so ...wanting. Excalibur with nami+solo is just such an absolute world of difference and makes you wish he had a way for exalted blade to just do a budget melee influence with chromatic blade - the status spreading mod.

[@BlenderGeek]

Minor note, the lotus vanished in the kuva tile set because the transition from the grineer queen uses the same system. As a result when lotus and the queen try to play dialogue at the same time funny stuff happens. I have seen the lotus colored red on the fortress screens.

[@oriondezagrats4228]

I've used Gloomcalibur, and honestly while it solves his healing, the extra energy drain is miserable and it doesn't really stop him from getting bullied from outside off its range, which you want to keep manageable so it doesn't annihilate your energy pool, so it also affects his blind and javelin indirectly negatively. For a while I was using Xata's Whisper, and it was certainly funny in terms of damage, but hardly necessary. The neatest thing about it is that it turned individual enemies in a crowd into blade wave blenders due to the magnetism bubble, but the same quality also nerfed the blade waves versus lines. That said, in hallways you could turn individual enemies into meat shields to block fire from further away. I've tried a variety of ways to make Excalibur less squishy in endurance content, but there was only one build that was really reliable in that regard. Shooting Gallery, with Muzzle Flash and Arcane Trickery. As it happens, melee will charge up the blind bonus, and all you have to do is keep holding down melee if you don't want it to fire off prematurely. Releasing and repressing the melee button is a split-second process that doesn't even break your animation. You will also get multiple blinds going off per full duration of Shooting Gallery, making it very energy efficient. Arcane Trickery's invis lasts 30 seconds, and the only thing holding it back is the rng and finisher speed. I'm going to have to see if Evade ends up being a better option in the long run by getting energy wave headshots.

[@DragonxFlutter]

I know most KZbin creators shudder at the thought of not using the meta, but I _love_ the idea of taking a Warframe and their kit (including signature weapons) and building around what they're good at (in Hildryn's case, Balefire would come out as soon as I run outta Larkspur ammo). So I shall be watching this video with great interest. And, as a Story Mode Excalibur, I appreciate any video that talks him up.

[@Dr34mC4tch3r]

I just dived deep into remaking my umbra build. I farmed more mods for power strength and shoved 5 power strength shards right up his gooch. Ended with 400% power strength which with chromatic blade means I have 1200% status chance for exalted blade. The kicker? I have an electric emissive and turned it into corrosive. The damage is fun. I put hildryns pillage on him in place of his 1 to increase survivability. I also have arcane battery maxed out on him to make use of his 900+ armor value I’ve got. If all goes well I blend anything I come in contact with. Bonus points if I can get more boosts like from jade or Dante. I love Excalibur, there’s always something special about your first and most used frame. Update : got growing power and furious javelin. Changed my damage types to viral and heat for the chromatic blade. Arcane blessing I’m hoping boosts my hp enough to help my adhd ahh with hitting pillage on time.

[@lexibeard4404]

this is a really great vid CK!!

[@thexoraspyro15]

