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CODEX

A perfect balance of mobility and offense, Excalibur is the ideal Warframe for new players.

This is Excalibur, a master of gun and blade.

No matter your style, Tenno, Excalibur is a formidable choice.

—Lotus

Release Date: October 25th, 2012

Excalibur is a sword-themed Warframe. With the power to channel energy into his summoned blade, he is a mobile swordsman with potent methods of execution. He is one of three starter options for new players.

Acquisition

Excalibur is one of the three starter Warframes, alongside Mag and Volt, during Awakening.

Excalibur's main blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Excalibur's component blueprints can be obtained from defeating Lieutenant Lech Kril on War, Mars.

Excalibur can also be bought complete from Teshin for 60,000 Standing 60,000 once players have achieved Typhoon rank in the Conclave.

Item	Source	Chance	Expected	Nearly Guaranteed
Neuroptics Blueprint	Lieutenant Lech Kril Assassination	38.72%	~ 2 Kills	14 ± 4 Kills
Systems Blueprint	Lieutenant Lech Kril Assassination	22.56%	~ 4 Kills	27 ± 9 Kills
Chassis Blueprint	Lieutenant Lech Kril Assassination	38.72%	~ 2 Kills	14 ± 4 Kills

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations. Drop chances are rounded to two decimal places, following the official drop tables repository.
Expected means a player can expect to obtain at least one of a drop every N attempts on average.
Nearly Guaranteed refers to the total number of attempts a player needs to obtain a 1 in 10^2,3, and 4 probability not to have recieved a single drop (99%, 99.9%, and 99.99% probability to have received at least one drop).
The combined probability of multiple drops is 1 - ((1-A%) * (1-B%) * ...) (add drops in same rotation)
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Manufacturing Requirements
25,000	1	1	1	1	Time: 72 hrs
25,000	1	1	1	1	Rush: 50 Platinum 50
Market Price: 75 Platinum 75			Blueprint Price: 35,000

Chassis
15,000	1	1000	300		Time: 12 hrs
15,000	1	1000	300		Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Neuroptics
15,000	150	1	150	500	Time: 12 hrs
15,000	150	1	150	500	Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Systems
15,000	1	1	500	220	Time: 12 hrs
15,000	1	1	500	220	Rush: 25 Platinum 25

Warframe Guides

“I am the Lotus. I will guide you, but we must hurry.”

Guides are created by users like you. They aren't as strictly regulated as most pages, so keep an eye out for dated or subjective information.

Have your own build and playstyle? You can contribute too! Instructions are within.

See Category:Excalibur Guides to read user-made guides on how to play this Warframe.

Trivia

It costs less platinum to purchase him outright than to rush construction of the components and main blueprint.
He is the first of two Warframes with an unpolarized Aura slot, Nekros being the second.
Excalibur is similar in design to Hayden Tenno's suit from Digital Extremes' previous game Dark Sector. This is further reinforced with the Proto-Armor Skin, which is a near-exact copy of that very suit.
Excalibur is named after the legendary sword of Arthur; King of the Britons. Many of his alternate helmets feature names based off Arthurian legend.
An Excalibur is shown being ripped apart by Alad V while wearing the Pendragon Helmet and the Immortal Skin in "The Profit", a trailer for the PS4 release of WARFRAME.
Prior to Update 14, Excalibur would use his equipped melee weapon when casting his abilities, regardless if it was impractical (casting Radial Javelin with a Galatine), nonsensical ( Slash Dashing with the Kogake) or impossible (using any of his abilities without a melee weapon equipped). Update 14 changed this by making him generate an ethereal Skana when using his abilities, rather than using his melee weapon.
- If there was no melee weapon equipped, then Excalibur would use the currently equipped weapon. (i.e. Radial Javelin with a Braton). Humorously, ethereal copies of that weapon would appear upon using Radial Javelin.
Before Hotfix 22.8.3 (2018-01-11), Excalibur parts blueprints dropped from Ambulas on Hades, Pluto. This is now the drop location of Trinity.
In Update 23.0 (2018-06-15), Excalibur's Exalted Blade received a physical form to allow for customization, replacing its previous form which was made from pure energy.
- The same update also allowed players to directly mod Exalted Blade.
According to the Official Tenno Alphabet Cipher, the design on Excalibur's right shoulder is in fact a word that spells out "Hayden Tenno". The same word can be found on top of Excalibur's head.
Excalibur's default helmet was added to the real-time strategy game Airmech as a victory gesture after Warframe beating Airmech in a vote of popularity between the two.
- This was originally intended to be Excalibur Prime's default helmet, however the reason for this change is unknown.
Excalibur's default helmet (along with the default helmets of Loki and Chroma) are available as unlockable antenna toppers in Rocket League.
Having 12 alternate helmets, Excalibur has the most alternate helmets out of any Warframe, with Excalibur Prime's being exclusive.

