Warframe - Xaku: A Skele-TON Of Broken Potential

all right listen up i have a question for you what happens when de decides to give the creation concept of a new frame to their community of pseudo-sentient flashbacks that's right i'm talking about you the people who actually buy discounted scadas from darvo the ones who still play lenaro and yes even those who still think that clem is the epitome of comedy linguine ravioli you people you are the ones that de trusted to make sensible decisions with their golden goose of a video game so did it really surprise anyone when we got form threads full of exactly the kind of quality that you would expect what what am i looking at my personal favorite is whatever the hell this one is but eventually d narrowed down the list to suggestions that most likely weren't created by literal goldfish hurtling themselves at typewriters and once the dust settled from the community vote we were left with the broken frame concept as the winner fast forward many months later and we've gotten zaku a fnaf exoskeleton looking [ __ ] who couldn't be more of a mixed bag if they were birthed from some chex mix and yet despite that zakko has probably my second favorite kit design in the game and by that i mean the tools they have in terms of how they function really tickles my fancy a weapon damage buff an aoe armor strip a hand laser a mind control cc and of course being able to pull off your own skin it's all things that i quite like and mind you this is all on the same frame who can do this i'm not being hyperbolic when i say that zaku has my second favorite kit design in the game the only way i could be happier is if they gave me a copy of cyberpunk 2077 and fed me white cheddar cheez-its on a couch but the effectiveness of these tools is a completely different story see zekko at the time of writing has a kit that functionality wise is the equivalent of a car that can drive but has a flat tire a broken ac and a door held on with just duct tape and the tears of orphans and by the way no the irony in that analogy being attached to a frame whose literal concept is that they're broken is not lost on me zaku can do what you need them to do but they don't necessarily feel good to play or do what you want them to do but this is an interesting time for me to cover this frame because de has just announced that they're getting a second round of buffs so this video is going to be in a weird in-between area and it's also guaranteed to be outdated soon so what i've decided to do is to use zaku's current state to compare and contrast with what's being changed because otherwise we'd be waiting another 50 years for a video upload and it doesn't help that de hasn't given us a release date for when these changes go into effect so [ __ ] me so given all that just keep that disclaimer in mind this will be a video that hopefully will get outdated very soon and only remain as a relic of when zaku was pee-pee poopoo but right now zaku's kit is cool as [ __ ] but has the functionality of a lead balloon time to [ __ ] on them here we go zada's whisper allows zaku to channel the power of pure calcium to flow through their veins which obviously gives you a void damage buff an extremely simple power but one that is unfortunate enough to be stuck with a shuttery that is void procs and i can't stress the shittery in that sentence enough seriously [ __ ] these things you see the food procs themselves are garbage the only advantage they offer is making it easier to hit an enemy which would be great if this were a game where you actually had to aim but what makes it even worse is that it prevents you from getting headshots at least in most cases and while i could be wrong on this part i think having void damage added to a weapon reduces the odds of its other damage types from procking and if i'm correct on that and i always am i've never been wrong in my entire life then that is also kind of an issue given how bad the proc is so the only advantage you're getting from zada's whisper is the raw damage increase which is fine on crit based weapons but not so much for everything else this can result in zada's whisper actually making your weapon hit like a whisper in some cases also for some reason the game doesn't internally count void as an actual status seriously what which makes it even worse because that means it doesn't proc growing power or get benefits from condition overload holy [ __ ] fuckboy but luckily an upcoming change to void procs is making it so that the bubble will draw projectiles to whatever body part the bubble was procked onto which makes weapons like the zymos splur in anticipation but as for void procs not counting as a status they didn't say a fix was coming for that so cross your balls and pray though if you want my opinion even with those changes i still think this is probably gonna be the power that you would want to replace with something from the wall fleshlight if you had any inclination to especially if you're put off by the fact that void procs don't really benefit melee which is unfortunate because this act would mean turning your back on the power of calcium and almost guarantee