How To EXCALIBUR | Warframe Beginner Build Guide 

Hey we're doing a subathon from sept 26-30 where im going to be cracking vaulted relics with viewers from the stream to help you get some rare prime loot all day every day! If that sounds fun and you want to watch or hop in to run a few, be sure to stop by :D

lol i’m over 10 years deep in this game, here i am watching a beginners guide cause im so invested already 😂

This is a hate comment. Hate is a deadly scythe wielded by the stalker. The blueprint as a chance to drop when defeating said person. Out of all scythe it has the second highest base damage and critial chance Hate is a cool weapon when wielded in warframe but hate as an emotion or action is not cool especially when directed at another human being be cool like Excalibur 😎

a video like this desperately needs timestamps added otherwise most viewers are just gonna see the length and get annoyed they cant go to the part they care about

It's official folks, Mactics is now Warframe content creator from now on

Im still watching this even tho i have 1000 hours in this game😂😂

decade player here. of the many guides I've seen, this is a represhing new takes on the standard frame guides I've seen. "We will watch your career with great interest"

I knew you'd make banger Warframe guides. Fresh warframe knowledge combined with having tons of destiny guidemaking experience is a recipe for success.

As a Lr4 player. I love your videos gives a perspective into what it's like to come into warframe. -the good 1. Very new player friendly builds 2. Shows how to get Excalibur 3. You go over every ability shows what it does how it interacts etc -The bad in my personal opinion 1. the length of the video i know i love your face and you're a good speaker but i felt like it was too long. 2. Your grey areas in knowledge i assume in some areas like how you can sudio stat stick with gladiator mods on your melee to help get your combo up faster. Other then that i love your videos man keep up the work be safe and well fed

Damn, already making build guides

I wish your chat told you about the option in the "abilities" tab to toggle on base stats. This lets you actually compare unmodded abilities with your modded ones giving you better information, but nobody did. Its a feature that should be enabled by default.

bro completed all the story, is mr 20+, and immediately started making builds. All in the span of about 2 months. This is peak warframing right here.

I love excalibur Umbra with a passion, while i dont use him too often nowadays, he is a solid frame if built correctly which isnt too hard to do. Watching you gain information to format in this way on stream is refreshing not only for me but it seems many people that are way beyond needing this guide also enjoy the content. Saying this to spread love, cus even with people hate commenting, these guides can be useful for new players of the game that watch YOU and YOUR guides for any specific reason and is a boon regardless of which way anyone looks at it. Push past the hate and keep rolling, you got this!

This mans mustache got me feeling a certain way

I'd add "beginner's guide". I appreciate the time you take and the small steps you make to paint the full picture. Beautiful guide, I even learned a thing or two

lol i’m over 10 years deep in this game, here i am watching a beginners guide cause im so invested already 😂

The warframe content is FIRE but I gotta say, the most impressive to me is how you manage and deliver your content. The professionalism is really outstanding

Happy you're in this community. Love your videos and the positivity you bring. These types of videos will help my friends ease into Warframe so thank you!

A very important mechanic is that one high rank mod is almost always stronger than two or three low rank mods.

the rate at which you're getting a feel for and learning the game is insane, many props

Can't wait for the Omnioculus Prime build

Just something to clarify, Augment mods will need a rank 5 of the said syndicate so that will take time but achievable, aside from that it's a great guide, keep up the good work!

Hey Mac, just wanted to mention that [spoiler] has a different passive so spending resources in the base xcal can be useful depending on what build the player is making. Anyway great video looking forward to more in the future

Well done man! This is how you do a real new player friendly guide! I've seem some that claim they are for new players and then they still have 2 forma and end game mods on.

An excal guide so soon! The fastest I’ve seen anyone ingest this mountain of an info check game! Jade shadows soon pls

This a good video for your first build guide, but I'd like to clarify something you said about base excal vs umbra. It is absolutely worth investing in base excalibur, because umbra's sentience passive where he fights while you use your operator actively disables ALL of your buffs, including helminth abilities and his own buffs such as the augment furious javelin. So if you use your operator actively like me you will run out of energy having to recast everything. Not to mention, he wanders off and gets himself killed. This can be remedied by a lazy exilus augment the devs recently made to disable his passive (instead of just fixing these problems) but this takes a mod slot that could go to anything else, namely the insane qol that is primed sure footed (ik the memes). Umbra also forces 3 umbral polarities on the frame which seem nice at first, but don't really add a huge amount of survivability in higher levels due to relatively low base armour, and hurts your build flexibility. You could get rid of them, but with the rarity of umbral forma it feels pretty sacrilegious to do so. Sorry for the essay, I think your videos are great and am always happy to see them.

