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 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.
- White, grey, black, and some faded colors being
- 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%.
- For example, using a maxed
- 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.
Maximization[]
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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)