a permanent ban from r never broke a bone now onto what i would say is zaku's signature power grasp of luck aka unlimited gun works and this power is in no short supply of appeal if you think being able to pull a bunch of floating guns literally out of thin air isn't the coolest [ __ ] ever i would like to ask that you refund all the oxygen you've used up to this point in your life now i've gone on record saying that some of the best abilities are the ones that play the game for you whether developers like it or not at some point in a live service game's lifespan the most fun thing to do with it is to have it play itself it's why i like tools like flechette orb and cataclysm so much oh look how good i am i'm so good at this [ __ ] video game anyway rasp of block is in a similar vein it allows you to make every texas conservative's nightmare a reality by taking away an enemy's weapons and using them against them now because de tends to fight against afk styles of play the base firing range on these guns is incredibly small being only 8 meters and this has been a hotly debated topic since zaku's release for me personally i kind of don't have a horse in that race my guns tend to sit around 15 to 18 meters in terms of firing radius and they take away the entire need to aim and shoot for yourself and remember this is a game with exceptional mobility options so for me personally i haven't had too many issues with its range i'm still quite able to force a grineer to reenact the ending of red dead redemption with me the guns also do pretty good damage against light and medium armored units and since they deal void damage they benefit from the void damage increased debuff that zakus 4 inflicts onto enemies in other words stripping in front of as many enemies as possible makes your guns hit harder now this power is also fun because it's essentially radial disarms cooler cousin it can disarm a large number of targets in a very respectable radius on top of giving you what is essentially a range limited aimbot though it does have a target limit and it can't reach quite as far as what radial disarm can clasp a flock also in its current state has a mind of its own a mind riddled with tumors and dementia like for example it will constantly shoot any target affected by gays you know the invincible target the target with invincibility the invincibility given specifically to gaze targets that target it will just shoot it over and over without end luckily this is getting fixed fake [ __ ] additionally past the glock has decided that it will not shoot anyone that's been affected by accused which is a cc effect that's part of zaku's third ability which why seriously white accused isn't meant to cause enemies to do meaningful damage to each other it's just for distracting them seriously look at these two it's [ __ ] embarrassing it's a cc not meant for damage so having the guns ignore them serves no purpose because these enemies aren't worth keeping around to hurt each other so just [ __ ] shoot them and oddly i didn't see anything about this being fixed in the workshop so i guess we're being left in the dark until further notice on that issue but overall with the pole range buffett god it's a much more consistent tool now so well done dee now just fix literally everything else i don't ask for much and because no new frame is complete without some sort of power cycle or hold slash tap mechanic here we have the lost essentially three powers in one the lost joins an ever-growing pool of psychopowers that refuse to adopt color-coded icons and if i had to describe each of them all with one word each it'd probably go like meh accused causes zaku to point at enemies and accuse one of them of being an imposter i'm voting blue i saw him in her event i hear people [ __ ] on accused from time to time but seriously think about it for a second this [ __ ] is literally just a more consistent nyx chaos enemies will only attack each other and plus it has a pretty huge range and also has the luxury of being aimable over what seems to be an infinite distance so if you need a button to quickly stop [ __ ] from attacking someone or something throwing the cues out isn't a bad idea hell it even stops interception caps so bonus points there boys it does have some really stupid and nice energetic properties with gasp of slop but besides that it's a pretty good cc though it does have one major weakness at the moment it cannot be recast even if there's just one enemy left that's under its effects you can't cast accused again until you kill them or yield yourself into a [ __ ] pit and this is kind of a huge issue that i find really baffling that de didn't catch prior to their release like how did an issue that necros had years ago not get caught here luckily the recast issue was getting fixed as well and if they didn't fix it i was gonna throw a [ __ ] fat gays allow zaku to turn an enemy into an armor stripping field and unfortunately gaze also happens to be in my opinion one of the more lackluster armor strips and it also shares its name with the ket gun part so from now on i always have to make the [ __ ] distinction as to which gaze i'm talking