I’ll going after him tomorrow. Ignore them about nourish. I was thinking what if you used breach surge(which won’t break invisibility) like I did on Nekros combine that with the work around on archon stretch by putting coolant leak on shade and then put electric and viral on the companion’s weapon to help with energy. Then you would have the armor stripping, multiplicative damage of breach surge with some viral.
This was the first Prime Access that I actually bought because I really wanna support DE and, ngl, Xaku's a LOT more fun than I was expecting. A little confusing, but Xaku Prime is going in my main Frame list
As much as I like the ability to not be skeleton, it needs some better visual indicator to replace being a skeleton. It's now super easy to lose track of when Vast Untime runs out.
Okay I love this build and works really well it is now my Config 1, I would suggest however swapping out Nourish for Null Star with Neutron Star instead of his 3 and Corrosive Projection for Armour Reduction. Still using shade. You will need 2 Tau blues for energy and Energize cause it can get a little spammy but after over an hour testing in SP it works well and is just stupidly broken with Maduri for 40% more strength and 50% most cast speed. The full build being... same shards as in the video, Corrosive Projection for Armour reduction, Power Drift, Transient Fortitude, Blind Rage, Umbral Intensify, the 2 Tau Reds, Molt Augmented and Sling Strength (Optional) for at full stack 383% strength, Overextended and Stretch for 235% Range ( Can be swapped for Equilibium if energy becomes an issue, hasn't yet in my testing though ), Primed Continuity for 123% Duration, Archon Vitality for the double heat application from Null Star and more Health if your running a ranked up one, Neutron Star Augment and Arcane Energize with the 2 Tau Blues for Energy. Makes Xaku go just a little Beyond BROKEN imo.
Just spent 30+ mins in the 180-200+ lvl steelpath conjuction survival with this Xaku build(Albeit minor tweeks)and I can say it for sure works. The highest I got to was about 217 or so enemies and could have easily kept going but I wanted to test Trumna Prime too and bailed lol. It may seem like Invis+Rolling guard+the vast untime is stupid when vast gives a 75% dodge chance but you have to understand that when it comes to abilities like that, DE usually makes sure that 25% to get hit is still pretty often because itd be a bit unfair otherwise. You can go without the invis because I have a base Xaku built without it but the invis is a very fun and easy tech to use. Rolling guard is mainly going to help with any D.O.T that gets procced on you. Infact, during my 30+ min run I got killed one time by an arsenic eximus playing like a dummy and the fire killed me near instantly because my rolling guard was on cooldown. You can just avoid stuff like that yes, but there are situations in which youll get hit no matter what and need a quick out to survive. I also highly suggest running an unupgraded combat discpline because I tried a maxed one with Med-ray and died instantly. Using an unupgraded one with Medi-ray felt so much better, had no issues with surviving at all. The mod I suggest switching out for Medi-ray would be the mod that gives shield recharge speed and reduces delay since you wont be seen often with invis, Shade should be fine and if it does die itll revive near instantly if you have primed regen with momentus bond active. Finally regarding Nourish, I know it sucks to have to use it on alot of builds but fellow players need to understand that its not content creators fault for using it so much. The issue is how bad the energy economy is in the game and Nourish just negates that issue completely. Sure you can make sure combination that can also get the same results, but why do that when you can just slap on Nourish and save space for other issues in the build that need solving. It sucks that this is how things are but until they fix the energy economy Nourish is here to stay. Overall I think this build is wonderful and just needs a slight bit of tweaking to make it super fun to use.
Was hoping my boy MHBlacky was going to do this upload. Thank you so much. Your videos are invaluable 🙏. I’m about 1.5 months into the game and The Xaku Prime set is the first I’ve I bought because I wanted to support DE.
Pretty important note. This build can't operate at start up without the 2 big blue archon shards. There just is not enough energy to cast 1,4 and then 2.
Try setting Xaku's Energy color to pure black, and keep their skeletal form on at all time through the associated mode in the Attachments menu. Trust me, you won't regret it.
I think if you want Xaku to go invisible and inflict Viral status on enemies without needing to be attacked or attack them, using Wyrd Scythes to replace Nourish would be a better option. This way, it would slow down enemies and apply the Viral status to them as well.
Absolutely love the content you post! It’s super helpful to watch these guides as a somewhat new player since I started playing at the beginning of the year. But one thing I’ve been trying to look for a solid guide regarding everything about good relics.
I don't think you need combat discipline because shade clones will get shot and release the viral pulses and their guns will deal viral damage if you cast nourish after they're spawned.
People complaining about Xaku being called broken just don't know its lore. Look it up why it is called "the broken" warframe by the game in the first place.
my advice to people watching.......use huras kubrow instead, get the stance for it called Elusive posture from cetus and instead of nourish u can use roar(dps increase), resonator(even more survivability), Ensnare (helps with acolytes). Whilst there are others u can use, they seem like the best to use in my opinion
Something to note that was glossed over with Xaku's 3rd & Nourish: - Xaku's 3rd can have each sub-ability active simultaneously (so you can use Accuse & Gaze at the same time). - Nourish gives 𝗔𝗟𝗟 allies the viral pulse on damage effect. This includes the shade clones (as mentioned in the video) but also includes the allies gained by using Accuse, allies which are considered neutral, meaning you or another enemy can attack them to cause a viral pulse as a way to do a more wide spread viral proc (the pulse can also hit another Accused, causing them to let out a pulse in a chain reaction)
The thing is, since they changed how armor interacts you need something to do more damage to health. Enemies have way less armor now but to compensate they have much more health. I'll try Ophanim though, sounds like a nice idea!
most likely that the damage increase from strength outweighed the 1 extra gun. ya know (just pulling numbers out of my ass here) but if you add 100 damage to 1000 damage for 15 guns you've added 1500 damage, meanwhile adding one gun would only add 1000 more. many things get diminishing returns, basically too much of one thing start to not be as beneficial especially in cases where it means you neglect something else, and in the case with damage numbers in games, its usually better to have your damage sources spread instead all in one. the same reason you don't slap every single + damage mod on your guns. because its better have 1 damage, 1 crit dam/chance, 1 or a couple status, other random stuff
I’m literally lazy farming on SP Mot right now with Octavia and figured out that Shade gives me the invisibility that metronome would normally give but all the time AND without needing to break my finger hitting the crouch button so many times. This is honestly amazing and I will be considering Shade for my current and future builds.
