One thing that Xaku’s deluxe skin does really well is give you back fashion options while the Vast Untime is active. If anything, they kinda look better while the ability is active than they do while inactive
I think it would be neat for Xaku's Prime to slowly regenerate the parts destroyed throughout the duration of its 4th ability. I also love the "teapot" deluxe skin. Maybe they could implement gold along the cracks of the "pots" for its Prime to simulate that Japanese repair technique.
I actually have my teapot skin, using a jade base and gold cracks. I had no idea this idea was more common. Looked so good I couldn't subsume my first xaku
Yeah Xaku has to be the frame I’ve put the most love into. I have 4 crimson tauforged archon shards slotted so I can have the 200% strength needed for total defense removal without sacrificing efficiency, range, or duration and also have both of my arcane slots available. Playing an auto-turret has never been so much fun and is one of my go-to frames for archon mission (prior to hunts), steel path circuit, and arbitrations right next to my nourish Styanax and gloom Grendel.
Xaku was actually the first warframe I ever saw due to starting the game when heart of Deimos released. I honestly really like the design and I'm currently working on getting Xaku. The only thing really holding me back is it needing stuff from other open worlds
I'm almost done with the Sharrac teeth and esher devar and I need a couple more gallium for the thaumic distillate but after that the only thing left is those damned gyromag systems from Fortuna that need max standing
@@thewanderers97all you gotta do is talk to little duck,rank up her standing to operative which i think is the next rank after normal rank,then you can get the gyromags for 1000 standing each,to rank up and also get standing for her you need toroids which you get from these three big building areas on the map in orb vallis,by killing random enemies you should end up getting one,you just gotta stay consistent
These videos are really well made. Been playing about 3 years, but It's cool to get some history on these Frames, and see how they've evolved since their launch.
Amazing video, been loving all of these as a rather new player. Also i no one gonna mention how smooth the transition at 12:53 is?, he's been doing a good amount of these every here and there, clean editing.
You forgot to mention one of the most egregious things DE did to xaku: on release, when you used the vast untime, xaku would only shed their skin, while armor pieces and syandanas would remain, but that got removed...
correct me if i'm wrong but isn't xaku made out of ivara's squad? I remember someone said that ballas sent out a squad with ivara being the leader to hunt down some behemoth or very big monster on deimos and they failed and only ivara escaped
I recently saw a video covering xata whisper as helminth on mesa and how it works on her regulators it's pretty busted considering how fast mesa shoots
The fact that Xaku's void guns scale with enemy level is enough alone to not worry about power strength, range is where it's at. I also subsume over the 3 ability (everything gets shredded anyway) with ensnare or nourish, depending on the build... Also, the "Fleet Footed" decree in circuit is one of the best because you'll be moving too fast for enemy AI to lock on to you, but your guns will still be aimbot perfect (you actually have to actively try to get downed, even at lvl cap)
@@johnathangee1161 Yeah, range boosts a few different things. 2 of my Xaku builds are max range (280% IIRC). Power strength helps, but is not as important.
@@eliaspanayi3465 I usually sub out the 3 ability trio cause Xata's is pretty nice (I think it synergies with the other void abilities, but I might be wrong) and I shield gate with 1 because Xaku doesn't get hit often so I don't really need the full gate.
Great video for a great frame, love their kit since its very effective at dps, while also still being fun to play, all this at the price of your fashion sadly
Xaku, the bastard that made me farm for a long time. Always my go to i'm doing Steel Path cause, you know "broken". I run Cedo + Xaku, everything just go brrrr status with 100% Armor Strip.
Mirage night eclipse was damage reduction, I was more referring to Xaku introducing actual evasion (Dodge chance) as a stat into an ability rather than a play on theme/ideas of a power, but Mirage was also an evasion centered frame you are right about that (Hall of mirrors, night eclipse and prism working together to make Mirage harder to shoot at), something I forgot to take into account here, will correct it when I get to making a mirage video later down the line.
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you mentioned how on release, Xaku was unable to cast their other abilities while the vast untime was active.
Not sure about ExcalUmbra doing the emotes during the video, but OK. Maybe switch to some nova “umbra” using your inner fashion warframer? Otherwise, good video. Xaku is just broken. Enough to break the game.