Hi ! Excal main since 2015 (before his rework) here ! So ! That's a good video, you cover a lot of things while keeping a relatively short video, that's nice. It doesn't allow you to cover everything of course, and that's why I'm here ! I'm gonna talk about my own build (Steel path and Deep Archimedian viable, Last Breath is strongly recommended tho but that's just in case you didn't developped your parkour skills in the game : I barely die because I'm jumping around ! First thing I wanna say here is : I'm surprised that you just mention Wrathful Advance as a viable subsume. To me this is an absolute must have on excalibur, when I don't use it it's because I'm doing a spy or rescue mission and so I put the auto-hack helminth ability. But if I have to kill anyone, I just go with WA augment, this spell is just way too overpowered. Dealing red crit whatever you build your blade is neat, and by just puting WA and Life Steal you have a viable build in steel path or anywhere in the game. Tho I personnally go for the chromatic blade augment only, WA taking place on the javlins so I can proc mass damage then flash then dassh to become unvulnerable during my whole slash dash attack while getting life back. It doesn't happen often, but it saved my arse a load of times during the Netracells/Deep Archimedian missions. Also I use a green energy to go poison on the blade so I can proc Corrosive too by putting Archon Continuity on the build. About the blade itself, I go for a last Radiation status with Focus Radon, so the waves can create crowd control while this destroys murmur enemies (told you it's for archimedian, but you can use this pretty much anywhere on the map, the 105% status chance + red crit makes it so strong against anything. Just for fun I should try it on the Eidolon bosses lmao). Also I don't use Sacrificial Steel cause I use Condition overload, most of my unique status coming from my companion. Of course a use of Galvanaized Elementalist is welcome as it strengthen the toxin damage, which will be strong against pretty much any enemy : facing corpus they'll just hit life instantly so they're one-shhoted; against grineer the combination of poison AND corrosive will strip their armor while dealing DOT ecreasing further everytime a corrosive status procs, and usually they die in two taps but eximus can be a bit tougher so this makes them die pretty fast too. I also put Primed Fever Strike so I can go max toxin damages. Condition overload of course, I don't deal a load of unique status with my blade, but I have a nautilus prime with a burst rifle : while the weapon will deal loads of status, the cordon precept mod will grab everyone in front of me every 15 seconds. On Nautilus tho I put Manifold bond, so everytime I kill an enemy affected by 3 or more unique status effect, it reduces the pull by 3s/enemy, so it recast every 2 to 5 seconds depending on the enemies I'm facing (2s in most case as I play only on steel path and there are plenty of those little mobs around in it). About the Burst Rifle, you can use pretty much anything on it to put status, especially now that we can combine an element with 2 mods + have a third flat one for cold and put on top of that both Radiation and Magnetic with the mods we got released during last year. But the core is the combo cold + gas : gas is a status I put on no other weapon slot so it's a way to have one unique status that will create an AOE that deals damage over time, not only gas damages : the clouds it creates can proc other status from the weapon, cold in my case. So more crit damages. So, cold status + radiation + gas = 3, it's enough to proc the manifold bond mod. If you want to swap off the radiation from the burst rifle you can do it tho, I just like it when there's plenty of sources of chaos to control opponents but you do you =) About the archon shards, I use 3 tauforged purple to increase critical damages, and I use primed flow to activate the bonus (+75 critical damage when max energy is over 500), and because I like warframe for the fun I can take from parkour, I use 2 yellow tauforged shards for parkour speed cause the build works like this, but if you want to go max potential add another purple and you're fairly free about the last one : another purple is probably the strongest, but I like to go with an orange archon for more critical damage from heat status because I use Cascadia Flare and Scorch on my secondary weapon (dual toxocist most of time, laetum can happen a lot too). A yellow for some casting speed may be viable, but honestly I don't think it's needed. If you don't have enough purple sshardsss, you can just go with crimson shards until you can fuse them into purple : they do the same thing, but without the 37.5 crit damage over 500 max energy, so it's just halfed critical damages. That works well enough until the upgrade ! :) In short : a blade that deals a whole load of damage, generate a bit of crowd control so if they don't die in the second they just shot their friends instead of me, and a companion that allows me to deal even more final damages while packing mob in front of me like a pocket mag, life steal and mostly parkour maneuver for survivability. If you want more details about the build, /w TheXoraS in game ! :) (If I'm offline, just add me as friend and try again later, I play everyday during the afternoon and the evening)

[@taktika4764]

After the survivability section, i want to point out my favorite way of doing that with basically any warframe: Health Convertion and Arcane Blessing. It's enough in most situation but you can even combine it with Adaptation or Gloom or my favorite Quick Thinking. It's enough for steel path non-endurance content especially if you can get more health orbs than normally with things like Synth Deconstruct and using that even opens up Equilibrum strategies and such

[@wellplayedninjas]

oh hell, coolkid mini series. cant wait for the others!