I don't have kuras kubrow yet, but if the companion doesn't break its invisible if attacking then you can use equip it with Hunter recovery which fixed the problem with hp lost aura and also you can equip your pet with armor strip bond mods. which works great (in theory since i don't have that companion yet). You should try to cook some idea around it, in the same case use 5 purple archon shards if you wanna be spoky damage buff on ability damage and equip your pet with electric claw. Hope you can find some idea about ability maxing. And last note: feed your Caliban to Helmith is also a good cheap replacement for damage buffing but come at a cost.
Also: warframe count all damage vulnebility ability value as multiplicative so, for instant if you put a lot of debuff instead of buffing yourself, you can deal a viral bonus damage on enemies without trying to viral and it works on bosses, for a very short time.
There is also fun build with pacify and provoke from equinox. You speed up enemies and make them fight for You with Xaku's 3rd ability and since You can strip enemies they attack they could outlive other enemies. Fun fact! Most Amalgam enemies can't hack consoles on interception so if You leave ONLY amalgam usnits until enemy cap You can do interception on Archon hunt or random Gass city intercepion fissure without a problem. (Yes i do know You'll need reactant but it can be farmed quickly since corrupted portals spawn enemies constantly regardles or amalgam cap) Have a nice day!
my favorite thing for interception used to be max str and range nova. just use slow the whole time, you only have to kill the enemies when they touch the panel, and anyone else moves so slow it takes a good long while for them to get on the panel
went roar and ophanim eyes(I just like the batter range and the ability to slow and damage enemies while stripping and moving) on xaku along with 4 tau red shards, one tau blue for armor bc I run arcane battery, allows me to keep efficiency a bit better and free up slots for range/duration. My build is definitely controversial according to the meta but im not having a single problem and Id say its my strongest frame atm. Aside from that I have the same noctua build and I gotta say, im shredding enemies in an instant. I did go the afk shade ghost route bc lets face it xaku will always be a glass cannon, but man its nice having a frame that can just breeze through a quick few runs without much thought.
I don't have the math, but it could be because of diminshing returns. just depends on how much damage is added for the strength in comparison to the damage of one extra gun. ex. if each gun does 1000 damage for 15 guns. adding one gun adds 1000 more damage, but increasing the damage by only 100, will increase the total by 1500. So @LolSho0orTs is just being an ass for no reason. he was being a dick in other comments too, just a troll i assume
If I were to do my own xaku build, I'd replace your power drift with the stealth drift mod(the 15% range mod) and arcane energize for molt efficiency for a little extra duration. Also I don't like to use combat discipline, so I'm gonna use that one that gives you 25% ability strength everytime you apply a status. I find this to be perfect for me. You can suggest any changes if you like.
These are some very good takes in your plan ;) The only downside I can see is that without Combat Discipline you're not gonna get the Viral Explosions to AoE Prime the enemies but that's probably not too much of a big deal ;) All in all I think it's a great approach. Have fun with it :D
Considering Xaku is a very liked Frame for steel path for his nearly infinite scale ceiling, up there at the top most enemies will one shot you if you don't AT LEAST shield gate. So even 75% evasiveness will leave you at a 25% chance to just get dropped like a wet sack of potatoes. Invisiblity is the best kind of invulnerability because when they can't see you, they can't shoot you.
yes, the 75% isnt as good as it sounds, even in sp lvl 200 you die quickly if you rely on that, also instead of invisbility its rather good to use a shield gate because of the 75%
I've played Xaku both with and without invisibility and when you like Shield Gating, then going without invis is definitely viable. But I gotta say with Shade they are noticably more chill to play ;)
You should know by now that DE only nerfs the most overpowered stuff that also ruins your teammate's experience. We have even more broken warframes than Xaku.
That's true. Thank you for bringing it up ^^ I was thinking about going for it but then I would've had to sacrifice Rolling Guard and I ended up not wanting to do that xD
cant you use your 3 acuse and then cast nourish on them so THEY do the viral spreading? It would be a great addition with the augment for 3, since you already use strip, the damage version is prety damn good and has solid CC, and if nourish works on the accused enemies it would make it amazing viral spreader
So I’m new and figured I’d go get Grendel for your build. I kept shade on and wow is he easy mode. I’m constantly invisible with shades electrocuting everything while I run around eating everyone.
If dmg is the issue, 3 augment. Excal hits dmg cap. Survivability? Get good with builds. If you just find him mid af? Same. He's generic john warframe for a reason.
This may be a stupid question but, I keep dying from the Combat Discipline despite it being rank 0, is there something I'm doing wrong? The enemies never hit me, but I can never seem to keep my health up because it keeps getting nuked by Combat Discipline.
Try running Equilibium at the cost of a little range buddy or as suggested in the video the mod on shade that heals you a little as well. Personally I haven't run into this issue myself but maybe have a little play around with the setup to see what works best for you 👍
@@samtaylor8612 It's mainly do to steel path just having so many enemies. And yeah the healing on shade helps a bit but I'll try the equilibrium, thanks!
Blacky. I would love to see you make a Okina Incarnon Build as it has some funny interactions with melee influence. Also, build idea i would love to share is kullervo with gyres new augment. Keep up the great content.
Thank you for the suggestion! :D I was actually thinking about doing a lil something on Kullervo soon, so the Okina might be a great fit for the vid ;)
I have a question. Arkane: avenger increases krit chance. But it isn't additiv. It multiplied it self to the base chance. In case of glaive prime the final base chance is 31.9%. I want to bild the glaive prime in to the red krit teretory but i get only to 223.3%. I use secrificial steal with the 275%, galvanisierter Reflex, glafmdiator might with works with Reflex. So that means 31.9 + 31.9 × 5,5 + 31.9 × 5 × 0.1 = 223.3 So im missing somthing to get to 300 but I cant find it. I wacht your Video and used your bild and addit a bit of my flavor. But at the start of your Video ther were clearly multiple ret Krits. As an additional question with duplikant, is the slash prock doppelt as well?
