Exalted Blade Melee Mods

[rohver]

So I'm using these mods on my Skana and I've been away from excal for a while. Is there anything I can do to improve?

 

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[-GothKazu-]

You could switch out Reach with a Cold mod or something more useful since Exalted blade has the waves, it makes Reach pretty dumb to use.

The waves are created by just attacking so u don't have to do anything special, and I've tried to test how far they go.

Basically they will keep going until the game says it should stop.

I.e. they hit a wall, unbreakable window, too high on the sky, etc

So yeah, no Reach mod and everything else is fine

[ThorienKELL]

Pull out critical mod duo - eb has too low crit stats to built upon.

 

4 elemental mods (radiation, viral but corrosive and blast would probably work well too) rest is

pressure point, life strike, furry and (yes) beserker, Forget spoiled strike - don't use it. 

 

this combo is imo optimal. High damage, comes out fast and winds up fast, crit chance is still good enough for that.  

Edited January 12, 2016 by ThorienKELL

[Acebaur]

Question regarding EB. Why do people use the Skana? Wouldn't it be better to use a weapon that is also excellent on its own like the Dakra Prime or Dragon Nikana?

[ThorienKELL]

Perfect combo is bropken war /c. dervish for me. About skana - probably because with excal you won't use your melee weapon at all. Or your any weapon for that matter, why would you - you have exalted blade. And even if some primaries secondaries can add more flexibility /power /range whatever, no melee weapon cannot add anything to top EB. 

Edited January 12, 2016 by ThorienKELL

[BlueFalcon13]

I usually run the following on most melee weapons for exaulted blade:

Point strike, buzz kill (event 120% slash dmg), lifestrike, fury, and 4 90% elementals. Sometimes I swap buzz kill for something like primed reach, or berserker, depending on the melee weapon, as I generally don't sit in exaulted blade cause I find it boring.

Perfect combo is bropken war /c. dervish for me. About skana - probably because with excal you won't use your melee weapon at all. Or your any weapon for that matter, why would you - you have exalted blade. And even if some primaries secondaries can add more flexibility /power /range whatever, no melee weapon cannot add anything to top EB.

For high level enemies I break out the RB build excal with a strong melee (broken war, D nikana, etc) as the RB augment kills pretty much anything.