about this case this gazer this case anyway the first issue i have with gays is its range it's pretty [ __ ] terrible and it's especially noticeable on either large tiles or open worlds it wouldn't be an issue if the ability wasn't designed to be a stationary field but alas it do be gays pales in comparison to most other armour strip ranges in the game from vauban's bastille to hildren's pillage to inverse fire blast and while they're not aoe strips i'd argue even seeking shuriken and psychic bolts are better just because they have range and don't rely on enemies walking into a radius speaking of zaku has no inherent way of keeping enemies in the field it's not like bastille where enemies are held inside of it meaning they're liable to just run out of it gaze is also limited in only having two fields out at a time and if you [ __ ] try to tell me who dude just infused marvel into them i'm going to slap your cheeks into your [ __ ] rectum we are not going to start using helmuth as an excuse for this sort of [ __ ] and while de has said that they're going to be buffing its base radius by 4 meters i'm still not convinced that's going to be enough to help it compete with other strips because of this next issue enemies are only stripped for as long as they're in the field they don't even gradually get their armor back the instant they step out of it they immediately revert to their base armor value compare that functionality to well literally every other strip in the game other armor strips either run off of a timer or are permanent not [ __ ] dependent on whether enemies are in a damn circle or not and to top it all off you need a 200 power string to get a max strip which for certain frames isn't hard to achieve depending on how many stats or dump stats for them but zaku needs a decent amount of everything yes they even still need a bit of duration even with the buff to fast on time because you need to keep their energy to duration ratios not terrible and mind you i was able to reach 200 percent but it really [ __ ] with build variety it's especially annoying because most other strips in the game don't even need that much to do a full strip and some frames like gauss and ember just use their own special type of meter to get their strips so they barely have to build for theirs at all gaze is just way too situational of a strip it has poor range minimal cast instances high strength requirements and requires you to kindly ask enemies to not leave its area of effect and lastly we have deny and holy [ __ ] [ __ ] more like we've been denied a good power seriously this thing is ass it's a straight beam that does damage and lifts anything that survives it into the air and that's about it deny fails to be useful as both a worthwhile damage tool and a cc i mentioned on twitter that it did have potential to be a tank buster power like an extremely narrow tool mainly meant to one tap larger targets for a heavy energy cost and it seems like de was trying to make it into that at least judging by the first round of changes but like always they seem to have really underestimated how much they needed to buff it okay so get this [ __ ] the only way you can get this thing to do decent damage to say a level 100 heavy gunner is to get them into a gaze radius which is already a [ __ ] joke but then you also need to hit them with vast untimes debuff but wait we're still not done you then have to use blast of crocs to get some guns because the hand laser scales with how many guns you have now now you can cast your laser well what would you [ __ ] do that means that you have to spend at base efficiency 300 energy just to make this damn beam work once it is that bad it's also funny because deny reminds me of wukong's original one a power that even some of de's own staff such as pablo agreed was nearly useless because of its linear nature and yet they seem to have forgotten that and just decided no yeah sure be more but like i said this could actually be worth it but d has to step out of their comfort zone and give this thing a [ __ ] ton of damage like a lot like on a scale of a baby with a boxing glove to phil swift we need to round that meter over like 40 [ __ ] times if it's meant to be a tank buster power this is what has to happen to make it so but i won't hold my breath because de is probably thinking values that high would rip a hole in the space-time continuum anyway while i do think that zaku's one is more expendable to helmuth purely because of what accused can offer you in regards to stopping enemies in their tracks i still wouldn't blame you for replacing the lost either the entire set is just kind of meh at best the vest on time sole purpose is to remove your fashion oh yeah and it also slows enemies makes them weaker to avoid damage gives you 75 evasion makes you move faster and also got an entirely new effect that we'll be talking about shortly but i digress all of that is a bizarre mishmash of effects and not what i would expect of an ability that turns you into a [ __ ] skeleton but then again what exactly what a power that tears your own skin off dude anyways fast on time has a bit of an identity crisis