I haven't done the math exactly on the Glaive Prime but in my Glaive Prime video I got the Red Crits because I was using Wrathful Advance from Kullervo which massively increases melee Crit Chance. I'm not sure if the Glaive can get Red Crits without this buff. About Arcane Avenger, the +45% are a flat bonus. Meaning if the Crit Chance on your weapon was let's say 200% then with Avenger it would be 245%. About Melee Duplicate, yes, the hit is doubled which means also the Slash Procc is doubled ;)
Wrathful advance that explains it. But the Arkana still is od. If I yust add it with out the multiplier my Set woud get to 199%, but I mainly get Orange krits and some Times Red. That some Times shoud be yellow, but that isn't the case. Jedenfalls danke für die Einsicht. Ich werde dann mit Duplikant spielen auf Grund des doppelt progs.
I have an un-forma'd build that is just super nice, its taken me through steel path with a breeze. I gave them adaptation, and with their 75% evasion chance, it just works nicely. I will for sure use the shade build. And i had completely forgotten about nourish. Lol
@@MHBlacky_ENG thanks! I just finished your pharaoh predasite burning claws build, I found it works really well with the burning hate build from nightwave, as well as using the epitaph for priming.
Broke it? So just the stock standard invis setup with nourish. Got it. Honestly can't wait for that to get fixed, and then half the community cries that certain frames are now useless
I want to see them pull out the charts, and see the % of how much nourish is being taken compared to other abilities. I believe we'll be looking at another catchmoon gate. (They should buff Mirage eclipse dmg at least a bit for some competition.)
@zephryus2001 While I do agree with you, Xaku can dish out so much damage with his weapons, especially with them dealing void damage, that I think it's better to increase Xaku's survivability, if you want to use your own weapons more often (and them removing shade's invis). For this, I subsumed Octavia's resonator, the little rolling ball, over Xaku's first, to distract all enemies in a big radius (range double dipping) and effectively break their ai and not get shot.
Yes this totally works. I actually did this in my other Xaku video that I mentioned. You can cheack this one out for a Build variant with Wyrd Scythes ;)
@@letsplaykeks07that’s a fair point, I just feel like after the indirect nerf to him when they did the armor changes (since enemies now have more health) it takes a bit too long for things to die. Idk maybe I need to do a bit more testing with that
Story time I’ve been farming for Xaku prime parts for nearly 24 hours now and my luck on the neos and axi are just flat dogshit. But after a whole day I have finally gotten all the parts for it. Just to see, I checked the marketplace and saw it was going for around 130 plat and I had about 100 plat laying around. And suddenly boom the new 1999 hub comes out, so I go in to check it out and by the devils evil doing I saw a highly promiscuous ember heirloom skin. Being absolutely disgusted I quickly exited the mall. Update: I still dont have Xaku Prime
you don't really need to mod it regularly, the only mods you need for it, are special ones you get from the mirror defense, or is it crystal... i don't remember. its on the right half of deimos, there's like 8 special mods i think, or somewhere around there, that you have a 5% chance of getting on the 4th round. so good luck, it'll take a bit to get it if you're not lucky
Hey Blacky please make a new vid on Yareli!🙏🏻 I'm in love with her design and abilities but am having such a hard time figuring her build and weapons and it feels like there are so little videos explaining her and most of them are from before her rework. And as always, great vid!❤️
Heyho, I'll definitely ge to Yareli eventually ;) Until then I can mybe recommend warframeflo. He has quite some love for Yareli I feel and also some recent videos on her. Might be something for you ;) Thank you for all the love
So it's only my Xaku where the 3 doesn't work? It literally does nothing for me. It doesn't use energy and enemies don't get affected by anything where I try to activate it. It just cycles through it without doing anything Edit: Thanks, it works now👍🏻
Why not just mod viral directly on the companion weapon then subsume Roar (or armor strip) instead? I do really dig the Shade synergy tho, I'm gonna try it out.
Because it’s not as consistent is really the issue, you could go that route though. It just means that a lot less enemies will be primed with viral and in this build specifically you can’t really prime with weapons. One of the reasons panzer is so good is because it can viral prime a whole room, pretty quickly. If anything could do it panzer would be a lot less popular
@zephryus2001 I'd think roar would make up for a bit of the constancy (Xaku is pretty powerful anyway). I guess I'll give it a try... If I had a Verglas riven to help with tankier enemies I'd go with that. I just can't think of a good damage subsume off the top of my head (Breach Surge? Viral Tempest?)
You could do that definitely ;) I just feel the AoE Nourish explosions are way more consistent in priming every enemy around you. But your suggestion is definitely also viable ;)
@@Wooskii1that’s true it is worth a shot, lemme know how the damage compares to just viral priming. I am interested as I haven’t really had time to test it out
When you said "a very specific companion we'll be using with our xaku build here", i was praying please it's the companion i have When the next session showing you with shade, you can't imagine how happy i am, i just build shade prime in my foundry, and not nautilus prime for crowd control or wyrm prime for status cleanse, which both i'm struggling to farm currently
I was running almost identical xaku build for 3 years straight.ye ita good.but i run more strength less energy version,so u can have a bit of problem with energy in the beginning of mission but after getting 4 th and second abilitu running u good
for regular content, i could understand, but SP and especially high level SP or if you're doing long runs like circuit/cascade, i'd be worried about surviving without the 75% dodge
I swear the last 5 videos I’ve watched have had nourish and that lame excuse “now before you say anything about using nourish” I can throw it on all my builds too but that’s just lame so I don’t..
It's just unfortunately how the game is that Nourish and Roar are ideal for 90% of optimized builds. They're simply more powerful than most other subsumes and most frames have at least 1 ability that's just weaker than them.