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“Market forces dictate that you need to evolve or die.”

This item is no longer available for purchase.

CODEX

The Sentients had won. They had turned our weapons, our technology, against us. The more advanced we became, the greater our losses. The war was over unless we found a new way. In our desperation we turned to the Void. The blinding night, the hellspace where our science and reason failed.

We took the twisted few that had returned from that place. We built a frame around them, a conduit of their affliction. Gave them the weapons of the old ways. Gun and blade. A new warrior, a new code was born. These rejects, these Tenno, became our saviors. Warrior-Gods cast in steel and fury striking our enemies in a way they could never comprehend. Excalibur was the first.

- Orokin 'Warframe' Archives

Excalibur Prime is the epitome of mobility and offense, and features the same abilities as Excalibur, but has unique mod polarities installed allowing for greater customization.

—In-game Description

Release Date: December 18th, 2012

Excalibur Prime is the Primed variant of Excalibur, possessing higher armor and energy, as well as an additional polarity and a Aura polarity. Excalibur Prime is a Founders-exclusive Warframe released alongside Lato Prime and Skana Prime.

Acquisition

Excalibur Prime was only obtainable by upgrading a Warframe account to Founders status of Hunter or greater, which is no longer available. He came with his own Warframe slot and was already augmented with an Orokin Reactor.

The Founders' program closed on the 1st of November, 2013, as announced on the warframe forums. This closure is inclusive of pack upgrades.

Notes

Excalibur Prime, compared to Excalibur:
- Higher Armor (300 vs. 225)
- Higher Energy (150/225 vs. 100/150)
- Different Polarities ( vs. )
- Different Aura Polarity ( vs. None)
Excalibur Prime, compared to Excalibur Umbra:
- Different Polarities ( vs. )
As a Prime Warframe, Excalibur Prime possesses a special passive ability where contact with an Orokin Void Death Orb will make them release an energy pulse that grants 250 Energy to all nearby allies. This effect can only occur once per Death Orb, and can occur even if the Death Orb has been previously destroyed.

Trivia

Excalibur Prime is the first Prime Warframe in the game.
- He is also the first Prime Warframe to come with two different polarities, as opposed to one. This was followed by Ember Prime and Loki Prime.
There is a statue of Excalibur Prime inside the Orokin Vaults on Deimos, and one of the Lua Spy vaults.
- Interestingly, at the start of Update 11.0 (2013-11-20) Excalibur Prime was given a short-lived full body skin called "Alabaster", which was explained by Digital Extremes as a test skin that was released by mistake. The skin's texture was similar to said Vault statues.
Compared to the later prime Warframes, Excalibur Prime has the least cosmetic difference compared to his standard counterpart, with the only significant additions being the Void Key-shaped emblem on his helmet and golden blades along his forearms.
When he was released, it was widely believed that Excalibur Prime had a slightly higher shield recharge rate compared to the non-prime variant.
- While the existence of this feature can neither be confirmed, nor denied, Excalibur Prime currently does not possess this stat change.
Much like how Update 14.0 (2014-07-18) gave the standard Excalibur an ethereal Skana when using his abilities, Excalibur Prime uses an ethereal Skana Prime with his abilities, which was also added in the same update.
On the Chinese build of Warframe, Excalibur Umbra Prime serves as a stand-in for Excalibur Prime.

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Acquisition

The blueprint for Excalibur Umbra is given to players upon completing the first mission of The Sacrifice quest, and the ability to build the Warframe is granted on completing the second mission. Unlike other Warframes, Umbra requires no further components and is crafted entirely from the single blueprint. However, even after being crafted, he cannot be used until the penultimate mission, where he is automatically Rank 30 with a free, pre-installed Orokin Reactor and Warframe slot.

