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Release Date: August 25th, 2020
Of the Void ethereal, yet coalesced into corporeal shape, the fractured anomaly Xaku exists as an entity thrice entwined. Fused from the shattered remnants of three warriors, they bridge reality to the horrors from beyond the fold. Xaku reassembled in Update 29.0 (2020-08-25).
Lore
Xaku is a composite of three Warframes that used to be beneficiaries of the Entrati. Throughout the ages, the trio were lost to the Void. Over time, their shattered remnants fused together into the being that is now known as Xaku.[1]
Acquisition
Xaku's main blueprint will be awarded upon completion of the Heart of Deimos quest. Xaku's component blueprints are acquired from Cambion Drift Bounties. The 
Neuroptics are obtained from Bounties lvl 15-25, 
Systems from lvl 30-40 and 
Chassis - from either lvl 40-50 or Steel Path lvl 100; each of those can be acquired from any stage beyond the first one.
Additional main blueprints can be bought from Cephalon Simaris for 
50,000.
Additionally requires the rank of Old Mate with Solaris United in order to access Heist Bounties and Vox Solaris and therefore acquire 
Gyromag Systems required in its construction.
Crafting
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 25,000 |
1 |
1 |
1 |
 Orokin Cell3 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: 325
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 Blueprints Price: N/A
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| Xaku Neuroptics Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
 Neural Sensors10 |
 Thaumic Distillate60 |
 Sharrac Teeth20 |
 Esher Devar40 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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| Xaku Chassis Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
Gyromag Systems 5 |
 Spinal Core Section3 |
 Venerdo Alloy50 |
 Lucent Teroglobe50 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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| Xaku Systems Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
 Breath Of The Eidolon10 |
 Scintillant5 |
 Pustulite45 |
 Ganglion60 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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Notes
- When Xaku wields their signature
Quassus, the weapon's ethereal daggers become more accurate. - Xaku's Void damage is only capable of proccing its Bullet Attractor status and resetting Sentient and Shadow Stalker resistances, and only Xata's Whisper and The Lost's Deny can do this. Their Void damage lacks all other benefits, including bypassing Eidolon-type Sentient invulnerabilities and changing Profit-Taker Orb's shield weakness.
Trivia
- Xaku is the 44th unique Warframe to be released.
- Xaku is the second community-designed Warframe after Nova. Xaku's theme selected from the chosen entries is "Broken Warframe", suggested by forum community member eaterofstorms.
- Xaku's abilities were selected from multiple suggestions by hundreds of community members in the Open Call forum threads, with a Void-manipulation power theme chosen by the developers.
- Community artists involved with the design of Xaku and their accessories include: Eornheit (Warframe concept art), Faven (alternate helmet), Kedemel (signature weapon), and Karu (signature Syandana).
- Because Xaku is an amalgamation of three different Warframes, Xaku is the first Warframe to not have a distinct gender, being addressed by DE as "they/them".[2]
- Despite this, concept art for Xaku shows that they were originally designed as a distinctly feminine Warframe. Some elements of this early design were incorporated into the final version.[3]
- Xaku's idle, dodge, and ability animations involve the fragmentation of their body parts and exposure of the arboriform skeletal structure beneath.
- Xaku is the sixth Warframe with unique rolling animations, after Limbo, Hildryn, Wisp, Titania Prime, and Protea, where Xaku launches themselves forward a short distance while their broken pieces come apart and reattach onto their energized skeletal form.
- Xaku becomes fully skeletal in appearance while The Vast Untime is activated.
- Xaku is the sixth Warframe with unique rolling animations, after
- Xaku's ability names relate to four Requiem Mods: Xata, Lohk, Fass and Ris.
- The Lost's name may refer to part of Fass' description ("Roiling, moaning this realm of ours / In madness lost shall die") and the name of its sub-abilities - Gaze, Accuse, and Deny - are taken from Ris' description ("In luminous space blackened stars / They gaze, accuse, deny")
- Xaku is the first Warframe to possess an ability buff that deals Void damage.
- Xaku is the first Warframe to break the trend that all Warframe base attributes are multiples of 5.