You get her parts from Spy Mission. I think (pls someone correct me, might be wrong) you need to complete Spy Mission without alerts for higher chance to get her parts. Additionally, all ivara parts can be aquire though regular Circuit if its available in rotation. Hope this helps.
At this point I don’t watch your videos just for builds and guides but entertainment too, I really like your editing style and your way of explaining is easy to comprehend I love your videos Blacky. Also if I have combat discipline on my build how I am going to heal and recover the lost life?
I'm not sure actually xD If you go with a R0 Combat Discipline though then the occasional Health Orb drop should be enough to keep you afloat though ;)
Have you tried Xaku Prime yet?
No
Nah, too broke on plat 😢
Oh no stress, you have a lot of time to farm the relics and the price will also go down significantly over the next couple of days ;)
@@jesusgaming6538 plat for what?
I’ll going after him tomorrow. Ignore them about nourish. I was thinking what if you used breach surge(which won’t break invisibility) like I did on Nekros combine that with the work around on archon stretch by putting coolant leak on shade and then put electric and viral on the companion’s weapon to help with energy. Then you would have the armor stripping, multiplicative damage of breach surge with some viral.
If I had a nickel for every time I saw a UA-camr video that said BROKEN I could quit my job
The broken jokes about Xaku are because they are “the broken warframe” so its mostly just a play on words
@ tho it can be a play on words it’s like 85% of warframe videos
This was the first Prime Access that I actually bought because I really wanna support DE and, ngl, Xaku's a LOT more fun than I was expecting. A little confusing, but Xaku Prime is going in my main Frame list
As much as I like the ability to not be skeleton, it needs some better visual indicator to replace being a skeleton. It's now super easy to lose track of when Vast Untime runs out.
That's true. Maybe a bigger countdown in the corner of the screen near the end of the duration ;)
Okay I love this build and works really well it is now my Config 1, I would suggest however swapping out Nourish for Null Star with Neutron Star instead of his 3 and Corrosive Projection for Armour Reduction. Still using shade. You will need 2 Tau blues for energy and Energize cause it can get a little spammy but after over an hour testing in SP it works well and is just stupidly broken with Maduri for 40% more strength and 50% most cast speed. The full build being... same shards as in the video, Corrosive Projection for Armour reduction, Power Drift, Transient Fortitude, Blind Rage, Umbral Intensify, the 2 Tau Reds, Molt Augmented and Sling Strength (Optional) for at full stack 383% strength, Overextended and Stretch for 235% Range ( Can be swapped for Equilibium if energy becomes an issue, hasn't yet in my testing though ), Primed Continuity for 123% Duration, Archon Vitality for the double heat application from Null Star and more Health if your running a ranked up one, Neutron Star Augment and Arcane Energize with the 2 Tau Blues for Energy. Makes Xaku go just a little Beyond BROKEN imo.
bro was like ‘we can look at our fashion frame now, next step go invisible’ XD
9:40 Shade Build
9:41 Tazicor Build
13:58 Xaku Build
But watch the Full Video to Support Blacky guys :)
Ty
it would be nice to see the whole build page not only the mods so I can easily check how many formas I'll need and how the stats will change
8:21 this is why i prefer Huras. Huras still attacks even when invisible and can be insanely strong now plus duplex just makes it even more insane
Just spent 30+ mins in the 180-200+ lvl steelpath conjuction survival with this Xaku build(Albeit minor tweeks)and I can say it for sure works. The highest I got to was about 217 or so enemies and could have easily kept going but I wanted to test Trumna Prime too and bailed lol.
It may seem like Invis+Rolling guard+the vast untime is stupid when vast gives a 75% dodge chance but you have to understand that when it comes to abilities like that, DE usually makes sure that 25% to get hit is still pretty often because itd be a bit unfair otherwise. You can go without the invis because I have a base Xaku built without it but the invis is a very fun and easy tech to use. Rolling guard is mainly going to help with any D.O.T that gets procced on you. Infact, during my 30+ min run I got killed one time by an arsenic eximus playing like a dummy and the fire killed me near instantly because my rolling guard was on cooldown. You can just avoid stuff like that yes, but there are situations in which youll get hit no matter what and need a quick out to survive. I also highly suggest running an unupgraded combat discpline because I tried a maxed one with Med-ray and died instantly. Using an unupgraded one with Medi-ray felt so much better, had no issues with surviving at all. The mod I suggest switching out for Medi-ray would be the mod that gives shield recharge speed and reduces delay since you wont be seen often with invis, Shade should be fine and if it does die itll revive near instantly if you have primed regen with momentus bond active.
Finally regarding Nourish, I know it sucks to have to use it on alot of builds but fellow players need to understand that its not content creators fault for using it so much. The issue is how bad the energy economy is in the game and Nourish just negates that issue completely. Sure you can make sure combination that can also get the same results, but why do that when you can just slap on Nourish and save space for other issues in the build that need solving. It sucks that this is how things are but until they fix the energy economy Nourish is here to stay.
Overall I think this build is wonderful and just needs a slight bit of tweaking to make it super fun to use.
Was hoping my boy MHBlacky was going to do this upload. Thank you so much. Your videos are invaluable 🙏.
I’m about 1.5 months into the game and The Xaku Prime set is the first I’ve I bought because I wanted to support DE.
Aaaaw thank you so much for the huge compliment!
1:36 God, triburos made me forget that thats the actual name of the skill, I was calling it "pass the glock" like him lmao
Make a go fo' the Glock on them mo'fos :P
9:38 Shade prime build
9:42 Tazicor build (companion weapon choice)
13:56 Xaku Prime build
Pretty important note. This build can't operate at start up without the 2 big blue archon shards. There just is not enough energy to cast 1,4 and then 2.
Energy pad works just fine.
@@SocratesWasRightbud...
@@BonnieBennett-re6nx too lazy to use an item?
If you use a glaive with 2-3p carnis set with Xaku 4, you can get 95-105% evasion unless there's a hard cap.