A second blueprint will not be given on replays. Also unlike other quest-tied warframe, Cephalon Simaris does not sell Excalibur Umbra blueprints. Thus the player can only own one copy of Excalibur Umbra.

Manufacturing Requirements
10,000	1	60	1,200	1,600	Time: 10 s
10,000	1	60	1,200	1,600	Rush: 0 Platinum 0
Market Price: N/A			Blueprints Price: N/A

Notes

Excalibur Umbra, compared to Excalibur:
- Higher Armor (300 vs. 225)
- Higher Energy (150/225 vs. 100/150)
- Different Polarities ( vs. )
- Different Aura Polarity ( vs. None)
Excalibur Umbra, compared to Excalibur Prime:
- Different Polarities ( vs. )
Umbra, along with the Skiajati, will be obtained by the player already fully ranked. All the Mastery Rank points that would normally be granted from ranking up Warframe and weapon will be automatically received upon acquiring them.
- Due to their unique nature both are also unable to be sold from the inventory.
Excalibur Umbra comes with three mod slots polarized with the unique Umbra polarity. He also comes with 3 Umbral Mods: Umbral Intensify, Umbral Fiber, and Umbral Vitality fusioned to rank 5 out of 10. His Skiajati Nikana and Exalted Umbra Blade each have two polarity slots and come with Sacrificial Pressure and Sacrificial Steel equipped.
In place of Radial Blind, Umbra has Radial Howl, which not only blinds enemies, but also removes any active damage resistances from Sentient units and Shadow Stalker within range.
Unlike other Warframes, Excalibur Umbra's sentience allows him to remain active after using Transference, supporting the Operator with abilities and equipped weapons. However, Umbra can be damaged, and will stop moving once all of his health is depleted.
- Excalibur Umbra is incapable of using Arch-guns when in autonomous mode, as transferring out with the Operator will make him switch back to using his primary weapon.

Known Bugs

Due to Umbra's sentient passive, the following bugs can be observed:

If Exalted Blade is used and the player goes into Operator, on Transference into Umbra the ability will be toggled off. The same happens with any subsumed channeled ability like Silence, Gloom, etc.
If Mania applies the Lifted status effect on Umbra while Exalted Blade is active and the player switches to Operator and back into Umbra, he will be unable to use both Exalted Blade and the equipped melee weapon. Only the first few frames of the animation will play out, before the attack is canceled.
If Combo Counter is built with Weeping Wounds, Blood Rush or the Gladiator set bonus and Power Spike is used to maintain it, once the player switches to Exalted Blade and hits at least one enemy then let its combo duration reset, either on its own over time or by using a Heavy Attack, he will lose the Gladiator set bonus applying to Exalted Blade in addition to Weeping Wounds, Blood Rush and the Gladiator set bonus applying to the equipped melee weapon, even if combo remains on it. This seems to be the case for all exalted weapons.

In order for those mods to begin working properly again, the player must either use a Heavy Attack on the equipped melee weapon to lose all combo or wait for Power Spike to drop the combo to its previous multiplier.

Lore

“You're not supposed to be in here! You're going to ruin the surprise!”

The following article/section contains spoilers. Please complete The Sacrifice quest before proceeding.

Main article: The Sacrifice

But you won't have to imagine. A lovingly cultured Infestation swarms within your blood. Your transformation has begun, reshaping you into a sacred surrogate of the unholy Tenno... A Warframe with but a Single. Burning. Memory. It is... a miracle! But all miracles require sacrifice.

—Ballas

Excalibur Umbra was originally an Orokin Dax soldier who was punished by Ballas for attempting to interfere with his betrayal. The soldier was deliberately exposed to the Infestation to become an anti-Sentient weapon, a "miracle" that requires "sacrifice", and was fitted with a unique Transference Bolt that forced him to obey Ballas's whims. He was then psychologically tortured into rote obedience by forcing him to kill his son, Isaah.

