Excalibur
Excalibur builds
Flashbang Guns
Steel Path3 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceSpyHelminthShards optional

Excalibur — Flashbang Guns

Steel Path build. Keep Blind, dump Exalted. Roar or Eclipse over 4. You are an invisible-to-them gun platform with a flash.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Incarnons, people who picked Excalibur for 2 not 4

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Why this build?

Steel Path for Incarnons, people who picked Excalibur for 2 not 4

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

Play this in Spy
  • Not every Excalibur wants to be in 4 all mission. Blind is still elite CC.
  • This is the 'I liked the flash, I brought a Phenmor' loadout.
  • Umbra's Radial Howl is a different 2 (it also strips sentient resist). Base Blind is the flash.

Don’t use this for: Exalted Blade melee as the damage · level-cap without a real primary

Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy

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

Bring: Primary — An Incarnon or a sniper. Blinded enemies stand still and eat headshots. Radiant Finish if you want finisher guns / melee.

Alternative if…

Instead: First SwordInstead: First Sword — Star ChartInstead: Chromatic Blade — Steel PathInstead: Chromatic Blade — Optimised

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Readiness

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  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage)
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage)) · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.

Your next step

Next: Chromatic Blade — Optimised

Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.

Chromatic Blade — Optimised

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. NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  2. After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. LaterCrimson · Ability DurationHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  4. FinalFlashbang GunsSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma

Upgrade from here

Chromatic Blade — Optimised

Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.

Open Chromatic Blade — Optimised

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage) over Exalted Blade (4)

You will not press 4. Blind is still the best free CC in the starter kit. Roar or Eclipse is the gun multiplier. Javelin stays as a poke or you dump 3 instead if you love the sword — this config dumps 4.

Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.

  • 2 Crimson · Ability Duration — Blind uptime.Archon locked
  • 2 Violet · Primary crit — The gun.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 Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, then Forma

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

  3. 120 minutes

    Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage)

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

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You like the flash more than the glowstick.

Time to a playable copy
After Roar or Eclipse over Exalted Blade.
First mission to practice in
A hallway Exterminate with an Incarnon.

1 button drills · 14 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

0 of 3 done

Put it on the Warframe

0 of 5 done

Keep this up

Flash loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

  1. 1Blind (2) every room.
  2. 2Roar or Eclipse (4).
  3. 3Shoot. Finishers if you slotted Radiant Finish.
  4. 4Slash Dash is a panic move. You did not bring a sword config.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Flash, buff, shoot

    2 4

    2, 4, hold trigger.

Common mistakes

  • Dumping Blind instead of 4

    Then you built a worse Rhino. Keep 2.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Radiant Finish if you still meleeFinisher multiplier on blinded targets.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

19 dependencies

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

  1. 1●excaliburframe
  2. 2○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Narrow Mindedmod
  5. 5○Primed Continuitymod
  6. 6○Blind Ragemod
  7. 7○Umbral Intensifymod
  8. 8○Stretchmod
  9. 9○Primed Flowmod
  10. 10○Rolling Guardmod
  11. 11○Arcane Ragearcane
  12. 12○Molt Efficiencyarcane
  13. 13○Crimson · Ability Durationshard
  14. 14○Violet · Primary crit / electricshard
  15. 15○Roar (Rhino)helminth
  16. 16○Eclipsehelminth
  17. 17○Helminth · Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage)unlock
  18. 18○Steel Pathunlock
  19. 19○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.

Required

  • Growing Power

    missing · The Silver Grove quest

  • Power Drift

    missing · Unlock Lua

  • Narrow Minded

    missing · Orokin Vaults

    Blind duration.

  • Primed Continuity

    missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer

  • Blind Rage

    missing · Run Orokin Vaults

  • Umbral Intensify

    missing · Finish The Sacrifice

  • Stretch

    missing · Enemy drops

  • Primed Flow

    missing · Baro Ki'Teer

  • Rolling Guard

    missing · Arbitrations

  • Roar (Rhino)

    missing · Own Rhino

    You will not press 4. Blind is still the best free CC in the starter kit. Roar or Eclipse is the gun multiplier. Javelin stays as a poke or you dump 3 instead if you love the sword — this config dumps 4.

  • Eclipse

    missing · Helminth

    You will not press 4. Blind is still the best free CC in the starter kit. Roar or Eclipse is the gun multiplier. Javelin stays as a poke or you dump 3 instead if you love the sword — this config dumps 4.

Recommended

  • Arcane Rage

    missing · Eidolon / trade

    Primary damage on heads. Blind holds the heads still.

  • Molt Efficiency

    missing · Zariman

    Duration.

Optional

Helminth

Subsume Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage) over Exalted Blade (4)

You will not press 4. Blind is still the best free CC in the starter kit. Roar or Eclipse is the gun multiplier. Javelin stays as a poke or you dump 3 instead if you love the sword — this config dumps 4.

Strength

~200% Roar / Eclipse

Duration

200%+ Blind

Range

145%

Duration is flash uptime. You are a gun with a flashbang.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
258%
Duration
254%
Range
79%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
54 / 67

1 Umbral piece

Open slots

Weapon HUD

Arsenal numbers

Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.

Damage
35
Crit
12% × 2.00
Status
26%
Fire rate
9.58
Multishot
1.00
Avg hit
39
Arsenal DPS
376

Toggle common mods

Excalibur mods

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
  • ExilusPower DriftVaults
  • 1Narrow MindedBlind duration.Orokin Vaults
  • 2Primed ContinuityBaro
  • 3Blind RageVaults
  • 4Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 5StretchDrops
  • 6Primed FlowBaro
  • 7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Primary

An Incarnon or a sniper. Blinded enemies stand still and eat headshots. Radiant Finish if you want finisher guns / melee.

Arcanes

Arcane Rage

Primary damage on heads. Blind holds the heads still.

Eidolon

Molt Efficiency

Duration.

Zariman

Archon shards

  • 1Crimson · Ability DurationBlind uptime.2 · Netracells
  • 2Violet · Primary critThe gun.2 · EDA
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