[@samuelfelipe2438]

Man i love your vídeos!

[@Genoprototype]

I don't use Excal but this was very informative, there's always more to learn in Warframe! Can't wait for the Baruuk's Desert Wind and Cyte-09's Neutralizer

[@Xehio69]

Great Content, Keep up the Good Work!

[@maxinea.sakaki4151]

13:14 tazicor with contagion and duplex bond primes really quick on any sentinel so you can replace the diriga for any other companion. Coolant leak with manifold bond is pretty pog to also spread status effects, you can have viral rad magnetic electric with tazicor

[@thegrouchization]

If I'm remembering correctly, Hysteria wasn't originally an exalted weapon. It was a timed ability rather than a channel, and the claws couldn't be modded.

[@Waelleto]

As an Excalibur main, I'm not asking for a rework or buffs anymore, I'm on my knees BEGGING for anything

[@JeremyTheBreadKnife]

Me at 9:30 when my entire exhalibur build is slash damage triggering crits triggering slash damage triggering crits:

[@geoshark12]

One good use of the wave is nullifier bubbles , it allows you to break them without ended the exalted

[@Prinny.]

17:37 Forget Gloom, throw Eclipse on weak frames life good

[@VinceMouse]

I didn't even know the slide blind existed holy SHIT

[@davidmingle5910]

I'm really not a fan of how necessary chromatic blade is. It's undeniably very good, but overcentralizing. Slash dash also annoys me, seems like surging/purging dash augments should be built-in. I do love how excal synergises with helminth skills. Roar double-dipping status dmg, wrathful fitting thematically and fixing his crit, nourish being nourish, marked for death and radial finish.

[@shadyray]

COOLKID POSTED

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

Good shit so far 👌 Edit: video complete, good shit man keep these coming 🎩

[@Aranesque]

Great video! I was just trying to understand Exca again, since I stopped using him a while ago (11 years playing this game makes you forget how to use certain things) About the power of the exalted waves... I think it's reasonable that it's so low power? I had a friend who used to sit on a corner spamming E and doing nothing during survivals. "The game plays itself" he used to said, then quitted and never played Warframe again.

[@gabrielsalinas1019]

7:11 golden nova jumpscare

[@chipslight738]

People : You should use this to help with Excalibur's survivability. My crazy ass : What if I gave Excal cold element so I can use Chroma's subsume and give it extra armor

[@artoriaselucidor2763]

Combo it Arcane reaper/grace for healing and avenger for the cold boosting the crits.

[@ser5528]

The best argument agaisnt chromatic blade is that Furious Javellin outperforms it

[@v67828]

Spittin a lil bar right here was sneaky 11:44

[@deadsorceress]

Great video, can't wait to see video covering Ivara, maybe if youtuber will point out that augment isn't working DE will fix it so i can play it again, as with new weakpoint mods she could be really really good and even have some synergy in kit which she currently hasn't

[@beenis08]

If you dont mind me asking, whats broken with her augment? (Besides the fact that it kinda sucks)

[@deadsorceress]

@@beenis08 after aoe nerf aoe weapons can't headshot, and so artemis bow with aug, but 50% cc bonus works only on headshots, i mean it's not like 100% bug, the mod description doesn't say that cc is added to explosion, but before aoe nerf it wasn't that way, and having cc on aug that makes your weapon aoe, without applying it to aoe doesn't makes sense

[@someperson4249]

> way fewer status effects viral corrosive toxin blast magnetic radiation sword build moment edit, realized someone would question nourish for viral, toxin from modding, corrosive from archon continuity, blast from cold+heat modding, and magnetic and radiation from the respective dual element mods

[@belacvance595]

Pretty sure he was saying if you don't run Chromatic Blade, you won't be getting the Status Chance increase, and therefore have way fewer status effects applied.

