Warframe | The BEST Xaku Build You'll EVER SEE | Steel Path | 2023

[@coldfries8976]

Kyai!!!!! This is perfect for my +100% Range Invigoration on Xaku! Really needed a new build, can't wait to put this together, as i'm still using your recent Khora build daily because it's so fun and BUSTED as all hell! 🤣 Great work dude, always excited to see you upload! :)

[@nonsense3586]

My dear friends who struggle to find energy.: This build in paper looks great for energy. But in reality, when you're in a mission that there are no 324823498 enemies around, you will struggle maintaining energy. But you can fix it. What I did is adding equilibrium and augur secrets for rolling guard and catalyzing. I sacrificed a lot of survivability I know. But when you're out of energy, you're done for. Your weapons kill enemies and decrease your hp until you're dead. You need to be mobile tho. Augur secrets with augur reach will give you more shield and with 2 archon shards, you can start with almost max energy and start chaining your cycle. And use your parazone mod that will give you guaranteed hp orb on mercy. So you can fill your energy with that way when needed. Eximus enemies mostly give you time to mercy them. Overall, good build but in reality, if you're not in a crowded area or you need to run high distances so enemy spawns are behind you, you can struggle to maintain your energy.

[@Metruzanca]

This build is really cool but has one fatal flaw: If someone else in your squad is also running combat discipline, you'll never proc vampirc and thus never get +30% strength, which breaks everything. My current build remains unchanged. I call it: Lazy Cozy Xaku. Featuring Full strip out the gate (with 0 str wasted), 265% range and a bunch of comfort. 1 red normal shard, Transient Fortitude, Umbral Intensify, Power Drift, Overextended's -60% str = 164% str + Corrosive Projection = Armor stripped out of the box. 265% range, you loose 1 gun and 1.2m range. You could go max range, but I'd rather have Primed flow and Primed Continuity for comfort. Arcane wise, Molt Reconstruct to basically health tank by giving you and your squad +600hp every vast untime cast. This is just my cozy pick. I find that I don't really need to shield gate, stuff is either dying or not hitting you due to 75% dodge. Second pick is Molt Efficiency, also for coziness. I'm also running a blue shard to bump my health up a little and lastly I've got some yellow shards for purely comfort, not practical usage. EDIT: some people asked me in dms for the build, so heres the overframe build ID: 618091 (youtube tends to not like links in comments)

[@zanejarzombek2781]

what other mods do you use?

[@HenryQuew]

@@zanejarzombek2781 yea... Its missing 1 mod slot and i dont really know what to place there.

[@Metruzanca]

@@HenryQuew corrosive projection, power drift, overextended, rolling guard, primed flow, primed continuity, augur reach, stretch, umbral intensify, transient fortitude.

[@hobartmagagula4649]

6 months later ,is this still viable ?

[@R-a-i-n699]

​​@@hobartmagagula4649 it is nothing has changed much for xaku tbh it is now easier to strip armor now so just stick to the build and you will be fine.

[@duff137]

you are a blessing on the community. thank you for your work kyai.

[@swaveyqua9721]

My xaku has around 240 ish strength with 250 range nd man he is op asf. I run vampiric grasp also but i play long sp survival md stuff so i use arcane blessing just to be on the safe side. With arcane blessing that’s when u can truly stand there and just tank shit. I run the regular build when im lazy but when i feel like using my main gun as well i use tharos strike just so i cant strip acolytes since xaku 3rd abilities plus my own gun does so much damage that i honestly dont need 24/7 armor strip. Ferlax and phenmor shreds everything especially with the 1st ability on.

[@Jazzimus]

slick editing

[@dodidjaguar]

So to simplify for my smooth brain what is the core gameplay loop exactly. Imma def rewatch as i try and learn them but if u have any advice for new player to the frame i am getting cast 2 to proc guns cast 3 for armor stripping and cast 4 often whenever new crowd? And then do u just keep nurish constantly up. Havnt played in awhile so nurish is new to me

[@agopessimist1335]

Does the Hound require any specific parts, or can it just be any Hound you acquire from Sisters of Parvos?