One thing to note on beginner modding is generally speaking, one maxxed mod is better than a few unranked mods. The upfront cost of intensify of 6, for example, only gives 5%, while at 11 a maxxed one gives 30%. that's 5 points for 25% EDIT: this is true of upgrading as well, as even one point in intensify is equivalent to the unranked mod being equipped twice (7 points for 10% as opposed to 6 for 5.)

15k veteran here. Put the YEAR in the title. This game changes fast

Been watching Brozime, TactPotato, and iFlynn for Warframe builds. So i have an idea how to build for specific setups. But it's always nice to see a fresher perspective from a "newer" player. Can i still say Mactics is new? Also Kidos to you, Mactics, for showing people that everyone is a student first, before becoming a master of their own craft/Warframe.

Great vibes and new-player-friendly presentation, but there are a few points where your chat either misguided you or failed to touch on important information. - The Furious Javelin augment is essential, no matter if you're building for Slash Dash or Exalted Blade. It's a gigantic (300-400%) damage bonus that is *multiplicative with all other damage sources*, based on how many enemies you hit with Radial Javelin. - Speaking of Slash Dash, the ability is a "pseudo-exalt", meaning it uses the mods equipped on your (regular) melee weapon. This means you can "stat-stick" the ability by specifically modding your melee towards Slash Dash. With an endgame build, Slash Dash will oneshot Steel Path acolytes and hit everything in its path for tens of millions of damage. It gets far stronger than Exalted Blade when both are optimized. - Slash Dash does not give you full invulnerability, even though it turns your health and shields grey. You were technically correct that you are invulnerable to *health* damage, but it is important to emphasize that your shields will still take full damage during Slash Dash. If you are not careful, you can get oneshot coming out of Slash Dash if your health is exposed. - Lastly, Umbra is a *downgrade* from regular Excalibur. When you use Transference, Umbra will cleanse your buffs and you will have to re-apply them when you go back to frame. The Umbra polarities are also a detriment, as health tanking falls off pretty quickly on Excalibur (around enemy level 400 or so). Double shield recharge mods will do far more for survivability on an Ultimate Endgame type build. I hope this comes across as constructive - you were one of my favorite Destiny creators to watch when I still played Destiny, and I'd love to see you have the same level of success in Warframe as well.

Honestly mactics has the perfect amount of experience to make guides like this. Enough time played and experience to know what he’s talking about, but not too much experience to where he’s forgotten what it’s like to be a new player and starts talking about advanced things that would just confuse new players.

I think adding chapters to this type of video would be good so people can find the section meant for their playtime and experience.

This gives such good information!! This is exactly the kind of information I wish I had when starting out. I will definitely be recommending these videos for anyone new coming into the game!!

let's gooo! first build guide! looking forward to seeing some W's and positive comments under this video

Nice build, i hope everyone uses this guide

Nice beginner video. I love how you focused on new player mods mostly. Keep it up ❤

4k hours over 9 years, having Excalibur as my started frame and fully knowing how to mod, I still learned something new. It's been great watching your Warframe journey and I loved seeing how far you've come. Can't wait for future videos!

This format has a pretty solid foundation but i do recommend time stamps. You can have accuisition, abilities, build progression and fashion all be there own time stamps for example and it will be a bit more time consuming but it will make everything feel more cohesive which can be pretty useful for newer players. But overall a strong start 👍

Honestly this is AMAZING for new players. You go into a lot of small intricacies and details that vets look over often. Things like reading the "tips" to see extra mechanics and hovering over the skills after putting stat modifying mods to see the changes. A lot of new players may not realize they have access to all of this information even without looking at the wiki.

Fun fact about Excalibur: Like most of the other Warframes, Excalibur has a prime variant to him, but he was ONLY avaliable via a "Founder's Pack" back in 2013 and has not been available since. Someone brick me from wrong because i have the most dreadful feeling that i might be inaccurate.

i'd really recommend adding chapters to the video

I love this, from my experience there’s not too many channels doing full comprehensive guides like this, especially in this format

This is extremely refreshing, most warframe guides kind of just say "And we'll be using combat desicpline because is best in slot and it sinergises with our 3", asuming you know what all of that means, and that you have those mods.