[@tako5018]

i like running eclipse on him for the versatility of DR/dmg buff, even if the dmg buff is strictly worse than roar one is that its visually very buggy with gemini skins, only affects heads, makes skin textures go crazy

[@gen8901]

Ichigo could teach Excalibur a lot, from poster boy to poster boy.

[@SavanBerry]

Thanks for the video dude.

[@blob643]

Hot take: Shattering impact should be percent based not a flat 6, and the effects double or triples when impact damage is triggered by heavy attack Also this mod would work wonders as a gun mod but either make it percent based or raise the armor strip to atleast 50 armor removed per impact proc because impact is going to fight other IPS and elemental procs or have the weapon not deal any elemental damage for this mod to work hence the need to have a high armor strip to compete with viral and corrosive builds.

[@lordnul1708]

I only really use two of the combos, the moving combo (for most situations) or the crouching variant of neutral combo for chokepoints. I have not used the chokepoint strategy (basically gonto a dead end, hide behind a door and spam) in a long time, ever since the Orokin Void got rewirked.

[@ForgieDusker]

as the final episode in the series, would you end up doing a vid on pseudo-exalteds? since there's a lot that's interchangeably true between them, it might make for a good enough all-encompassing vid ,,,and because i wanna know if i'm missing some key detail on Atlas' 1st ability

[@Raionhardt]

Exalted blade went from the most broken weapon in warframe to a wet noodle. You can thank DE Scott for nerfing the shit out of all exalted melee

[@Ch4os4ever]

Here is how you get bets of both worlds, change color to toxin, use Archon mod that procs corrosive with toxin, use 2 green archon shards to increase corrosion procs to fully strip enemy (or one tauforged to get 90% strip). Mod exalted blade with the new radiation, magnetic mod and add the 60% heat and cold for blast. You get, blast, mag, rad, toxin and corrosion procs. Have your vulpaphyla deal the viral stacks as well as mod his claws for the ips and condition overload away.

[@AzureBloodDragon_Hokokei]

Make sure to let people know that corrupted mods like killing blow does work on sevagoth shadow claws

[@EmeraldLegate_]

i use cold for chromatic blade, it helps strengthen crits and doesnt mess with fashion (black emissive counts as cold)

[@pyr0cyb3r]

DE needs to give Excal some love, touch him up a bit.

[@MuchVery]

Life Strike on the Exalted Blade plus Arcane Reaper, Arcane Blessing and some Armour Shards has just about solved Excalibur's issue of squishiness. Throw a Tennokai mod on the EB and you can make use of Life Strike without giving up Combo. Not that Combo means much, like you said. Please DE, give us BR and WW.

[@kvab24]

Add in quick thinking and you much more tankier than your hp tanking

[@v1k37]

here is how you can deal millions of DMG with exalted blade, replace 2nd ability with roar then add archon vitality then mod your epitaph for heat inherit with secondary encumber. Play loop: hit roar hit 3rd ability for multiplicative DMG boost then keep priming with epitaph and kill with exalted blade. Please note that I am not suggesting excal is good, it definitely needs rework or retouch atleast

[@thorn5807]

i cannot wait for the Artemis bow video in 6 years

[@GrrumpyPants]

I use blast and toxin with archon continuity on my excal. With the emissive colour setting the blade to heat or cold, this combo allows you to run primed fever strike without the toxin weight overpowering blast. With a viral heat setup primed fever strike would leave your heat weighting lacking. I use archon shards that stack max health when I get a kill with blast, allowing for excal to become a health tank with arcane reaper without any mod investment outside of adaptation. Against targets with capped armor corrosive is a better damage buff than viral, and you apply corrosive every time you would apply toxin thanks to archon continuity. Against shields the toxin component completely bypasses them. Finally, archon continuity means you're applying 3 unique status effects instead of 2, which works great with condition overload double dipping on the waves. I also run a panzer at almost all times, and nourish will commonly be found on random squadmates, meaning my lack of viral on exalted blade is often not an issue, however I would continue to use this setup even if I had no other way of applying viral. The arthur tip is one I hadn't realized, I will be setting my exalted blade to toxin with arthur so that I can switch to deal extra toxin damage against shielded enemies if that ever comes up.

