Warframe: How to Get Excalibur (2026) Guide

Excalibur is one of Warframe’s most iconic Warframes, offering a perfect balance of speed, strength, and versatility, making it an excellent choice for both new and experienced players.

Known for his proficiency with swords and melee combat, Excalibur excels in both offensive and defensive roles, allowing players to engage multiple enemies efficiently.

His abilities, particularly the Exalted Blade, provide powerful energy-based attacks that can control the battlefield while maintaining agile, fluid movement.

How To Get Excalibur?

Excalibur is one of the starting Warframes and is also available in the in-game market for 75 Platinum, but you can also purchase his blueprint and craft him later after obtaining his components.

Excalibur Main Blueprint

The Main Blueprint for Excalibur can be purchased for 35,000 Credits, and you can craft the Warframe once you have built its components.

Excalibur Component Blueprints

Defeating Lech Kril on War in Mars rewards you with one of Excalibur’s component blueprints, with the specific part determined by its individual drop chance.

Each kill guarantees at least one of the three possible components, making repeated runs necessary until you’ve collected the blueprints for the Excalibur Neuroptics, Chassis, and Systems.

Other Ways To Get Excalibur

If you have completed The Duviri Paradox, you may obtain Excalibur’s Main Blueprint as well as his Component Blueprints as rewards from The Circuit.

Excalibur may also be purchased from Teshin (Conclave) once you have reached Rank 5 (Typhoon) and will cost 60,000 Standing.

Excalibur Crafting Requirements

Excalibur Main Blueprint

• 25,000 Credits
• 1 Excalibur Neuroptics
• 1 Excalibur Chassis
• 1 Excalibur Systems
• 1 Orokin Cell

Excalibur Neuroptics

• 15,000 Credits
• 150 Alloy Plate
• 1 Neural Sensors
• 150 Polymer Bundle
• 500 Rubedo

Excalibur Chassis

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Morphics
• 1,000 Ferrite
• 300 Rubedo

Excalibur Systems

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Control Module
• 1 Morphics
• 500 Salvage
• 220 Plastids

How To Get Excalibur Umbra?

Excalibur Umbra was released on June 15, 2018, as a direct reward from The Sacrifice quest rather than being farmed and crafted, offering higher armor and energy than the base Excalibur.

Upon completion of The Sacrifice quest, you will obtain the Excalibur Umbra Blueprint, which requires no other components to be crafted.

Stat Comparison

Excalibur Umbra Crafting Requirements

Excalibur Umbra Blueprint

• 10,000 Credits
• 1 Orokin Cell
• 60 Kuva
• 1,200 Nano Spores
• 1,600 Alloy Plate

If you would like to know some of the effective “Excalibur Builds” then check out the below link:

Warframe Excalibur Builds (2025) Guide

Excalibur Abilities

Passive Ability

Excalibur’s passive grants increased Attack Speed and Damage when wielding swords, dual swords, nikanas, rapiers, or his Exalted Blade.

Excalibur Umbra’s passive allows him to continue fighting autonomously even while the player is in Operator Mode.

1) Slash Dash

Exalted Blade allows Excalibur to dash rapidly between enemies while delivering powerful slashing strikes with his summoned blade.

The ability follows the direction of your aim, letting you guide his movement and target enemies near your reticle.

Slash Dash (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Surging Dash causes hits with the ability to add to your Melee Counter. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Arbiters of Hexis.

• Purging Slash causes Slash Dash to remove debuffs from allies and restore their shield if they are caught in the path of the ability. Obtained from Conclave.

2) Radial Blind/Radial Howl

Excalibur raises his Exalted Blade, releasing a radiant blast of light that blinds enemies in the area surrounding him.

This will cause enemies to be unable to attack for a short period and make them vulnerable to melee finishers.

Radial Howl for Excalibur Umbra works similarly but has the bonus of stripping Sentients of resistances that they have built up.

Radial Blind (Max Rank)

3) Radial Javelin

Radial Javelin causes Excalibur to plunge his sword into the ground, sending out javelins that impale nearby enemies within a set radius.

Enemies hit by the javelins take damage, defeated enemies are pinned to surfaces, and surviving enemies are inflicted with the Slash Status Effect.

Radial Javelin (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Radiant Finish causes those blinded by Radial Javelin to suffer from additional finisher damage. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Arbiters of Hexis.
• Signal Flare causes enemies who are blinded to be marked on the minimap for a period of time. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Arbiters of Hexis.

4) Exalted Blade

Excalibur summons his Exalted Weapon, the Exalted Blade, and uses it to unleash powerful waves of energy that travel forward and pierce through enemies when he attacks.

Exalted Blade utilizes its own set of mods, which can be equipped when customizing your equipment in your arsenal.

Exalted Blade (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Chromatic Blade alters the Damage Type of the Exalted Blade based on Excalibur’s Emissive Color and increases Status chance. Obtained from Steel Meridian/ Arbiters of Hexis.

Verdict

Excalibur and Excalibur Umbra remain staple choices in Warframe due to their accessibility, ease of mastery, and powerful abilities.

Both Warframes can excel in a variety of mission types, from solo play to high-level cooperative content, with Umbra offering additional durability and independent combat capability.

Whether using Excalibur’s swift attacks or Umbra’s autonomous fighting, these Warframes deliver fast-paced, effective melee combat.