As a result of Umbra's torment, he retains most of his sentience and is capable of acting on his own without the Tenno's control, even initially rejecting the Operator's Transference and going rogue. Umbra also carries the memories of his final moments before transforming into a Warframe, which the Operator discovers to contain codes that unlock Ballas's Vitruvian recordings of the Sentient's betrayal, the creation of Warframes, and the Tenno.

Umbra is first seen in a courtyard on Earth battling his creator and his allied Sentients, but due to Transference influence he is unable to disobey Ballas, allowing him to be easily destroyed by Natah. The Operator discovers Umbra's remains on Earth, which leads them to a containment cell on Lua housing Ballas's Vitruvian, allowing the Operator to rebuild Umbra. However, Umbra immediately goes rogue and flees across the solar system, but not before the Operator taps into his memories.

--We had created monsters we couldn't control. We drugged them, tortured them, eviscerated them... We brutalized their minds... but it did not work. Until they came. And it was not their force of will - not their Void devilry - not their alien darkness... It was something else. It was that somehow, from within the derelict-horror, they had learned a way to see inside an ugly, broken thing-- And take away its pain.

—Ballas

After seeing all of Umbra's memories, the Operator reassures Umbra that they will fight Ballas together. Upon seeing this act of compassion, Umbra calms down and finally accepts the Operator's Transference. Together they battle Ballas on Earth, whose attempts to subdue Umbra prove futile when the Operator's Transference overpowers Ballas's control, allowing Umbra to wound his creator.

Trivia

Umbra is the Latin word for "shadow".
Excalibur Umbra is the first Umbra variant of a Warframe to be released in WARFRAME.
Excalibur Umbra is the only quest Warframe that cannot be purchased from the Market or be sold.
Excalibur Umbra's Agile and Noble animation sets are the only animation sets that are able to be used on other Warframes without prior purchase.
According to its Codex entry, the Skiajati, Umbra's signature weapon, is a Nikana "grafted" from Umbra's flesh.
In the Chinese build, Excalibur Umbra originated as part of their Founder's pack exclusive, as Excalibur Umbra Prime, gameplay-wise identical to Excalibur Prime. The pack also included the Nikana Prime and the Spira Prime, as well as the Gauvan Prime Sekhara, a shoulder accessory obtainable only through that Founder pack.
Upon release, Excalibur Umbra had the passive ability of Prime Warframes to gain energy from Orokin Void Death Orbs, as an erroneous leftover from his data origins as Excalibur Umbra Prime. This was later removed in Hotfix 23.0.3 (2018-06-19).
Umbra utilizes a different sword design for his Exalted Blade, which is named Exalted Umbra Blade. The stats for both weapons, however, are identical.
Upon completion of The Sacrifice quest, players will receive an Excalibur Umbra-exclusive Excalibur Umbra Sunder Helmet in their inbox, which is a battle-damaged version of the regular Umbra helmet.
Excalibur Umbra is the first Warframe confirmed to originally be a "human being". He is also the first frame to have had his face exposed due to damage to his helmet.
- Ballas confirms that the first Warframes were created from human subjects as Infested-hybrids cultivated by the Helminth.
- Aside from Excalibur Umbra, Titania is the only frame with lore regarding her original creation.
- Aside from his facial features exposed from his damaged helmet, Xaku is the second Warframe that also has facial features when using the ability, The Vast Untime
When interacting with Baro Ki'Teer, Baro will treat Umbra as he would be any other non-Prime frame.
Umbra's scarf and torso lining, along with his Orokin ornaments, remain visible when other Excalibur skins are equipped, similar to the Prime details of Prime Warframes when using TennoGen skins. Hotfix 25.4.1 (2019-07-24) added a "Toggle Prime Details" option, which removes his scarf, torso lining and ornaments on other skins when toggled on.
Looking closely, Shadow Stalker uses a unique variant of Excalibur Umbra's body, which lacks the Orokin ornaments and Umbra's signature scarf, along with a different loincloth design.
In the "The Sacrifice" teaser of TennoCon 2017, Umbra wielded a regular Nikana on the Orokin Moon tileset.
It was revealed at TennoCon 2018's Sound Panel that Excalibur Umbra's howls were voiced by [DE]Steve Sinclair, Game Director of Warframe.^[1]

Before Update 24.6 when DE introduced the Two-Energy Colors, Excalibur Umbra used to have gold energy on Radial Howl and Exalted Umbra Blade. The gold energy can still be seen on Radial Howl when using different colors. This can be seen in The Sacrifice quest when Umbra goes berserk when equipping him the first time and also only in public sessions.
Despite having sentience, Umbra will become immobile during cutscenes of most cinematic quests, using Transference inside the Orbiter and when approaching Orphix fields like any other Warframes.

