opinions on xaku?

[⎛⎝Sharkestry⎠⎞]

do you like playing as them?

[ICANTAIM]

Very fun to play but costly frame need like 4-6 forma to be usable, min-max builds, need meaty arcanes like arcane energize cuz spamming 4 is costly since xaku uses blind rage for builds. Up to you tho I personally play Xaku a lot. The 100% armor strip with gaze is handy (need 200+% power strength) and running around naked with lots of stolen guns is a lot of fun :)

[BloodravenD]

I've only tried Xaku a few times, and while I do like the whole having 14-15 weapons firing at enemies for you, the whole set of abilities seems underwhelming. I've not used any formas as I wasn't sure if I was going to keep using Xaku or not, I know I put in a reactor at the very least.

Running Corrosive Projection for the aura slot, Overextended, Primed Continuity(9/10), Augur Secrets, Augur Reach, Vitality, Primed Flow(8/10), Intensify, and Stretch. I'm using Arcane Victory and Molt Augmented, for my arcanes. I would swap out the Arcane Victory for Arcane Energize, if I had it, but between using Zenurik's energy well, and the pickups you find, you should be topped up enough to cast your Vast Untime, when it's getting close to running out.

[Sphinx of Black Quartz]

I like Xaku a lot. Potent frame, but like Mag they are a bit fragile, require advanced mods, and have a high skill floor. Then again, that probably makes more sense for Xaku than for Mag, since Xaku becomes available much later in the game.

But still, Xaku has a heck of a toolkit: #1 provides a potent damage buff, #2 is a disarm, #3 has a confuse and an armor-strip, and #4 extends the duration of #1 and #2, while providing a passive bonus to movement speed and dodge. They're one of those frames that isn't always the best choice for a mission, but they're never a bad choice.

[Vogel]

Have not used them
but their deluxe skin is cool, I will buy that once it releases

[Z3pHyr]

ill consider using him when the prime version is out

[Pakaku]

Underrated and underplayed by me

[Sphinx of Black Quartz]

Incidentally, Xaku is the first nonbinary frame! DE consistently refers to Xaku with "they" and "them" pronouns. It's nice to see some enby representation in Warframe.

[jonnin]

Originally posted by Sphinx of Black Quartz:

Incidentally, Xaku is the first nonbinary frame! DE consistently refers to Xaku with "they" and "them" pronouns. It's nice to see some enby representation in Warframe.

how is incorrect grammar anything meaningful? They and them are plurals. A singular frame is one, and requires a singular pronoun. "It" works, as its a machine, not exactly alive (the WF lore does blur the lines of alive or not, but our personal frames seem to be not alive apart from excal umbra). This isnt any sort of anti-anything post, mind you; I am against mutilation of the language in this way but have no problem with your whatever sexual robot or whatever IRL situation. Or, simply put, IRL, is it ok to call an individual a them? Hey look, its Riley, them is my friend!

[Coffeefiend]

Xaku's kit is damn strong if you can feed it enough energy.
1 free magnetize spam with extra damage
2 infinitely scaling Mesa ult but 10x better
3 get more minions than Nekros, complete armor and shield strip, firin your lazor
4 more of 1-3

Probably the strongest kit in the game atm.

[Midas]

They seem alright, but I subsumed mine before I played around with them much. Will reassess when they go prime.

[Sphinx of Black Quartz]

Originally posted by jonnin:

how is incorrect grammar anything meaningful? They and them are plurals. A singular frame is one, and requires a singular pronoun.

Sigh. I should have known somebody would wig out over this.

First, "they" as a singular third-person pronoun has plenty of precedent in the English language. (It actually predates Modern English, as it is first recorded in the Middle English of the 14th century.) If it's good enough for the Bard of Avon, it's good enough for me.

Even if that were not the case, language evolves, driven by usage and cultural needs: When we need a word for a thing, we invent or co-opt a word for that thing. That's why "computer" means something very different now than it did two centuries ago.

Originally posted by jonnin:

This isnt any sort of anti-anything post, mind you

Uh-huh.

Originally posted by jonnin:

; I am against mutilation of the language in this way but have no problem with your whatever sexual robot or whatever IRL situation. Or, simply put, IRL, is it ok to call an individual a them?

Yes. It is okay to use "them" and "they" as third-person singular pronouns. If you don't like it, take it up with Shakespeare. Or Chaucer. Or Austen. Or Merriam-Webster. Or the Cambridge Dictionary. Or the Oxford English Dictionary. Or... well, you get the idea.

Originally posted by jonnin:

Hey look, its Riley, them is my friend!

In this case, Riley is the subject of your sentence, so you would use they, not them, the same way you'd use he or she instead of him or her. I would expect that somebody so worried about the "mutilation of the language" would at least know the difference between a subject and an object. (Also, that's a comma splice, but hey, who am I to be prescriptivist at you?)

[DLOZanma]

Originally posted by jonnin:

Originally posted by Sphinx of Black Quartz:

Incidentally, Xaku is the first nonbinary frame! DE consistently refers to Xaku with "they" and "them" pronouns. It's nice to see some enby representation in Warframe.

how is incorrect grammar anything meaningful? They and them are plurals. A singular frame is one, and requires a singular pronoun. "It" works, as its a machine, not exactly alive (the WF lore does blur the lines of alive or not, but our personal frames seem to be not alive apart from excal umbra). This isnt any sort of anti-anything post, mind you; I am against mutilation of the language in this way but have no problem with your whatever sexual robot or whatever IRL situation. Or, simply put, IRL, is it ok to call an individual a them? Hey look, its Riley, them is my friend!

Ignore Sphinx, but Xaku is indeed a "them". Not because of some dumb sexuality crap but because it's literally made of scraps of 3 different frames lost in time. It's also the reason why their 3 has 3 completely different abilities unrelated to the frame's other powers.
Also it's only energy hungry if you want to spam the beam, honestly.

[Midas]

Originally posted by Sphinx of Black Quartz:

Yes. It is okay to use "them" and "they" as third-person singular pronouns. If you don't like it, take it up with Shakespeare. Or Chaucer. Or Austen. Or Merriam-Webster. Or the Cambridge Dictionary. Or the Oxford English Dictionary. Or... well, you get the idea.

Not to mention that Xaku is a composite of 3 different frames, so you could use 'they' in the plural sense as well and it would still fit. Anyone trying to pretend that they can't use appropriate pronouns for Xaku is using mental gymnastics.

[jonnin]

True, didn't think of being made from 3 frames part. I can accept that.
they is my friend -- as a single person ... that I don't really accept. It may be technically right, but its still awful. And I am not 'wigged out'. It can call theyself whatever, and if they sounds like forrest gump, I will happily cheer they on.

[Midas]

Originally posted by jonnin:

True, didn't think of being made from 3 frames part. I can accept that.
they is my friend -- as a single person ... that I don't really accept. It may be technically right, but its still awful. And I am not 'wigged out'. It can call theyself whatever, and if they sounds like forrest gump, I will happily cheer they on.

'They are', not 'they is'. It's not a new concept to use 'they' when the gender is either ambiguous or not applicable, and 'it' is never used to refer to a person. 'It' refers to an object. You know how to use it properly, so don't act like it's something unfamiliar to the language.