EXALTEDLESS EXCALIBUR UMBRA | Warframe 2024 Builds Refresh

The absolute state of exalted weapons.
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[@latios_xd]

"Old tools, like Blood Rush" has it been that long...

[@TH3H3LLR41S3R]

Jan 25th 2016. Hard to believe it's been 8 years

[@jacobhalsey1393]

That makes me feel old

[@hoodierell1669]

Coming back after not playing for 6 years this is crazy

[@oniontaster6449]

We are the old fucks now. Time is a bitch

[@Frame_Junky]

Really is crazy. What’s even crazier is that it is STILL such a prominent staple across 90% of every fkn build 😂

[@KillChaos7]

Reb: "There is no currently plans for Samurai themed Warframe." Brozime: "Fine, I will do it myself!"

[@apexgear2340]

Isnt Excalibur already that?

[@phoenixrose1995]

anytime a youtuber says "this isn't necessary" in my mind i always go "ok so ill totally use it because being overkill is MUCH better than not being overkill"

[@Zevox144]

No kill like overkill

[@unfriendlydan9413]

overkill means potentially future-proof for me, i went hard on that mesa build a month or so ago because i know there aint shit that build wont kill that it can shoot for a few months to a couple years potentially, and because its funny to watch regulators orange crit 100% of the time

[@biowiener7825]

i havent unlocked steel path yet (im very close though) and yet im still going for the over the top saryn build

[@Frame_Junky]

Brozime will tell ya what is and isn’t necessary. Whereas if you goto a knighmareframe build, that mf has full 110% investment builds and it’s his way or no way. No other recommendations or options lol

[@JunkyardGod]

​​@@Frame_Junky "Prime Sure Footed is increased dps" - Knightmareframe 😆

[@ItsShooty]

This build is a symptom of the problems with Exalted weapons. DE needs to address that.

[@CrashSable]

I really don't know what you think Exalted Weapons are supposed to be for. If they were better than normal weapons, you'd be complaining that only frames with Exalted Weapons are viable... I'm perfectly happy limiting my use of Exalted Weapons to weapon restricted Sorties and Circuit when I get a bad selection

[@ItsShooty]

I don't think that's worth the time it takes to tell you why that take is ass and I sure don't need another useless notification.@@CrashSable

[@AziSlays]

@@CrashSable What a horrible take. They should be better than normal weapons, they all have a fucking energy cost to use.

[@targitausrithux2320]

@@CrashSable absolutely dumb concept. Exalted weapons are "exalted" they are special... they should be powerful for this reason... literally in the name "exalted". exalted weapons have fallen behind due to power creep though more than anything

[@UnholyDrow]

@@CrashSablewhat? Exalted weapons should be way stronger than normal weapons and at least a step up from incarnon weapons because 1. They cost energy and 2. They are locked to 1 warframe, no subsume can change that If you really think this I genuinely wonder if we’re playing the same game. Zime even says in this video during the SP run that Exalted Blade should be easily capable at higher levels.

[@AoiKaze2000]

It's like Excalibur has gone full circle now...

[@unrhu]

Exalted Blade is a TOP TEIR weapon with the new arcanes and archon shards.

[@ashtonturner5430]

​@unrhu you can't use arcanes on exalted weapons

[@unrhu]

@@ashtonturner5430 You can use melee arcanes on your melee weapon and the effect transfers to Exalted blade! What are you even talking about??? No wonder y'all think Exalted Blade isn't any good 😂

[@h0pp3d]

I’ve tested this and the effect does not transfer from influence or exposure. Which arcanes are working for you?

[@unrhu]

@@h0pp3d Influence only transfers with certain Abilities on certain Warframe that produce electricity outright, not all, it definitely transfers with exposure that's literally the arcane I use on my Excalibur. You have to use an ability to get the effect to proc, and then spam it to get the maximum effect of 240 percent. I slash dash to keep refreshing the ability. Also just say you know Weeping Wounds and Blood Rush transfer over to Exalted Blade

[@Sglman]

The lunar ephemera is really distracting when looking at the mod screen holy shit.

[@Gearshifter09]

Lmao yes it is. In game, if it goes over your equipped mods, it makes them appear as "99" for some reason.

[@Kentanimationnnnnnnnn]

@@Gearshifter09 its for 1999

[@bloopletank2491]

It's hilarious

[@coldfries8976]

The pink wings are even worse when not placed correctly (which i didnt) and the visual effect intensity is too high (which is the case for me) 🤣

[@DragonaxFilms]

Hee hee, get dragon'd bozo 🐉

[@Frame_Junky]

Brozime is the best all around Wf KZbinr for the sake of practicality, game information, and updates. How he formats his videos is very nice. How he is able to explain things very straightforward and simply is great for players both old and new. The fact that he tells you what is & isn’t necessary, or what can and can’t be substituted on builds in his build videos is very appreciated. No other Wf KZbinrs come close to this dude in those aspects. The guy is a very chill and informative creator on this game. Been doin his thing now since the very beginning. I’m an old man in this game at this point but regardless of how long I’ve been on wf I’m always tuning in to your vids 🤝💯 keep doin yo thing homie