Media

Umbra on official The Sacrifice info page header.
Umbra's introduction picture on The Sacrifice info page.
Launcher (English Version)
Dax Umbra and his son

Warframe - The Sacrifice Teaser

Warframe The Sacrifice 'Umbra' E3 Trailer

WARFRAME - Excalibur Umbra Spoilers

External Links

Umbra Warframes Megathread

References

↑ Tennocon 2018 - Sounds of the System 7:50

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Passive

Excalibur has improved mastery in the Tenno art of the blade, receiving +10% attack speed and +10% damage bonuses for melee attacks while wielding the following weapons:

Swords, such as the Skana.
Dual swords, such as the Dual Skana.
Nikanas, such as the Dragon Nikana.
Rapiers, such as the Destreza.
Exalted Blade
Bonuses are additive to mods such as Pressure Point and Fury.

Excalibur Umbra exhibits sentience, allowing him to remain active in combat even when a player uses Operator form, acting similarly to a Specter.

Umbra can receive damage and healing in his specter form. Health and shields lost in his specter form will not be restored upon returning to Umbra unless all of Umbra's health is depleted.
Once all of Umbra's health is depleted, he will stop moving or attacking.
- The player does not die or lose a revive, however, if Umbra's health is depleted.
Umbra can use any equipped weapon and most abilities, which will take into account any mods installed. Neither of these actions will consume ammunition nor energy, however.
- Umbra will not cast or keep Exalted Blade active.
When enemies come within 3 meters of Umbra, he will automatically switch to the equipped melee weapon.
- If no melee weapon is equipped, Umbra will not attack enemies who approach him, but will still cast abilities.
If Umbra falls down a bottomless pit while in Specter mode, he will not be teleported back and will remain missing until players return to Warframe mode.

Radial Blind is also replaced with Radial Howl:

ENERGY: 50 KEY 2	Radial Howl Let out ferocious howl that stuns nearby enemies and causes Sentients to shed any built up resistances.	Strength:N/A
		Duration:7 / 10 / 12 / 15 s
		Range:8 / 12 / 15 / 25 m

Excalibur Umbra howls, releasing an intense flash of light that affects enemies within 8 / 12 / 15 / 25 meters and stuns them for 7 / 10 / 12 / 15 seconds.
- Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
- Radius is affected by Ability Range.
- Stunned enemies are vulnerable to melee finishers and susceptible to stealth damage bonus.
- Radial Howl will not affect enemies behind obstacles in the environment unless Excalibur Umbra has line of sight, or unless the enemy is aware of Excalibur Umbra within a short period of time (e.g., an enemy that spots Excalibur Umbra and runs out of view is still susceptible to Radial Howl if the ability is used within a small time frame).
Enemies affected by the ability are stunned for the entire duration.
- Bosses are still able to move, attack, or use abilities while affected by the ability.
- Bosses will attack the player's last known location and will follow the sound of gunfire.
- Successive casts will reduce the duration of the ability's effect on bosses.
Sentient fighters and Shadow Stalker will have their resistances removed if they are affected by Radial Howl.
Security cameras will deactivate their laser barriers for the duration.
Affected enemies have smoke diffusing from their eyes or similar body part for the effect's duration.
Can be used while running, attacking, blocking, jumping, sliding, forward flipping, wall running or clinging to a wall.
Has a cast time of 0.9 seconds, affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.

Main article: Radiant Finish

Radiant Finish is a Warframe Augment Mod for Excalibur that increases the damage dealt by Finishers against enemies affected by Radial Blind and Radial Howl.

Rank	Damage by Finisher	Cost
0	150%	6
1	200%	7
2	250%	8
3	300%	9

Radial Howl lets players quickly disable enemies, especially if they are surrounded. This allows players to either escape or to deal with the enemies.
Radial Howl allows the removal of Sentient resistances without having to switch to Operator mode.

