Is Exalted Blade affected by melee arcanes?

[BobbyMcBobb]

So, I know that exalted blade cannot equip arcanes, but does it benefit from arcanes equipped on your melee? I think retaliations works, but do any others?

Edited March 3 by BobbyMcBobb

[rapt0rman]

If any do, they definitely aren't supposed to. Haven't tested it but the Wiki claims Melee Retaliation only works on pseudo-exalted weaps.

Edited March 3 by rapt0rman

[PublikDomain]

I tried Crescendo and it doesn't work, so I'd guess no? When you draw EB you're really "equipping" a new melee weapon, so your previous weapon's mods and Arcanes are "unequipped". Melee Arcanes working on Pseudo-Exalted Abilities is normal behaviour, since this swap never happens. So Slash Dash should trigger these Arcanes - as long as it's cast while EB is inactive.