Slash Dash

	1 25	Slash Dash Dash between enemies while slashing with the Exalted Blade. Introduced in Vanilla (2012-10-25)	Strength:100 / 125 / 200 / 250
			Duration:N/A
			Range:6 / 8 / 10 / 12 m

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

Info

• 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% , 15% , and 70% .
  • Cone length is affected by Ability Range.
  • Slash Dash can not deal critical hits or status effects.
• 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 × (1 + Damage Mods) × (1 + Elemental Mod) × (1 + Strength Mods) =
    250 × (1 + 1.2) × (1 + 0.9) × (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 +100 damage from  Covert Lethality
  • 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:
      •  Mire and its passive ability to grant +10% damage, which carries over to Slash Dash. The toxin damage combines with any elemental damage from melee elemental mods.
      • Slash Dash's damage is affected by  Venka Prime's modified Melee Combo Counter.
  • Mods equipped on  Exalted Blade do not affect Slash Dash.
  • Slash Dash's damage composition is not affected by  Chromatic Blade.
  • Enemies damaged by Slash Dash suffer a knockdown.
  • 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.
• Excalibur's health and shields are immune to damage while dashing.
• Airborne enemies, such as Hellions and Ospreys, can also be targeted.
• 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.
• When  Exalted Blade is active, Slash Dash will receive the following benefits:
  • Slash Dash will receive a 10% bonus to its base damage from Excalibur's passive.
    • This additional damage bonus stacks with the aforementioned bonus received when using specific melee weapons.
  • Slash Dash hits will add to Exalted Blade's Melee Combo Counter.
  • Energy waves will be released when an enemy is hit by Slash Dash.
    • The energy waves and Exalted Blade are considered separate entities and will deal damage separately.
    • The waves behave identically to those of  Exalted Blade.
    • 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.
    • Channeling will only affect the wave's damage and not Slash Dash's damage.
• 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.

Augment

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

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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.

Surging Dash

Tips & Tricks

• Slash Dash will hit through a Grineer Shield Lancer's Shield.
• 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.
• 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.

Maximization

This calculator feature is sunsetted on the wiki. It may not see further updates, but will be present on articles for the time being since some people still find use for them. See User blog:Cephalon Scientia/Sunsetting of Maximization Calculators for more details.

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Bugs

• 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.

See Also

• Slash Dash (Conclave)
•  Excalibur