If Excalibur Umbra managed to use an item (such as a Life Support in Survival) while casting the ability, Radial Howl will be cast twice: First, in a slowed animation and the second as the actual ability. Both animations still counts as a single Radial Howl.

Abilities

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Main article: Slash Dash (edit)

ENERGY: 25 KEY 1	Slash Dash Dash between enemies while slashing with the Exalted Blade.	Strength:100 / 125 / 200 / 250
		Duration:N/A
		Range:6 / 8 / 10 / 12 m

Excalibur dashes between enemies within a cone 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters long and cuts them down with his Exalted Blade. Each strike inflicts 100 / 125 / 200 / 250 base damage.
- Base damage is 15% Impact, 15% Puncture, and 70% Slash.
- Cone length and dash velocity are affected by Ability Range.
- Slash Dash is affected by Aim Glide
- Slash Dash is affected by momentum, but will not change momentum outside of its animation. Thus, whichever way you were going before you cast Slash Dash you will continue to go unless stopped, by other means, at same speed. This will affect how far your Slash Dash will go when not targeted.
- As Slash Dash's base Critical Chance and Status Chance are 0%, Slash Dash can not deal critical hits or status effects without flat bonuses to either metric.
Damage is affected by Ability Strength, the Melee Combo Counter and some mods.
- If the player has a longsword, dual sword, rapier, or nikana equipped, Slash Dash receives a 10% bonus to its base damage from Excalibur's Swordsmanship passive.
- With a maxed Pressure Point, Shocking Touch and Intensify, a rank-3 Slash Dash will deal
  $Base Damage \times (1 + Damage Mods) \times (1 + Elemental Mod) \times (1 + Strength Mods) =$
  $250 \times (1 + 1.2) \times (1 + 0.9) \times (1 + 0.3) = 1,358.5$ damage.
- The mod stats that affect Slash Dash include:
  - damage (e.g., Steel Charge)
  - physical (e.g., Jagged Edge)
  - elemental (e.g., Molten Impact)
  - weapon augments (e.g., Justice Blades)
- The Scindo Manticore Skin's damage bonus applies to the ability.
- Slash Dash is not affected by the equipped melee weapon's stats and innate effects, class-specific mods, Condition Overload, or Acolyte Mods.
  - The only exceptions to this rule are:
    - Venka Prime's modified Melee Combo Counter.
- Mods equipped on Exalted Blade do not affect Slash Dash unless it is active.
- Slash Dash's damage composition is not affected by Chromatic Blade.
- Enemies damaged by Slash Dash suffer a knockdown unless immune to knockdowns or statuses.
- Slash Dash's cone length is not affected by melee range mods (e.g., Reach).
- Every instance of damage adds to the Melee Combo Counter regardless of the amount of enemies hit or if Excalibur physically made contact with the target.
Excalibur has health immunity during the dash animation, but not shield immunity.
Though Excalibur's health is immune during the animation, it is still possible for Adaptation to build stacks.
Airborne enemies, such as Hellions and Ospreys, can also be targeted, but are still difficult for Slash Dash to traverse to unless the aim button is held for Aim Glide physics to take effect.
If there are no enemies within its targeting area, Slash Dash will make Excalibur dash forward in the direction of aim, allowing it to be used as a mobility aid when reaching high places.
Can be used to pass through Laser Barriers unharmed in most cases.
Can be used while jumping, sliding, forward flipping, wall running or clinging to a wall.
Slash Dash can damage enemies across the Rift Plane.
Slash Dash is affected by and can trigger Warframe Arcanes.
Ability Synergy:
- When Exalted Blade is active, Slash Dash gains the following benefits:
  - Slash Dash will receive a 10% bonus to its base damage from Excalibur's passive as Exalted Blade is considered a longsword.
  - Slash Dash hits will add to Exalted Blade's Melee Combo Counter.
  - Exalted Blade will release an energy wave when an enemy is hit by Slash Dash.
    - The waves behave identically to those from normal swings of Exalted Blade.

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Main article: Surging Dash

Surging Dash is a Warframe Augment Mod for Excalibur, allowing each enemy hit by Slash Dash to add to the Warframe's Melee Combo Counter.