[@kyaii]

i think it does require a few specific parts to have enough base shields i may be wrong so check yourself if you can

[@ProdigaliNKGaming]

What do you do to mitigate gas procs on you

[@Ms.miragev1]

10:35 keep in mind that arcane avengers crit boost isn't a multipliers like creeping bullseye, it adds directly to your crit chances base amount before crit chance mods, so something with a cc of 20% before avenger will now have 65% cc, then mods apply

[@kyaii]

I'm aware lol

[@jamesyue1348]

er.. isn't Archon stretch energy restoration only works on warframe abilities only ? I don't think it works companions ability

[@kyaii]

why would i say it works when it doesnt lol go try it for yourself and youll see it does

[@jamesyue1348]

@@kyaii ok thanks

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

Tbh I think Xaku is just a better Wukong, but great video as always.

[@Tripleyou]

In what ways do you feel those two frames are similar? To me they are about as opposit as it gets pretty much

[@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT]

@@Tripleyou Xaku is a better version of Wukong because they are both designed with afk in mind, only Xaku does it better with scaling weapons and Wukong clone doesn’t. Not to mention their passives are designed to reduce the chance of death significantly.

[@moritzwagner5843]

​@@Sci-Fi_Freak_YT😂😂😂

[@Yung_DDG]

What are you using for your amber shards?

[@kyaii]

casting speed

[@abyss6722]

Why radiation on the companion weapon in this build? ocucor already does base radiation, so wouldn't you be better off giving the companion corrosive or gas?

[@kyaii]

what does ocucor having radiation have anything to do with companion? Ocucor doesn't have it for CC, it's damage purely

[@abyss6722]

@@kyaii I was just assuming you would want another unique status type for gun CO, didn't think about CC from it.

[@MacDonaldEdmund-t6o]

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[@maxpinkster1968]

Archon stretch is 2 energy/5 secs. It's even more lame then you think

[@kyaii]

Nourish multiplies it

[@washedboi]

It is just DE's usual weird wording since "for" instead of "over" would make much more sense. It does say 2 energy/s tho, and not /5 secs, it gives you 2 energy every second for a total of 10 energy.

[@yashf1n]

@@kyaii i just tried this but it doesnt for some reason, am I doing something wrong??

[@seven.7415]

i love the builds you make because you actually explain them well. it makes me feel like i actually get the game a bit more.

[@hairypassage]

You are seriously one of the best Build crafters/ warframe KZbinrs. Most of them don’t even bothering mentioning how certain abilities max out/where you get diminishing returns. I have learned a lot more about the back end of modding from your videos then most of the top warframe creators.

[@LiamJacks]

Don't know if Nourish is enough for an 190 Energy pool that is depleted with 2 casts, and editing off every scene where it drops low sure isn't helping. Nice voice though.

[@kyaii]

i dont edit out scenes where it drops, youll notice most gameplay between edits is consistent its more than fine from all my playtime with it

[@DemonicInfinity]

Nice build but it forces you to play in a certain way (have to have combat discipline and nobody else in the group, need to use nourish too). I just like the fact that base xaku is flexible with his base spell. with archon shard you can pretty much reach 200% str, 280% range , good duration with primed continuity and a normal efficiency which already gives you one shot potential with 3's armor strip. That lets you play around with whatever aura/weapon you want, as well as give some flexibility on a mod or two. Dat why you could for example get the 12x infinite combo on melee using the right aura.

[@strapsreloaded]

This is me just thinking, but would running Diriga with the bond mod that clones itself be useful to proc electric for energy regen. Or just use diriga

[@kyaii]

duplex bonds companions cannot use abilities moreover, the reason i use a hound is for reinforced bond, which diriga cannot do

[@Chytry123]

That's the first video from this channel that KZbin recommended to me and it's an instant subscription! The most informative and easy to understand Warframe guide I've seen so far. No weird greeting at the beginning, straight to the point. Great video, definitely gonna try this build!

[@murk4545]

Don’t get your hopes up, this build doesn’t work very well. Look up Mornings build guide. He has a much better build and actually plays it. This build is interesting, but it’s clear to me that it wasn’t really play tested in any capacity.