I have a not really a theory theory, since Xaku is a mass of parts and can't be classified as male or female and also again is just random parts there can be no Xaku prime as they only release in MMFF order. (obviously we'll get Xaku Prime on day but if a dev ever says we won't mark this as the day I was right on the internet) (I also have a theory on why Primes exist but that's for another day)
I remember when Xaku first released and I find it's design being very creepy. A Warframe made of pretty much garbage and other unknown materials from long past somehow alive. You don't know Xaku's intentions given how expressionless it is wondering what will do next. I hope when Xaku prime releases, it will look more unknowly creepy.
Accuse is an absolute lifesaver on solo steel path circuit defense and excavation on later rounds. Friendly enemies drawing fire to themselves gives you a chance to cast your other powers and focus on high value targets like thrax or eximus.
The most broken frame created in the most broken way, with a weirdly broken community, in an already broken af game. . How broke are u Tenno?~ Baro Kiteer 🗿
Frost video please, I am begging. I just put in 5 tauforged shards ( 3 casting speed and 2 energy) and even wrote a short story I'm planning on producing into an animatic.
Hold up. Xaku is the THIRD frame themed by the community (really, the Design Council). Nekros was the second, after Nova, and the Design Council voted on the abilities Nekros would have. The wiki doesn’t mention this for some reason. And yes, that means we could have avoided Nekros having a loot-themed ability entirely. One of the other skills in the same poll as Desecrate was a life siphon. I forget what the others were.
I still wish they didnt remove his attachments when he casts 4 incarnon weapons even change from skinned weapon to the incarnon form and vice versa lazy
I’m so fucking pissed every time I see someone say Xaku was bad on release. Xaku received almost exclusively quality of life buffs; their damage output wasn’t actually affected by the buffs. On release they already had the best damage output of any Warframe in the game but were hard to mod and god forbid players actually have to think when modding a frame. The buffs were great and made Xaku easier to use but suddenly the people previously calling me an idiot were now parroting the exact same things as me and copying my PRE BUFF builds and saying they’re broken. Just like Grendel, Xaku was a top tier frame but too difficult to use for most people. At least when they made Xaku more easily usable they didn’t give them the biggest nerf in Warframe history like they did to my poor boy Grendel.
Xaku in design not only embodies the capabilities of the Void but also the depraved ingenuity of Ballas. Imagine losing three of your precious designs to the Void before even having a chance to commit a blueprint of them, seeing them return/finding them Frankensteined together, and making a blueprint of THAT.
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Which is your xaku build?
I love the new umbra stills these definitely fill up the space in a nice way
the embodiment of using they/them not because they are nonbinary but because they are literally several people
Venom reference
Multiple personality disorder warframe hell yeah.
I like to think everyone in the xaku plural system is also an enby. They/them²
Xaku is the only living creature I call a they/them because for me it makes sense 🤷♂️
Like they are 3 people (Warframes) in one being
A colletive gestalt of several conaciousnes
One thing that Xaku’s deluxe skin does really well is give you back fashion options while the Vast Untime is active. If anything, they kinda look better while the ability is active than they do while inactive
Looks waaay cooler as a skeleton than the normal armor
I think it would be neat for Xaku's Prime to slowly regenerate the parts destroyed throughout the duration of its 4th ability. I also love the "teapot" deluxe skin. Maybe they could implement gold along the cracks of the "pots" for its Prime to simulate that Japanese repair technique.
I actually have my teapot skin, using a jade base and gold cracks. I had no idea this idea was more common. Looked so good I couldn't subsume my first xaku
Yeah, the kagura skin is awesome
I can't unsee the idea of Xaku Prime looking like Mami Tomoe. 😅
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Xaku is one of my favorite frames in the game their kit design is good and really fun to use
Only frame that I keep every vanilla ability.
@@breakthecode4634Nidus.
I put nourish on his 1 for that sweet sweet energy@@breakthecode4634
Yeah Xaku has to be the frame I’ve put the most love into. I have 4 crimson tauforged archon shards slotted so I can have the 200% strength needed for total defense removal without sacrificing efficiency, range, or duration and also have both of my arcane slots available.
