A fun tip for deny: With Vast Un-time active, Xaku can lift any liftable enemies indefinitely. These include acolytes, liches and sister, turning those fights into a joke.
Shows how versatile xaku is. Every content creator I follow have a different xaku build. And I myself ended up making 6 different builds. And now after seeing this I want to make a couple more!
It’s crazy because this is the first warframe where it was new to me and I had enough knowledge and resources to make a few end game builds. And I made 3 completely different builds myself. And can’t wait to try more
FINALLY someone mentionds that Xata's Whisper can deal way more damage than Roar or Eclipse. I've been using it on my Ivara since helminth released. Much better for someone who sits in stealth and takes the time to actually hit heads.
As a newish player it was difficult to find some videos breaking down how xatas works. I just knew it was insane as a damage multiplier from gathering clips from gameplay.
It also works as a "secondary hit" for Acid shell builds or odd-ball builds that care about the quantity of hits more than actual damage. A while back I found a Nova build that uses Amalgam argonak metal augur + a rakta dark dagger melee influence built + Xata's to armor strip every enemy hit by the dagger, the influence procs from the dagger, AND the explosions of both her 1 and 4. This fully armor strips enemies very reliably while leeching shields through the dagger, spreading rad and electric procs to damage and crowd control, speeding enemies into your kill zone, and still maintaining the 95% damage reduction of her 1. All thanks to the extra hit of damage from Xata's on any of these effects still being tagged as "dagger damage".
Woah woah woah, I'm pausing the video, you did NOT just footnote Deny's greatest utility as "making them float for a medium amount of time" this is slander! "medium" means "forever" because this is Xaku, welcome to the Vast Untime, but that little detail aside, you're overlooking what makes Deny useful: it's a rather exceptionally potent form of crowd control, it works on a bunch of stuff that crowd control normally doesn't, like Sisters of Parvos, Acolytes, Whispers, and I'm sure many others, quite "broken" you could say...
One thing you forgot to talk about The Vast Untime: Enemies slowed by the initial cast's explosion are also given a damage vulnerability to Void, meaning that it also buffs the damage of Xata's Whisper, The Lost: Deny and, most importantly, Grasp of Lohk. It's not always necessary to make use of this, but it is very useful in situations where your guns just can't do enough damage. As of Koumei and the Five Fates, this effect now applies to shields, armor and overguard. Have fun peeling your skin and remember: there are never enough guns to steal.
Swapping out The Lost for Jades subsume or Styanax’s subsume works pretty good for the more mobile missions too, both are permanent strips, strip shields and armor, and can strip enemies like acolytes or liches
Guys I recommend you helminth in harrow’s helminth. You will most likely run max range and 200% str which is absolutely perfect for the wave to get shields back
A "good" crate breaker/loot hunter build that works on anyone is slotting null star on someone with some good energy economy and modding range + augment + archon vitality for double heat procs for it and just run through the level periodically pressing the null star key. Wipes the enemies at that level of content and wipes the crates, then anything that survives and doesn't get vacuumed is probably something fancy. I dub the movement tech at the end "skelly skidding"
@Regufyz I personally just find every cycle ability to be clunky. Much easier for me to simply subsume it off and not bother with it, especially since the Xaku's armor strip is relatively stationary. I'm the player that jumps around a lot anyway, so Jade's armor strip only being in front of you is perfect since those will be the enemies I'm focusing on. But either way, there's no wrong way to play the game.
In regards to your suggestion of bringing silence to deal with violence. Imo, Condemn serves the same purpose, can also take care of all your survivability needs and is a very good crowd control tool. As soon as violence spawns, hit it with condemn. They will just stand still, not activate abilities and get gunned down by your floating guns. Acolytes are hilariously easy on Xaku if u use Condemn.
I've had a lot of success hsing secondary fortifier as a means of getting overguard on xaku - their evasion allows overguard to last a whole lot longer, making it an extrmely helpful (if conditional) defensive layer
I've been enjoying the Tempest Barrage suggestion one youtuber, forgot who it was, recently posted. 1 Tau green shard for 98% armor strip is more then enough with the recent armor cap changes and you get AoE viral priming on top of that for a big boost to Grasp of Lohk and your weapons. You also get to keep Xata's Whisper for all the whacky shenanigans the ability has with certain weapons. Deny being able to lift acolytes, liches and sisters indefinetly is a nice thing to have... but acolytes haven't been a threat in ages with how strong we've become and if I'm doing liches/sisters I'm bringing Gloom Banshee, NOT Xaku, so yeah.
