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Excalibur is one ofWarframe’sstarting characters that players can select.
Master of gun and blade, Excalibur serves as the perfect Warframe for starting players.
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For those who started as a different Warframe, don’t worry.
If you don’t wish to farm for Excalibur, we highly recommend you complete Warframe’s main quests.
Digital Extremes has no plans to return the Founders program, hence Excalibur Prime’s permanent vaulted status.
Excalibur Umbra serves as an upgrade for non-Founders, featuring the same base stats as the Prime variant.
| (Umbra Only) Umbra exhibits sentience in combat without Transference control.
Slash Dash
Dash between enemies while slashing with the Exalted Blade.
Slash Dash takes the mods of your currently equipped melee weapon.
To benefit from Exalted Blade’s mods, you must have Exalted Blade active.
Your damage will start to fall off in endgame content without some assistance through abilities or augments.
This ability can be subsumed withthe Helminth system.
Radial Howl’s base stats are the same as Radial Blind.
Both abilities share the same augment mods.
Excalibur raises his Exalted Blade and flashes a bright light, blinding all nearby targets in line of sight.
Bosses affected by this ability can still attack but will be disoriented for the duration.
Radial Javelin
Launches javelins towards enemies, dealing high damage and impaling them to walls.
Every enemy within range will now be hit by Radial Javelin.
Targets must have line of sight or be aware of Excalibur to become valid targets.
The javelins automatically find their targets and form beside them, ensuring this ability doesn’t miss.
Targets slain by Radial Javelin will be flung backward, pinning them to nearby walls or cover.
Use this ability when you’re in a pinch and need to clear an entire room of enemies.
Endgame players should either subsume this ability or use the Furious Javelin augment (showcased later).
Exalted Blade
Summons a sword of pure light and immense power.
Exalted Blade uses its own mod configuration but doesnotbenefit from combo count.
However, you might use your combo count to inflict a hard-hitting heavy attack.
Waves also inflict a light stagger on fodder enemies, allowing you stunlock a target with enough attack speed.
You may shoot your weapon while Exalted Blade is active, holstering the sword while keeping the ability active.
Using the melee input will return Exalted Blade into your hands.
Slash Dash Synergy
While Exalted Blade is equipped, Slash Dash will inherit the mods from your Exalted Blade.
Each dash will also launch an energy wave, dealing the same damage as your Exalted Blade.
Slide attacks with Exalted Blade also emit a miniature Radial Blind effect, stunning targets for a short duration.
Using this version of Radial Blind doesnotopen enemies to finishers and costs 25 Energy.
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The fifth augment mod, Purging Dash, is occasionally sold in the Nightwave shop.
It also can be obtained from Teshin by playing Warframe’s PvP modes.
Excalibur can dash to allies, restoring their shields and purging some of their active debuffs.
The number of debuffs purged is affected by Ability Strength, but the shield restore value is not.
You and your companionsdon’tbenefit from this effect.
you’ve got the option to use Purging Slash in PvE and PvP content.
Radiant Finish
Radial Blind Augment: Blinded enemies take 300% more Finisher Damage.
Enemies affected by Radial Blind are open to finishers.
Radiant Finish makes these finishers deal far more damage to the enemy, making one-shots more consistent.
The finisher damage multiplier provided by Radiant Finish is affected by Ability Strength.
The melee buff affects your melee weapons, Slash Dash, and Exalted Blade.
Furious Javelin’s damage buff and duration are affected by Ability Strength and Duration, respectively.
Chromatic Blade converts your Exalted Blade’s IPSImpact, Puncture, and Slashdamage into a single element.
For example, pairing Cold with a Toxin mod will cause your Exalted Blade to deal Viral damage exclusively.
This mod also grants a 300% status chance buff that stacks additively with similar effects.
The status chance buff is affected by Ability Strength.
To maximize the power of your ultimate, you’ll need to invest inStrengthandEfficiency.
Some builds for Excalibur also stack as many damage multipliers as possible to ramp up your melee.
Some subsume Rhino’s Roar and use the Furious Javelin Augment to give Excalibur a jaw-dropping amount of damage.
For these builds, you want to spec forStrengthandDuration.
Alternatively, Exalted Blade builds can use Unairu for its powerful defense-stripping abilities.
Lower investment builds can replace these mods with cheaper, non-Primed variants.
This build is a hybrid configuration that focuses oncritical damage, status damage, and status chance.
This build uses one Formaa single V polarity.
We’ll be usingSteel Chargeas an aura to give the most mod capacity possible.
make a run at wait for Steel Charge to enter the Nightwave shop rotation.
If you’re free to’t,any aura mod will work fine.
For your main mods, you’ll want to useVitality or Redirectionwhichever one you’ve leveled more.
We recommend Vitality if you have the resources.
It’s an Augment you could purchase from Steel Meridian, Arbiters of Hexis, or players throughin-game trading.
We replace Intensify withTransient Fortitudefor even more Ability Strength, countering its negative Efficiency withContinuity.
To help maximize Exalted Blade’s uptime, we equipFleeting Expertisealongside Streamline.
This gives you an overcapped amount of Efficiency, countering the negative Duration from Fleeting Expertise.
This build focuses onStrengthandEfficiencyto maximize the strength and uptime of your ultimate.
Energy Orbs are quite common in Warframe, so proccing this mod shouldn’t be a large hassle.
Get an Orb, use Exalted Blade, and forget.
We use it in place of Excalibur’s Radial Javelin.
We use Guardian for the bonus armor.
Subsume Kullervo’s Wrathful Advance over Radial Howl.
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