Playing an auto-turret has never been so much fun and is one of my go-to frames for archon mission (prior to hunts), steel path circuit, and arbitrations right next to my nourish Styanax and gloom Grendel.
I use 164 STR and Corrosive projection aura. This gets your the (62 + 18 =100%) armor strip you need while saving space.
Xaku was actually the first warframe I ever saw due to starting the game when heart of Deimos released. I honestly really like the design and I'm currently working on getting Xaku. The only thing really holding me back is it needing stuff from other open worlds
Im in the same boat, those damn Gyromags are the only thing i need but i hate Fortuna 😅
I'm almost done with the Sharrac teeth and esher devar and I need a couple more gallium for the thaumic distillate but after that the only thing left is those damned gyromag systems from Fortuna that need max standing
@@thewanderers97all you gotta do is talk to little duck,rank up her standing to operative which i think is the next rank after normal rank,then you can get the gyromags for 1000 standing each,to rank up and also get standing for her you need toroids which you get from these three big building areas on the map in orb vallis,by killing random enemies you should end up getting one,you just gotta stay consistent
These videos are really well made. Been playing about 3 years, but It's cool to get some history on these Frames, and see how they've evolved since their launch.
Holy hell, I just drank milk this morning hoping that my bones will be better, then I saw this vid. Gee, I wanna be a Xaku main now thanks to this
Amazing video, been loving all of these as a rather new player.
Also i no one gonna mention how smooth the transition at 12:53 is?, he's been doing a good amount of these every here and there, clean editing.
The terraria cave theme music never fails to be a banger, even in this video 😂
It’s Xaku time yesss, time to see another great video I’ve been anticipating
For a second i thought it was because he got shot by the MIGHTY SEER but then I remembered there would be nothing left if that happened
You forgot to mention one of the most egregious things DE did to xaku: on release, when you used the vast untime, xaku would only shed their skin, while armor pieces and syandanas would remain, but that got removed...
Thanks for your hard work amazing video
Great video man 👍
The Xaku deluxe bundle was one of the best bundles i spent plat on
4:00 fucking what, no, it was one of the strongest powers in the game since launch, it just got quality of life improvements
correct me if i'm wrong but isn't xaku made out of ivara's squad? I remember someone said that ballas sent out a squad with ivara being the leader to hunt down some behemoth or very big monster on deimos and they failed and only ivara escaped
Hi Nova im sure its amazing as always💜
He’s one of my favourite frames.
Xaku is an absolute fucking blast to play, and I love how well they fit a fan-voted Warframe into the current and ongoing lore.
I recently saw a video covering xata whisper as helminth on mesa and how it works on her regulators it's pretty busted considering how fast mesa shoots
The fact that Xaku's void guns scale with enemy level is enough alone to not worry about power strength, range is where it's at. I also subsume over the 3 ability (everything gets shredded anyway) with ensnare or nourish, depending on the build... Also, the "Fleet Footed" decree in circuit is one of the best because you'll be moving too fast for enemy AI to lock on to you, but your guns will still be aimbot perfect (you actually have to actively try to get downed, even at lvl cap)
Maybe that's my issue I don't go for range
@@johnathangee1161 Yeah, range boosts a few different things. 2 of my Xaku builds are max range (280% IIRC). Power strength helps, but is not as important.
@@Wooskii1 i only have one range mod anyway 😔not worth it
Sub out his 1 for something to shield gate with and go for 200% strength and pile on the range.
@@eliaspanayi3465 I usually sub out the 3 ability trio cause Xata's is pretty nice (I think it synergies with the other void abilities, but I might be wrong) and I shield gate with 1 because Xaku doesn't get hit often so I don't really need the full gate.
Great video for a great frame, love their kit since its very effective at dps, while also still being fun to play, all this at the price of your fashion sadly
I leveled xaku and immediately fed them to helminth, I'm 10 seconds into the video and I can't wait to see how stupid I am for not playing them
Xaku is so good. Clears low level content akin to old ember, scales extremely good, flexible builds. Underrated ESO warframe.
I used Xaku for SP Duviri Circuit after not touching him for a long time. He did surprisingly well for a while.