Unfortunately "evasion" effects are multiplicative so they can never get to 100% :/
@MHBlacky_ENG oh ok
Full frame fashion in the 4th may actually be my favourite part XD
The fact that they also added the permanent skeletal form means were gonna see alot of naked xakus in the relays
We all know it was SO NEEDED🧎♂️
@BonnieBennett-re6nx that is genuinely the first time ive ever even seen that emoji
Try setting Xaku's Energy color to pure black, and keep their skeletal form on at all time through the associated mode in the Attachments menu.
Trust me, you won't regret it.
Uuuh now you've sparked my curiosity :D
I think if you want Xaku to go invisible and inflict Viral status on enemies without needing to be attacked or attack them, using Wyrd Scythes to replace Nourish would be a better option. This way, it would slow down enemies and apply the Viral status to them as well.
Guess what I used in my old Xaku vid xD
@@MHBlacky_ENG Why not use it again and beat the nourish allegations?
The strongest argon crystal and syndicate medallion farmer.
I mean also Warframes need a hobby, right? :P
Xaku Prime is strange because Xaku is made out of multiple warframes, so is Xaku Prime made out of the prime version of those warframes?
Could be. I mean the Orokin had a lot of free time xD
This is why we need prime trailers... we need context!!!💔
Absolutely love the content you post! It’s super helpful to watch these guides as a somewhat new player since I started playing at the beginning of the year. But one thing I’ve been trying to look for a solid guide regarding everything about good relics.
Heyho, thank you so much for all the love
Xaku was the first warframe I got. It came out when I started playing and I’m excited to get its prime
Uh this is a nice story. Wish you much fun with them :D
Great vid! Can’t wait to xaku prime and subsume my old one! By far my favorite frame 🥹
Thank you so much! :D
Happy to hear you're also a fellow Xaku enjoyer :D How do you like the Prime look? ;)
There is a lot of synergy in this build, very nice!
Thank you! I'm happy you liked it ^^
It's not going to work everywhere but in enemy-dense Mission Types it's really cool and chill at the same time :D
I search up warframe once n a while n I was not expecting xaku prime to be a thing
I grinded for so long , but i think this is the first prime i got on release by just straight grinding
nice pfp
6 hour grind last night with friends to get this being my first prime! This video came out just it time
Your first prime is one of the sickest ones to exist. Lore, abilities and aesthetics all thrown together much like Xaku.
I don't think you need combat discipline because shade clones will get shot and release the viral pulses and their guns will deal viral damage if you cast nourish after they're spawned.
Shade and weapon build 9:38
Xaku Build 13:57
Your a life saver 🙏
People complaining about Xaku being called broken just don't know its lore. Look it up why it is called "the broken" warframe by the game in the first place.
Darn you're right, I should've called it "Busted" so people can complain legitimately :P
Yeah its the Frames title
my advice to people watching.......use huras kubrow instead, get the stance for it called Elusive posture from cetus and instead of nourish u can use roar(dps increase), resonator(even more survivability), Ensnare (helps with acolytes). Whilst there are others u can use, they seem like the best to use in my opinion
Something to note that was glossed over with Xaku's 3rd & Nourish:
- Xaku's 3rd can have each sub-ability active simultaneously (so you can use Accuse & Gaze at the same time).
- Nourish gives 𝗔𝗟𝗟 allies the viral pulse on damage effect. This includes the shade clones (as mentioned in the video) but also includes the allies gained by using Accuse, allies which are considered neutral, meaning you or another enemy can attack them to cause a viral pulse as a way to do a more wide spread viral proc (the pulse can also hit another Accused, causing them to let out a pulse in a chain reaction)
Ooooh this is brilliant! :O
Thank you so much for mentioniong it :D
What about ophanim eyes instead of his 3rd, and just build around the run n gun mechanic of xaku
The thing is, since they changed how armor interacts you need something to do more damage to health. Enemies have way less armor now but to compensate they have much more health.
I'll try Ophanim though, sounds like a nice idea!
I started using reave instead of xatas whisper, I found it really easy get health back when I’m in a pinch
Any reason you didnt got for the 267% range to get max of 16 guns mhblacky?
most likely that the damage increase from strength outweighed the 1 extra gun. ya know (just pulling numbers out of my ass here) but if you add 100 damage to 1000 damage for 15 guns you've added 1500 damage, meanwhile adding one gun would only add 1000 more.
many things get diminishing returns, basically too much of one thing start to not be as beneficial especially in cases where it means you neglect something else, and in the case with damage numbers in games, its usually better to have your damage sources spread instead all in one. the same reason you don't slap every single + damage mod on your guns. because its better have 1 damage, 1 crit dam/chance, 1 or a couple status, other random stuff
I’m literally lazy farming on SP Mot right now with Octavia and figured out that Shade gives me the invisibility that metronome would normally give but all the time AND without needing to break my finger hitting the crouch button so many times. This is honestly amazing and I will be considering Shade for my current and future builds.
True! Shade is definitely a huge deal for all non-weapon Warframes ;)
I don't have kuras kubrow yet, but if the companion doesn't break its invisible if attacking then you can use equip it with Hunter recovery which fixed the problem with hp lost aura and also you can equip your pet with armor strip bond mods. which works great (in theory since i don't have that companion yet). You should try to cook some idea around it, in the same case use 5 purple archon shards if you wanna be spoky damage buff on ability damage and equip your pet with electric claw. Hope you can find some idea about ability maxing. And last note: feed your Caliban to Helmith is also a good cheap replacement for damage buffing but come at a cost.
Also: warframe count all damage vulnebility ability value as multiplicative so, for instant if you put a lot of debuff instead of buffing yourself, you can deal a viral bonus damage on enemies without trying to viral and it works on bosses, for a very short time.
Yes, the Huras can attack while invisible so it might be able to do quite a few things ;)
There is also fun build with pacify and provoke from equinox. You speed up enemies and make them fight for You with Xaku's 3rd ability and since You can strip enemies they attack they could outlive other enemies.