[@kyaii]

how does this not work well exactly? my build out dps's mornings due to viral / more strength and is far more mobile due to not depending on dispensary

[@KingJerbear]

@@kyaii Ignore idiots like this, he could have typed it in a different way but instead he just want to intentionally be a douche

[@G4LDR1C]

@kyaii The only problem I have now is (I want to have madurai instead zenurik for amp dmg) when I start a mission, I have no energy, so I can't use nourish and my hound doesn't charge enough energy to “start playing”

[@moxxi3338]

@@G4LDR1C bring energy pizzas

[@lucfal5978]

If anyone wants another idea besides CD + Nourish, since you’re building max range anyways, Resonator over their 1 works quite well. As long as the enemies are stripped of defenses your 2 will kill them especially with 4 debuff since they’ll scale infinitely. Honestly the increased damage from Nourish is a bit overkill. Resonator turns off all the ai around you so now they can’t focus on hitting you let alone actually hitting you. Makes endurance/Duviri level cap a literal breeze. Love the video Kyai! Can’t wait for the next one^^

[@InhaleThis]

I love this build bro. All we gotta do is chill and watch em all die and it’s makes farming waaay easier with almost no effort

[@murk4545]

Cool build, but in practice I really don't understand how you are expected to shield gate with a 100 energy ability, when you have barely over 200 energy. No primed flow makes this build very inconsistent, and you will just die. Can't shield gate with this. I am really curious, do you actually play this build? I am not a bad player, and I am VERY skeptical about this build being playable at all. So far the only way I have been able to even get going in a steel path void cascade was to spam Squad Energy restores while trying to get all my buffs and armor strip and energy economy going. On paper, and the way you are explaining it, it seems like it would work, but 230 energy when you have to constantly use 100 energy for 4 and 75 energy to move your armor strip around just isnt reliable at all. Especially if you are relying on shield gate.

[@kyaii]

I never run out of energy due to Nourish

[@murk4545]

But you only have two casts of your 4 in the tank and you’re relying on it for shield gate. You’re telling me that moving around playing a mission, you never need to hit your 4 more than twice before you find a bunch of energy orbs? When you need to move for void cascade for example, and you have to reapply your 3 and 4, both of which cost 40% of your energy pool. Yes nourish helps with energy income, but if your bank only allows you to gate two times before needing to find orbs, I just don’t see how that’s reliable unless you’re holding a position so there’s orbs everywhere.

[@kyaii]

Yea pretty much. Not only do enemies get crowd controlled by the Nourish procs but they also are all fully armor stripped and die pretty much immediately when I can see them. Xaku also has that 75% dodge chance making them just not be hit most of the time. The Vast Untime also stuns enemies and slows them. So yea, Nourish manages upkeep just fine.

[@PermaAzure]

Am i doing something wrong? i lose health on kill but my vampiric grasp is not working and healing me even with my 4th ability active and my guns killing enemies... can someone help?

[@kyaii]

wdym it's broken but it's healing you, that's meant to happen

[@PermaAzure]

@ no no i meant its not healing me, Vampiric grasp works with enemies effected by gaze but not when i kill enemies with my 4th ability and stolen guns

[@kyaii]

they have to be hit by your fourth, not just when it's active

[@bdlee410]

Need to be hit by the wave on 4th, or within the range of gaze

[@juravelkin]

lil trick for xaku, you can cast all the powers of the lost to one enemy to create immortal lure that steals enemy attention. cant say it's game changing but it exists lol. thx for vid

[@NovaUmbral]

Smooth transitions

[@ArcVaranus]

Love this build. I prefer Repo Audit to Null Audit because the Frost Eximus bubble on your companion can block your shots, whereas Repo Audit's disarm can remove enemy guns and proc magnetic + Manifold. But I didn't know Archon Stretch worked with Synergized Prospectus!

[@spicygames7694]

Ngl i pref tharos strike on his 1 since you can get a free shield gate and strip accolytes and any enemy in the game (mostly)

[@mr.cuttystabby5331]

You didn't mention the other 2 shards in the build. Are they yellow or orange and what are they slotted for?

[@kyaii]

casting speed

[@Kubx-wx3qi]

what about second arcane slot?

[@snennis8574]

What are you using as main and melee weapon or is it just the ocucor?

[@B.VizionsL.L.C]

dawg this is xaku wdym helmith💀

[@kyaii]

Xatas doesn't contribute anything to Grasp builds

[@hells5371]

Recently got Kullervo, Xaku and Gyre, they are very funny to play but Xaku kit is special and seeing that it is a bit broken is good

[@kyaii]

for sure, theyre goated

[@curiruri]

Morning's khora build has a diriga build, though not skimping on forma for full build it does full priming and he goes pretty in depth on hiw it works

[@kyaii]

what does that have to do with this lol?

