'Excalibur is such a BAD Warframe!'...

In this Warframe Build Guide, we are going to take a look at Excalibur.
In fact, today I'm going to show you a super strong Excalibur Steel Path Build where we will talk about his Mods, his Skills and playstyle and overall about how we can make Excalibur deal MILLIONS of Damage with ease.

This Warframe Guide is inspired by the works of TheKengineer, WarframeFlo, KnightmareFrame, Grind Hard Squad and many more...

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[mcjagergaming]

Just run full umbral with adaption, and Arcane Reaper.

Have a tennokia mode on exalted Blade with life strike make your Blade color red/orange/yellow for the heat dmg from chromatic, and make sure to put corrosive on aswell.

Now you can health tank, and can do at least 200k a swing. Just rember to use heavy when the pop up happens to refresh your health. This build should be able to take you all the way to lvl 2000's or so no problem.😮

[pn]

I went for a Gloom setup and got rid of Slash Dash (as I wanted to keep Excal's essence). The slow as a CC tool and Glooms lifesteal are just made for a melee Excal build. Paired this with Arcane Blessing, all the Umbra mods + Adaptation makes you easily survive until lvl 1000 or so (didn't test further). Also paired him with blue Archon Shards consisting of max energy and more health, as well as the green shards for the Kuva Nukor. Again, this allows me to stay alive CONSTANTLY up to level 1000.

Edit: paired him with Nautilus, for even more CC and grouping.

[tamop]

You can change your energy colour to Toxin and the Prime Continuity mod to Archon Continuity so you deal Toxin damage to anything while stripping armor with your ulti as well - it is good for instances with enemies with shields (like Corpus / Duviri / Circuit). And for the helminth you use Nourish so you spread viral stacks like crazy.
A bit less damage probably, but Jack of all trades you are now.

[Eclipse_IV]

As someone who mains excalibur (and has since umbra came out), I think excalibur is underpowered compared to newer frames. The functionality of his kit just does not hold up to modern content, and REQUIRE augments or helminth abilities to be useful. Slash dash is useless without its augment (which is why everyone replaces it with other abilities). Radial javelin is literally useless without the augment. Exalted blade is okay, but still subpar without chromatic blade (thats why everyone runs chromatic blade). The sad thing is that if (some of) the augments were a part of excal's base kit, he would feel cohesive as a frame. Use slash dash to build combo (augment), blind for cc and melee damage, javelin for damage increase (augment), and exalted blade for big damage.

Compare that to frames like gauss or kullervo, whose abilities just work together right out of the box. For gauss, mach rush gives mobility and is used to charge battery, kinetic plating gives a ton of survivability, thermal sunder does damage and cc and armor stripping, and redline gives a ton of buffs. He has everything he needs, and each ability serves a purpose. For kullervo, he gets a massive amount of crit chance and heavy attack efficiency, an abillity to get a bunch of overguard, an ability to hit groups all at once, and an ability to build combo. Not only is his kit functional, but it works really well with itself. Build combo > chain enemies > heavy attack for massive group damage, and get overguard whenever you want. Neither character NEEDS augments or helminth abilities.

Excalibur NEEDS augments and/or helminth abilities to have every ability be functional. Augments should AUGMENT a kit, not be a fundamental necessity.

The thing that annoys me the most, though, about excal's kit is the fact that he is not shield immune during slash dash. The number of times I have gotten afflicted with a status effect and died the instant slash dash ended is absurd.

People usually say to just not use slash dash, but thats no fun. I hyper invested into slash dash and I will use it, damn it. I replaced exalted blade with wrathful advance, and I can easily hit 20 to 200 million damage per hit with slash dash (depending on priming and armor), gain 40 combo per enemy hit with slash dash (augment + naramon), and then wrathful advance for damage from 100 million to the damage cap. Why would I want to be complacent with mashing left click with exalted blade? I just wish I had those extra slots that those augments take up. The umbra augment is also a slap in the face, since it takes up yet another slot just to make the frame functional.

Is he a bad warframe? No. But he definitely has a lot of problems that prevent me from calling him "good". And since he is technically viable, I dont know if DE cares enough to fix the issues. After all, they added that bandaid fix to umbra and called it a day.

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Good video tho.

[TheKrillmeisterswe]

Excalibur is my favourite Warframe. Especially Umbra. I always come back to him. His exalted blade ability is just awesome.

[atlas]

I haven’t been able to find an umbra exalted blade build that explains how to not die and how to be good, thanks for showing me 👍

[biggokii]

Nice little tip, if you have Naramon school, Kullervo's Helminth ability and a TennoKai mod on Exalted Blade, you no longer lose combo multiplier as the mod considers the ability as a heavy attack.
I have it on my Excal Prime and he's a beast 💪
I also have Archon Flow with Cold on Exalted Blade for infinite energy.

[andria]

Funnily enough, even after trying out Umbra for several missions, I just actually learned how his abilities work after watching this video lul

[MEYHM]

DE needs to stop patching the flaws of frames using augment mods, Excalibur Umbra is a frame that can't spare a mod slot. 3 slots are taken but Umbral mods and 2 are taken by Furious Javlin and Chromatic blade.

They just should've made it a toggle in the abilities screen.

[shyper]

Ok hear me out. Excalibur Umbra may not be immortal like Revenant or as powerful as say... Saryn or Octavia. But he is the true champion of the real endgame - fashion frame.

[TheLunarDawn]

For some extra survivability, you can run Brief Respite + 2-4 Auger mods and Blind Rage as well.

Each cast of Radial Blind or Radial Javilin will restore 200-300 shields, which you can either combo into Catalyzed Shields for a Gate build, or use it with Primed Redirection to fish for Arcane Aegis procs!

[OneOfTheLostOnes]

Great video. Appreciate the details of how every part works within the whole. It was super useful in understanding how to adapt it to my playstyle. Thanks! Keep it up!

[Master_Chief]

Arcane Reaper is also good for this build, as it heals 24 health per second and it gives 660 armor for 10 seconds, so if you are casually killing everything, then you'll have INSANE armor and you'll heal your shields while gaining all that armor

[LunnarisLP]

gotta love how instead of fixing umbra they jus tmade an augment lmao.. so annoying and making his cool feature basically worthless.

[arcadeinvader]

my favorite excal:
furious javelin ofc
arcane reaper for survival
exalted blade -> wrathful advance
crit zaw with exodia brave for energy sustain and melee exposure for anti-armor
surging dash augment for max combo after every dash
purple archon shard with the gigabuffed melee crit damage

DPS also makes it well into the millions

[Lzad]

I was literally looking for Excalibur guides and then BOOM

[xx-tglj]

You can put weeping wounds, and blood rush on excal's exalted blade. The mods have to be placed on the melee weapon. The combo counter for excal's exalted blade activates the effects of weeping wounds, and blood rush w/o being on the exalted blade itself.

[Jeremus]

I always enjoy these videos that talk about frames that I own but don't play. Sometimes it gives me a reason to check them out again for some variety, and at the very least it allows me to have a viable build stored for the circuit if they get randomly offered.

[rinz]

This is the sign for me to go back and rebuild my Umbra. I've always been told why its bad and experienced it first hand, but now I have a template to build him again.

[caryroberts]

Excalibur when built correctly can do a few quite impressive things. The exalted blade of modded for toxin, blast, Radiation all three of these can benefit from both or either archon mods and shards. Blast can potentially heal, regen shields, toxin can deal corrosive damage and heal, radiation can increase ability damage. Sky’s the limit.
Alternative and rather darkened strategy using proton snap. Can potentially change your entire range type and outputs.