Ever since I started playing Warframe, Excalibur has always been a big interest to me as a frame of choice. To make things simple, I am asking for help for the best way to build, improve, and play as Excalibur. I wish to ask for guidance from experts on the Warframe. If you ever get low on health, just activate melee channeling mode and swing your blade once or twice to fully recover your health.This is a call for help to anyone who has played a fair to extensive amount of Excalibur, Excalibur Prime, or Excalibur Umbra. If you happen to run into a tankier enemy in some extremely high level survival mission or something, then just cast Radial Howl, as it gives an 8x stealth damage multiplier on all of your attacks. With this Excalibur Umbra build, together with the linked Excalibur Umbra Blade build, you will be insanely overpowered and will one-shot most enemies. The duration may be roughly halved from the default, but the energy cost is cut down to a quarter thanks to our maximum efficiency! So you can simply re-cast it when needed. Furthermore, if you need it to last longer, then you can just spam it repeatedly. That's more than enough time to mow everything down with your Exalted Blade. Radial Howl already starts off with far more duration than it needs (15 seconds), and with this build ends up with a 6 second duration.

What about the decreased duration, you ask? The only ability affected by this is Radial Howl, and it honestly doesn't hurt at all. So, we have 206% power strength, 175% efficiency, 100% range, and 40% duration. See the linked Artax build for more details on this. When properly modded, it will keep Growing Power's buff active 100% of the time! Just make sure you have it procced before activating Exalted Blade. With Umbral Intensify, Power Drift, and Growing Power, we have a whopping 206% power strength! You might know this already, but for best results with Growing Power, use the Artax weapon on your sentinel. All you need is to hit a total of 180% power strength to get a 100% status chance with Chromatic Blade, and we've more than accomplished that here. Furthermore, Exalted Blade is already so ridiculously overpowered with Chromatic Blade, that you seriously don't need more strength.

Blind Rage hurts efficiency far too much to be useful. What about power strength? Is this enough? You might ask 'Shouldn't we use Blind Rage?', but no, you shouldn't. However, Hunter Adrenaline does - and so do energy orbs, which is why we use Primed Flow. As a channeled ability, Zenurik doesn't help with recovering energy while Exalted Blade is active. You might ask 'Can't we just use Zenurik's Energising Dash?', but no, you can't. Maximising our efficiency gives us the largest uptime. Most people that choose Excalibur do so for that awesome energy blade, which of course drains energy. So, why so much focus on energy? Well, Exalted Blade is the focus of Excalibur. Since Exalted Blade scales with melee mods, the build for that is just as important as the build on your warframe! See the linked Exalted Umbra Blade build for more details on this. This changes Exalted Blade to be purely elemental, and also gives it a 100% status chance (at least, with the ability strength in this build). Finally, Chromatic Blade is used as an essential augment. This mod will make it so that taking damage will recover energy.Ħ. Hunter Adrenaline is used for even more energy gains. Primed Flow is used to provide a higher energy pool, so you can amass a large energy buffer from picked up energy orbs while Exalted Blade is active.ĥ. Umbral Vitality and Umbral Fiber are used to provide a significant amount of survivability, while also boosting the effectiveness of Umbral Intensify (above).Ĥ. Umbral Intensify, Power Drift, and Growing Power are used to increase ability strength without hurting efficiency (so no Blind Rage).ģ. We're using Streamline and Fleeting Expertise to achieve maximum efficiency.Ģ. This also lets you spam your other abilities as needed.ġ. It provides maximum efficiency so that you can keep Exalted Blade active all day, every day. This is a build for Excalibur Umbra focusing on Exalted Blade, but which can still make effective use of Slash Dash and Radial Howl.

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