[@DariusDarkest]

bro he has a gf

[@Frame_Junky]

@@DariusDarkest bro is a loser who likes to be a smartass for no reason🤡

[@Frame_Junky]

@@DariusDarkest bro, showin love to a another dude don’t always gotta be curvy. Keep ur mindset linear focused. U feel

[@jonahbrown5669]

​@@Frame_Junkyissa joke

[@avraelasgard]

Reminder that you can use kullervo's 1 buff just by holding it and teleporting anywhere, you dont have to hit an enemie and use up combo, youll get the buff just from the teleport. Idk if it matters much here, but mods for heavy attack efficiency would never be needed for instance.

[@finleymorris04]

All exalted weapon frames should get access to both the standard arcanes but also get a kitgun/zaw arcane slot

[@epsilon1572]

nah i say giving them acolyte mods and standard arcanes is enough. kitgun/zaw arcanes would be weird

[@MagikGaming-ym4rk]

Lemme make my Regulators battery powered

[@apexgear2340]

Lmao imagine exalted blade exodia contagion

[@James-kv3ll]

Feels like Brozime is the only popular Warframe content creator who actually cares about new players. Most of the Warframe builds videos you see all heavily feature things that sometimes take months of grinding and are very inaccessible to new or casual players. They also love using super convoluted combinations that are just not fun (or necessary) in most of the game. They’re fun to watch but when you try to replicate them you just feel discouraged and quit playing for a few months. Meanwhile Brozime is out here making a build for fcking Excal. It’s really appreciated

[@Delpzie]

Also most normal person all these other are cringe weebs most of them .....

[@kantonite11]

I like this video but how is it any different? Sure the mods don't all need to be max ranked or you don't even need arcanes but things like Ceramic Dagger Incarnon or Wrathful Advance are not friendly to new players and do take months of grinding. I agree there are some builds that are complex to a point of not being fun but this also suffers from the same issue. Just because Brozime says "you don't need this" or "you can use this as a lower rank" and other creators don't doesn't change anything. It's still inaccessible for them.

[@Yosh4761]

@@kantonite11how is wrathful advance hard to grind? You can literally get it as soon as you have access to duviri

[@LoneDovah]

@@kantonite11 at some point its not on the creator of the build and more on the player. I've tried certain warframe builds with nonprime mods and no arcanes or external buffs, just relying on the warframe itself in steel path and unfortunately, it becomes extremely difficult. Some frames will only shine when you have higher end items like arcanes etc.

[@CrashSable]

A version of Excalibur that requires completing The Sacrifice to get, with mods that require completing The New War and Whispers in the Walls to obtain What about this was supposed to be new player friendly again?

[@JohnnyDeLeo1]

Thank you for the update on the tier list! IMO your tier list is by far the de facto best tier list for Warframe. It is also what I use to plan out what frames I still need to build for the upcoming year. Thanks again for all you do Brozime!

[@DarkmegaGaming]

Build ALL of them. Because you can, for completionism. Only tiers you need is useable or not, and with the right build, everyones in that.

[@itsascendingfr]

Glazing

[@JohnnyDeLeo1]

@@DarkmegaGaming let me rephrase that: me, as an adult with limited time, would like to know what frames to invest in as I do not have time to grind/build/collect every frame in the game. So the tier list let’s me know which frames are worth my investment of limited time to farm. Eventually this may lead to a complete collection, but not for a significant amount of time.

[@Vaz_G]

​@@JohnnyDeLeo1I genuinely think that all of the frames right now are more than solid to play if you like their kit. With the one exception of inaros who is getting reworked soon and loki who is about to get an augment

[@nbassasin8092]

@@JohnnyDeLeo1 shouldnt you, as an adult with limited time, look for frames that give you the most satisfaction to play with, those you find the most fun, and not worry about if they are "objectively good"

[@qryvein]

exalted weapons need a qol refresh. to bring them more inline with other weapons as they out preform exalted weapons.

[@qryvein]

hopefully there will be a exalted refresh due to dante with dante unbound patch also comes with an exalted weapon and so brings less hope for it to be good unless their is an exalted weapon refresh.

[@Zevox144]

make hysteria great again

[@AziSlays]

literally just stop restricting what they can use and they'd be fine. DE goes out of their way to make them suck.

[@AziSlays]

@@Zevox144 it never wasn't.

[@amonggus1]

​@@Zevox144 Learn how to play Valkyr before calling it not great.

[@beandips7133]

Mr. Zime could you start posting your fashion frame in the description of your build videos

[@DuduCosmin]

Do you have notes when you make these videos? I'm always impressed by how coherently you can speak while doing a 1 take esentailly

[@Brozime]

Just lots of practice! I really value clear communication and heavy editing to clean things up feels really ingenuine/weird to me. I will have small notes for certain numbers related to a build occasionally though

[@DuduCosmin]

@@Brozime Awesome to hear one can get to this with practice. Great stuff.