Fun fact! Most Amalgam enemies can't hack consoles on interception so if You leave ONLY amalgam usnits until enemy cap You can do interception on Archon hunt or random Gass city intercepion fissure without a problem. (Yes i do know You'll need reactant but it can be farmed quickly since corrupted portals spawn enemies constantly regardles or amalgam cap)
Have a nice day!
my favorite thing for interception used to be max str and range nova. just use slow the whole time, you only have to kill the enemies when they touch the panel, and anyone else moves so slow it takes a good long while for them to get on the panel
Use wisps subsumed ability. It hits harder and you don't have to risk killing yourself
As I said in your previous Xaku build video. You really did prepare for Xaku Prime.
Molt Efficiency could also work in place of Arcane Energize, MUCH cheaper, MUCH easier to get, and it is a SIZABLE amount of ability duration
this is the most fun warframe i've ever used, thank you for your video brother :)
went roar and ophanim eyes(I just like the batter range and the ability to slow and damage enemies while stripping and moving) on xaku along with 4 tau red shards, one tau blue for armor bc I run arcane battery, allows me to keep efficiency a bit better and free up slots for range/duration. My build is definitely controversial according to the meta but im not having a single problem and Id say its my strongest frame atm. Aside from that I have the same noctua build and I gotta say, im shredding enemies in an instant. I did go the afk shade ghost route bc lets face it xaku will always be a glass cannon, but man its nice having a frame that can just breeze through a quick few runs without much thought.
isnt cunning drift way better because you get more guns the more range you have
so why would you go for 15% strength when you could get another gun?
0 brain cells 😂
Also you don't need all of this str mine has 214% and can do lvl cap
@@LolSho0orTs wdym 0 brain cells? its a valid question no?
Yes and your are right @@naerolf09
I don't have the math, but it could be because of diminshing returns. just depends on how much damage is added for the strength in comparison to the damage of one extra gun. ex. if each gun does 1000 damage for 15 guns. adding one gun adds 1000 more damage, but increasing the damage by only 100, will increase the total by 1500. So @LolSho0orTs is just being an ass for no reason. he was being a dick in other comments too, just a troll i assume
If I were to do my own xaku build, I'd replace your power drift with the stealth drift mod(the 15% range mod) and arcane energize for molt efficiency for a little extra duration. Also I don't like to use combat discipline, so I'm gonna use that one that gives you 25% ability strength everytime you apply a status. I find this to be perfect for me. You can suggest any changes if you like.
These are some very good takes in your plan ;)
The only downside I can see is that without Combat Discipline you're not gonna get the Viral Explosions to AoE Prime the enemies but that's probably not too much of a big deal ;)
All in all I think it's a great approach. Have fun with it :D
@@MHBlacky_ENG I wasn't planning on using the viral AoE anyway, so it's not a problem for me. But still, thanks for the input.
Do you really need the invisibility on top of the 75% evasiveness, just wondering bc I’ve never played this warframe before?
Overkill is the name of the game for endgame(-ish) warframe. If you can fit it on it might not be a bad idea to have it
Considering Xaku is a very liked Frame for steel path for his nearly infinite scale ceiling, up there at the top most enemies will one shot you if you don't AT LEAST shield gate. So even 75% evasiveness will leave you at a 25% chance to just get dropped like a wet sack of potatoes. Invisiblity is the best kind of invulnerability because when they can't see you, they can't shoot you.
yes, the 75% isnt as good as it sounds, even in sp lvl 200 you die quickly if you rely on that, also instead of invisbility its rather good to use a shield gate because of the 75%
I've played Xaku both with and without invisibility and when you like Shield Gating, then going without invis is definitely viable. But I gotta say with Shade they are noticably more chill to play ;)
@@MHBlacky_ENG what mods do you change to use shield gating?
Stop making these videos so they dont nerf first week dang...
I mean they just buffed the Shade/Ghost combo in the Companion Update so I think they are well aware of things like this ;)
Don’t worry, xaku it’s been like that for ever, just using fancy terms and if you don’t know what the warframe do it makes it seem broken
You should know by now that DE only nerfs the most overpowered stuff that also ruins your teammate's experience. We have even more broken warframes than Xaku.
octavia exists so xaku is safe
@@excalibur2596You should know by now that that's not true 😂 they are literally known for nerfing things for no reason.
You can use dispensary too. It is awesome on xaku. With equilibrium ofc.
Oh yes, this will definitely give you Energy Autonomy :D
Please tell me Iam not the only one watching this video to see Xaku´s skeleton form prime
it helps "Uncle blacky with the algorithm" XDDD
killed me
to get even more strength and more regen you could also use vampiric grasp and archon intensify which can synergize with combat discipline.
That's true. Thank you for bringing it up ^^
I was thinking about going for it but then I would've had to sacrifice Rolling Guard and I ended up not wanting to do that xD
cant you use your 3 acuse and then cast nourish on them so THEY do the viral spreading? It would be a great addition with the augment for 3, since you already use strip, the damage version is prety damn good and has solid CC, and if nourish works on the accused enemies it would make it amazing viral spreader
This is a very cool suggestion. Thank yous o much! :D
It's cool that in this game almost everything if not everything is op so that u are not tied to use meta picks
i’ve run out of capacity without fully upgrading the mods. any reason why my primed continuity cost 14 and not 7 like the video?
each mastery rank gives you +1 capacity
forma the slot to match the mod so its halfed to 7
Got my first prime and I cant waitttt. Xaku prime will be finished in the foundry in 71hrs! 🔥🔥🔥
So I’m new and figured I’d go get Grendel for your build. I kept shade on and wow is he easy mode. I’m constantly invisible with shades electrocuting everything while I run around eating everyone.
Just came back to warframe after like 5 months don’t know if I should still main excaliber umbra or I should get xaku prime
Bruh there's like 30 frames, farm all
@@The_Quaalude 57*
Excal umbra falls off really quickly imo. I’ve tried so many builds with him for solo SP and he kept coming up short.
If dmg is the issue, 3 augment. Excal hits dmg cap. Survivability? Get good with builds. If you just find him mid af? Same. He's generic john warframe for a reason.