I’ve always described Xaku’s Void damage as Void2, since it had the same status effect as normal Void but has a bunch of hyper specific exclusions, like needing to trigger a status effect on Sentients to reset their resistances, whereas normal Void seems to only require a hit
Seeing their lost augment never brought up hurt slightly ngl. Helps reach the defense breakpoint and makes the beam more energy cost effective all in 1 mod.
My go to build with Xaku is high cast speed and energy efficiency with full trip terrify. You just run around, full strip a whole bubble around you instantly, kill everything with your 2 guns and repeat. Your 4 also ends up very cheap so you never have energy problems.
i love my breach surge and nourish build where i subsume over the 4 and build about 120% duration :D really high active shield gate caster with lots of dps and weapon buffs with lots of abilitys from CC (passive and active) with lots of damage from guns and the beam (actually can kill quite high levels of enemys with it alone) and gives the perma scared of death feel from on release xaku that really make me love warframe again :D
Not so sure about that but isn’t Brief Respite and the Augur Mod Set kinda useless for shield gating if you are not casting skills all the time? (Because of his 4th Abbility which stops all the timers. I personally think running the shield regen delay package (vigilante Vigor, Fast Deflection, Arcane Aegis) to survive feels much more save and synergistic
I understand where you're coming from with the octavia comparison, but I disagree. Octavia requires a lot more maintenance by virtue of needing to maintain her invis. Furthermore Xaku can move around a lot more and still be quite effective - even on SP their guns can kill most enemies in just a few seconds even without defense strip.
I just wish they would slightly rework the void status effect to just apply more damage to whatever part it activated on instead of all bullets just automatically traveling to a single part (that sometimes doesn’t even travel to btw) it proc’d on, too many times I or a team member procs void on anything but the head, making it feel frustrating to charge incarnon sometimes when playing as or with a Xaku. Also can make stacking deadhead or keeping it up sometimes feel clunky and/or unreliable at times.
If anyone wants to ACTUALLY make Xaky work closer to Octavia, subsume Ivara's 1 over Xaky's 1 and go for enough duration that his 4 lasts over a minute. Then take Zenurick, and your only energy drain is cheap invis, from which you don't have to move, since your 3 is stationary anyways. Welcome to Octavia experience :)
I don't like either augment and opted to stick with what's good and workable. Xaku's a poor health tank, and there's usually little reason to keep cycling The Lost (it auto-cycles while augmented). They can be used but in much the same way as a health tank Loki; One starts to wonder why.
small mistake near the start 0:35, you said Gyromag systems are only available after rank 5 with solaris, but you can actually buy then for 1k standing each at rank 1 with little duck now if only youtube let creators make fixes to their videos without reuploading -_-
_"If you're a fan of Octavia, you'll _*_probably_*_ be a fan of Xaku"_ Big emphasis on "probably"; I love Xaku, one of my favorite frames. I hate Octavia, unfun & boring to play
They're functionally identical except for the fact that Octavia has more reliable defense and infinitely scaling damage. What makes Octavia so un fun for you?
now do a trumna guide. 15 minutes of kengineer almost tearing his hair out because of an infinite well of inconsistent bogus code even john carmack couldn't fix.
@InsomniacDoggo to paraphrase "I'm not doing a guide on the trumna. I'm the numbers guy not the bugs guy" because trumna has some weird issues where (similar to zylok incarnon for example) multi shot doesn't do anything for it for no apparent reason but condition overload does buff its damage even though going by past experiences it really shouldn't. He could definitely explain it better than me, but i sadly don't have the clip at hand from the xaku build stream.
I replace his 3 for "orphanim eyes" so now instead of having to stick to a place, i just go berserk because now im just a full mobile caster platform that just stares at enemies until they die
Since I'll use his 3 primarily for armor strip, replacing it with Terrify was better for me. As I move a lot, and xaku's 2 kills enemies before I can target with 3, Terrify was the better option for me. Xata's whisper-I want it to exist for the weapons.
