Exalted weapons have been a big part of Warframe, which are also moddable and sometimes overpowered depending on your builds.
With the Techrot Encore Update introduced, an update has been made to Exalted Weapons, improving the balance of the game and its features.
Aside from the balances, Pseudo-Exalted Weapons (Ability Summoned Weapons) are now treated as Exalted Weapons, allowing you to customize them just like the rest.
Exalted Weapon Changes
The current Exotic Weapons in the game have gained new features, which now give you more to work with when modding them, including the following:
- Arcane Slots
- Exilus Mod Slots (Primary and Secondary Exalted Weapons)
- Exalted Weapons may now use Acolyte, Amalgam, and Melee Combo Counter Mods
Back then, some mods were disabled for Exalted Weapons, but they have now been enabled and this includes the following:
Primary Mods
- Amalgam Serration
- Argon Scope (Galvanized Scope)
- Bladed Rounds
- Catalyzer Link
Secondary Mods
- Amalgam Barrel Diffusion
- Embedded Catalyzer
- Hydraulic Crosshairs
- Pressurized Magazine
- Sharpened Bullets
- Targeting Subsystem
Melee
- Amalgam Organ Shatter
- Blood Rush
- Body Count
- Dispatch Overdrive
- Gladiator Rush
- Maiming Strike
- Weeping Wounds
Other Exalted Weapon Changes
The following is a list of the other Exalted Weapon changes that have been introduced in the Techrot Encore Update.
1) Exalted Blade (Excalibur)
- Melee Combo Counter now affects Exalted Blade
- Exalted Blade’s ranged attacks now trigger Tennokai
- Increased projectile speed of Exalted Blade’s Energy Waves
- Slash Dash now scales with Mods equipped on Exalted Blade
- Exalted Blade Heavy Attacks now apply Lifted status
2) Desert Wind (Baruuk)
- Melee Combo Counter now affects Serene Storm
- Serene Storm’s energy waves now trigger Tennokai
- Desert Wind’s Critical Chance reduced from 50% to 35%
- Serene Storm now benefits from Condition Overload
3) Diwata/Dex Pixia/Razorflies (Titania)
- Razorflies no longer scales with Melee Mods
- Razorflies flight speed increased
- Razorflies are now invulnerable
- Added damage Vulnerability to attacks of Razorflies
- Removed Exilus Slot from Diwata
- Diwata Follow Through increased from 70% to 100%
4) Neutralizer (Cyte-09)
- Harkonar Scope can now be equipped on Neutralizer
New Exalted Weapons
Introduced with the Techrot Encore Update are new Exalted Weapons that can now be separately modded for the following Warframes:
1) Landslide Fists (Atlas)
- Atlas will now use his Landslide Fists when using his Landslide ability
- Landslide Fists have a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst and 2 Madurai polarities
- Critical Chance of Landslide Fists increased from 5% to 35%
- Status chance of Landslide Fists increased from 5% to 15%
- Landslide Fists retains a unique Combo Counter instead of the traditional one
- Attack Radius of Landslides three-punch combo changed to 4m, 6m, and 8m and may be enhanced with Melee Mods such as Reach
- Boulder Attack from Atlas’ Rumbled Augment scales with mods equipped on Landslide Fists
- Landslide’s Description has been updated
2) Shattered Lash (Gara)
- Gara now uses her Shattered Lash Exalted Weapon which can be upgraded
- Shattered Lash has a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst with 1 Madurai and Naramon polarity
- Shattered Lash now has a 20% Critical Chance
- Shattered Lash now has a 2x Critical Multiplier
- Shattered Lash Base Damage reduced from 800 to 400 damage
- Range of Shattered Lash increased from 10m to 12m and may be enhanced with Melee Mods such as Reach
- Sweep Radius of Shattered Lash increased from 0.75m to 1.75m (Range does not scale with Mods)
- Shattered Lash retains its Combo Counter mechanic instead of the traditional one
3) Whipclaw (Khora)
- Khora now uses her Exalted Weapon called Whipclaw when using the ability of the same name
- Whipclaw comes with a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst with 1 Madurai and Vazarin polarity
- Base Damage of Whipclaw has been reduced from 300 to 150 damage
- Attack Radius of Whipclaw can now be enhanced with Melee Mods such as Reach
- Whipclaw uses a special combo counter unlike the traditional one
4) Shadow Clones (Ash)
- Blade Storm now uses the Shadow Clones Exalted Weapon
- Shadow Clones comes with a pre-installed Orokin Catalyst and 2 Madurai polarities
- Shadow Clones is treated as a Dagger and may equip related Dagger Mods
- Shadow Clones have a 5% Critical Chance, 1.2x Critical Multiplier, and 5% Status Chance
- Base Damage of Shadow Clones has been reduced from 2000 to 1500 Finisher Damage
- Shadow Clones has an Attack Speed of 1 (Increasing Attack Speed increases Shadow Clones Attack Animation)
- Shadow Clones will perform a single attack instead of 3 Finisher Attacks
Note: If you have a maxed rank version of these Warframes before the Techrot Encore Update will provide you with a maxed rank of these Exalted Weapons.
Ability Combo Counter Changes
The new Ability Combo Counter features changes that affect Blade Strom (Ash), Shattered Lash (Gara), Whipclaw (Khora) as they are not channeled Exalted Melee Weapons.
Recasting these abilities within 5 seconds provides 20 combo points that increase the Combo Multiplier.
The Ability Combo Counter cap has now been increased from 4x to 12x, allowing your Exalted Weapons to deal increased damage based on the multiplier.
Ability Damage will now scale with the Ability Combo Counter at a ratio of 1:1 instead of the previous, which was 0.25x of the Melee Combo Multiplier.
Blood Rush, Weeping Wounds, Body Count, and Naramon’s Power Spike will not work with this new system.
Verdict
The changes in the Exalted Weapons provide you with better ways to utilize the Warframes that they belong to, especially when it comes to endgame builds.
Since there are new Exalted Weapons that are not toggled by abilities but rather used with them, being able to modify them allows you to improve the abilities in several ways.
Just like with the other Exalted Weapons, the new ones may be leveled up and upgraded and may utilize certain builds.
