Desert Wind

Desert Wind is Baruuk's and Baruuk Prime's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by activating the ability Serene Storm. The weapon exclusively uses the Serene Storm stance.

Refer to the weapon's ability page for a list of mods that affect the weapon.

Characteristics[]

This weapon deals pure Impact damage.
- Reactive Storm augment changes the damage from Impact to adapt to the enemy's damage-type weaknesses.
Innate two and one polarities.
Combo counter resets when equipped with Xoris.

Advantages:

Tied with Valkyr Talons for the highest critical chance of all melee weapons.
Good base status chance.
- Can reach over 100% status chance with Reactive Storm.
Attacks release waves that travel 20 meters with unlimited punch through.
Melee and wave damage can be increased by the combo counter if built with Desert Wind's physical hits.
Waves can Ragdoll enemies and reflect projectiles.
Fist attacks have a chance to disarm.

Disadvantages:

Wave damage is not boosted by Condition Overload.
Wave hits do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter or proc Tennokai.
Requires Restraint to activate and keep active.
As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods (excluding the Sacrificial Mod Set; the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Warframe, Melee or Robotic Weapons, and not on the Exalted Weapon itself).
Cannot equip Melee Combo Counter Mods (except Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g., Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods (e.g., Amalgam Organ Shatter).
Cannot equip Melee Arcane Enhancements.

The Desert Wind appears in the Arsenal after unlocking Baruuk's Serene Storm ability.
Reach does not extend the wave range.
As an Exalted Weapon, this weapon comes with an Orokin Catalyst pre-installed.

Desert Wind is the second melee Exalted Weapon with innate range attack, the first being Exalted Blade.
On Baruuk Prime, the fists are named Desert Wind Prime. Its stats are, however, identical to Desert Wind.

Update 35.1 (2024-02-20)

Fixed Exalted Melee weapons experiencing animation issues if they were deactivated after parrying.
Fixed being unable to switch back to Secondary weapon after hitting the “Switch Weapon” binding while Exalted Melee weapon is active and you don’t have a Primary weapon equipped.

Update 33.0 (2023-04-26)

Fixed many mods that previously worked on Exalted Weapons not correctly applying, for example (but not exclusively) Life Strike not working when installed on Exalted Melee Weapons.

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

Fixed de-equipping a Scanner not returning you to your active Exalted weapon if one was equipped prior.
Fixed the Carnis, Jugulus, and Saxum Mod Sets not being equippable on Exalted Melee.

Fixes towards Exalted weapons not being equipped when viewed via Look Link or Mod Link.

Fixed inability to Melee block with your Exalted weapon until the normal weapon's combo times out.

Removed Stance Forma eligibility on Exalted weapons due to Stance Forma providing no benefit to these weapons.

Increased the base Status Chance of Desert Wind to 15% (from 10%), while also changing the Reactive Storm 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:
- Reactive Storm 35% to 250% Status Chance

Update 26.0 (2019-10-31)