Personally i like to subsume xata's whisper for condemn It gives her a much needed consistent survival ability tool and a nice cc extra cc ability She doesn't need extra dmg since gaze already weakens a lot the enemies by stripping them naked,nor grouping ones because grasp of lohk already murders anything I really enjoy xaku,she doesn't need many inputs to play effectively,thus i can relax with her
In base steel path no you don’t need the extra damage but any decently high level stuff like cascade even after armor strip xatas is nice to take down thrax
I know I’m gonna sound “woke” for saying this, but you’re the first TH-camr I’ve seen consistently refer to Xaku correctly. Others will say “it”, or “they because they are multiple frames” but then switch back to he or she out of habit. For some reason whenever people see they/them pronouns, it’s like a switch flips in their head and they have a hard time working with them. But hey, at least they’re trying
I just farmed his parts from Kappa Sedna thats where you get his Chassis, Systems, and Main Blueprint, alongside his Trumna and Quassus also farmed there too Neuroptics from Capture mission in The Void
That is indeed one of the many places you can get relics, I guess, yeah. You can't get Meso Relics beyond round 4 though, consistent Neos require letting 2 conduits blow from round 4 onwards, and the Axi pool is diluted with Gauss Parts. Good all-arounder if you're just starting out in a Xaku Prime farm and need literally everything, but once you eliminate a few of the parts, a more focused farm would do better. Unless you just really enjoy Kappa I guess, then pop off. A farm you enjoy is infinitely better than a farm you don't.
A fun tip for deny: With Vast Un-time active, Xaku can lift any liftable enemies indefinitely. These include acolytes, liches and sister, turning those fights into a joke.
Yes!! I had to pause the video and snapback like he did NOT just overlook Deny's utility--glad someone had the sense to point it out!
10:05 "Kick them right in the b- " I wasnt expecting that
Oh shoot, I totally mistimed putting "behind" on there. My bad 😇
it's genuinely way funnier like this lol
@@TheKengineer Sure you did.... :)
Me either! Instructions unclear! What exactly do I kick them in?
Shows how versatile xaku is. Every content creator I follow have a different xaku build. And I myself ended up making 6 different builds. And now after seeing this I want to make a couple more!
It’s crazy because this is the first warframe where it was new to me and I had enough knowledge and resources to make a few end game builds. And I made 3 completely different builds myself. And can’t wait to try more
I got Xaku P just to set energy color to black and run around with the skin off
That’s exactly why I’m doing, and it looks so good
FINALLY someone mentionds that Xata's Whisper can deal way more damage than Roar or Eclipse. I've been using it on my Ivara since helminth released. Much better for someone who sits in stealth and takes the time to actually hit heads.
As a newish player it was difficult to find some videos breaking down how xatas works. I just knew it was insane as a damage multiplier from gathering clips from gameplay.
It is also pretty strong with blast exalted blade
It also works as a "secondary hit" for Acid shell builds or odd-ball builds that care about the quantity of hits more than actual damage. A while back I found a Nova build that uses Amalgam argonak metal augur + a rakta dark dagger melee influence built + Xata's to armor strip every enemy hit by the dagger, the influence procs from the dagger, AND the explosions of both her 1 and 4. This fully armor strips enemies very reliably while leeching shields through the dagger, spreading rad and electric procs to damage and crowd control, speeding enemies into your kill zone, and still maintaining the 95% damage reduction of her 1.
All thanks to the extra hit of damage from Xata's on any of these effects still being tagged as "dagger damage".
Gyromag Systems are now rank 1 on Vox Solaris. Normally I wouldn't bother mentioning it, but it's a big difference time wise
Remember
Xaku can
And thank the Lotus that Xaku can! :D
Im a simple Tenno - see new Kengineer video, coming in to leave a thumbs up 🤭
comment numero 2: your consistency in doing the mobility trick at the end of this video is incredibly impressive
Woah woah woah, I'm pausing the video, you did NOT just footnote Deny's greatest utility as "making them float for a medium amount of time" this is slander! "medium" means "forever" because this is Xaku, welcome to the Vast Untime, but that little detail aside, you're overlooking what makes Deny useful: it's a rather exceptionally potent form of crowd control, it works on a bunch of stuff that crowd control normally doesn't, like Sisters of Parvos, Acolytes, Whispers, and I'm sure many others, quite "broken" you could say...