- Xaku's skeletal form has a visible face with distinct eye slits and eyes within them, marking them as the second Warframe in the game to have visible facial features, after Excalibur Umbra.
- When Xaku is unarmed and using Wisp's Agile animation, they will split into their composite and skeletal form. This is similar to Wukong, who summons his Celestial Twin with the same animation, or Equinox who will split into her Day and Night forms.
References
- ↑ "This Warframe Xaku. Somewhat of a family themselves. A sum of many, a composite of others we lost in the ages that our Entrati family has served here." - Grandmother at the end of the Heart of Deimos
- ↑ Confirmation Tweet (Archived)
- ↑ Concept Art Tweet (Archived)
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441 comments
I think xaku will not be traditional prime frame but become very uniq one maybe like exca umbra or the first incarnon frame? or build like chroma? use diff prime part for the main one. because let be logic, how can xaku be prime frame they come from 3 diff broken frame
My favourite genders are DPS and Support. Xaku is clearly a DPS.
it was confirmed that the next prime after sevagoth will be lavos and then xaku, the rotation of primes is 2 males and 2 females, that is, xaku's gender is finally officially confirmed, so end of discussion :)
The skeleton form of the default skin is female while the deluxe skin is male, what do I want to add to the discussion? That Xaku was originally supposed to be a female Warframe
Doesnt really matter what they originally were going to be designed as tbh cause it's not what we have now, and I don't believe we've had any kind of confirmation about gendered skins especially considering how redundant it would be with their current lore now, and ultimately very few Deluxe skins are actually canon at all
Are we really arguing about the gender of a warframe thats made up of 3 other warframes we wouldnt even know the original physical forms of, let alone each one of their genders?
Where was this confirmed...?
Conspiracy: Xaku Prime comes after Sevagoth Prime
There has been a consistent m-m-f-f pattern followed in the prime release patterns, which obviously posed a question about Xaku as they're neither, so where to put 'em?
Answer: have 1 f (Protea Prime) and 1 m (Sevagoth Prime) before Xaku so that there's no pull one way or the other.
(I will not accept being wrong about this)
Then why did they skip over Lavos?
Nah the next prime is jade (real)
These damage changes with jade shadow update nerfed Xaku, even with full armor strip it now takes longer to kill the enemies with Grasp of Lohk to the point where the whole room is stacked and everyone is unkillable with Grasp of Lohk lol
I used to run around 4h survivals but now it struggles just around 15min with the same build + companion primers, know that I NEVER used primers before these changes
So for now I'll stick to Protea if doing long survivals
If you want similar gamestyle play Protea with the augment(s), if I weren't a Xaku main I'd swap from mains
I knew something felt off when I started playing again recently. Would you be willing to explain exactly what they did that made Grasp of Lohk so much less powerful? I Definitely feel it ingame, but I cant find anything in the patch notes that would explain why the ability is so much weaker now.
Search for "Armor Changes" in the 36.0 Jade Shadows patch notes. OP can probably provide more insight, but the combination of armor caps & increased enemy health would make armor stripping less helpful than before.
"Armor Adjustments" rather
For the people that might come looking for answers.
Before the changes, for an enemy to have let say 10K Effective Health Points (EHP) while having 100 HP it could need to have ~ 29 700 armour (99% Damage Reduction)
So you needed to do 10k damage to kill an mob with that much armour and HP.
But if you removed the armour, you only needed to do 100 damage, armour stripping was that strong, giving you on occasions a x100 multiplier.
With the recent changes, armour is capped at 2 700 = (90% Damage Reduction) so the same mob could have only 1000 EHP.
So to balance that out, that 100 HP mob had their health increase by x10 = 1000 HP * 90% Damage Reduction = 10k EHP.
Same EHP as before the armour changes.
This was a nerf by proxy to bleeds and armour stripping META (Needed for the health of the game IMHO) where frames that relied on the enemy's damage like Xaku's two, got nerfed indirectly.
