Talk:Excalibur/Umbra/@comment-65.128.189.9-20180814213839/@comment-173.76.194.146-20180928221252

As a Master Founder, I'm happy that they found a way to basically give Excal Prime to everyone without taking away the bragging rights from Master+ Founders. As for Umbra being better than Prime, they're both good at two different things: Umbra is really good for support while you're leveling your amps and for killing Sentients without using Operator mode; Prime is really good for any mission in the Void, especially endless missions on large, sprawling maps that have a lot of orbs. The only thing is, Excal Prime can be replaced with really any DPS Prime frame, whereas Umbra is thus far the only frame that is a defacto Sentient-killer. You CAN put the Umbral and Sacrificial mods on other frames, at the cost of capacity, (since you can't polarize to the Umbral polarity), but Umbra will be good if you want to farm Shadow Stalker, Sentients on Lua, or if we end up having to fight a boatload of Sentients in a quest, which the New War promises we'll have to likely do.