One thing you forgot to talk about The Vast Untime:
Enemies slowed by the initial cast's explosion are also given a damage vulnerability to Void, meaning that it also buffs the damage of Xata's Whisper, The Lost: Deny and, most importantly, Grasp of Lohk.
It's not always necessary to make use of this, but it is very useful in situations where your guns just can't do enough damage.
As of Koumei and the Five Fates, this effect now applies to shields, armor and overguard.
Have fun peeling your skin and remember: there are never enough guns to steal.
He did mention it briefly when first talking about the ability, but didn't dwell on it or make note of it after
they need to fix the rooted enemies still moving after, other than that they are really fun to use
Swapping out The Lost for Jades subsume or Styanax’s subsume works pretty good for the more mobile missions too, both are permanent strips, strip shields and armor, and can strip enemies like acolytes or liches
Does Styanax strip Demolists? Don't remember.
Guys I recommend you helminth in harrow’s helminth. You will most likely run max range and 200% str which is absolutely perfect for the wave to get shields back
If you just want shield, straight to pillage
@@nguyenhuyduc9151I think this one basically just comes down to preference tbh
@@nguyenhuyduc9151 pillage has higher energy cost and doesn’t work in infested missions. It’s worse. Bad advice.
@@merilynnshark6144 no he just giving bad advice
@@turkeykent3719 infested missions are ass anyways and armor stripping is better than stun.
I used that movement tech quite a bit during the last Plague Star event. Lots of fun practically outspeeding most Archwings
A "good" crate breaker/loot hunter build that works on anyone is slotting null star on someone with some good energy economy and modding range + augment + archon vitality for double heat procs for it and just run through the level periodically pressing the null star key. Wipes the enemies at that level of content and wipes the crates, then anything that survives and doesn't get vacuumed is probably something fancy.
I dub the movement tech at the end "skelly skidding"
From this whole video my biggest take away from this, YOU CAN ZOOM IN WITH THE MINING DRILL. Im LR1 with 3k hours 😅
Me too! 😂
You can mine without zooming in?
Honestly, I subsumed Xaku's 3 off for Jade's eyes. Hands off slow and armor strip? Sign me up
My first thought when it came to subsumes was this too
I prefer deny for a more careless gameplay plan since enemies behind me will also be stripped and therefor killed by my guns
@Regufyz I personally just find every cycle ability to be clunky. Much easier for me to simply subsume it off and not bother with it, especially since the Xaku's armor strip is relatively stationary. I'm the player that jumps around a lot anyway, so Jade's armor strip only being in front of you is perfect since those will be the enemies I'm focusing on.
But either way, there's no wrong way to play the game.
00:48 YOU CAN ZOOM WITH THE MINING LASER?!?!?!!?
could have used that knowledge 30 mastery ranks ago....
Omg.. I feel like I'm going insane
In regards to your suggestion of bringing silence to deal with violence. Imo, Condemn serves the same purpose, can also take care of all your survivability needs and is a very good crowd control tool. As soon as violence spawns, hit it with condemn. They will just stand still, not activate abilities and get gunned down by your floating guns. Acolytes are hilariously easy on Xaku if u use Condemn.
I've been running the Huras Kubrow with the Mecha Empowered set, and some viral mods on the claws to further boost the damage.
I've had a lot of success hsing secondary fortifier as a means of getting overguard on xaku - their evasion allows overguard to last a whole lot longer, making it an extrmely helpful (if conditional) defensive layer
I've been enjoying the Tempest Barrage suggestion one youtuber, forgot who it was, recently posted. 1 Tau green shard for 98% armor strip is more then enough with the recent armor cap changes and you get AoE viral priming on top of that for a big boost to Grasp of Lohk and your weapons. You also get to keep Xata's Whisper for all the whacky shenanigans the ability has with certain weapons.
Deny being able to lift acolytes, liches and sisters indefinetly is a nice thing to have... but acolytes haven't been a threat in ages with how strong we've become and if I'm doing liches/sisters I'm bringing Gloom Banshee, NOT Xaku, so yeah.
I’ve always described Xaku’s Void damage as Void2, since it had the same status effect as normal Void but has a bunch of hyper specific exclusions, like needing to trigger a status effect on Sentients to reset their resistances, whereas normal Void seems to only require a hit
Always love the random obscure Tech. Adds so much flavor sometimes
Okay time to reinstall and lose another 168h of my life just customising the appearance.
