my thoughts on xaku

[Herozen]

after playing around with xaku all night and making a 2 forma build trying to work on all fronts, here are my thoughts.

positives:
multiple forms of long range lockdown, good cc frame. not a limbo or vauban but can definiatly hold their own.
with the right weapons, void damage can hit really hard.
decent clearing with the use of 2 to become a walking turret, does fall off at high levels however.
meme potential
nice assets.

negatives:
despite almost all actions being 1 handed, xaku is forced to stand still to cast all abilities other than 1. on top of this, animations are incredibly slow. i was basically forced to run natural talent just to avoid getting run over in high level content.
very energy hungry for what they do, costs may need adjustment.
a bit too squishy
ult is not a damage reduction as said in tennocon, it is a chance to dodge, which is really bad.
really should be a damage reduction to make up for how squishy they are.
ult is both a channel and a duration power, MASSIVE NO! this needs to be changed, either make it a full on channel or a duration power. not both, i'm getting old wukong flashbacks.
passive could be changed. how about instead of having a chance to dodge attacks, Xaku work's like umbra, where they follow the opperator as a spectre.

overall score: 6/10, wait until DE rolls out some patches with buffs before getting too invested.

hope this helped you decide on whether Xaku is a good fit for you

[Herozen]

Originally posted by Kearic:

Personally found him to be pretty awful, was excited but after using him for a while it looks like he will just be mastery fodder for me.

understandable, but remember, all the recent frames recived their own patch roughly a week or 3 after release that buffed and tweaked them into a usable and even good state. remember old protea, old gauss, grendel before triborous's buffs. khora, barruk. all of them got patches shortly after release. i'll give xaku till the end of september until i decide if they're mastery fodder.

[Mr Frog]

yeah i wouldnt make any final verdicts on xaku when he literally hasn't been out for 24 hours

a) you dont fully have a grasp on what he can do yet
b) he will almost certainly get postrelease attention because DE's (honestly very prudent) approach lately is to, quoth Rebecca, start with a baseline power level and make further adjustments based on feedback and usage data. What we have is, intentionally, what DE has deemed the "bare minimum" for Xaku and will be built upon in the coming weeks

it's a bit annoying having to play the new content for a while knowing everything's up in the air and may be changed at a moment's notice but whatever, update good

[Niles]

tbh, i already adore xaku but thats me, solid 9/10 frame for me, i do agree its stupid as hell that their ult is duration and drain though

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

meh after wukong prime no other frame is worth any time
that frame with a 5 forma build on a fulmin is end game nothing lives

[AAND]

Originally posted by FuFo Mortucus:

meh after wukong prime no other frame is worth any time
that frame with a 5 forma build on a fulmin is end game nothing lives

Wukong is just dumb and boring... there are other boring frames that are a lot more fun

[Herozen]

Originally posted by AAND:

Originally posted by FuFo Mortucus:

meh after wukong prime no other frame is worth any time
that frame with a 5 forma build on a fulmin is end game nothing lives

Wukong is just dumb and boring... there are other boring frames that are a lot more fun

thats an oxymoron. something can't be boring and fun. they're opposites.

[[FuFo] Mortucus]

Originally posted by AAND:

Originally posted by FuFo Mortucus:

meh after wukong prime no other frame is worth any time
that frame with a 5 forma build on a fulmin is end game nothing lives

Wukong is just dumb and boring... there are other boring frames that are a lot more fun

define fun because i like being a 1 man army that can solo lich content at lvl 5 like a boss and no ask for help to kill it

like others have said just more MR fodder

[Herozen]

Originally posted by FuFo Mortucus:

Originally posted by AAND:

Wukong is just dumb and boring... there are other boring frames that are a lot more fun

define fun because i like being a 1 man army that can solo lich content at lvl 5 like a boss and no ask for help to kill it

like others have said just more MR fodder

i feel wukong has become the new ash. the warframe people go to if they prefer solo, only really taking people with them if they have something they need, like a speed volt, buff wisp, or octavia for endless steath.

[AAND]

Originally posted by herozen13:

Originally posted by FuFo Mortucus:

define fun because i like being a 1 man army that can solo lich content at lvl 5 like a boss and no ask for help to kill it

like others have said just more MR fodder

i feel wukong has become the new ash. the warframe people go to if they prefer solo, only really taking people with them if they have something they need, like a speed volt, buff wisp, or octavia for endless steath.

Even zephyr can be a one man army -.-

[Khanwolf]

i couldnt wait for Xaku, but he drives me away from this game after thousands of hours of loyalty.

his dmg buff is ok, but in comparison to other frames he is just mediocre and can only buff himself instead of the team.

i bought him to have the Grasp of Lohk. i thought this ability is useful, but after testing it with max strength on Railjack enemies, it doesnt do any damage at all! It fires only 2 times supported by primed continuity and will do no damage to massive levels at all. Compare that to Protea´s turrets please. i chose enemies with assault rifles, just to find out the weapon type doesnt even matter.

it cannot kill the enemy you stole the weapon from. If you are able to steal the weapon, because it has a long animation time and no range at all. (6m)

his ult is inefficient as mentioned above. his 25% evasion is cranked up to 75%? i dont even feel a difference there at lvl 100+. the damage buff for his Void Deny is a bit higher then, but it costs hundreds of energy just to use such an underperforming ability. who at DE thought the energy drain is justified for an underperforming ability?

all of his duration based abilities are just a few seconds long while they heavily underperform and come at MASSIVE energy costs. they are fun at lvl 5 enemies and will just be NO ALTERNATIVE for using your weapons or another frame.

i brought him into Railjack missions, Steel Path, Sortie and directly to Deimos with Max Duration or Max Strength or even Max Range and in all 3 cases he just underperforms and i can see no damage evasion at all, he just melts away above lvl 65.

DE does really not know what they are doing anymore.

[Yeahtoasty]

it needs some duration and strength buffs to all of its abilities to me to properly enjoy.

especially the 2 feels a bit bugged. since the guns you spawn seem to have terrible range, even when im right infront of enemies it doesnt seem to notice said enemies, and the duration is too short for the low range and low damage to be compensated for.

i feel like this frame will be buffed by quite a lot within the coming weeks to make him more playable, as currently Xaku feels like a worse version of other frames you can already play.