The idea behind this is to hopefully end the fighting between founders and normal players, but that may be wishful thinking. Likewise, since Excalibur Prime's Exalted blade is technically a spectral Skana prime, it too would benefit from its sword master passive variation. He'd still get the sword master bonus from it since it could be considered a heavy weapon. Technically, Umbra's exalted blade more resembles a nikana or heavy blade than a Skana IMO so this could work quite well. A 50% damage increase to both Dakra prime and skana prime would definitely be appreciated.Īnd I think some of you were wondering if this would apply to exalted blades for both Prime and Umbra. They can handle most if not all normal content but high level enemies are out of the question for these blades. A 50% increase in damage on single handed prime swords would also benefit Dakra Prime and Skana prime very well as they need more damage even if they're at least somewhat viable now. So in this state, Umbra would be more focused on the slow but powerful swords while Prime focused on prime single handed swords. So then I got to thinking, what if he were more focused on heavier swords like Nikanas and large blades like Galatine and Gram. Now for Umbra, I felt that him having single bladed swords didn't make as much sense since his signature weapon, the Skijati, is a Nikana. Now with prime I was thinking that his passive could be altered to take advantage from prime single handed blades like Skana prime and Dakra prime, giving him a 50% damage bonus to his sword master stat if the sword is prime. As I got to thinking about ways to balance this out I started thinking about changing both frames' passives so that they get some kind of edge with weapons other than what standard excalibur gets. At this current point in time Umbra has the edge which I don't think DE intended for it to be better. I was lost in thought at work today about ways to solve this issue without making one better than the other overall. By comparison, Excalibur Prime could theoretically run these mods at max but it would require using a bunch of forma and probably investing him in steel charge (since it has the greatest mod space potential out of all Auras) That being said, unless you're going for a specific build you probably won't polarize a warframe more than once or twice. To top this off, he has access to mod polarities that no other warframe can have. For one thing, on top of the Sword master passive, he also functions as a specter of sorts while the player is in operator mode. Sure they share the same stats but Umbra has an edge for a number of reasons. I personally think that things can be done to make them both true equals. So really, as an Excalibur fan, I just want everyone to get along. I even have three regular Excals because I like him so much. I'm actually a HUGE fan of Excal in general. It's a sad reality yes, but it's the truth. Now there is one issue I can agree a little on here. That being said, I love Umbra almost as much. As a founder, I have access to Excalibur Prime and am an avid user of him actually. It's annoying.No doubt I'm going to get a lot of angry messages from players for this but hear me out first before you go around chewing me out or whatever. So he's kinda forced into Healing Return / Life Strike. Every time you go into Operator mode he drops EB which means he drops 60% mitigation. I never use it but it prevents you from using Magus Elevate properly. The one thing I dislike about the Umbra variant is his Specter mode. Once you get into melee and can get some combo meter going his damage output skyrockets and his Slash Dash becomes a fun and highly damaging gap closer. His waves alone will just kill everything under lvl 100. This is also a scaling thing where you won't even get into melee range unless you get higher in levels. I build Excal for actual Melee on his EB. An Ancient Healer Specter can also help offset his Damage / Survival ratio. His Blind is what he will rely to stay alive. It's a modest amount but in truth nowhere near enough to bring his DPS into question. Umbra has about 40k eHP before Adaptation from the front. Note the word scale though.įrames like Mesa will appear to do more DPS and kill more but will not scale well as Excal's damage output.
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