Seeing their lost augment never brought up hurt slightly ngl. Helps reach the defense breakpoint and makes the beam more energy cost effective all in 1 mod.
My go to build with Xaku is high cast speed and energy efficiency with full trip terrify. You just run around, full strip a whole bubble around you instantly, kill everything with your 2 guns and repeat. Your 4 also ends up very cheap so you never have energy problems.
Titanias helminth and health conversion are basically all you need to never worry about dieing again
That last tech is crazy, it's like zoren coptering but in the modern day.
i love my breach surge and nourish build where i subsume over the 4 and build about 120% duration :D really high active shield gate caster with lots of dps and weapon buffs with lots of abilitys from CC (passive and active) with lots of damage from guns and the beam (actually can kill quite high levels of enemys with it alone) and gives the perma scared of death feel from on release xaku that really make me love warframe again :D
Not so sure about that but isn’t Brief Respite and the Augur Mod Set kinda useless for shield gating if you are not casting skills all the time? (Because of his 4th Abbility which stops all the timers.
I personally think running the shield regen delay package (vigilante Vigor, Fast Deflection, Arcane Aegis) to survive feels much more save and synergistic
Honey wake up, TheKengineer dropped s new vid
9:47 wasn’t expecting a Xaku/Octavia comparison but Octavia is way more busted
As a Octavia fan, I love Xaku
I don't remember if this was mentioned but xaku vast untime also applies void vulnerability increasing the damage of whisper, lok, and deny.
I understand where you're coming from with the octavia comparison, but I disagree. Octavia requires a lot more maintenance by virtue of needing to maintain her invis. Furthermore Xaku can move around a lot more and still be quite effective - even on SP their guns can kill most enemies in just a few seconds even without defense strip.
The only reason I actually want a Xaku loadout - Gazing Lephantis
I did not know that parkour trick was possible.
14:34 hello mr kengineer, could you post the link to the loot farming video? :D
here th-cam.com/video/LiQWHsgTRB8/w-d-xo.html 😅
As long as DE doesn't implement Line of Sight for their 4th ability, it's all good
They did no ? In terms of the slow hitting enemies ?
@jpmorgan6146 4th ability still useful to break crates and it ignore LoS
I just wish they would slightly rework the void status effect to just apply more damage to whatever part it activated on instead of all bullets just automatically traveling to a single part (that sometimes doesn’t even travel to btw) it proc’d on, too many times I or a team member procs void on anything but the head, making it feel frustrating to charge incarnon sometimes when playing as or with a Xaku. Also can make stacking deadhead or keeping it up sometimes feel clunky and/or unreliable at times.
If anyone wants to ACTUALLY make Xaky work closer to Octavia, subsume Ivara's 1 over Xaky's 1 and go for enough duration that his 4 lasts over a minute. Then take Zenurick, and your only energy drain is cheap invis, from which you don't have to move, since your 3 is stationary anyways. Welcome to Octavia experience :)
Glass cannon? *laughs in secondary fortifier epitaph and unholy amounts of cc*
Cant kill you something thats already dead
I just changed the third ability with Tharro's Strike, need an eximus problem? don't worry, just press a button and armor no more!
About the gyromag systems
If you have access to vox solaris you can it at rank 1 or rank 2 i forgor
Thanks a lot mate you are amazing
Why not use the augment mod? It saves a lot of mod space otherwise used for strength for other things like more range/survivability.
I don't like either of the augments
I noticed both augments are not mentionned. Are they not worth at all, even in some niche cases ?
I don't like either augment and opted to stick with what's good and workable.
Xaku's a poor health tank, and there's usually little reason to keep cycling The Lost (it auto-cycles while augmented). They can be used but in much the same way as a health tank Loki; One starts to wonder why.
@@TheKengineer Thanks for the precision !
small mistake near the start 0:35, you said Gyromag systems are only available after rank 5 with solaris, but you can actually buy then for 1k standing each at rank 1 with little duck
now if only youtube let creators make fixes to their videos without reuploading -_-
Yay Xaku :3
lol people have discovered the crate cracker frame 😂
I can't pull that last bit off, no speed for me :(
10:05 is why you're the GOAT
Disappointed the SLOW build wasn't called ZA WARUDO
_"If you're a fan of Octavia, you'll _*_probably_*_ be a fan of Xaku"_
Big emphasis on "probably"; I love Xaku, one of my favorite frames. I hate Octavia, unfun & boring to play
They're functionally identical except for the fact that Octavia has more reliable defense and infinitely scaling damage. What makes Octavia so un fun for you?
