Chromatic Blade

Chromatic Blade
Tradeable
Cannot be obtained from transmutation
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Max Rank Description
Exalted Blade Augment: Exalted Blade's Damage Type changes depending on Excalibur's Emissive Color, and Status Chance is increased by 300%.
General Information
Type	Excalibur
Polarity	Zenurik
Rarity	Rare
Max Rank	3
Endo Required To Max	210
Credits Required To Max	10,143
Base Capacity Cost	6
Trading Tax	8,000
Introduced	Update 20.7 (2017-06-07)
Vendor Sources
Vendors Arbiters of Hexis (Rank 5: Maxim)  25000 for x1 Steel Meridian (Rank 5: General)  25000 for x1
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

Chromatic Blade is a Warframe Augment Mod for  Excalibur's  Exalted Blade that increases  Exalted Blade's status chance while changing its damage from physical damage to a primary elemental damage, depending on Excalibur's chosen primary emission color.

Stats

Rank	Status chance	Cost
0	100%	6
1	200%	7
2	250%	8
3	300%	9

Acquisition

• This mod can be acquired by attaining the rank of General under Steel Meridian, or the rank of Maxim under the Arbiters of Hexis, and spending 25000 Standing 25000 to purchase.

Notes

• Chromatic Blade colour selection works the same way as  Chroma's passive.
  • White, grey, black, and some faded colors make  Cold.
  • Blue and purple hues make  Electricity.
  • Red, magenta, brown, orange and bright yellow hues make  Heat.
  • Green, lime, teal and dark yellow hues make  Toxin.
  • Purchasing color palettes is not required to unlock the all the elemental options.
  • While customizing Excalibur's emission color, Chromatic Blade's active element is indicated by an icon ( Heat,  Electricity,  Toxin,  Cold). This imgur album can serve as a reference for future color palette purchases.
  • Customizing the secondary emission and the energy colors will have no effect.
• Chromatic Blade's elemental damage replaces the innate physical elements and will combine other any elemental damage modded on  Exalted Blade.
• The status chance bonus is additive with other status chance mods and is affected by Ability Strength.
  • For example, using a maxed  Intensify,  Drifting Contact, and Chromatic Blade results in:
    Total Status Chance = Base status chance × [1 + (Chromatic Blade Bonus × (1 + Strength Mods) × 2) + Status Mods]
    = 0.15 × [1 + ( 3 ×  1.3) +  0.4] = 79.5%
  • To achieve 100% status chance without any status chance mods, total Ability Strength must be no less than 189%.
• Physical damage mods will no longer affect Exalted Blade's damage with Chromatic Blade equipped.

Bugs

• Chromatic Blade's bonus is double the listed amount, i.e. at 100% Ability Strength it gives +600% status chance instead of only +300%.
• For unknown reasons, the element type given by the augment is sometimes shown as Electricity (and forms electric-base compound elements) regardless of emissive color.

Tips

• Although Chromatic Blade removes all Physical Damage, it is still possible to inflict  Impact procs through the Cutting Poise combo of Exalted Blade's stance.
• Due to the large status chance boost this augment gives, it pairs well with  Condition Overload. Furthermore, players can forgo dual status-elemental mods, such as  Volcanic Edge, and use mods that only increase Elemental Damage, like  Molten Impact, to further increase Exalted Blade's total damage.
• The status chance boost also simplifies creating a Crit-Status hybrid build as status chance mods are no longer necessary.

Trivia

• Chromatic Blade is the only one of Excalibur's augments to not feature him with his Immortal Skin and Pendragon Helmet equipped on the mod card.
• The name of the augment comes from the Greek word Chroma, meaning colour.

Maximization

This calculator feature is sunsetted on the wiki. It may not see further updates, but will be present on articles for the time being since some people still find use for them. See User blog:Cephalon Scientia/Sunsetting of Maximization Calculators for more details.

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Media

CHROMATIC AUGMENT - 100% Status with Extra Status on Top warframe

External Links

• Chroma's elements with their corresponding colors imgur album by TiffyGames (works for Chromatic Blade too)

Patch History

Hotfix 27.2.2 (2020-03-06)

• Increased the base Status Chance of Exalted Blade to 15% (from 10%), while also changing the Chromatic Blade Augment to stack in the same manner other Status Mods do. This was missed in the Status changes but is a necessary change now. The following reflects the new Maximum:
  • Chromatic Blade 50% to 300% Status Chance

Update 21.2 (2017-07-26)

• Fixed Excalibur’s Chromatic Blade Augment not adding Elemental FX to the energy wave.

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Fixed Chromatic Blade Augment not applying elemental FX on Exalted Blade’s projectiles.

Update 20.7 (2017-06-07)

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.9.2 (2018-06-07)