Exalted Blade (Weapon)

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Exalted Blade is , , and 's signature Exalted Weapon, summoned by activating the ability of the same name. The weapon exclusively uses the Exalted Blade stance.
Refer to the weapon's ability page for a list of mods that affect the weapon.
==Characteristics==
*This weapon deals primarily damage.
** augment changes the damage from physical to a primary elemental one based on Excalibur's Emissive Color.
*Slide attacks trigger a that stuns enemies within 5 meters for 6 seconds.
*Innate two and one polarities.
**'s instead has innate two polarities.
*Combo counter resets when equipped with .
Advantages
*Good base status chance.
**Can reach over 100% status chance with a maxed and at least 189% Ability Strength.
*Attacks release waves with unlimited punch through up to 40 meters.
Disadvantages
*Low attack speed.
*Low critical chance.
*Wave damage dissipates with range.
*Wave hits do not count towards the Melee Combo Counter or proc Tennokai.
*Damage isn't affected by the combo counter, even if built with the physical blade.
*Low wave flight speed.
*Requires energy to activate and keep active.
*Slide attack blinds do not open affected enemies to Finisher Attacks.
*As an Exalted Weapon, it cannot benefit from, nor contribute to the set bonus of any Set Mods (excluding the Sacrificial Mod Set; the Gladiator Mod Set can still apply if equipped on Warframe or Melee, and not on the Exalted Weapon itself).
*Cannot equip Melee Combo Counter Mods (except ), Acolyte Mods (e.g., ), or Amalgam Mods (e.g., ).
*Cannot equip Melee Arcane Enhancements.
==Notes==
*The Exalted Blade weapon appears in the Arsenal after unlocking Excalibur's ability.
*While the arsenal states that Exalted Blade deals 250 damage and has an attack speed of 0.833, the actual stats are 275 damage and 0.917 attack speed due to Excalibur's Swordsmanship passive.
*Note that it's only possible to (re-)add an polarity to a mod slot with , so it's advised not to polarize the pre-existing ones on Exalted Umbra Blade, unless can be acquired.
**This is also true and applies to all Exalted melee and .
*As an Exalted Weapon, this weapon comes with an pre-installed.
==Trivia==
*Before the introduction of moddable Exalted Weapons, the stats of Exalted Blade depended on the mods equipped on the player's melee weapon.
*Prior to , Exalted Blade lacked a physical hilt and was fully made out of energy. This was later changed to allow for colour customization.
*On and , the sword is named and respectively and they have different forms. Their stats, however, are identical to Exalted Blade.
**The energy on Exalted Prime Blade is more prominent than on the other two variants.
*The design of Exalted Blade's hilt bears a general resemblance to .
**Exalted Prime Blade has the form of a , and all other prime Warframes using will be holding an Exalted Prime Blade as well.
**Exalted Umbra Blade uses an original design reminiscent of a kopesh.
**While equipped with the Zato skin, the Exalted Blade will take the shape of an unsheathed Oku Nikana.
==Media==
ExaltedBladeR.png|Excalibur's Exalted Blade.
ExaltedBladeP.png|Excalibur Prime's Exalted Prime Blade.
ExaltedBladeU.png|Excalibur Umbra's Exalted Umbra Blade.
ExaltedBladeZ.png|Excalibur Zato's Exalted Blade.
Mag Exalted Blade1231.jpg|Mag Prime with an Exalted Prime Blade.
==Patch History==
==See Also==
*, the ability that summons the weapon.
*Exalted Blade (Stance), the weapon's exclusive stance.
*, the weapon's user.
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