Recommendation: put time stamps in the video , really helps

I recommend to just forget about pride, max out the health mod as you can, and let your teammates do all the work. You don't need a lot energy or strenght or range or duration (even armor) if you do not know what for exactly. Expecially an augment mods - they are highly specialized. Use mods that you understand what they do. I remember when I was newbie I played through shields and shield regen. Kinda weird but very simple. But if you like the effect - use it. For "late game" there is about five or ten ways to be immortal (or almost). Also, you lose experience if you constantly fall and respawn with bad build. So I think just being alive is better then cool random build. Fun fact - there is an achievement in the game for reviving 1000 allies. P.S. chromatic blade.. I mean.. chatters may be not wrong but.. yeah... :D

The progress this man is making is just succulent

Clap Clap! Very well explained! I also appreciate the low budget 30 capacity version of the builds; a perspective we don't really have in the Warframe Community. And honestly, there is nothing more I would have said, except the option to drop one of the mid-game mods in favour of Vitality if you are dying. Damage is nice, but being alive deals more damage then being dead. Good stuff!

Not the Chromatic Blade build 💀 Which chatters told you this was the best way to build him? They lied to you bro. The build was perfect for anyone just starting to get into Warframe though. Chromatic Blade builds are a trap and hurt you in end game content though. If you happen to read this Mac, please do look into stat sticks and Slash Dash builds. You'll get a lot more mileage out of it.

I'm looking forward to watching any future guides you make. I am sure you'll teach me and many others something we might not know ☺️

I don’t even play Excalibur and I’m here for it!! Love your style of build videos and much more my speed than most other build guides. Looking forward to many more!

Mactics getting into WF is saving 2024 for me. Lets go!!!

Been watching you a lot recently, liking your Warframe content and glad you're enjoying the game I've been married to since 2015. Glad to have you :D

Super great, easy to follow, easy to understand guide. That truly shows a beginner guide to the frame. Keep up the great work and continue making amazing build guids.

Thanks for showing how to fight Lt. Lech Kril. It doesn't seem to be a big deal for the normal version of him. However, there actually is a mechanic to the fight, besides bombarding him with non-stop damage. This really helps at higher difficulties. I'm very glad to see you have access to the Simulacrum. It's a must-have for trying out weapons, build and just learning how different Warframe abilities synergize. Almost everything a player needs is there in the UI, but I'm so glad to see you going over their application. Great job, Mac!

I love the clear in-depth explanations, the build is kind of basic of course, but when you get more mods and have the knowledge to come up with more interesting synergies/combos these guides are gonna be insane.

15:20 This isn't necessarily correct. Both Excal and he who shall not be named have their own reasons for use over the other. It is up to the player to decide who to use though. I generally prefer Excal over the other as he doesn't lose buffs on transference and his blind is better (imo) than the replaced 2 on the other frame. Every player plays differently however so it is completely up to user choice

In the last two years I was using Umbra almost exclusively. I was afraid for you seeing the title, but it's actually really good, not perfect, but for a new player you did a fantastic job.

For the record, Lt. Lech Kril's AI is such that after breaking one of the tubes on his back, you can get him to slam the ground and freeze himself so you can deal damage by being above him while he's targeting you. For War specifically, it makes it so you can stand on the wire over his head to make it more consistent. For the Vor+Kril fight on Exta, jumping and aim gliding over him can help since there's not much to stand on over him.

player with over 4000 hours that mains excalibur. Good video and impressive amount of info for a newer player. handful of notes as i watch the video that you missed unless i didnt notice it: Slashdash: * Slashdash has forced slashprocs on hit * Slash dash is considered a psuedoexalted weapon, kind of. It inherits the elements of your melee weapon, and crit bonus from incarnon weapons improves its crit (base 0). this means a well built incarnon weapon can make nonexalted slash dash stronger than one with exalted blade. you can use this to create slashdash nuke builds with red crit slash procs for high level stuff. * Range stat improves the both the distance of the initial dash as well as the seek range for the automatic followups. Blind: * Blind also makes enemies susceptible to stealth melee multiplier (8x damage) BUT this bonus is lost if you touch the enemy with any part of your body before the hit. * Blinded enemies can still shoot you by firing towards any soundes they hear. absent of sound they will shoot at your last known location. * Umbras variation (radial howl) also resets sentient resistances. Javelin: * pretty spot on actually. Exalted blade: * Exalted blade being equipped also automatically blocks attacks from the front if you are not performing any action * Exalted blades spin blind has less range and duration than your actual blind ability.

Oh here we go! Time to have some one with infinitely less time in this game then I do tell me how to play! Seeing your progress has been an amazing experience and your build videos are going to be a welcome addition to the community.

When you mentioned you were starting warframe i was honestly looking forward to build videos. You did not disappoint!

As an aside, if you haven't already, you're going to unlock the helminth system, which, after some effort, allows you to copy-paste a single ability from one warframe to another.

