Exalted Blade

	4 25 +2.5/s	Exalted Blade Summon a sword of pure light and immense power. Introduced in Update 16.9 (2015-06-17)	Strength:100 / 125 / 200 / 250 (damage)
			Duration:6 s (blind duration)
			Range:5 m (blind radius)
			Misc: 15 m/s (wave speed) 37.5 m (wave range)

• Info
• Weapon
• Stance
• Augment
• Tips & Tricks
• Maximization
• Bugs

Info

• Excalibur draws an ethereal Skana, the  Exalted Blade, and wields it as his melee Exalted Weapon. Normal attacks inflict 100 / 125 / 200 / 250 damage within 2 meters.
  • Damage is distributed between 15%  Impact, 15%  Puncture, and 70%  Slash.
  • Wall attacks inflict 400 / 500 / 800 / 1000 damage.
  • Slide attacks inflict 214 / 267.5 / 428 / 536 damage and  Blind enemies within 5 meters over a duration of 6 seconds at the cost of 25 energy.
  • Aerial attacks and slam attacks inflict 200 / 250 / 400 / 500 damage, and slam attacks inflict an additional 50  Impact damage within 5 meters.
• Normal, slide, and aerial attacks will emit an energy wave in the direction of aim. Energy waves have the same base damage as the attacks that release them, inflicts  Stagger, and fly at a constant speed of 15 m/s until they dissipate after 2.5s which corresponds to a maximum distance of 37.5 meters.
  • The energy waves and Exalted Blade itself are considered separate entities and will both deal damage separately.
  • Energy waves will punch through and hit enemies and terrain regardless of thickness up to their maximum range.
  • Energy wave lifetime decreases 0.5s (7.5m) for every enemy hit from the max lifetime of 2.5s (37.5m).
  • Wave damage falls off linearly with distance from 100% to 85% between 0 and 6.5m and 28% to 0% between 6.5m and 37.5m.
• Attacks and energy waves have a 2.0x critical multiplier, 15% critical chance and a 15% status chance.
• Damage is affected by  Ability Strength and most mods.
  • Being a Sword, Exalted Blade will always gain the 10% damage and attack speed bonuses of Excalibur's Passive.
  • As an example, with a maxed  Pressure Point,  Shocking Touch and  Intensify, the normal attacks and corresponding energy waves of a rank-3 Exalted Blade will deal
    Base Damage × (1 + Swordsmanship Bonus + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mods) × (1 + Strength Mods) = 250 × (1 + 0.3) × (1 + 0.1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) = 1,420.25 damage.
  • The mods that can be equipped on and affect  Exalted Blade include:
    • damage (e.g.,  Steel Charge)
    • physical (e.g.,  Heavy Trauma)
    • elemental (e.g.,  Molten Impact)
    • faction (e.g.,  Smite Grineer)
    • critical chance and damage (e.g.,  True Steel and  Organ Shatter)
    • status chance (e.g.,  Melee Prowess and  Virulent Scourge)
    • status duration (e.g.,  Lasting Sting)
    • attack speed (e.g.,  Fury and  Berserker Fury)
    • Tennokai (e.g.,  Dreamer's Wrath)
    •  Condition Overload
    •  Drifting Contact
    •  Healing Return
    •  Relentless Combination
    •  Shattering Impact
    •  Enduring Affliction
      • Note that apart from physical damage mods and  Shattering Impact, all mods will still affect Exalted Blade when  Chromatic Blade is equipped.
      • While officially Set Mod bonuses do not affect Exalted Weapons (with the exception of the Sacrificial Mod Set), the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Melee and not on the Exalted Weapon itself.
  • Each melee attack adds to the Melee Combo Counter while energy waves and radial damage from slam attacks do not.
    • Slash status effects generated from waves while  Relentless Combination is equipped will grant combo counts to Exalted Blade.
  • Exalted Blade can not be equipped with weapon augments (e.g.,  Justice Blades), weapon-specific mods (e.g.,  Covert Lethality), Melee Combo Counter Mods (except  Drifting Contact), Acolyte Mods (e.g.,  Blood Rush), or Amalgam Mods (e.g.  Amalgam Organ Shatter).
  • Riven Mods are not generated for Exalted Blade.
  • The combo counter will reset when equipped with  Xoris.
  • Exalted Blade's combo counter decay is affected by  Naramon's  Power Spike.
  • Radial damage from slam attacks diminishes with distance, does not have a critical chance, is not affected by the Melee Combo Counter, and will cause enemies within range to suffer a  Knockdown.
  • Ground finishers inflict 400% of the total modified damage from normal attacks. Prompted Finishers inflict 3200% of the total modified damage from normal attacks as  True damage.
• Exalted Blade costs 25 Energy to activate, then consumes 2.5 energy per second while active and will remain active until Excalibur's energy is depleted, or the ability is deactivated by pressing the ability key again.
  • Exalted Blade's energy drain is not converted into shields by Augur Mods.
  • Excalibur cannot replenish energy using  Energy Vampire,  Rally Point, Rift Plane's innate energy regeneration, Squad Energy Restores,  Energy Siphon,  Energy Nexus,  Dreamer's Bond, and/or  Wellspring while Exalted Blade is active.
  • Energy Orbs, Orokin Void Death Orb's energy restores,  Rage,  Hunter Adrenaline,  Spellbound Harvest,  Arcane Energize, and  Emergence Dissipate's Energy Motes can still replenish Excalibur's energy while Exalted Blade is active.
• Exalted Blade is affected by and can trigger Warframe Arcanes.
• Exalted Blade is not affected by and can not trigger Exodia Arcanes with the exception of  Exodia Might, which Exalted Blade both triggers and is affected by.
• While active, Exalted Blade will use an exclusive stance with its own set of combo attacks.
• Ability Synergy:  Slash Dash will receive a +10% bonus to its base damage from Excalibur's Passive and each hit will release an energy wave when Exalted Blade is active.
  • Slash Dash hits add to Exalted Blade's Melee Combo Counter.
  • Energy waves behave identically to those of Exalted Blade.
    • The energy waves and Exalted Blade are considered separate entities and will deal damage separately.
  • Waves will hit both the targeted enemy and all enemies behind it.
  • Waves are affected by mods on both the equipped melee weapon and on  Exalted Blade.
  • The energy waves are able to deal critical hits and status effects.
    • Critical and status performances are affected by equipped critical chance and damage mods, status chance mods, and  Chromatic Blade.
• Can be cast while moving or sprinting without interruption.

