New Excalibur Exalted Blade build with Chromatic Blade

[CrazyWFGamer]

I love the new augments and u can do all sorts of stuff with it so I just wanted to know a good forma build of Exalted Blade with the new augment. Please include ur melee weapon build.

[Xaero]

I'm having a deja vu here.

[ShadowStalker]

2 minutes ago, Ksaero said:

I'm having a deja vu here.

lol didnt he make a same post like few hours ago?

[CrazyWFGamer]

No its not and i havent made a post on the fourms for more than a week.

[ShadowStalker]

NVM i guess it was someone else 

Edited June 9, 2017 by ShadowStalker

[CrazyWFGamer]

Ohhhh, Wait I'm extremely sorry. I thought that my previous post didn't work as my internet stopped when I was posting it and I didn't get any alerts.

I'm extremely sorry.

Edited June 9, 2017 by CrazyWFGamer

[ShadowStalker]

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Edited June 10, 2017 by ShadowStalker
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[IggySnow]

a few tips for when your making a build. having a power strength of 180 gives your chromatic blade a 100% status chance. and im pretty sure getting more than 100% status chance does nothing. So if you have 180 power strength there is no point in putting dual stat mods on your melee as it would just lower its base damage. also a good mod for exalted blade builds is energy conversion which you get from Cephalon Simaris. once you pick up an energy orb it will give your next cast a 50% power strength bonus, and for channeled abilities like exalted blade it last the entire time the ability is active, so its basically a bonus 50 power strength with no draw backs.

[Dark5eiD]

im at work so im going off memory, i used nikana prime with 90% toxin, and dual stat toxin mod, p. pressure point, true steel,organ shatter, healing return and conditional overload.  

excal build - red energy for fire ( which combines with nikana for gas )

vit, steel fiber, transient, stretch, chromatic blade, p continuity, fleet, streamline

steel charge and power drift.

blind a room of anything ( get stealth gas multiplier ) and exalted blade will melt them all and return health to you for free.

 

Also have full arcane grace on syndana and full arcane ultimatum on helmet. really helps keep him alive

Edited June 9, 2017 by Dark5eiD

[fatpig84]

You need a minimum of 180% power strength to make full use of Chromatic Blade.
The easiest so far is Energy Conversion + power drift + arcane helm (if you have it).
Otherwise Energy Conversion + Intensify.

The former saves a precious slot that you won't lose to intensify. So get it if possible :P
And I don't recommend Transient Fort as Excal is a drainer, so using Energy Conversion goes a long way to sustain energy.

Anyway once you get that 180% power strength sweet spot, you can front load your melee weapon for pure damage. 
Personally I am using the condition overload. So on the contrary to others, I put gas on my melee weapon, then I use another element like Ice or electricity to stack up the multiplier. 

Remember you are losing 3 potential physical stacks for pure elemental damage and 100% status chance, so vary as much as possible.

 

Edited June 9, 2017 by fatpig84

[Dark5eiD]

my build is 170% and im melting lvl 145 gunners..

i also like using fire on excal as it gives me an extra mod slot on nikana to put healing return.

Edited June 9, 2017 by Dark5eiD

[Kaotyke]

So many people making threads about Chromatic Blade.

Keep it up people, I'm sure Scott is delighted.

[Crab]

this mod is so good, still trying to find a good build i enjoy, its mostly coming down to my melee mod choices

[IggySnow]

also if you are using condition overload then blast damage is incredibly useful because blast technically counts as 2 status effects, the blast effect itself and the knockdown counts as another.

[Strexze]

Hopely no nerf occurred.

[AwakenAces]

im a be honest the dumbest thing about this is that condition overload works with it which pushes it to more extreme heights more then thats the only thing i think should be nerfed like the mod just dosnt work with the eb

Edited July 31, 2017 by AwakenAces

[WrathAscending]

Exalted Blades has already had its damage reduced multiple times. It's at the point that it actually does need Condition Overload plus Chromatic Blade to make it worth using.

The bread and butter damage skills for other frames like Mesa have never been touched, nor do they even usually get bought up for nerf suggestions. I think it has a lot more to do with people reacting a "starter" frame being competitive at the high end and perceiving that as somehow not OK than Excalibur actually needing yet another hit to Exalted Blade.

For the OP:

I use Arcane Pendragon, Power Drift, and Transient Fortitude to hit the 180% (actually 185% in this example, but extra power damage helps) mark required for guaranteed status. This is paired with Primed Flow, Constitution, Primed Continuity, Stretch, Streamline, Steel Fibre, and Vitality.

On my melee weapon I run Primed Pressure Point, Primed Fury, Condition Overload, Life Strike, and four 90% Elemental mods arranged appropriately for the enemy faction.

These are Forma-heavy, but I find it worthwhile.

To pile on even more status effects and boost damage, use Taxon or Diriga as your Sentinel.