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Xaku, the bastard that made me farm for a long time. Always my go to i'm doing Steel Path cause, you know "broken". I run Cedo + Xaku, everything just go brrrr status with 100% Armor Strip.
Man, i like your titles, can you do some videos on what warframe used to be or cut content from devstreams.
how on 16:30 you have those weapons on both side and not only on one side??
Xaku. They Promised Frankenstein frame, but instead gave a scary spooky skeleton frame.
I knew this frame was good the minute I saw it. I love being right 😂 my 2nd favorite frame
jesus your putting otu so many videos love em all
normally its about a video at the end of every week, but because of Tennocon I got this one out early!
Music choice is insanely based. Where else am I gonna find modded terraria music and Spark the Electric Jester music?
8:23 knot in the brain. yes. probably.
bro of mine played xaku: says he's afkframe 2.0 if done right.
bro got bored and left.
Xaku is a walking 💀
Damn bro video after video. What a chad keep up the grind bro❤.
idk how people make xaku r34 like the main mechanic is getting naked
Am I misunderstanding something here ( 3:00 )? Xaku was certainly not the Frame to introduce evasion in builds. Was it not Mirage w/ her old Eclipse?
Mirage night eclipse was damage reduction, I was more referring to Xaku introducing actual evasion (Dodge chance) as a stat into an ability rather than a play on theme/ideas of a power, but Mirage was also an evasion centered frame you are right about that (Hall of mirrors, night eclipse and prism working together to make Mirage harder to shoot at), something I forgot to take into account here, will correct it when I get to making a mirage video later down the line.
Hell yeah new vid!
If xaku able to generate energy by itself i wouldnt subsume nourish to her...synergy between its kit are very fun and good
Her?
Between zenurik arcane energise it would be easy to generate enough energy, especially if you are killing as often as you should be
Xata's Whisper + Toxic Lash+ Contagion Cloud + Venom Dose(optional) + Mutalist Cernos + Split Arrow + Gas proc + Panzer(optional) = Fart Hell.
Finally, a button warframe! I wish Enqinox had the same idea.
Xaku is literally a they/them causing mayhem
Random terraria underground music theme XD
I never got (and still don’t get) why Xata’s Whisper is so popular, I’ve subsumed it off on 1 build and put Nourish on him.
free unresisted damage with a unique status that provides both crowd control and makes heads easier to pop
It feels so weird to hear Terraria music in a Warframe video lmao
Correct me if I'm wrong, but I don't think you mentioned how on release, Xaku was unable to cast their other abilities while the vast untime was active.
You could still use powers while 4 was on, its just before the changes to 4 your energy would deplete very fast since it was an energy drain spell.
@@NovaUmbral Right, I understand, I'm misremembering in that case, thanks.
1:42 😭
Just started playing him again and he has underrated synergy , he definitely isn’t just his 2
Not sure about ExcalUmbra doing the emotes during the video, but OK. Maybe switch to some nova “umbra” using your inner fashion warframer?
Otherwise, good video. Xaku is just broken. Enough to break the game.
How do you get so many weapons grabbed I can only grab 8 max
Would love to see protea
How do you get your guns to float on both sides of you and stay that way?
Cant wait for how Kullervo shanked Warframe
I have a not really a theory theory, since Xaku is a mass of parts and can't be classified as male or female and also again is just random parts there can be no Xaku prime as they only release in MMFF order.
(obviously we'll get Xaku Prime on day but if a dev ever says we won't mark this as the day I was right on the internet)
(I also have a theory on why Primes exist but that's for another day)
Primes exist to give some suck to your wallet,draining your money
Xaku's name appears as white on many Prime calendars, where Blue is Male and Pink is Female, expect them around summer 2024!
yes, another banger
Oh damn, hearing how Xaku became a beast from the hot garbage it was on release makes me want to get back into Warframe
Xaku is GOAT
Awesome but... where Lavos? 😂
His skeletal form looks much cooler tho
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name any warframe and i could tell you why xaku is better
xaku
i hate these titles with passion, good video though
Xaku is the only warframe that can be addressed as they/them
fake nova
Xaku > protea & mesa
I remember when Xaku first released and I find it's design being very creepy. A Warframe made of pretty much garbage and other unknown materials from long past somehow alive.
