Hey guys! As the title states I'm a fairly new player, and I chose the Excalibur frame when I joined the game. Now since then, I've really come to enjoy him! I didn't at first, but as I obtained more mods, I began to really see the fun in playing Excalibur.
Now the problem is that when I obtained a few more mods and started doing a few more missions, I realized just how ridiculously powerful Exalted Blade is. I gave it a shot, learned the combos, and my impression afterwards is this:
This is so incredibly boring.
I won't get into every little detail, but I absolutely despise Exalted Blade. It's the perfect example of what counter-productive gameplay is to me. Yes, it's very good. Yes, it's effective. No, it does not feel satisfying to me whatsoever. I cleared hordes of enemies in a single click, and with the right mods I felt like I was on endless energy supply which made me wonder what in the world his other abilities were even there for. EB's slide attack is a free Radial Blind, Slash Dash is hardly even needed as a gap closer since EB's range goes through objects, and I won't bring up Radial Javelin since that's pretty self-explanatory.
So, what I want to ask of you here in the forums is what can I do with my Excalibur? I love dashing around, even as just a utility, and using my blind to stun waves of enemies to peel for a downed teammate! That said, I found that building up Slash Dash can really make it a powerful AoE ability for groups of enemies, not to mention it knocks down targets it doesn't kill - something I always thought would be incredibly helpful for things like Bombards or Ancient Healers. Radial Javelin is even a nice "Oh snap!" button for when enemies swarm me or get in the right position to be AoE'd down.
Am I just doing it wrong? It's incredibly fun, and then I pressed 4 and it feels like what I found to be fun was completely invalidated by a superior method of mindlessly spamming melee attacks with Exalted Blade. Should I just pack up and look for a Warframe more suitable to my playstyle, or is spamming EB something that falls off later? This is very disappointing to me, and I'd really hope that there's a way to salvage it. I'd really hate to just chalk up my Excalibur as mastery fodder and move on.
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Syronox
Hey guys! As the title states I'm a fairly new player, and I chose the Excalibur frame when I joined the game. Now since then, I've really come to enjoy him! I didn't at first, but as I obtained more mods, I began to really see the fun in playing Excalibur.
Now the problem is that when I obtained a few more mods and started doing a few more missions, I realized just how ridiculously powerful Exalted Blade is. I gave it a shot, learned the combos, and my impression afterwards is this:
This is so incredibly boring.
I won't get into every little detail, but I absolutely despise Exalted Blade. It's the perfect example of what counter-productive gameplay is to me. Yes, it's very good. Yes, it's effective. No, it does not feel satisfying to me whatsoever. I cleared hordes of enemies in a single click, and with the right mods I felt like I was on endless energy supply which made me wonder what in the world his other abilities were even there for. EB's slide attack is a free Radial Blind, Slash Dash is hardly even needed as a gap closer since EB's range goes through objects, and I won't bring up Radial Javelin since that's pretty self-explanatory.
Edited by SyronoxSo, what I want to ask of you here in the forums is what can I do with my Excalibur? I love dashing around, even as just a utility, and using my blind to stun waves of enemies to peel for a downed teammate! That said, I found that building up Slash Dash can really make it a powerful AoE ability for groups of enemies, not to mention it knocks down targets it doesn't kill - something I always thought would be incredibly helpful for things like Bombards or Ancient Healers. Radial Javelin is even a nice "Oh snap!" button for when enemies swarm me or get in the right position to be AoE'd down.
Am I just doing it wrong? It's incredibly fun, and then I pressed 4 and it feels like what I found to be fun was completely invalidated by a superior method of mindlessly spamming melee attacks with Exalted Blade. Should I just pack up and look for a Warframe more suitable to my playstyle, or is spamming EB something that falls off later? This is very disappointing to me, and I'd really hope that there's a way to salvage it. I'd really hate to just chalk up my Excalibur as mastery fodder and move on.
Thanks in advance,
~Syro
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