Weapon

Main article: Exalted Blade (Weapon)

Exalted Blade is  Excalibur,  Excalibur Prime, and  Excalibur Umbra's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by activating the ability of the same name. The weapon exclusively uses the Exalted Blade stance.

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• This weapon deals primarily  Slash damage.
  •  Chromatic Blade augment changes the damage from physical to a primary elemental one based on Excalibur's Emissive Color.
• Slide attacks trigger a  Radial Blind that stuns enemies within 5 meters for 6 seconds.
• Innate two and one polarities.
  •  Excalibur Umbra's  Exalted Umbra Blade instead has innate two polarities.
• Combo counter resets when equipped with  Xoris.

Advantages

• Good critical chance.
• Good base status chance.
  • Can reach over 100% status chance with a maxed  Chromatic Blade and at least 189% Ability Strength.
• Attacks release waves with unlimited punch through up to 40 meters.

Disadvantages

• Low attack speed.
• Wave damage dissipates with range.
• Wave hits do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter or proc Tennokai.
• Damage isn't affected by the combo counter, even if built with the physical blade.
• Low wave flight speed.
• Requires energy to activate and keep active.
• Slide attack blinds do not open affected enemies to Finisher Attacks.
• 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 or Melee, 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.

Stance

Main article: Exalted Blade (Stance)

Exalted Blade is a unique Stance exclusive to  Exalted Blade that can only be acquired and used by activating  Excalibur's fourth ability,  Exalted Blade. This Stance overrides the Stance on any currently equipped melee weapon for as long as Exalted Blade remains active.