You don't know Xaku's intentions given how expressionless it is wondering what will do next.
I hope when Xaku prime releases, it will look more unknowly creepy.
So he is built from prime garbage?
And Preferably/Hopefully released on halloween this year
Xaku is made of other Warframes not garbage lol
It would be awesome if Xaku Prime keeps the look and is just a mash of broken prime parts from other warframes
@@charlieprexta5052it's unlikely, but I think it'd be awesome if their design was composed of elements from upcoming/unreleased prime frames
2:35 it's endo-skeleton, not exo-skeleton
Accuse is an absolute lifesaver on solo steel path circuit defense and excavation on later rounds. Friendly enemies drawing fire to themselves gives you a chance to cast your other powers and focus on high value targets like thrax or eximus.
Xaku is such a strong warframe that when you search in your inventory « broken » it’s the first thing that comes up.
The most broken frame created in the most broken way, with a weirdly broken community, in an already broken af game.
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How broke are u Tenno?~ Baro Kiteer 🗿
Imo, xaku s rework was the best out of all the reworks ever done by DE. They made him playable
Frost video please, I am begging. I just put in 5 tauforged shards ( 3 casting speed and 2 energy) and even wrote a short story I'm planning on producing into an animatic.
Hold up. Xaku is the THIRD frame themed by the community (really, the Design Council). Nekros was the second, after Nova, and the Design Council voted on the abilities Nekros would have. The wiki doesn’t mention this for some reason.
And yes, that means we could have avoided Nekros having a loot-themed ability entirely. One of the other skills in the same poll as Desecrate was a life siphon. I forget what the others were.
ahh design council! interesting, didn't actually know that they came up with Nekros
Ummm, exoskeleton is....outer skeleton, not normal one....
I still wish they didnt remove his attachments when he casts 4 incarnon weapons even change from skinned weapon to the incarnon form and vice versa lazy
Finally, Xaku. I've been waiting for this
When they first released, they were weak baby.
Then, they found the milk, and everything changed.
Nidus Prime used to be my main, now it's Xaku/Hydroid Prime.
Bro is literally the FalseSwipeGaming of Warframe
Posted right before I got to work perfect to listen to while I clean great vid as always
Hey can you make a build video were you use the build in the video with the over shield your playing
Probably breif respite and harrows condem subsume
I feel like it makes more sense for xaku to be the eidelon frame but that's just me
Nova I love your content and respect it. Can you please do a video on my beloved Kitty Valkyr😢
Valkyr will be in the next polls after Equinox's video!
I’m so fucking pissed every time I see someone say Xaku was bad on release. Xaku received almost exclusively quality of life buffs; their damage output wasn’t actually affected by the buffs. On release they already had the best damage output of any Warframe in the game but were hard to mod and god forbid players actually have to think when modding a frame. The buffs were great and made Xaku easier to use but suddenly the people previously calling me an idiot were now parroting the exact same things as me and copying my PRE BUFF builds and saying they’re broken. Just like Grendel, Xaku was a top tier frame but too difficult to use for most people. At least when they made Xaku more easily usable they didn’t give them the biggest nerf in Warframe history like they did to my poor boy Grendel.
You’re killing it bro keep it up
Xaku in design not only embodies the capabilities of the Void but also the depraved ingenuity of Ballas. Imagine losing three of your precious designs to the Void before even having a chance to commit a blueprint of them, seeing them return/finding them Frankensteined together, and making a blueprint of THAT.
Deny, gaze, accuse, sound familiar? Check the requiem mods (yeah I’m smart trust also I’m talking about the kit before release she had)
"But was that always the case?"
Me who just finished watching Triburos's video on how terrible he used to be: Uhhhhh no.
ah yes that one powerful non-binary warframe... but also *DAMN BOY HE THICC BOI, THATS A THICC ASS BOI!!*
For the last time Tenno! We are not they/them because we are non-binary...
*Activates 4*
Its because we are 3 Warframes!
I love Xaku so much, their name is sick, and amazing kit, they were my first frame (besides Zephyr but that doesn't count)
I think that xaku prime should be crafted like the normal chroma but with prime parts
...how did you customize your lander like that? Asking for a friend.
Am I the only one who noticed the terraria music in the background???