[@kvab24]

For my excal build I rely on quick thinking + hunter adrenaline + healing return. With 4 violet shard, 3 for crit, 1 for energy through health orbs, and 1 blue for armor for my arcane battery to reach 500 max energy. I use nautilus with coolant leak to be my melee primer because grouping + blast = instant kill and using guardian too. Pretty risky but it’s possible to use in eda I would recommend you to use martyr symbioses & tek assault on panzer because it acts as a health gate of 1 sec invulnerability, might not be the craziest but that’s extra survivability.

[@alexanderbabski3241]

umbral polarity should be universal.

[@Nogayara]

for excalibur... right?

[@kvab24]

@@Nogayaranah let’s be real here umbral polarities are basically pointless nowadays and makes builds less cohesive. Galvanized mods replaced umbral and no one uses other umbral mods except for intensify

[@samueledison4676]

As an Excalibur main, i feel personally attacked by this, and have contacted my attorney.

[@ElFelipe-u5x]

His exalted should have a second option for moveset aura that focuses on the waves

[@Gendor64]

This game really needs an operation health. The amount of weird interactions (or lack therefore) with mods/weapons/arcanes and abilities that need probably a slight tightening of the screw to be really good is kinda funny. But also frustrating. Even the devs have admitted by now that stat sticks for PE's are confusing at the best of days as it stands now. And multishot and gun co not triggering (or triggering) for specific weapons for no apparent reason is a mild annoyance. We also have such a wide arsenal of destruction, most exalteds feel kinda pointless. Especially stuff like Blade and balefire. I could name you a billion secondaries and melee's that can kill better, and that's before looking at all the "meta" stuff and incarnons. I know that there'll always be a degree of "doing what's fun" else we'd all run torid and revenant while holding LMB. Doesn't mean it should stay as it is tho. I love fashion and excal especially is very fashionable, so i just want him to feel a little closer to what he deserves to be.

[@holonholon1141]

Elemental combos: I just run raw Blast, since Furious Javelin pushes the blast procs into the millions, which is Enough damage I think.

[@ControversyCupcake]

11:50 speaking of other combos I think blast and toxin is a great combo mainly for beam weapons

[@AcexNightmarexX]

Huras kubrow: stalk + tandem bond = extra damage and some survivability

[@AntiCaesarReal]

One survivability method these days is slash dash since they finally gave it true invincibility

[@firby7341]

very good survivability from helminth is omamori (Koumei), very underrated imo

[@Abrokenhandgun]

Me too brother, me too. 0:50

[@felixmain6130]

Omg I heard the mass effect music that plays when u have the navigation pulled up

[@vulkarma741]

You forgot that cold grants crit damage now, not that much, but just a note.

[@ooodatsgottahurt1625]

Valkyr feels like a better Excal. Better damage, better survivability. Her warcry buffs her armor which let's me have over 1000 energy when using arcane battery. Throw in Nourish and I never have to drop her 4. She's fully built with 3 umbral forma. Just makes me wonder why Excal is left so weak when Valkyr is a powerhouse.

[@TheRealMichelozzo]

For my base Excalibur I'm a 'slap gloom on it' kinda guy, although I've also got maxxed out reaper, Quick Thinking/Hunter's Adrenaline and Arcane Intention to get more base health to multiply with Adaptation via the two channel abilities. As long as I'm in the thick of it with enemies up to my armpits I usually don't go down, barring a brutal wombo combo of damage that catches me mid slash or something. Can you tell I'm a solo player that doesn't like going down / can't afford to in some content? For Umbra however, since I feel 'locked in' to the Umbral set, I use Lycan's Hunt+Purple Orb Conversion Shards for sustain while using the Javalin augment for the beeg number.

