Talk:Excalibur (Warframe)/@comment-26145493-20150307174741/@comment-7645613-20150311103654

With anything other than Valkyr your shields and health do matter, unless you go melee only with a life strike build and are experienced enough to execute the complex moves without being set on fire, blasted away, or bled to death.

So once your tiny bit of shield goes down, and your low armor dosn't block the blow, your down and out in one hit even on mid-tier content from enemies like ballistas. one hit.

With excalibur and some other frames, you can slightly mitigate this by using powers but they don't always do you justice enough to justify dropping out health and shield mods.