Chromatic Blade

Chromatic Blade
Untransmutable
Statistics
Introduced	Update 20.7
Polarity	Zenurik
Rarity	Rare
Trading Tax	8,000
Source(s)	Syndicates: Arbiters of Hexis 25,000 Steel Meridian 25,000

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 25,000‍25,000 to purchase.

Notes

• Chromatic Blade works the same way Chroma's passive does.
  • White, grey, black, and some faded colors being Cold.
  • Blue and purple hues being Electricity.
  • Red, magenta, brown, orange and bright yellow hues being Heat.
  • Green, lime, teal and dark yellow hues being Toxin.
  • Note that players do not need to purchase color palettes to unlock the full potential of this trait.
  • While customizing Excalibur's energy color, Chromatic Blade's active element is displayed in the form of an icon (, , , ). 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.
• The elemental damage granted by Chromatic Blade will combine with any elemental damage present on Exalted Blade.
• The status chance increase granted by this augment is multiplicative and is affected by Ability Strength.
  • For example, using a maxed  Intensify,  Drifting Contact, and Chromatic Blade results in:
    Base status chance × [1 + (Chromatic Blade Bonus × (1 + Strength Mods)) + Status Mods] = 0.15 × [1 + (3 × 1.3) + 0.4] = 79.5% status chance
  • To achieve 100% status chance without any status chance mods, Ability Strength must be at least 189%.
• Physical damage mods will no longer affect Exalted Blade's damage with Chromatic Blade equipped.

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.
• Just like with Chroma, the name of the augment comes from the Greek word Chroma, meaning colour.

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Media

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

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External Links

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

Patch History

Hotfix 27.2.2

• 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

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

Update 21.0

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

Update 20.7

• Introduced.

Last updated: Hotfix 22.20.9.2