Rank	Effect	Cost
0	2	6
1	4	7
2	6	8
3	8	9

Main article: Purging Slash

Purging Slash is a PvE and Conclave Warframe Augment Mod for Excalibur's Slash Dash that removes allies' debuffs and restores their shields when Slash Dashed into.

Rank	Debuffs removed	% max shields restored	Cost
0	1	70%	6
1	2	70%	7
2	3	70%	8
3	4	70%	9

Slash Dash will hit through a Grineer Shield Lancer's Shield.
With high Ability Range and not aiming at enemies, players can launch themselves into the air, travel with high velocity and long distance.
Can be used to break Corpus ship windows and pass through laser doors mostly unharmed.
Perfect for medium-distance traveling.
With the proper mods this is one of the most damage-efficient AoE abilities in the game, doing massive damage to multiple targets for very little cost.
Invulnerability allows players to deal with enemies by repeatedly casting Slash Dash without fear of damage or status proc effects during the animation. However, being that there is no invulnerability overlap between the end of the first cast and the beginning of the second cast, there is a small window for Excalibur to receive damage.
Casting Slash Dash while Exalted Blade is active will allow players to increase the amount of damage they deal and hit a larger amount of enemies without having to build for range.
Pressing the melee button at any time during the targeted Slash Dash cast will cancel the rest of ability's targets and summon your melee weapon instantly.

It is possible to get stuck on an enemy during the duration of the ability, and in most cases the enemy will not take damage.

Main article: Radial Blind (edit)

ENERGY: 50 KEY 2	Radial Blind Emits a bright flash of light, blinding all enemies in a small radius for several seconds.	Strength:N/A
		Duration:7 / 10 / 12 / 15 s
		Range:8 / 12 / 15 / 25 m
		Subsumable to Helminth

Excalibur summons and raises his Exalted Blade, releasing an intense flash of light that affects enemies within 8 / 12 / 15 / 25 meters and blinds them for 7 / 10 / 12 / 15 seconds.
- Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
- Radius is affected by Ability Range.
- Blinded enemies are vulnerable to melee finishers and susceptible to stealth damage bonus.
- Radial Blind will not affect enemies behind obstacles in the environment unless Excalibur has line of sight, or unless the enemy is aware of Excalibur within a short period of time (e.g., an enemy that spots Excalibur and runs out of view is still susceptible to Radial Blind if the ability is used within a small time frame).
Enemies affected by the ability are stunned for the entire duration.
- Bosses are still able to move, attack, or use abilities while affected by the ability.
- Bosses will attack the player's last known location and will follow the sound of gunfire.
- Successive casts will reduce the duration of the ability's effect on bosses.
Security cameras will deactivate their laser barriers for the duration.
Blinded enemies have smoke diffusing from their eyes or similar body part for the effect's duration.
Can be recast while active to blind multiple new enemies.
Can be used while running, attacking, blocking, jumping, sliding, forward flipping, wall running or clinging to a wall.
Has a cast time of 0.85 seconds, affected by Natural Talent and Speed Drift.
Subsuming Excalibur to the Helminth will offer Radial Blind and its augments to be used by other Warframes.

Main article: Radiant Finish

Radiant Finish is a Warframe Augment Mod for Excalibur that increases the damage dealt by Finishers against enemies affected by Radial Blind and Radial Howl.

Radiant Finish

Radial Blind let's players quickly disable enemies, especially if they are surrounded. This allows players to either escape or to deal with the enemies.
This ability can be used on some bosses to prevent them from using their abilities.

If Excalibur managed to use an item (such as a Life Support in Survival) while casting the ability, Radial Blind will be cast twice: First, in a slowed animation and the second as the actual ability. Both animations still counts as a single Radial Blind.