[@SonmerfieldWendell-e4q]

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[@erwins_arm]

Would love builds without shield gate, pretty tired of it

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[@blood8273]

2:09 -Turn our gaze to gays-

[@minakhan-c4m]

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[@Kubx-wx3qi]

like... i've got problem with whole Xaku and precise, his armor strip wich is not working on bosses like, only i've got this problem? i just can't, it's just dosen't work with things like void angels or steel path mini bosses (yes, i have 200%, all other enemies are armor striped)

[@kayleequincy1841]

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[@Agony-co4pd]

Is Nourish still good on Xaku post nerf ?

[@kyaii]

Yup!

[@boutrosmassaad6691]

@@kyaii what did they nerf in him? this build is still reliable?

[@erwins_arm]

​@@boutrosmassaad6691not xaku, they nerfed nourish helminth

[@MatthewLee-r6h]

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[@cherrydaluz8725]

Hello Kyaii. Considering the armor changes, how much strength would I need to full strip the armor?

[@kyaii]

still 200%

[@cherrydaluz8725]

@@kyaii thanks

[@NorrisKelly]

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[@niggasaiyajin5358]

even xatas whisper is strong af, i was messing around for fun with it on Kullervo i replaced his 2 with it, with the new helios armor strip you just need to strip 1 enemy then curse a group, use 4 to strip all damaged from the ability, use 1 for 300% crit heavy attack with stropha, or if you have the polearm zaw use exodia contagion arcane with 12xcombo and just watch the entire screen fill with numbers

[@MichelleJones-z7b]

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[@keppochuppu]

Heyo ! Just wanted to let you know- The Diriga sentiel can proc archon stretch too !! and it does it super super consistently :))

[@kyaii]

did you watch the video? lmao

[@keppochuppu]

@@kyaii I did... That's why I left the comment --_-- I guess I didn't watch it hard enough I guess you mentioned diriga somewhere in there

[@keppochuppu]

Oh okay I see. No, you didn't mention diriga. If you read my comment carefully I say "can proc archon stretch TOO" That "too" is in reference to the hound, it's an alternative. Don't ask if I "watched the video" if you didn't read my comment properly first

[@kyaii]

yea my bad, sometimes I forget with these slightly older videos sorry!

[@LannieWyman]

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[@D2N13L_]

What about energy generation? Having to rely on vast untime to shieldgate and having limited energy to do so while also replacing xata's whisper leads to some unnecessary recasts? Decent build but not necessarily the best

[@Celso.Delgado]

Nourish and Archon Stretch take care of energy needs.

[@kyaii]

Nourish and Archon stretch paired with natural orbs generate an excessive amount of energy

[@murk4545]

I agree, without primed flow you only have 2 casts of your 4 before you need to find an orb somewhere. This is incredibly inconsistent.

[@VideoKingist]

I think this is my first time seeing Archon Intensify recommended in a build since it's release 😅 Are there any other frames that could utilize it in a build that isn't outclassed?

[@kyaii]

Any frame that can heal themselves I use it quite often as it's very strong. Hydroid, Saryn, Wisp to name a few

[@VideoKingist]

@@kyaiiThank you, and thanks for the quality content!

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[@imperiusplays2312]

Just got to grendel now the build is OP as F. You're my new Favorite warframe builder 🎉

[@noraesejameses3982]

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[@skate2death770]

Been running nourish xaku for a long time now. Xaku is my fav frame and ocucor is my fav weapon. The problem with this build is (especially steel path) ocucor needs a riven to combat the higher steel path. And when u go to get a kill your grasp kills whatever before the ocucor wich forces the perk not to proc wich makes the ocucor bad. When it already struggles at higher levels. Fun for og star chart though. But still have the same prob with ocucor.

[@kyaii]

with armor strip it really doesn't

[@skate2death770]

You are correct. It dosent with armor strip. But grasp still kills way faster than ocucor at high level sp. wich causes me to reload wich makes the surge not proc. Any way to combat this?

[@haroldpedro726]

​@@skate2death770you can make a group of enemies as your ally with its 3. Its 2 won't target the converted enemies but you can still damage them with your weapon

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[@thedarkness125]

gaze is not required whatsoever.

[@kyaii]

what 💀

[@Shellnanigans]

I use 164 strength with corrosive projection to hit 100% armor strip Additionally I went for duration on xaku. Enough to get 62s on my vast untime. This allows me to loop my vast for free with the "passive from zenurik (1 free cast every 60 seconds) Doing this had freed up a bunch of mod slots. :)

[@glint2057]

how do you shield gate then?

