If you are like me and have always wanted to play the poster boy in high level steel path, well here is the time to do it.

I think personally [Excalibur] is the best melee frame in the game because we can now boost his melee dps up so high that things just split in half in 0.01 seconds.

Wrathful Advance is there for very obvious reasons. we use this skill to boost the melee crit chance to huge percentages for constant juicy red crits. You dont have to put Wrathful Advance on 4. i just did because all this frame is known for is his 4th ability and i wanted a build that doesn't use Exalted Blade at all.

Playstyle: run into battle press 3 then 4 (or 1) and use 2 to shield gate. gap close with 1 or melee weapon and slice the enemies in half like the true god of swords!!

The main weapon we will be using is Nikana Prime to take advantage of his passive and its a heavy attack machine. However any melee will work as long as it is primarily slash and does a lot of raw damage. https://overframe.gg/build/614738/

Companion: Diriga for the Arc Coil mod to help spread more status with either Helstrum or Sweeper Prime for the weapon. build for pure status Virial and Heat

Archon Crystals: 2 green for increasing the max stacks of corrosive we can apply. 2 yellow for casting speed and 1 red for melee crit damage.

Necessary things: Naramon school with power spike passive. Augur Pact and Augur Seeker on secondary weapon.

Unnecessary things. Use the Daikyu and its Amalgam mod for 3% life steal with Nikanas. Its saved me a couple times but im just bad at shield gating.

I hope you like this build. This is my first time actually putting a build like this together. Thank you for reading this and have a nice day. <3