Main article: Radial Javelin (edit)

ENERGY: 75 KEY 3	Radial Javelin Launches javelins towards enemies, dealing high damage and impaling them to walls.	Strength:500 / 650 / 800 / 1000 (damage)
		Duration:N/A
		Range:15 / 18 / 22 / 25 m
		Misc:5 / 7 / 10 / 12 (javelins)

Excalibur summons 5 / 7 / 10 / 12 javelins against enemies within a radius of 15 / 18 / 22 / 25 meters. Excalibur then drives his weapon into the ground, launching the javelins into their targets. Each javelin inflicts 500 / 650 / 800 / 1000 damage and staggers enemies.
- Damage is distributed evenly between Impact, Puncture and Slash.
- Damage is affected by Ability Strength, while the number of javelins is not.
- Enemies that survive the damage are temporarily stunned.
- Radius is affected by Ability Range.
- While javelins do not punch through objects or enemies, their striking position is optimized to ensure a successful hit on their targets when they spawn. This allows the javelins to bypass obstacles in the environment including walls, cover, and Grineer Shield Lancer shields.
- Radial Javelin will not target enemies behind obstacles in the environment unless Excalibur has line of sight, or unless the enemy is aware of Excalibur within a short period of time (e.g., an enemy that spots Excalibur and runs out of view can still be targeted by Radial Javelin if the ability is used within a small time frame).
Each javelin appears as an ethereal Skana. Excalibur Prime and Excalibur Umbra's javelins appear as ethereal Skana Primes (Excalibur Umbra's Radial Javelin appear as "Umbra" Javelins).
Has a cast time of ~1 second and a post-cast animation delay of ~2.5 seconds.
Javelins can damage enemies across the Rift Plane.

Main article: Furious Javelin

Furious Javelin is a Warframe Augment Mod that temporarily increases Excalibur's melee damage for every enemy hit by Radial Javelin.

Rank	Damage Bonus per hit	Duration	Cost
0	?%	9s	6
1	?%	11s	7
2	?%	13s	8
3	15%	16s	9

Useful for clearing out large swarms of enemies if one is surrounded.
Allows players to deal both damage and crowd control at the same time.

Main article: Exalted Blade (edit)

ENERGY: 25 KEY 4	Exalted Blade Summon a sword of pure light and immense power. Energy Drain: 2.5 s^-1	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)

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.
  - Blind duration and range are affected by Ability Duration and Ability Range respectively.
- 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 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.
- Wave range, damage fall off, and flight speed are not affected by mods.
- Enemies hit by the waves will suffer a stagger.
Attacks and energy waves have a 200% critical multiplier with a 15% critical chance and a 15% status chance.
Damage is affected by Ability Strength, the Melee Combo Counter, most mods, and buffs.
- Being a Sword, Exalted Blade will always gain the 10% damage and attack speed bonuses of Excalibur's Swordsmanship 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
  $Base Damage \times (1 + Swordsmanship Bonus + Damage Mods) \times (1 + Elemental Mods) \times (1 + Strength Mods) =$ $250 \times (1 + 0.3) \times (1 + 0.1 + 1.2) \times (1 + 0.9) = 1,420.25$ 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)
  - 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 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 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.
- Activation energy cost and built-in Radial Blind cost are affected by Ability Efficiency, and the energy drain is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
- Excalibur can not replenish energy using Energy Vampire, Rift Plane's innate energy regeneration, Squad Energy Restores, Energy Siphon, or Energizing Dash while Exalted Blade is active.
- Exalted Blade's energy drain is not converted into shields by Augur Mods.
- Energy can only be replenished by flat energy gains, such as: Energy Orbs, Arcane Energize, Orokin Void Death Orb energy restores, Rage, and/or Hunter Adrenaline while the ability is active.
Exalted Blade is affected by and can trigger Warframe Arcanes.
Exalted Blade is not affected by and can not trigger Exodia Arcanes.
While active, Exalted Blade will use an exclusive stance with its own set of combo attacks.
Slash Dash will receive a +10% bonus to its base damage from Excalibur's Swordsmanship 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.

Main article: Exalted Blade (Weapon)

Exalted Blade is Excalibur, Excalibur Prime, and Excalibur Umbra's signature Exalted Weapon, which can only be used upon activating the ability of the same name. The weapon exclusively uses the Exalted Blade 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.

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.

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

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.

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.

Energy Leech Eximus does not increase the energy drain of Exalted Blade while active.

If Excalibur enters Bleedout state while Exalted Blade is active, Excalibur will use his melee and sometimes primary weapon rather than his secondary.

Equipping can make Excalibur sporadically not take damage if Exalted Blade auto-blocks damage.

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