[@scechi4948]

I use shade cloak to stay alive

[@ShigmaChannel]

Eeeh... that Ocucor build is a bit misleading... you only need 4 forma, not 5 lol

[@DallasWilliams-z9f]

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[@MuTHa_BLeePuH]

Love me some xaku, to me he is the single best frame when it comes to playing disruption due to just how potent his damage scaling is and wipes everything at level cap, but for that i recommend Tharros Strike instead of nourish since you should only bring just an epitaph primer especially in a fissure to get and maintain the double range and strength relic buff more often and as long as possible, and tharros strike acts as a super good shield gate since its such a quick cast and can be used for stripping enemies, acolytes, and demolishers that are outside the range of his gaze.

[@zacharyhsieh9358]

If anyone wants to do homework, research, or just watch a movie while playing xaku, then subsume on cloak arrow and a macro to refresh 1 and 4.

[@sh0shin]

fun fact: diriga can use its precept mods on Gaze'd targets, meaning Archon Stretch procs a lot :)

[@piplupxpp]

Do you have fun playing warframe or do you find making these videos as a job now Because it would suck if you find no joy in making these videos which a lot of other warframe creators feel

[@kyaii]

i love making videos, wouldnt do it if i didnt

[@yashf1n]

my archon stretch energy regen isnt multiplying with nourish, might just be me idk

[@bo0mbo0mbll12]

Your brain has to be massive to even think of all these diffrent combinations makes my head hurt 😂

[@davidm5548]

Been out of Warframe for a while. This tempts me to load in and try the build.

[@marlonholland955]

This build only feels good in missions where you're not moving a lot.

[@jarisjauhari6904]

Overguard stops this whole combo from working...

[@soulkill94]

What do you use for a primary, what is your companion what is your companions weapon

[@jlcv_apolo]

hi i want to build your same companion of this video, which are the parts that i need if you could give that info please

[@chvrlierose1053]

Companions triggers archon stretch?! No freaking way! I’m about to have a field day with this info

[@adoboflakes8473]

I personally don't bother with duration. Only Nourish and Vast are duration dependent and with the rate at which I spam abilities, they're realistically only active for like 10-15 seconds before I activate them again. I even have negative duration with Transient Fortitude, I usually slot it over Primed Continuity. I also swap out Rolling guard with Augur Secrets for complete shield gate refresh with Nourish. It's a little more micro-managey but it works for me. Though I forgot that combat discipline synergizes with nourish so that's a plus for me.

[@HeavilyGamer]

safe build but not all players have them shards ....yeah!

[@kyaii]

so they can use madurai instead

[@koyo1]

what's the build of the hound? I mean which parts

[@hsmorg3640]

Note: If there's another frame in the team that can heal everyone, they'll likely be healing you instaad of your Grasp healing you, and thus never triggering Archon Intensify

[@baconSlayerX]

How do I get more void weapons?

[@kyaii]

range

[@Luka_malov]

What did you put on those amber archon shards?

[@ericduhon5581]

I have been so excited for this video, did not disappoint!

[@Zusk0v]

So he’s the same type of stand as silver chariot

[@DaddyStovepipe2442]

So you’re saying that doing void sling, I would only need to do it once? Or is it something I would have to do continuously?

[@kyaii]

only once until you need to recast your 2 and 3

[@m.a.w.o.]

What exactly is the reflex denial for? its kinda annoying. can i just take it out or does that break something?

[@kyaii]

you can take it off

[@bronsonmarin4644]

is there any other weapon i could use? i dont have sentient surge and im struggling to find a weapon that feels comfortable

[@kyaii]

dual toxos

[@kevinelston404]

Vam-peer-ic

[@XEL2103]

We need a prime stretch before Xaku prime drops

[@caryroberts6748]

Could this combination work for any other frame like nekros, Frost, Kullervo, would nourish affect finisher damage?

[@kyaii]

nourish and combat discipline works on any frame yes

[@Φλεγόμενη_Ζήλια]

you could also swap his 2 for nourish/airburst/energized munitions if you're going for a weapon buffer build swap his 3 for tharros strike and build for a health tank/armor strip (I've done 2 lvl cap runs with it it hits hard af)

[@DJET723]

You say use a sister’s hound but can you just take any one you get or does it have to be build with a certain configuration?

[@kyaii]

might be a certain config, it just cant have a negative shield modifier