Excalibur — Furious Javelin

Don’t build this yet

First Sword first

This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Why this build?

Endgame for Melee that wants more damage than Chromatic already gives, hybrid blade / roar

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

• Javelin is the Helminth slot on sword configs. Roar is the usual passenger.
• Furious Javelin is the nostalgia augment that still works if you refuse to subsume 3.
• This is not Influence. It is 'I want Roar on the swordsman.' Both can live on different configs.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · players without Roar or a melee grid

Specialised investment for hard content

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: Exalted Blade — Same Chromatic grid. Roar on 3. Blind on 2. You are a stack of multipliers swinging a glowstick.

My test

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Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

1. TodayPlay First SwordThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
2. NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
3. After that5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
4. LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalFurious JavelinEndgame · Endgame · 5 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 3 Crimson · Strength — Roar and Chromatic.Archon locked
• 2 Violet · Melee crit damage — The sword.Archon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

1. 30 minutes

   Farm Steel Charge

   One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave

2. 60 minutes

   Steel Charge, then Forma

   Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

3. 120 minutes

   Subsume Roar (Rhino)

   If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

• Farm Steel Charge

  Invasion / Nightwave

Dependencies

27 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

1. 1●excaliburframe
2. 2○Steel Chargemod
3. 3○Power Driftmod
4. 4○Chromatic Bladeaugment
5. 5○Blind Ragemod
6. 6○Umbral Intensifymod
7. 7○Primed Continuitymod
8. 8○Primed Flowmod
9. 9○Equilibriummod
10. 10○Rolling Guardmod
11. 11○Exalted Blade stancemod
12. 12○Blood Rushmod
13. 13○Weeping Woundsmod
14. 14○Condition Overloadmod
15. 15○Gladiator Mightmod
16. 16○Organ Shattermod
17. 17○Primed Fever Strikemod
18. 18○Sacrificial Pressuremod
19. 19○Primed Reachmod
20. 20○Arcane Furyarcane
21. 21○Molt Augmentedarcane
22. 22○Crimson · Strengthshard
23. 23○Violet · Melee crit damageshard
24. 24○Roar (Rhino)helminth
25. 25○Helminth · Roar (Rhino)unlock
26. 26○Steel Pathunlock
27. 27○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock

Depends on

What this loadout needs

Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.