Chromatic Blade

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Untransmutable

**Chromatic Blade** is a Warframe Augment Mod for Excalibur that increases Exalted Blade's Status Chance while changing its damage from Physical Damage to a certain primary Elemental Damage type depending on Excalibur's chosen energy color.

## Acquisition

* This mod can be acquired by attaining the rank of **General** under Steel Meridian, or the rank of **Maxim** under the Arbiters of Hexis, and spending 25,000File:ReputationBlackx64.png‍**25,000** to purchase.

## Notes

* Chromatic Blade works the same way Chroma's Passive does;
	+ Red, magenta, brown, orange and bright yellow hues being ;
	+ Blue and purple hues being ;
	+ Green, lime, teal and dark yellow hues being ;
	+ White, grey, black, and some faded colors being .
	+ Note that players do *not* need to purchase color palettes to unlock the full potential of this trait.
	+ While customizing Excalibur's energy color, Chromatic Blade active element is displayed in the form of an icon (, , , ). This imgur album can serve as a reference for future color palette purchases.
* The elemental damage granted by Chromatic Blade will combine with any elemental damage present on the player's melee weapon.
* The status chance increase granted by this augment is additive and is affected by Ability Strength.
	+ For example, using a maxed {{#vardefine:Name|Intensify}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, {{#vardefine:Name|Drifting Contact}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, and Chromatic Blade results in:
	(Base Status Chance + Chromatic Blade Bonus × (1 + Strength Mods)) × (1 + Status Mods) = (0.1 + (0.5 × 1.3)) × 1.4 = 105% Status Chance
	+ To achieve 100% status chance without any status chance mods, Ability Strength must be increased to at least **180%**.

## Tips

* Although Chromatic Blade removes all Physical Damage, it is still possible to inflict  procs through the **Cutting Poise** combo of Exalted Blade's stance.
* Due to the large Status Chance boost this augment gives, it pairs well with {{#vardefine:Name|Condition Overload}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found. Furthermore, players can forgo dual status-elemental mods, such as {{#vardefine:Name|Volcanic Edge}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, and use mods that only increase Elemental Damage (e.g. {{#vardefine:Name|Molten Impact}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found) to further increase Exalted Blade's total damage.
* The Status Chance boost also simplifies creating a Crit-Status hybrid build as Status Chance mods are no longer necessary.

## Trivia

* Chromatic Blade is the only one of Excalibur's augments to not feature him with his Immortal Skin and Pendragon Helmet equipped on the mod card.
* Just like with Chroma, the name of the augment comes from the Greek word *Chroma*, meaning colour.

## Maximization

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link in the collapsible menu to learn how to build it.

View Maximization List▾▾

* Maximized Ability Duration increases *blind duration to **18.36** seconds and reduces channeling cost to **0.89** energy per second.*
	+ *Reduces blind range to **1.7** meters.*
* Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces *activation cost to **6.25** energy and channeling cost to **0.63** energy per second.*
	+ *Reduces blind duration to **2.4** seconds.*
* Maximized Ability Range increases *blind range to **14** meters.*
	+ Reduces *damage to **100*** and bonus status chance to **20%**.
* Maximized Ability Strength increases *damage to **932.5*** and bonus status chance to **90%**.
	+ Without {{#vardefine:Name|Energy Conversion}}{{M}} "{{#var:Name}}" not found, increases *damage to **807.5*** and bonus status chance to **90%**.
	+ *Increases activation cost to **38.75** energy and channeling cost to **4.38** energy per second.*
	+ *Reduces blind duration to **4.35** seconds.*

NOTE: *Italic refers to the base ability of this augment*

## Media

CHROMATIC AUGMENT - 100% Status with Extra Status on Top warframe
## Patch History

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 21.2 }}{{#var:Update}}
* Fixed Excalibur’s Chromatic Blade Augment not adding Elemental FX to the energy wave.

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 21.0 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Fixed Chromatic Blade Augment not applying elemental FX on Exalted Blade’s projectiles.

{{#vardefine:Update|Update 20.7 }}{{#var:Update}}

* Introduced.

* PvP

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