@@jeremiahjohnson2784 he hits damage cap? Yeah… you’re talking out your arse
Maybe say what specific lost ability you’re using for skill 3.
personally the doggo has a higher range to go invisible , powerful build but wouldn't call it broken though but still a very good build
Actual lie they both have the same range if anything the shade is better as it'll turn invisible quicker
This may be a stupid question but, I keep dying from the Combat Discipline despite it being rank 0, is there something I'm doing wrong? The enemies never hit me, but I can never seem to keep my health up because it keeps getting nuked by Combat Discipline.
Try running Equilibium at the cost of a little range buddy or as suggested in the video the mod on shade that heals you a little as well. Personally I haven't run into this issue myself but maybe have a little play around with the setup to see what works best for you 👍
@@samtaylor8612 It's mainly do to steel path just having so many enemies. And yeah the healing on shade helps a bit but I'll try the equilibrium, thanks!
Blacky. I would love to see you make a Okina Incarnon Build as it has some funny interactions with melee influence. Also, build idea i would love to share is kullervo with gyres new augment. Keep up the great content.
Thank you for the suggestion! :D
I was actually thinking about doing a lil something on Kullervo soon, so the Okina might be a great fit for the vid ;)
Does the toggle let us stay skeleton all the time that's really what id want
Haven't tried the Skeleton version but it looks like there are options for both ;)
Does anyone know if he canceled the new player guide videos? I kinda enjoyed them tbh
Keep up the good work sir. I’ve Been playing game for 9y, and love your videos❤
Aaaw thank you so much for the love
I have a question.
Arkane: avenger increases krit chance. But it isn't additiv. It multiplied it self to the base chance.
In case of glaive prime the final base chance is 31.9%.
I want to bild the glaive prime in to the red krit teretory but i get only to 223.3%.
I use secrificial steal with the 275%, galvanisierter Reflex, glafmdiator might with works with Reflex.
So that means 31.9 + 31.9 × 5,5 + 31.9 × 5 × 0.1 = 223.3
So im missing somthing to get to 300 but I cant find it. I wacht your Video and used your bild and addit a bit of my flavor.
But at the start of your Video ther were clearly multiple ret Krits.
As an additional question with duplikant, is the slash prock doppelt as well?
I haven't done the math exactly on the Glaive Prime but in my Glaive Prime video I got the Red Crits because I was using Wrathful Advance from Kullervo which massively increases melee Crit Chance. I'm not sure if the Glaive can get Red Crits without this buff.
About Arcane Avenger, the +45% are a flat bonus. Meaning if the Crit Chance on your weapon was let's say 200% then with Avenger it would be 245%.
About Melee Duplicate, yes, the hit is doubled which means also the Slash Procc is doubled ;)
Wrathful advance that explains it.
But the Arkana still is od.
If I yust add it with out the multiplier my Set woud get to 199%, but I mainly get Orange krits and some Times Red.
That some Times shoud be yellow, but that isn't the case.
Jedenfalls danke für die Einsicht.
Ich werde dann mit Duplikant spielen auf Grund des doppelt progs.
God I want the prime access so badly
No stress, you have plenty of time to farm all the Relics and get Xaku for free ;)
@@MHBlacky_ENG yeah I can’t wait 😩
I have an un-forma'd build that is just super nice, its taken me through steel path with a breeze. I gave them adaptation, and with their 75% evasion chance, it just works nicely. I will for sure use the shade build. And i had completely forgotten about nourish. Lol
Hey can you do a video without subbing abilities
It's hard af to manage this prime access farm and Wuwa 1.4 dayumm
Wouldn't Huras Kubrow be better because you can attach loot mods?
Man this really sounds like my ideal playstyle. I might have to work on this
Happy you like the idea. Wish you a lot of fun ;)
@@MHBlacky_ENG thanks! I just finished your pharaoh predasite burning claws build, I found it works really well with the burning hate build from nightwave, as well as using the epitaph for priming.
Broke it? So just the stock standard invis setup with nourish. Got it. Honestly can't wait for that to get fixed, and then half the community cries that certain frames are now useless
I want to see them pull out the charts, and see the % of how much nourish is being taken compared to other abilities.
I believe we'll be looking at another catchmoon gate.
(They should buff Mirage eclipse dmg at least a bit for some competition.)
What would happen if void damage and tau damage are applied together along with other elemental damage
That to when using trumna prime
Can i use dagath's helminth instead of grendel's? Can i change combat for something else for the dagath helminth?
Short answer: yes
Xaku works with just his 2 and 4 pretty much until level cap
@@letsplaykeks07that’s true, but viral priming is a pretty heavy dps increase to the guns with a full strip
@zephryus2001 While I do agree with you, Xaku can dish out so much damage with his weapons, especially with them dealing void damage, that I think it's better to increase Xaku's survivability, if you want to use your own weapons more often (and them removing shade's invis). For this, I subsumed Octavia's resonator, the little rolling ball, over Xaku's first, to distract all enemies in a big radius (range double dipping) and effectively break their ai and not get shot.
Yes this totally works. I actually did this in my other Xaku video that I mentioned. You can cheack this one out for a Build variant with Wyrd Scythes ;)
@@letsplaykeks07that’s a fair point, I just feel like after the indirect nerf to him when they did the armor changes (since enemies now have more health) it takes a bit too long for things to die. Idk maybe I need to do a bit more testing with that
My Xaku Prime build now BRILLIANT !
Thank you so much! Happy you liked it :D
Yayyy finally, building mine rn waiting for 3 more days
Oooh nice! Happy you got all the parts already :D
Wish you super much fun with them once they're finished cooking ;)
They really need to change that 3 day bs. It makes sooooo many and I mean too many new players drop the game.