I was waiting for you to start addressing this stuff, I love it when we get new content creators delving into the intricacies of the game, there are already pretty impressive ones tho, so you've got some good competition, but I'm sure you will soon stand toe to toe with them.

Excalibur is my go to frame, and I just hit MR 30. I love his simplicity, I love his exalted weapon, and I think Umbra is one of the coolest looking frames in the game.

this is such a great beginner build video, a few go into such good detail how you did, and i think thats what matters most is providing the where when why how to each warframe and not just WOW BIG DMG HAHA

It’s crazy mactics made as much progress as me who has been playing this game for 5 years in one month

I have 2500 hours into Warframe over many years, and I had no idea Excal had all this extra stuff.

Finally a guide video that i can show to my friends without confusing them

last time i watched, you were askin allat and then now ur creating guides. i cant wrap my mind around that

Followed your warframe videos since the first video and have been waiting your builds ever since. Nice to see how far youve gotten in warframe

Great Guide, very comprehensive.

I have 6k hours and I’m still watching because I’m so happy you brought your community to the game

Bro is not ready for the RU-vidr’s guide gauntlet 💀

Ive been absolutely loving your warframe journey so far but I’ll admit I was a little worried about you doing a warframe build guide as you’re still so new to the game. But the approach you took with this video is fantastic. You admit there’s things you don’t know and leveraged that to help others and yourself learn things about the frame and basic modding that you and others might not have known. Incredibly happy with this video and your warframe content as a whole. I hope some of the negative experiences you’ve had with the community don’t deter you from making content about and for this game I hope to see you making Warframe content for a long time to come ❤

Awww, baby's first warframe guide. They grow so fast 😢

No comments just giving the video the engagement it deserves

Enjoying the warframe content, got me back into the game after years away.

bro i just looked up a beginner guide for Excalibur how perfect

As a vet I prefer Mactics over Brozime. Way more chill and doesn't come off as pretentious.

I really like how you’ve put the destiny spin on warframe content it feels really fresh

If you like Excalibur, KEEP A BASE ONE WITH POTATO. The upgraded one has some uniqueness that actually makes him less versatile (and at times wonky) without certain compromises.

i personally just hit LR4, but a series like this is definitely still interesting to me tbh ive kinda gotten used to my usual 3 frame rotation so might be fun to try to get into other frames again 😊

8k hrs In this game and from this build session on twitch I build my excal for Sp and enjoying every moment thank Mactics

Thats a really coolconcept. Letting a group of ppl script the guide while recording it.very inovotive

this is definitely a beginner guide, its *very* simple easy to understand. a little long but this is likely the first of many. gs hopefully the next guide covers elemental weighting.

First build guide that shows where to find items

Just discovered your channel as a warframe player and im loving the content

Fantastic! You have a very easy to understand approach to builds.

in case ppl do in fact care about spoilers.....spoilers rather than saying "we won't talk about why til later cause spoilers" it may be better to say "there's a second variant for this frame but its locked behind [quest name]", something somewhat vague where you don't spoil things but aren't so vague that you just sound weirdly avoidant great video overall! it is very hard to find beginner friendly builds, while I've played a long time so they aren't super relevant for me I have friends and such who recently started so it will be nice to have videos I can link them for their favorite frames!!

you got me to play again after 4 years, i've been having much more fun after watching your new player experience videos! I'm MR 14

For a beginner centered guide it's fine but as an end-game builder myself I would advise you look more in-depth at Helmith interaction with frames cuz many frames play completely differently when you include the helmith system

Keep dropping amazing content mac ❤ but please just make sections in the video so we can see exactly what we are looking for

Thanks for the guide, sir. Looking forward to future videos already!

you made me get back into warframe man.. i did the Mogamu and peaced out but watching you start lit a fire in me !! ☝🏽🙂‍↕️

This makes me wanna jump back to playing as Excalibur, been maining Ember lately.

Really looking to seeing more of these!

Ah, I'd try to mention that exalted weapons scale well with ability strength. Oh, and there's always auto-fill for mods. It will do an okay job inserting as many of your best mods as possible to make an all rounder build, and most of the time it does a pretty good job. If you don't know what can you do with the mods you have, leveling mods to where you are comfortable with the costs and using auto-fill is a viable way to go.

Glad to see you investing heavily into WF. Hope to see you cover brand new frames and weapons when they come out - give you a chance to provide brand new analysis on things. Until then, hopefully see some frames covered that I generally have avoided until now besides for mastery fodder.

I completed the whole game with Mag. So fun and powerfull. And then I found Protea. In Steel Path she is so good. Haven't tried Excalibur in endgame but i am pretty sure it can perform well.

Great video, very nice break down and easy to understand for our new tenno.