[@Sljm8D]

Probably the easiest thing would be to make exalted weapons have access to all the normal weapon stuff -- blood rush, weeping wounds, arcanes... Diwata has an exilus slot that allows tennokai mods... But it doesn't have a heavy attack so they don't do anything. Come on, DE, this has been a great year, let's drive it home

[@runmanrun4112]

...I use Diwata so infrequently I didn't even realize it didn't have a heavy attack

[@psycomachia]

That's more of a symptom of archmelee being totally ass rather than an exalted weapon problem but I agree for the rest

[@Frame_Junky]

That sir would make them ridiculously op. Something that de would not want. Even tho there are plenty of ways to be ridiculously op already but is what it is

[@Sljm8D]

@@Frame_Junky no, it wouldn't, because they'd still lack Incarnon stats and combo multiplier works normally unlike on pseudos You prefer that they are actually bad? Because that's what not letting them have these things does. It makes them different from non-exalted weapons not to balance them out, but to make them bad So they need to start somewhere.

[@Frame_Junky]

@@Sljm8D if u think the exalteds are ass then that’s a build issue on your part. They’re fine how they are given the normal stat stick niche being applied for years now. Excals blade will slice through anything like butter. Barruuk’s fists just goes without saying. Valkyr can literally and easily hit dmg cap with her talons. or at the very least, do hundreds of thousands if not millions of damage on a very consistent basis. N then there’s the psuedos with Khora and atlas that also go without saying. De is not going to give exalteds extra attention given that they are all capable of outputting some stupid numbers when invested in enough. Plenty of proof out there for you to watch here on KZbin. Exalteds don’t need any extra help. It’s a matter of you needing to invest more into them if you feel they’re lacking.

[@kwazyjayy]

Excalibur has literally became the slash version of Atlas LUL

[@DarkmegaGaming]

10:35 Did you know you can just hold the grimoire and have the armor strip canticle or whichever canticle equipped and it'll trigger it on skill kill? Used it with mirage with a hybrid hall of malevolence+xata and prism build and it was stripping as the prism killed. Similar deal on lasering with qorvex. Handy little thing. Not that you'll likely need it with that much raw slash dash power. Honestly just glad this is something pretty cool, unlike anzvasion's addiction to melee influence...

[@OrangeCreamsicle]

it’s been over a month and we still haven’t figured out the full activation condition of the grimoire what the hell

[@DarkmegaGaming]

​@@OrangeCreamsicle kill while grimoire is equipped, for canticle. Middle click spark dealing damage for invocation, but also for some reason an operator's alt fire can proc that too. And middle only hits like 5 enemies max per jolt i think I read somewhere. But hopefully the upcoming multishot fix helps there.

[@Zevox144]

I mean, aznvasion's going for KPM, of course he'll wring melee influence dry. At least he's not unnecessarily thrusting it into every build like primed sure footed on a nezha

[@DarkmegaGaming]

@@Zevox144 way I see it. LS towers are there for a reason. Use em. But if you can maintain LS until all the capsules exist on the map and no more can be dropped when focusing in mostly a single large room and its immediate surrounds, you're golden. And most of my half decent frame builds with even some oldie but goody weapons that aren't meta can do that with a hint of luck. As for sure footed, as a budget builder mobilize has sorta been my thing lately, unless I'm squeezing for more strength or range with drifts when capacity is willing.

[@cantoastro]

Merely holding the Grimoire at time of death is necessary but not sufficient to proc canticle effects. You also need to tag enemies with damage from the Grimoire, and then kill them at the same time/very shortly after. If your ability kills them straight up without the Grimoire's involvement, it won't proc, and if you wait too long to kill them after tagging them, it also won't proc. Very easy to confirm this in the simulacrum with Jahu Canticle (watch enemies' armor icons) and a damage-dealing ability.

[@ElDocBruh]

Perfect timing! I was recently formaing Excal Prime again because he's the golden boy and I want him to be good, and I was so underwhelmed with Exalted Blade (despite my finger not dying anymore thanks to hold melee).

[@ExcaliburGT]

You’re probably not building it right. His 4 is definitely viable for good high end content

[@ElDocBruh]

@@ExcaliburGT Viable? Absolutely. Boring as hell? Also absolutely!

[@ExcaliburGT]

@@ElDocBruh I disagree, I’ve always enjoyed his exalted sword

[@Kentanimationnnnnnnnn]

what the 99 jump scare

[@James-kv3ll]

Finally got around to testing this build out. If you want to deal the damage you see Brozime deal to enemies you NEED one of the Arcanes he suggested. It’s required. Without the arcanes maxed out and equipped you’ll find Excal tickling enemies with Slash dash even after multiple uses. Especially if you don’t have the (still time-gated) Prime Mods that he has. I’d also recommend yellow shards and Arcane energize in case you get very unlucky with energy orb drops because running out of energy on Excal is a death sentence

[@J-Abyss]

Weird visual glitch 2:07 - 2:09, with the dragon going through the screen lol

[@GameMiestro]

It's not going to match the outright power of this build, but if you're still looking to use a Chromatic Blade setup I'd recommend trying out putting two corrosive proc archon shards on Excal and making Exalted Blade deal primarily Corrosive damage with a little bit of heat. Excal kinda struggles to cut through high level armored enemies on Steel Path with a heat/viral setup so that's one solution which doesn't require subsuming on an armor stripping ability like Terrify.