[@furro7774]

Wouldnt toxin alone be better for dot dpsing? I mean, i know it has a ton of downsides like enemies that are damage immune to toxin... but the new melee elementalist makes up for the lost damage from viral plus being capable of having a third or fourth (with archon continuity) element with 1999 wouldnt make up for it?

[@aquamarinerose5405]

Also because I'm mildly pretentious.. My own umbra build summarized, partially to bring up some things that this vid doesn't.. Admittedly it's a very basic one. Health-Tanking with Tri-Umbral mods + Adaptation Chromatic Blade. Though I get both my health sustain and energy economy by mixing Equilibrium with using Diriga as my primer. Also probably a very unpopular choice but I put Eclipse over Radial Javelin, mostly because I REALLY don't have room for the augment & it's the same kind of multiplicative boost(Also have been thinking about swapping that for Xata's Whisper, but that would require I actually grind for Xaku. On my blade I've gone from Heat/Viral to Heat/Corrosive due to me putting viral onto my Diriga. Or I go Toxin/Magnetic against Corpus. I've also considered making a Magnetic/Gas build for Techrot but I don';t think there's enough room. I've also thought about finally switching from Sac-Pressure to CO until you pointed out that Arcane Avenger trick that fits this concept perfectly.

[@beenis08]

Cant wait for the vid on my most used weapon in the game, Iron Staff 😅

[@PxxTKlickshot]

Can the waves / sword headshot? If so, taking Cythe-09's evade could be great for survivability.

[@mr.meanwhile]

He's done it. He's lost his mind.

[@zbeatza9910]

Haven't finished the video, but how do i make excalibur from glass to rock? Umbra mods tell me that armor and health is enough, but it isn't, even with adaptation. Idk how my inaros with 336 armor is tankier than my excalibur with 540 base armor and 2k health with arcane blessing. Edit: healing return and life stike have the same issue, where do you put them, exalted or regular melee, if you don't have energy for blade you can't heal, but you can't heal if you don't have it on the exalted. Idk if the mod actually works on exalted if you use it on a regular melee. But you still need enemies to heal and the issue being tanky enough to sustain lethal damage before you manage to heal. Excal needs a passive or one of his abilities to give him some sort of regen or DR.

[@azzubairfaruq3124]

try komi's hementh its pretty decent

[@zbeatza9910]

@azzubairfaruq3124 that might work, but i hate to use the helminth as a fix for his kit. If it was a for a gimmick it would be different. I am weird like that.

[@lolomanu1600]

if your willing to use 2 whole mod slots you can use vigilante vigor and fast deflection it makes your shields recharge after .2 seconds so your kinda hard to kill with 0 effort

[@Doomness87]

i guess this was only the blade video ight onto the other exalted video from today

[@eyalamit5120]

Ah, so that's how you're going to approach the exalted weapons! Welp. That's a lot of videos. I bid you good luck.

[@Phazer923_ghost]

I run tox blast with archon continuity and it seems to work well against most things

[@jackcolor8889]

I dont use excal often, but when I do I use Exalted + Gloom to melee

[@emberhydra]

What the difference between pseudo exalted and normal exalted?

[@darthplagueis13]

Honestly one of my least favourite exalted weapons, probably second only to Titania's melee (because arch melee moveset is just horrible to play with) and maybe Artemis Bow (which I don't really dislike, but which I never use because well... I need that energy mostly for prowl and I mostly avoid combat as her anyways). It has such bad base stats that you need a very specific build for it really do much. I feel like it should be a lot easier and cheaper to mod into being effective, given that Excal is basically the quintessential baby Tenno frame. I mean, most people consider Valkyr to not be very good, but it takes way fewer mods to get her claws to where they can shred through enemies.