basically just saying here's 5 million effects that are a mix of buffs and debuffs now [ __ ] off so just for a brief rundown of my thoughts on each of the buffs the void damage increased debuff for enemies is quite spicy for zakku's 2 and hopefully with the changes to void procs it'll give you a little more reason to use their one the dodge chance boost i'm kind of meh on since dodge prevents things like adaptations and any on-hit arcanes from triggering thus making it an anti-synergetic survival stat when compared with other forms of survivability so i'm kind of indifferent on this buff and would honestly prefer it to be dr instead the 20 movement speed increase yeah gotta be honest i barely even notice it and i honestly literally don't even care about it because we're already in a game in which we can outrun zeus using nothing but our ass cheats so unless you give me a boost on the level of volt or gauss i sleep also the movement speed buff isn't affected by your power strength so get [ __ ] and the slow down effect well we'll get to more of this in a bit so yeah fast on time was in this really weird spot of giving you a whole lot of [ __ ] that you usually didn't care about kind of like your grandma at christmas that is until someone in the community came up with a brilliant idea that truly shattered all other notions and concepts that we as human beings thought were revolutionary to our species what if the name of the power made sense so then de made it so that while fast on time is active it freezes all of your ability duration timers which certainly helped this power come into its own you know instead of it feeling like a beef stew with all the meat picked out of it essentially making it so that the only duration value that matters is vast on times as long as you keep recasting it you pretty much never have to recast any of zaku's other powers if you don't want to this effect does wonders for zaku's energy pool especially with their really shitty modding potential so for example you no longer have to worry about their 2's piss-poor base duration but unfortunately the freeze doesn't apply to any abilities that you subsume onto zaku always a catch with this sort of thing so the slow effect of this power is interesting if you feel like meme building see if you're willing to stack nearly every power strength mod with growing power in power and maybe a pax bolt kit gun proc and or a knight of spectre it is possible to get the slow effect to be 100 percent in uh other words now mind you this wants an absolutely [ __ ] absurd amount of power strength on a frame that already wants a lot of everything else zaku isn't like [ __ ] hildren who doesn't give a single iota of a [ __ ] and can build for pure strength and suffer nearly zero consequences for it no no no no no trying to do this on zaku really [ __ ] them up in other areas and because zakuz4 wants line of sight you can't really use it the same way as something like limbo stasis but it is there if you really want to be a time lord in general though my biggest problem with vassen time is that it deletes your fashion dude seriously there's no reason to not be invest on time all of the time reject flesh and muscle return the skeleton so i don't know i would like to see the visual changed in some way see as much as i despised when this power was both a channel and a duration at least it gave a reason to not be constantly walking around with no [ __ ] feet what are those and look i don't think i have to say this but i love being a skeleton we all are skeletons and like all of you i extract mine once a week to polish it to a mirror shy but not being able to see my fashion it kind of hurts chief take it from someone who plays loki and i know this might seem like a meme complaint but i'm not [ __ ] around fashion is a huge deal please zaku as a whole like i said functions but they are in dire need of quite a lot of touch-ups but like we mentioned before those touch-ups are coming and they seem to address most of what is getting my panties in a twist though i still suspect that denying gays will be kind of mediocre without a proper look at deny's damage it's just gonna be wukong's original one all over again and gaze losing its effect once enemies leave the circle makes it a pretty damn subpar strip in comparison to things like fire blast or pillage for example i would also obviously love to see vast on time's dodge chance effect change to damage reduction and you know for it to not make me look like a [ __ ] anorexic iron giant at all times but in the end zaku's kit is one of my favorites in terms of design and as long as de doesn't play 180 and take away any of the upcoming changes i think they'll be in a good place you know who's not in a good place though um this guy because now i'm off to do more of my stug run i would rather drink a jar of spoiled mayonnaise [Music] goodbye you

Channel: Triburos

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Keywords: Warframe, Xaku, Triburos, Review, Overview, First Impressions, Build, Xaku Build

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Length: 21min 15sec (1275 seconds)

Published: Wed Oct 14 2020