Combos

Default Combos of Stance or Weapon (📝 Edit Stance Data)

Combo/Attack	Name	Attack Multipliers and Forced Procs					Avg Dmg Multi/s	Length @ 1.0 Attack Speed	Animation
Neutral (While Not Moving)	Cutting Poise	300%   300%	300%   100%	200%   100%	100%   100%	300%   300%	656.2%/s	3.2s
Forward (While Moving)	Lancing Justice	100%   100%	100%   100%	100%   100%	100%   100%		571.4%/s	1.4s
Forward Block (While Blocking & Moving)	Virtuous Slash	200%   100%	100%   100%	100%   200%	200%   200%		500.0%/s	2.4s
Block (While Blocking)	Equal Laceration	300%   200%	200%   300%	300%   200%			535.7%/s	2.8s
Heavy (Heavy Attack)	Perfect Cut*	500%	500%				N / A	N / A
Slide (While Sliding)	Judged Severance	200%					210.5%/s	0.9s
Aerial (While In Air)	Weightless Steel	200%   300%	200%   300%	300%    100%			N / A	N / A
Wall (While Wall Latching)	Weightless Steel	300%					N / A	N / A
Finisher (On Knocked Down Enemy)	Death's Mark	1000%					N / A	N / A
Slam (Looking At Ground While In Air)	Slam Attack	200%					N / A	N / A
Default "Sweep" Attack •  360°/Spin Attack •  Direct and Radial Slam Attack •  Ranged Attack •  "Thrust" Attack View Full Legend Key Inputs  Basic Melee  (PC default LMB or E; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right button)  Heavy Attack (PC default MMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default left trigger)  Block  (PC default RMB; XBX, PSN, and NSW default right trigger)  Forward Movement  (PC default W; XBX, PSN, and NSW default tilt up right thumbstick) Multipliers and Hits  200%  Attack does double damage   2x 100%  Attack hits twice  Forced Procs  Knockback  Weakened  Bleed  Inaccuracy  Knockdown  Lifted  Stagger  Ragdoll  Finisher (front, back, or ground)   Impair (PvP only)  Melee Attack Explanations A "sweep attack" is an arcing melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the edge of the blade (the length of obround melee hitbox). A "thrust attack" is a melee strike that intends to hit an enemy with the tip of the blade (the rounded edge of obround melee hitbox). A "360/spin attack" is a sliding sweep attack that hits targets around the player (not always in a 360° arc, but is usually above 180°). A "direct slam attack" is a melee strike that hits a single target at the epicenter of a slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "radial slam attack" is the area-of-effect component of the melee slam attack. Affected by the Seismic Wave mod. A "ranged attack" is any melee attack that launches a ranged projectile or can hit targets beyond melee range. View Full Legend Average Damage Multiplier per second only applies to single-target DPS calculations. Note that hits marked as "Radial Slam Attack" will not apply at the epicenter of a single target hit so these will not be accounted for in Avg Dmg Multi/s calculations. Combo animation lengths are approximate and are only accurate within a few tenths of a second. Each tile marking in stance preview gifs are 2m apart. Combos labeled with an asterisk (*) are shared between weapons within the same weapon type.

Augment

Main article: Chromatic Blade

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.

Chromatic Blade

Tips & Tricks

• Due to Exalted Blade's waves being able to unlimitedly punch through up to its maximum range, Exalted Blade is well suited to taking out hordes of enemies, especially if they are huddled together.
  • Furthermore, Exalted Blade can be used to deal with enemies while in cover without requiring punch through mods.
• The innate slide attack blind provides a cheaper alternative to Radial Blind, albeit with greatly reduced duration and range. (Note that the Radial Blind power is cheaper both per meter of range and per second of effect, despite having a higher cost per cast.)
  • Allows players to blind enemies and quickly deal with them without being delayed by finisher animations.
• Combined with  Mag's  Magnetize or a  Void status effect, the sword waves can be redirected to hit the enemies inside multiple times until its maximum range can be reached.
• Crouching will allow the use of all Exalted Blade attacks while remaining entirely stationary; this can be extremely useful during boss fights, defense missions, survival, etc.

Maximization

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Bugs

• Using this ability during an "Unarmed" bug will result in Exalted Blade having the same stats as your Melee Weapon, and sometimes will perform your Melee Weapon's Unsheathed attacks without the Waves.
• If Excalibur enters Bleedout state while Exalted Blade is active, Excalibur will use his melee and sometimes primary weapon rather than his secondary.

See Also

• Exalted Blade (Conclave)
•  Excalibur