Exalted Blade (Weapon)

Exalted Blade is Excalibur's signature Exalted Weapon, which can only be used upon activating the ability of the same name. The weapon exclusively uses the Exalted Blade stance.

Refer to the weapon's ability page for a list of mods that affect the weapon.

Characteristics
This weapon deals primarily damage.

Advantages
 * Tied with Valkyr Talons and Iron Staff for the highest damage of all melee weapons.
 * High damage – effective against health.
 * augment changes the damage from physical to a primary elemental one based on Excalibur's energy color.
 * Good critical chance.
 * Can reach 100% status chance with Chromatic Blade.
 * Attacks release waves with unlimited punch through up to 40 meters.
 * Slide attacks trigger a Radial Blind that stuns enemies within 5 meters for 6 seconds.
 * Innate two and one  polarities.
 * Excalibur Umbra's Exalted Umbra Blade instead has innate two polarities.

Disadvantages
 * Low and  damage – less effective against shields and armor.
 * With, damage cannot be increased with , , or mods.
 * Low status chance without Chromatic Blade.
 * Low attack speed.
 * Wave damage dissipates with range.
 * Wave hits do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter.
 * Low wave flight speed.
 * Requires energy to activate and keep active.

Trivia

 * Before the introduction of modable Exalted Weapons, the stats of Exalted Blade depended on the mods equipped on the player's melee weapon.
 * Prior to, Exalted Blade didn't have any physical part and was fully made out of energy. This was later changed to allow for colour customization.
 * On Excalibur Prime and Excalibur Umbra, the sword is named Exalted Prime Blade and Exalted Umbra Blade respectively and they have different forms (see Media). Their stats however are identical to Exalted Blade.
 * The energy on Exalted Prime Blade is more prominent than on the other two variants.
 * The design of Exalted Blade's hilt bears a general resemblance to Skana.
 * Exalted Prime Blade's has the form of a Skana Prime, while Exalted Umbra Blade uses an original design.

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