Excalibur Exalted Blade - End Game Build

[KpLBaTMaN]

This is a high damage output build for Excalibur's Exalted Blade

This gives Excalibur the ability to kill large amounts of high level mobs solo. This build uses no health/shield/armour mods. With the Naramon Focus Tree it allows Excalibur to go invisible when inflecting damage. #invisibility is invincibility.

Basic Strategy

Stay alive until you get your 5th ability ready and use it when ready.

Use Excalibur's first ability (slash dash)  to get Combo counter between 2 - 3 Multiplier. Then Swish Swish Swish Swish Swish Swish Swish Swish Swish (Spam Melee Attacks). The more attacks you do, the more time you are invisibility and damage.

Preview 

 

Excalibur Build

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Steel Charge - 60% Weapon Damage

Power Drift, Energy Conversion, Blind Rage, Transient Fortitude - 319% Power Strength 

(Primed) Flow, Narrow Minded, Fleeting Expertise - Energy Efficiency (At Max Energy Excited Blade Lasts 3.10 mins only using melee attacks. Changing Fleeting Expertise to Streamline increases the time to 3.37 mins but increases the cost of slash dash) 

Surging Dash - Spamming this gives burst combo points reaching a high combo counter in a short amount of time

Chromatic Blade - Applies Status Chance to Exalted Blade which works with Condition Overload

Forma should be applied for heavy drain mods such as blind rage, transient fortitude. (The 13 Forma was for testing different mods and changing builds)

 

Nikana Prime Build

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(Primed) Pressure Point - Damage 

(Primed) Fury - Attack Speed

Condition Overload - Damage Combined with the elemental mods

Berserker - Attack Speed

Drifting Contact - +10 Seconds for combo counter on Exalted Blade

Fever Strike, Shocking Touch, Molten Impact - Damage and different Status types for Condition Overload

 

Focus - Naramon

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Deadly Intent - Increases the chance of Critical Attacks for damage and invisibility 

Shadow Step - Gives the player invisibility when inflecting attacks

Mind Spike Mastery - Allows the activation of the focus early in the mission

Strategic Execution - XP

 

Arcanes

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Arcane Strike is used to increase the attack speed of the Excited Blade allowing for more dps and proc Shadow Step 

Arcane Energize will have the chance to give 100 energy on a energy pickup. This take cares of any energy problems. 

Alternatives

Arcane Strike x 2 for more swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish swish 

Arcane Fury x 2 for more damage 

THESE ARE NOT REQUIRED FOR THE BUILD

 

Alternatives

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Narrow Minded  for Primed Continuity - With this exchange Fleeting Expertise + Primed Continuity the blade will last 1.55 mins at max energy. Range will be at 100%

  Streamline + Primed Continuity the blade will last 2.42 mins at max energy. Range will be at 100%

 

Edited July 12, 2017 by KpLBaTMaN

[lukinu_u]

Wow, nice one.

[Autongnosis]

Add to that an Arthax modded for max firerate and status with Viral + electric for another three procs for Condition Overload and the doubled effective output from the Viral proc. 

Total modifiers from combo, stealth and CO reach something like 503x at 3x combo. Pre-nerf Gas stealth abuse anyone? *grins*

Edited July 12, 2017 by Autongnosis

[INight00]

Good build.

But in a mission if you weren't invisible since you can't activate the focus yet... a pinch of range for blinding enemies is always good. Though surging dash makes you invulnerable.

Pre-nerf Gas stealth abuse... over abuse. Torture.

A bit off topic but... chromatic blade for Exca... You think Mesa will get a similar treatment?

Edited July 12, 2017 by INight00