[@trinityhydra2687]

I would say the weighting should be more in favor of heat since Corrosive doesn't stack infinitely. The infinitely scaling damage from heat is much more important. From what I remember generally a 50/50 weighting is what you want but I would recommend playing with the numbers a bit. Especially since more heat% means stronger heat procs.

[@Fox5z]

@@trinityhydra2687 For shards it's a lot more preferable to have higher weighting on corrosive, so you armor strip faster. Unarmored enemies are paper thin. But i don't know or want to find out myself how exal feels on high level content(lvl 300+), under those levels it's still easier and cheaper to slap viral and heat with chromatic blade, unless you are fighting murmur, and that's debatable too.

[@KazBrekker5120]

Im kinda sad that exalted blade has been dumped in order to cosplay Slash Atlas. Love the build, DE needs to look at exalteds and the umbra sheathing bug

[@nfrance999]

Yeah, as someone with a mega invested Valkyr, Exalteds feel pretty trash. Like, it still baffles me that to this day we can't use the full range of melee mods on exalted weapons

[@Graysmog]

​@@nfrance999Well originally, other mod choices were removed since they had much higher stats than they do currently. Right now it really doesn't make since they were nerfed ages ago, and you could always tweak them to have less of an effect if they'd be too strong, there's really no reason to not have them on the weapons in some capacity.

[@Dom4z]

@@nfrance999 DE really sucks at balancing their game, it's as if they don't even have a balance team to update and preserve warframes with every new power creep addition. Feels like all they care is to release new warframe packs and get everyone hyped to buy them. Then forget about them too.

[@amonggus1]

​@@Dom4zThere's like 3 C-tier Warframes in the whole game. And one is getting reworked. If you mean weapons then yeah, kuva and tenet should stand on par with incarnons. They require some MR and high Forma investment. But it's not the worst balancing. Go play more games before exaggerating. It USED to be worst, and everything that was nerfed, was done so to the ground. Like melee. They haven't nerfed Melee influence, nor Incarnon stat sticks like Ceramic Dagger, or Magistar for Pseudo Exalteds. Even Magus Agress is untouched. And that is Fine. They just need to buff other stuff, like Exalteds on almost everyone but Mesa (she's fine let's be honest). Excal, Titania and Wukong need this the most. Buff their base stats or let them get Arcanes.

[@Johnpdf]

​@@amonggus1I mean yea they are working on stuff overtime just sucks we have to wait so long for these fixes

[@valeon7303]

I usually hate psuedo exalteds because they only work when you have a stat stick. But after seeing how absurd this thing is, I need to get me that ceramic dagger.

[@Shadow_Viper30]

Incarnon magistar would be better than ceramic dagger. More raw damage. It’s whatever you wanna use.

[@devonyoung196]

​@Shadow_Viper30 yeah but ceramic dagger is good as an actual melee weapon unlike magistar

[@TheStrayHALOMAN]

I use fireblast with mine and the prisma gorgon's incarnon just letting exalted blade be active for the buff to the machine gun. Healing fireblast also works.

[@SoulWeeb7814]

When he starts his intro and lengthens those CERTAIN syllables im like: STOP EDGING ME!! 💀

[@truthless4720]

Having now tried this for myself, I have some notes. First of all, energy becomes a problem pretty quickly if you're hoping to use slash dash's immunity to keep you alive in high damage environments. I recommend dropping the slash dash augment for Primed Flow and using some purple shards, as you mentioned. You will have to rely on getting some primary kills to increase your starting combo on the ceramic dagger instead, or just keep fighting nonstop. I also grabbed Arcane Energize instead of Molt Augmented and didn't really have an issue with damage. I felt like I could keep Roar up a lot more reliably with Energize and the bigger energy pool from Flow. Two purple crit shards made up for the damage lost from Molt Augmented and then some. I'm still on the fence regarding shard 4 and 5, whether to go for more damage or some survivability; I'll have to play around a bit more in high level environments to figure it out. I don't know how the math of Molt Augmented vs Arcane Fury plays out, but I went with my gut and figured Fury is probably preferable for slash dash, but Molt is obviously better for overall damage via Roar. Feel free to correct me here. There's probably a better way of doing all this, to get both more damage as well as better survivability, but it would require making some room by removing Umbral mods as you said, which feels kind of meh to experiment with and then realize you want them back, and not something I'm interested in trying. Oh, with the change to elemental damage, I would definitely use a Verglas with cold btw, since we're relying on crit a lot.

