Talk:Excalibur (Warframe)/@comment-103.25.179.182-20150224061606/@comment-24822929-20150303175901

Excal requires a little more skill now to play in TIV, now that they changed Radial Blind to be line of sight. Before, you could spam it and nothing in a reasonable radius would hurt you for maybe 15-20 seconds, during which you could clear the room with a good weapon. He was pretty indespendable for any defense mission, and could hold his own well into 20-30 minutes of any void mission.

But now, either you need to time it right, find a vantage point, or cast multiple times as more enemies enter line of sight to create a proper window in which you can be relatively safe to do the killing. Given how slow he runs, he's not really the run and gun type, but once you learn how to use the new Radial Blind, you can still hold your own for a good while.

One good thing is the stun that Radial Javelin now creates, which it didn't before. Used when modded properly, it can effectively act as a second crowd control ability to anything it doesn't kill, as the stun lasts a reasonable amount of time and doesn't require line of sight, during which you can clear the room with a good weapon.