Xaku is such a good frame and honestly doesn’t even take much skill to play so he’s really new player friendly well… if the can get him that is
Hahaha yeah the second part is the thing xD
@ I’m just hoping that sense his primes a bit Easyer to get he won’t be used to the point of nerf
Story time
I’ve been farming for Xaku prime parts for nearly 24 hours now and my luck on the neos and axi are just flat dogshit. But after a whole day I have finally gotten all the parts for it. Just to see, I checked the marketplace and saw it was going for around 130 plat and I had about 100 plat laying around. And suddenly boom the new 1999 hub comes out, so I go in to check it out and by the devils evil doing I saw a highly promiscuous ember heirloom skin. Being absolutely disgusted I quickly exited the mall.
Update: I still dont have Xaku Prime
Boys tempted
Cool story. You forgot the part where you failed nnn in the mall, though.
@@jeremiahjohnson2784 don’t announce it
I use shade to stealth farm with accumulating whipclaw, it makes shoving forma down venari's throat super easy 😅
can't wait to farm argon crystals but with as a prime frame
So you can throw them right back into the Helminth for Bile xD
what mods to use for Grimoire pls?
you don't really need to mod it regularly, the only mods you need for it, are special ones you get from the mirror defense, or is it crystal... i don't remember. its on the right half of deimos, there's like 8 special mods i think, or somewhere around there, that you have a 5% chance of getting on the 4th round. so good luck, it'll take a bit to get it if you're not lucky
Hey Blacky please make a new vid on Yareli!🙏🏻 I'm in love with her design and abilities but am having such a hard time figuring her build and weapons and it feels like there are so little videos explaining her and most of them are from before her rework. And as always, great vid!❤️
Heyho, I'll definitely ge to Yareli eventually ;)
Until then I can mybe recommend warframeflo. He has quite some love for Yareli I feel and also some recent videos on her. Might be something for you ;)
Thank you for all the love
xaku... broken... yeah i see what you did here
Always flexin' with the lore accurate titles :P
So it's only my Xaku where the 3 doesn't work? It literally does nothing for me. It doesn't use energy and enemies don't get affected by anything where I try to activate it. It just cycles through it without doing anything
Edit: Thanks, it works now👍🏻
You need to hold the button to cast, tapping cycles through the abilities
hold the 3rd ability key
Why not just mod viral directly on the companion weapon then subsume Roar (or armor strip) instead? I do really dig the Shade synergy tho, I'm gonna try it out.
Because it’s not as consistent is really the issue, you could go that route though. It just means that a lot less enemies will be primed with viral and in this build specifically you can’t really prime with weapons. One of the reasons panzer is so good is because it can viral prime a whole room, pretty quickly. If anything could do it panzer would be a lot less popular
@zephryus2001 I'd think roar would make up for a bit of the constancy (Xaku is pretty powerful anyway). I guess I'll give it a try...
If I had a Verglas riven to help with tankier enemies I'd go with that. I just can't think of a good damage subsume off the top of my head (Breach Surge? Viral Tempest?)
You could do that definitely ;)
I just feel the AoE Nourish explosions are way more consistent in priming every enemy around you. But your suggestion is definitely also viable ;)
@@Wooskii1that’s true it is worth a shot, lemme know how the damage compares to just viral priming. I am interested as I haven’t really had time to test it out
Thanks man you just help me fix my gauss build
Hahaha glad I could help with that xD
I don't think I'll run this one i don't like the constant lost of health
When you said "a very specific companion we'll be using with our xaku build here", i was praying please it's the companion i have
When the next session showing you with shade, you can't imagine how happy i am, i just build shade prime in my foundry, and not nautilus prime for crowd control or wyrm prime for status cleanse, which both i'm struggling to farm currently
Bro what camera settings do you use.
When i aim my warframe takes all of the screen, when you aim you still have a really high fov and camera distance
Buy a big monitor lol
you can change your fov/view distance in settings
@@MichaelDo i already have it at Max. I mean that His aiming Fov is very high. when i aim, my fov Turns Back to 60
It took me 2h for the full set🎉
I was running almost identical xaku build for 3 years straight.ye ita good.but i run more strength less energy version,so u can have a bit of problem with energy in the beginning of mission but after getting 4 th and second abilitu running u good
for regular content, i could understand, but SP and especially high level SP or if you're doing long runs like circuit/cascade, i'd be worried about surviving without the 75% dodge
@cjlewis4938 u always have 75% dodge no matter what,i started using shade prime and instead of rolling guard i roll with equilibrium,goated frfr
Waiting for trummna prime build
Gonna be working on that next :D
@ nice very cool, I never used that gun, until now 😅
I swear the last 5 videos I’ve watched have had nourish and that lame excuse “now before you say anything about using nourish”
I can throw it on all my builds too but that’s just lame so I don’t..
Nourish is good. I'd put nourish on Grendel if i can. To get double nourish.
@@ИльяРаджабли-щ4л it's lame that Grendel gotta eat before he can beat.
@@ИльяРаджабли-щ4лplace it over his ball so he can be more realistically boring
It's just unfortunately how the game is that Nourish and Roar are ideal for 90% of optimized builds.
They're simply more powerful than most other subsumes and most frames have at least 1 ability that's just weaker than them.
Can you tell me how to get a regular Evara?
Ivara?
You get her parts from Spy Mission. I think (pls someone correct me, might be wrong) you need to complete Spy Mission without alerts for higher chance to get her parts.
Additionally, all ivara parts can be aquire though regular Circuit if its available in rotation.
Hope this helps.
@@Johnny-z3s what @Eros said
Thank you ❤
most engaging xaku gameplay: do nothing
after getting magistar incarnon, everything else seems trash
At this point I don’t watch your videos just for builds and guides but entertainment too, I really like your editing style and your way of explaining is easy to comprehend I love your videos Blacky. Also if I have combat discipline on my build how I am going to heal and recover the lost life?
Aaaaw thank you so much for the super lovely feedback
@ thanks Blacky
Le me, focusing on his 2: ah hell, i forgot nourish exists.
Hahaha Nourish never giving us a break xD
Does Arcane Grace trigger whenever your hp gets reduced from Combat Discipline? If so, wouldn't that be better than Arcane Energize?
I'm not sure actually xD
If you go with a R0 Combat Discipline though then the occasional Health Orb drop should be enough to keep you afloat though ;)