[@JayAr87]

Came back after a 3 year break to hear "You should stop using Exalted blade" and I think I cried a little!

[@CyberReaperYT]

I tried this build... And it is the MOST FUN I've had playing Excal in a long time!

[@joshuasmith1347]

Was wondering when Brozime was gonna do any build refreshes. Was looking at the ember build refresh from 2022 because I was just making all my Warframes feasible in steelpath. So I’m not sure if I should run archon vitality for ember or stick to the adaptation

[@jonahbrown5669]

Archon Vitality is more worth than adaptation. She already has DR with her 3, and getting 2 heat procs instead of 1 is great

[@kurisu1204]

Another good thing is that you could use argonak with its dagger mod, so daggers also armorstrip

[@AdventTheFluff]

As someone who mains Excal Prime, and spent a large chunk of time trying to hit 400%+ crit chance on the exalted blade only to see this outputting higher damage, this hurts my soul... But hey if it works it works.

[@Quarterspine143]

The disco jams coupled with the yeeting towards enemies in a rhythmic pattern is friggin' GROOVY, dude, goddamn. Think this is what Grineer parties look like?

[@Ranwa90210]

If you're running the skiajati, you can run the Daikyuu with it's augment for life regen with nikanas, if you're really worried about survivability. 🤷🏾‍♀

[@chettonex]

you are health immune with slash dash tho.

[@RPG_Bro]

@@chettonex It can still help if you catch a few bullets in between Slash Dashes, and had no health orbs drop.

[@Ranwa90210]

@@chettonex True and you do wanna be spamming it, but you're not health immune in-between casts. You can still catch some strays and take damage.

[@AdrianOkay]

@@Ranwa90210 sh sh shieldgating

[@ChillOutHarper]

As your 4th has some flexibility, I recommend Silence for some extra survivability, as Slash Dash has "i-frames" and Silence gives enough time to just not really get shot.

[@emanuelbica1013]

First we got ephemera snakes up in our face in the modding section and now we got the Drake leak....

[@jakeharrison207]

If you’re using the non-incarnon build with wrathful and the skia build why would you use sac steel? Wrathful doesn’t give base crit chance so the base is still 0% so sac steel doesn’t do anything.

[@OrangeCreamsicle]

I think it’s just there because of the polarity

[@hardluckmk.52]

This checks out

[@Brozime]

You'll be using Heavy Attacks with the Skia to deal with hard targets like the Acolytes so you want the crit there so you can do tier 3 reds on demand with wrathful up. Also as mentioned the polarity is there but even if it wasn't I'd still us it for general play

[@OrangeCreamsicle]

@@Brozime I'd assume you'd swap sacrificial pressure for ppp in that case?

[@MoooPZ]

presumably for when you skiajati heavy, and because the polarity is there.

[@James-kv3ll]

Really wish they gave Excal some better survivability though. Like Radial Javelin giving him Overguard or something.

[@Dinakol]

OMG I've tried this, it's hillarious how stupidly powerful it is and it's fun and it's buggy and janky, when you get keep getting stuck on things. Yet this build brought me pure joy, I forgot I even had Excalibur Umbra tbh Thank you goated Brozime

[@PandismLive]

What a weird visual bug at 2:28. 10+ years and I can’t say I’ve ever seen anything like that

[@StuddyStud]

It’s the ephemera from new years

[@eris902]

Honey, new excal is here

[@Darthmufin]

Keep in mind Focus Radon is a mod dropped from Murmur, which is a post New War questline, aka basically "endgame". So that's not a new player focused build unless they rushed the story i suppose.

[@AziSlays]

the mod costs 4p on market and I see that number dropping further considering it drops like candy. You can't do netracells without picking it up.

[@Darthmufin]

I don't think trading counts either, otherwise a new player could simply buy all the mods from the maxed build he showed. @@AziSlays

[@Brozime]

Murmur don’t just not spawn outside steel path the mod is pretty easy to get

[@Darthmufin]

I wasn't talking about steel path, in order to fight the Murmur you have to make it to whispers in the walls lol@@Brozime

[@DarkTree]

this is fair yeah, assuming people will have WITW stuff on-deck is a tall order, but since this build seems geared towards clearing top end content, i don't think a newer player would need this for anything until then lol

[@Senator-Wary]

I love Excalibur. I exclusively use him for story missions because in my mind he's the Ryan Gosling of Warframes

[@mrwhat5094]

What do you mean Ryan Gosling any why Gosling anyway lol

[@Davidson0617]

Sorry this is a bit off topic, but i was curious if you happen to have an updated general modding guide for warframes and different weapon types. Or maybe a returning player guide. Im returning after 3+ years since they finally got cross save, and a lot of things feel very different / weak. I.e. melee weapons feeling much weaker (possibly due to nerfs of my specific ones, or outdated mods), as well as stuff like the tigris prime. Which were the meta at the time i last played. Thank you, your guides were always my go to, but im not really sure where to start now.

