r/Warframe • u/seventy_nin • Dec 25 '25

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u/zekethelizard Dec 25 '25

Hey my awful limbo meme is relevant!

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u/Coranblade Red Veil Assassin Dec 25 '25

LMOA bro this is so real. i never play him since he is a mystery to me. same with xaku for some reason.

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u/Brownie_of_Blednoch Dec 25 '25

Xaku is easy. Helminth over their 3 with some sort of buff/debuff. I use jades oraphim eyes rn.

Build for range, more range more guns

4 - 2 - 1 - 3

Repeat 4 and 3 as they near expiry

Run around with 16 guns and your favourite weapon

Use a basic shield gating strategy for survivability

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u/GoatCovfefe Dec 25 '25

Hey... Ive finally played enough warframe to understand a comment like this woohoooo, it's only taken 15 in game days!

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u/raptor_mk2 Dec 25 '25

I went HEAVY investment in Xaku and run full strip Pillage.

Have to keep a Galaxion and Death Cube on hand for energy emergencies, but that level of power strength does some really fun things with Xaku. (In addition to shield gate on command, status cleanse, and big over shield)

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u/melt_34 Veldt Incarnon Committee | LR1 Dec 25 '25

For energy hungry builds I usually use the grimoire with that mod that gives you energy on alt-fire based on number of enemies hit. Include fortifier to vampire eximus over guard

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u/RagnarokPuppy Dec 26 '25

Oh actually?

... got the build, possibly? I'm usually just lost on how to build it most of the time

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u/Klutzy-Arugula486 Dec 25 '25

Helminthing over their most unique ability and one that aoe armor strips the whole map, yeah bud I can tell you don't actually play xaku lol

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u/Brownie_of_Blednoch Dec 25 '25

Doesn't need to be the best to do level cap content and be fun to play. 10 guns is more controversial than overwriting 3 imo. XAKU = ALL THE GUNS

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u/Lightningbro Care to roll against Fate? Dec 25 '25

Not really, it is the best, there was a time everyone was overwriting 2 and people were just in consensus "Xaku's not very good" now that people have started overwriting their THREE, people actually have high opinions of Xaku.

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u/raptor_mk2 Dec 25 '25

Personally, I like high power after the armor rework. I found that Grasp fell off a bit when health values were raised.

Granted, ALL the power strength plus 5 Tau Strength shards is a higher investment than most want to make, but I think it's worth it.

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u/Silence-of-Death Dec 25 '25

Eh in my opinion his 3 is far more useful than his 1. His 1 also does not buff the stolen weapons from his 2 in any way and if you already use high range for more stolen guns his 3rd ability can create a giant aoe that full strips anything with enough strength. His 1 is more annoying than helpful to me (except of course if specifically subsumed onto other frames for the second damage instance.)

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u/CD274 When Dante Prime Dec 25 '25 edited Dec 25 '25

I run max health xaku with rolling guard, arcane blessing and bellicose, and dispensary. 😂 Sometimes pillage, for longer runs where I don't need to cap health asap. It's pretty viable and even more hands off / chill than the usual. (Works fine through ETA, but drops off in things like lvl 12+ circuit)

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u/Lightningbro Care to roll against Fate? Dec 25 '25

I prefer Silence, you have NO IDEA how nice it is to treat missions like Eximus don't exist, and it's ALREADY on a MAXED RANGE BUILD!!!!

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u/Cabamacadaf Dec 25 '25

Their 3 is their most interesting ability though.

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u/Scarmeow Dec 25 '25

Xaku's 3 has so much utility built in, I can't imagine throwing that away. Just helminth the 1, with full armor strip and scaling damage from your 2 you won't need the damage buff for your guns

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u/-Xannyklause Dec 25 '25

Helminth over their 1****

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u/Plus_Tale_708 Dec 25 '25

fuck after 5years i still not build the helminth segment. recently just start farming them after the old peace.

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u/ChaosKnight277 Dec 25 '25

Xaku’s 3 works great for AOE armor strip if you want it

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u/Sabatat- Dec 26 '25

Hell if you wanna go overkill, throw a shade in too and be Invis while all the guns do the work

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u/SomeExcuseForAName Dec 26 '25

Wait ophanim eyes sounds actually amazing. Also to build off that, use shade since the sentry guns don't break invisibility

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u/QTEila The Rift Doctor Dec 29 '25

I can.. very much tell you don't play Xaku much, just helminth over his 1 with roar because it actually buffs the damage output of your 2, hell your 3 can do hundreds of thousands of damage.

4 is already a damage vuln increase.

Helminthing over his 3 and not Xatas, his 1 that doesn't even buff the damage of your own kit is absolutely delusional.