Release Date: August 25th, 2020
Of the Void ethereal, yet coalesced into corporeal shape, the fractured anomaly Xaku exists as an entity thrice entwined. Fused from the shattered remnants of three warriors, they bridge reality to the horrors from beyond the fold. Xaku was reborn in Update 29.0 (2020-08-25).
Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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25,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
3 |
Time: 72 hrs |
Rush: 50 | |||||
Market Price: 325 | Blueprint Price: N/A | ||||
Chassis | |||||
15,000 |
5 |
3 |
50 |
50 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: 25 | |||||
Neuroptics | |||||
15,000 |
10 |
60 |
20 |
40 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: 25 | |||||
Systems | |||||
15,000 |
10 |
5 |
45 |
60 |
Time: 12 hrs |
Rush: 25 |
Acquisition
Xaku's Blueprint is acquired by completing the Heart of Deimos quest, the rest of the pieces drop from Cambion Drift bounties.
Lore
Notes
- When Xaku wields their signature Quassus, the weapon's ethereal daggers become more accurate.
Trivia
- Xaku is the 44th unique Warframe to be released.
- Xaku is the second community-designed Warframe after Nova. Xaku's theme selected from the chosen entries is "Broken Warframe", suggested by forum community member eaterofstorms.
- Xaku's abilities were selected from multiple suggestions by hundreds of community members in the Open Call forum threads.
- Community artists involved with the design of Xaku and their accessories include: Eornheit (Warframe concept art), Faven (alternate helmet), Kedemel (signature weapon), and Karu (signature Syandana).
- Because Xaku is an amalgamation of three different Warframes, Xaku is the first Warframe to not have a distinct sex, being addressed by DE as "they/them".[1]
- Xaku's idle, dodge, and ability animations involve the fragmentation of their body parts and exposure of the Aboroflora skeletal structure beneath.
- Xaku's custom dodge performs a dash similar to Limbo, Hildryn, Wisp, or Titania Prime, animated with the broken pieces coming apart and reattaching onto Xaku's energized skeletal form.
- Protea also has a unique dodge animation (An aerial cartwheel)
- Xaku becomes fully skeletal in appearance while The Vast Untime is activated.
- Xaku's custom dodge performs a dash similar to Limbo, Hildryn, Wisp, or Titania Prime, animated with the broken pieces coming apart and reattaching onto Xaku's energized skeletal form.
- Xaku's ability names relate to three Requiem Mods: Xata, Lohk, and Ris.
- The Lost uses words from Ris' description for its sub-abilities Gaze, Accuse, and Deny.
- Xaku is the first Warframe or conventional Weapon to deal Script error: The function "Proc" does not exist. damage.