[@erictexeira4679]

What if im not a new player but also dont have ceramic dagger? What is a good middle ground option? I have plenty of mods, but being a returning vet, I dont have that dagger and it of course is not available right now.

[@Kaikick18]

Dont mod your weapon for corrosive when you're using exposure. The arcane already gives modded corrosive damage

[@hsmorg3640]

Wait, so whats the Exalted Blade build? Cause isn't that used for the Slash Dash?

[@skullkrusher-dx4kg]

Its wierd that excal has gotten stronger by ditching what is essentially his ultimate. I look forward to the roster review.

[@dubborino979]

I was literally just trying to make excalibur good again, perfect timing.

[@MrJuliano14]

Bro i just discovered the vazarin school and my Excalibur ABSOLUTELY LOVES IT!!

[@Chambs_15]

Ok, i'm one of the 2 or 3 people that still run pure CB excal, because old people can't learn new tricks. It's a much more confortable build than what people normally suggest IMO, I can press a single button once and just hold melee instead of having to re-buff myself every 30 seconds. Does it do damage cap numbers? no, but you don't need to. I'm yet to find any relevant content where it doesn't work. Steel Path Circuit, solo netracells, etc... it still does fine. TLDR of my build: - All umbral mods + adaptation + Energy Conversion + Streamline + Fleeting Expertise + Chromatic Blade (Heat base color) - Stack all the power strength temporary buffs (Grimore mod, Energy Conversion, Growing power, hell, even a Focus STR buff, Power Drain or void corruption if you want) and use EB, that snapshots your strength and your blade will be permanently buffed. - Make sure to minimize his energy cost, you don't need Energize and EB will be active 99% of the time. - Gloom on his 3, no, we are not using the aug to hit damage cap, you don't need to do 30b damage to kill a enemy with 100m HP. - Combo mods affect EB, just not the base dmg of the waves. Use the gladiator set mods on your normal melee, and Gladiator Might on your EB to get the effect of the set. - CO + Cedo alt fire for though enemies - Use Primary/Secondary Dexterity + Tandem Bond on Panzer, it'll give you more than enough combo.

[@nbassasin8092]

Im sorry, but how is this "more comfortable", when you need like 10 different things, whereas the only thing you "need" in this videos build is to cast wrathful if you dont have ceramic dagger, and not even that if you do (like oyu said, dmg cap numbers arent that relevant, and javelin/roar are only needed fore those not to actually kill) Im not saying the build is bad, but the "more comfortable" part is what I dont get

[@Fox5z]

@@nbassasin8092 There's nothing even to think about, just regular power up before the fight and press 4 then 3 and you can even forget about your abilities for the rest of the run. Those power ups aren't even necessary. I'm playing with javelin aug and i'm tired already of rebuffing myself every 20-30 seconds for no real reason other than to oneshot harder. The same applies to wrathful advance too.

[@nbassasin8092]

@@Fox5z I think you completely misunderstood what I was saying

[@Chambs_15]

@@nbassasin8092 I don't need to constantly pay attention if two buffs are running out. Just stack shit once, press 4 and hold melee.

[@nbassasin8092]

@@Chambs_15 you dont have to do that here as well, you just press 1 and things die, these buffs are optional likre I said but you do have to use Cedo, and buff strenght with temporary buffs like you just said Im not saying the build is worse, but its definitely not more comfortable than just pressing 1 every minute or so

[@ironhyde1741]

What would you reccomend changing in the build/melee for someone who doesn't yet have incarnon or helminth?

[@coldfries8976]

Hell yeah Zime! Now i finally get to use one of the dopest looking Warframes in the game!

[@nbassasin8092]

without deluxe skins no doubt but with those... yeah I dont really agree, Nezha, Harrow, Revenant and Nyx all look better with them to name a few

[@Orion_44]

Don't forget Deluxe Hydroid or Xaku

[@MannibalLector]

Excal has a dope deluxe skin too tho...

[@nbassasin8092]

@@MannibalLector true, that one is up there, but still, it is deluxe

[@AVBED1T]

For the new players what's the good replacement for primed sure footed ? (Other than regular sure footed) Btw great video ❤

[@royalecq]

To make the survivability less questionable, I've replaced Fiber with Rolling Guard and Roar with Shooting Gallery.

[@bigdog3628]

You had me jizzing until you said ceramic dagger. Correct me if I'm wrong, that is steel path only IE if steel path does not exist to you then that weapon does not exist. Furthermore I don't think Arcane Theory works with Slash Dash cuz slash Dash does not count as a melee at least it doesn't in terms of kills in the progress screen.

[@truthless4720]

Isn't Crescendo preferable for the permanent 12x? Or are you assuming full uptime on Slash dash to maintain it?

[@anthonychase6906]

assuming full uptime probably because its very easy to get to 12x and stay there with this setup

[@ok4yboi929]

Who's gonna tell em that Kullervo teleport gives the buff without the heavy attack if you just hold the cast button?