@@ianjohnson3274 Maybe they just prefer the aimbot image over the shoulder instead of mallet just pulsing damage without much animation
Am i the only one use eclise on xaku 1?
now do a trumna guide. 15 minutes of kengineer almost tearing his hair out because of an infinite well of inconsistent bogus code even john carmack couldn't fix.
Waut what's wrong with Trumna?
@InsomniacDoggo to paraphrase "I'm not doing a guide on the trumna. I'm the numbers guy not the bugs guy" because trumna has some weird issues where (similar to zylok incarnon for example) multi shot doesn't do anything for it for no apparent reason but condition overload does buff its damage even though going by past experiences it really shouldn't. He could definitely explain it better than me, but i sadly don't have the clip at hand from the xaku build stream.
NOO DONT MAKE ME REMEMBER THE GOOFY AMOUNT OF RESOURCES I PROCURED FOR XAKU
I replace his 3 for "orphanim eyes" so now instead of having to stick to a place, i just go berserk because now im just a full mobile caster platform that just stares at enemies until they die
Oh I might do this. thats a cool idea
and also "their* 3".
Your voice is exquisite
Kick them right in the what!?!
I've been waiting on u to cover him you're one of the only ones I trust with the math for this one
Since I'll use his 3 primarily for armor strip, replacing it with Terrify was better for me. As I move a lot, and xaku's 2 kills enemies before I can target with 3, Terrify was the better option for me. Xata's whisper-I want it to exist for the weapons.
Personally i like to subsume xata's whisper for condemn
It gives her a much needed consistent survival ability tool and a nice cc extra cc ability
She doesn't need extra dmg since gaze already weakens a lot the enemies by stripping them naked,nor grouping ones because grasp of lohk already murders anything
I really enjoy xaku,she doesn't need many inputs to play effectively,thus i can relax with her
In base steel path no you don’t need the extra damage but any decently high level stuff like cascade even after armor strip xatas is nice to take down thrax
I know I’m gonna sound “woke” for saying this, but you’re the first TH-camr I’ve seen consistently refer to Xaku correctly. Others will say “it”, or “they because they are multiple frames” but then switch back to he or she out of habit. For some reason whenever people see they/them pronouns, it’s like a switch flips in their head and they have a hard time working with them. But hey, at least they’re trying
To be fair using they as a singular pronoun is confusing af
If they're actually trying they're not trying very hard. It's pretty easy to use they them pronouns
Pronouns are overrated, Spooky skeleton gaming is the key to all of this.
Our true form.
Bro, it’s a digital character. Who gives a fuck about their pronouns….
It's a fictional character, Who cares?
When Kengineer is saying something is broken, I know its not just a clickbait title like the rest of the Warframe 'youtubers'.
Ah Xaku Prime, the most obviously nonsensical Prime... lore-wise.
Revenant Prime close runner up
If regular Xaku was made from the base version of 3 frames, then Xaku prime could be made from the prime versions of those frames
I figured Xaku Prime is a result of Vilcor ("Father") faffing around in his design software.
@@TheKengineer and (I'd say) Protea Prime
@@TheKengineerAnd Valkyr, wasn't she made by Alad V?
literally no different than normal xaku
XAKU PRIME BREAKS THE GAME.
De loves making frames that are worthless on infested.
Dang I'm 15 minutes late
1st
I just farmed his parts from Kappa Sedna thats where you get his Chassis, Systems, and Main Blueprint, alongside his Trumna and Quassus also farmed there too Neuroptics from Capture mission in The Void
That is indeed one of the many places you can get relics, I guess, yeah. You can't get Meso Relics beyond round 4 though, consistent Neos require letting 2 conduits blow from round 4 onwards, and the Axi pool is diluted with Gauss Parts.
Good all-arounder if you're just starting out in a Xaku Prime farm and need literally everything, but once you eliminate a few of the parts, a more focused farm would do better. Unless you just really enjoy Kappa I guess, then pop off. A farm you enjoy is infinitely better than a farm you don't.