[@ok4yboi929]

Also, the magistar stat stick technically will do more damage in general with the operator heavy blade weapon's arcane since it for whatever reason works on maces too

[@Suryus94]

​@@ok4yboi929but you have to give up on magus elevate or magus lockdown to use the Magistar

[@Brozime]

Oh I know but you want to utilize the heavy attacks against tougher units when they show up if you're using the weaker version of the build. Also the Magistar does technically do more damage but then you basically need to keep surging which I would say is far worse than other options like rolling guard

[@AnalogSage]

Just got Umbra today after getting Dante 😭

[@gj8622]

Shoulda seen my face when I saw roar subsumed over the 4th. Super interesting stuff tbh

[@AntonMochalin]

This one looks very funny, I've never really understood Excal for some reason but this build makes me want to return to Warframe. BTW even after not playing Warframe for several months I still find these build videos very entertaining.

[@atlaslyle8206]

Sad to hear that his Blade is in such a rough place right now... I do hope that Exalted weapons get a healthy buff, so i can use my favorite frames' coolest ability.

[@Seven7swords]

Exalted melee weapons can use Tennokai but it does suck they can not use melee arcanes. Would it be busted if Exalted Weapons could use Arcanes? Imagine if Dex Pixia and Regulators could use Cascadia Flare. Imagine if Desert Wind and Valkyr's Talons could use Melee Exposure. Would it be broken?

[@jchampagne2]

Finally have a proper 'nothing personnel, kid' build for Excal, love it!

[@ADway-hn7qu]

Could use some clarification on something the wiki says: According to the Wiki mods equipped on Exalted blade will apply to Slash Dash if EB is active. Will this override your stat stick or apply in addition?

[@fr_z_n3727]

Exalted Blade builds are fine btw, just subsume Wrathful Advance over Radial Blind/Radial Howl. You can still use the blind while in Exalted

[@CelestialYoshi]

Im using a build of Umbra with Wrathful Advance replacing Radial Jav, focusing on Exalted Blade with 3 tau violets and 2 tau emeralds, and I am having an incredible time with it, even in steel path. Is there something Im not understanding with why its "bad"?

[@kanekinzou5030]

If you figure that out please tell me I'm also wondering why since I've also had tau violet and emerald on my Excalibur

[@supertrashdragon2857]

This video made me create an excal fashion set with the Zato skin, now I just gotta get what makes the build work-

[@hardluckmk.52]

Yea i replaced the umbra polarity where fiber would be, in the long run it’s just a better change and i have gotten more than enough umbra formas to replace it should i need it but never have, but i mainly deal with this problem by using a better warframe, Regular excalibur or excalibur prime technically

[@agentmaine8352]

Thank you for this video and build i just got access to my excal prime from many years ago and this shall be the build for him Umbra can use the blade prime can dash

[@1LoS1DmC1]

I’ll definitely give this a try when I get that dagger incarnon. Still gonna main Chromatic Blade, but that’s just because I go drip over stats lol. This looks fun as hell, tho. Thanks for sharing.

[@amonggus1]

yOu CaNt gO dRiP oVEr StATs!!! yoU sHoULd bE MiN-mAXiNg eVErYtHinG!!

[@1LoS1DmC1]

@@amonggus1 Lol! Some folks be trying to murder Vor in unheard of levels and I can appreciate that. Sometimes: you just gotta look good.

[@Br0n5t3r]

Wish that the speed of slash dashes was a little faster... Very interesting build though!

[@chris12345h]

i did remove 2 of the umbra slots so i put on the mecha mods works really well i never cared for the sword any way great build idea

[@Dom4z]

The state of pure exalted weapons at this point is cringe. Pseudo-exalted weapons beat them any time of the day now. The fact that you also can't mod weeping wounds and add newly released melee arcanes to them is jsut beyond lame. A pure exalted weapon should be straight up better than any melee. The entire warframe's abilities are literally based around it which forces you to play that certain way unlike frames designed for gun play. Kinda lame that DE can't take some time and fix these issues, but I guess they are more conserned with selling new MTX. At least slash dash is fun to play tbh. Ty for bringing this build for more players Brozime :)

[@GamerdevilPro]

I'm just happy that all 3 starter frames are somewhat viable for even high level content with the right build, hasn't always been this way...

[@marcymarblez]

What buff are you using on your archon shards? Energy orb effectiveness I assume?

[@VidulaSaix]

Been catching up and loving the build videos, but as someone that's come back since the Whispers update the main thing I've been struggling with are Incarnons. I can't seem to find any truly up to date guides on them and how to acquire them and which I should be aiming for.

[@FiannaGarou]

He's got an incarnon tier list video. And just getting warframes ready for the steel path circuit of Duviri.

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

The MIGHTY SEER is limitless

[@NozaRashiiTV]

Hello build vulklok ?

[@Reezexx]

I’ve been working on a exalted blade build for months and I still have my low crits this just made me feel like I wasted so much time lol but I didn’t know you could use use the incarnon weapons for additional benefits

[@harbingerofhentai2073]

just recently I was trying to build Excalibur cause I hadn't used him in a long time so I went to build around his exalted blade cause ya know, sword cool. And in my head I'm thinking, "oh i'll just slap some glad mods on and blood rush and... where's blood rush... why aren't the glad mods working" It's very disappointing that this is the case with almost every exalted weapon that isn't stat stickable. What a world we live in where regular melee weapons can be better then exalted ones.

[@peacem8574]

So this essentially becomes a mix of Old bladestorm and Landslide.

[@Vidaxer]

The only exalted melee warframe that actually feels good to use anymore (at least to me) is Baruuk. Which is just a shame really.

[@sumireao2831]

if i want both slashdash and exalted blade and wrathful advance, what should i subsume off? howl or javelin? currently running a wrathful advance exalted blade + chromatic blade and archon continuity and its phenomenal. I wanna keep using exalted blade but still wanna have some slashdash shenanigans.

[@Gacha_Rail]

Great video man

[@Mattimation01]

I would still love to see a build focused on his 4, even if its not as good, just bc thats how i love to play excal

[@TH3H3LLR41S3R]

Made a build like this with gloom over 2. Its insane what you can do if you just make nothing touch you as always.

[@Baehellet]

So, as always good job on the build, however I have to disagree that EB is fully worthless. With my build utilizing madurai and a strength grimiore I'm able to hit 347% strength and with chromatic blade and a good EB build with no attack speed other than arcane strike. This is all while maintaining good duration, efficiency, range, and survivability with the old Gloomy Excal build. With adaptation he gets similar survivability as Gloomy Saryn cause as long as you're holding down the attack button you're constantly going to be healing to full with every hit you land. Not to mention it just feels so much better now especially after the update where we don't have to give ourselves arthritis to play Excal and use EB. Also, Melee arcanes applied to Excal's equipped melee will also apply to EB idk if you knew this. So he might be old and EB might be the same, but it's still absolutely able to compete/solo the hardest meaningful content in the game as of now (netracells) with little to no difficulty. So instead of marketing your video as a replacement I think it makes a good argument for a side grade and maybe upgrade, but certainly not enough to make Exalted Blade obsolete.

[@NathanTruby]

They really need to do a balance pass on the Exalted Weapons, even if its as simple as allowing the Acolyte mods to work on them.

[@chungo2548]

I get that slash dash could be better than exalted blade but is it really that fun to have the game just play itself in comparison? Also the fact that most players do not consistently play the game to the point where exalted blade starts falling off.

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

10:00 What's up with the 99 over the mods the ephemera crosses in front of? Strange bug Also, I recommend Amalgam Barrel Diffusion here, especially with rolling guard, but I also just recommend Amalgam Barrel Diffusion in general. The dash's speed itself doesn't scale off anything, right?

[@ShadowDragon410]

When the Dragon Ephemera crosses over the mod screen it makes the 99

[@Gnurklesquimp2]

@@ShadowDragon410 Right, and I'm wondering what's up with that

[@Benzinilinguine]

Why roar instead of Kullervo's move? Does it not increase the power of slash dash?

[@nbassasin8092]

Very cool, now we just need this to be pure immunity and not just health based one, as well as Atlas to be able to do this, and also Ash needs to not have to cast Bladestorm again or atleast be able to tag while it is still active just some qol updates on all of the "quicksilver/omae wa mou shindeiru" abilities

[@Votexforxme]

is DE still having the auto trade ban if you do 21+hours of endurance runs and refuses to remove them?

[@CS0723]

Weird question. Weirder place to ask it

[@darkumineru1681]

Am loving this slash dash build

[@aytarnished5580]

Do you mod the excal sword?

[@Clutch222]

i wonder if toxic lash instead of roar would work with 3 red shards for 30% strength to add a toxin proc not that it matters much if everything is getting 1 shot

[@draonKniht100]

Would making the exalted weapons incarnon fix this I wonder???

[@MageSkeleton]

These types of guides going over builds should use a rating system of sorts. The more "effort/time" required to acquire certain things should increase the score like if it's something you can get via quest then it's considered "easy" and "everyone has it" like the umbral mods. But if it requires any augment mod(s) it's considered "medium" as it requires ranking up syndicates which are point capped or buying from other players (hopefully they're 5p each) which the fifty platinum you start with CANNOT be used to purchase. i'm not sure how to rate the incarnon weapon stuff, if you need a certain one you have to wait until it's "in rotation" and then you can only pick two of the selection unless you buy for plat from whatshisname in the Zarimon (if he has it) but from what i understand this is the easiest content anyone can unlock.

[@CS0723]

The problem with rating systems is that people will inherently only use that rating system, while videos like this force you to watch some gameplay, listen to how the frame works and make a decision based on that. At the end of the day, if you like a frame and a build, going to farm a subsume or buy/grind for a mod isn't really a big deal

[@Verpal]

All these umbra polarity problem can be safely skipped by just getting Excalibur Prime. Easy, just build a time machine first, and Excalibur Prime is yours!