They either need to scale the damage mobs do as well as their health (people could cry) or just buff Xaku to scale better with levels (If the nerf was accidental, if it's intended, then well, that's life i guess)
I wonder how much of a stretch it'd be to claim that Jade might be one of the lost warframes that Xaku is composed of. The description for Ophanim Eyes sounds a bit like how Gaze works, on a broad level, so with similar theming in the names and similar functionality (minus the revive feature) I can see Gaze being a void-twisted version of that ability.
Well we know where it went. We've been collecting it and throwing it into the sun, so I don't see how it ended up being lost in the void. Besides, I thought the three warframes were supposed to be three that were assigned to the entrati and were able to be lost to the void because the heart of deimos and the albrecht laboratory is a thing there.
But it does open up the possibility that the warframes who became xaku could've come from different periods of time.
The way Jade's ohpanim eye's ability is worded as an "accusatory gaze" that strips armor and shields though is a very strong similarity.
Im pretty sure that the warframes which xaku was made of have been confirmed, seer,rampant and arana, the gaze ability may have came from seer
^like, the gun?
I can't wait for him to be primed. Or her, I guess? One of those two.
They, since it's three of them at once
Ménage à trois
Welp, rip
The Huitzilin syandana (styanax deluxw's syandana) can be seen in the form of xaku's skeleton, in the UI it may not appear, but in the opening animation of this syandana it is visible
So suppose a question, Male or Female for prime? Bets wise is Xaku will be in the female rotation due to her female skeleton & design
Female for sure. It was concepted as and looks like a female frame, and would mess with the regular schedule of frame releases too much if Xaku Prime was released anywhere other than right before or right after Protea. Yareli would have to be next otherwise and I doubt DE would push her release forward about a year ahead of time for stupid idpol reasons.
Idpol? the fuck does that mean. it's better not be some stupid gamer phrase like "identity politics" or something equally retarded.
DE for the Prime frames releases, they do 2x male 2x female 2x male 2x female repeating, so more less a question on which would xaku be put in the males or females cycle
Using the last several primes release, Garuada > Khora > Rev > Baruuk > Hildyrn > Wisp > Grendel > Gauss > Protea
You can use accuse on an enemy and then trap them with gaze, and then 4 to pause the timers and enemies will attack it because its affected by accuse, but still invulnerable from gaze, so he kinda has a pseudo loki clone. you can even keep it active as long as you have energy ( are running zenruk as your focus school )
Why is everyone so angry about "unplayable this, unplayable that."
Listen, as long as it fun to you, it fun to you.
Is it True that Xaku is the coalesced remnants of the three warframes destroyed by the Myrmidon as retold in the IVARA LERARIAN???
No, it's a theory that doesn't really hold up. The frames that make up Xaku fell into the void somehow, the frames in the Ivara leverian were destroyed outside of it
Xata's whisper:
>"[...] empower all equipped Weapons[...]"
>Sometimes it doesn't empower archguns
Literally unplayable
Lmao
DE needs to allow us to keep the original fashion when transform,
They did something similar to Gara when her prime released so it wouldn't surprice me if Xaku gets the same treatment when their prime release
I see a lot of people talking about how good Xaku is, but I gotta ask, are they fun? I don't really need another warframe capable of nuking an entire tileset in 5 seconds, they can almost all do that, i just want a fun dude to goof around with.
I liked, I'm having fun! khora is strong too but I think is boring keeping weping here and there, or saryn with her spores, xaku is pew pew and strategy about armor stripping
"Xaku is pew pew and strategy about armor stripping"
Wow, i didn't had any idea that now we're defining as "strategy" the braindead play style of simply walking around with a bunch of ghost guns at your side literally playing the game for you as what this Warframe in particular has to offer.
I'm not entirely sure about how, but this community can really touch an unprecedent level of delusion sometimes.
y'know...The strategy isn't the "pew pew" part. it's the "about armor stripping". Specifically the fact that you actually have to place and stay around the fields in order to deal meaningful damage against grineer with the guns.
Considering the average playstyle in this game is simply walking around with actual guns and pressing the trigger button when you see an enemy in your general direction, I'd recommend playing a different game if you're looking for actually deep combat. Especially if you feel the need to come to a discussion page and complain about the usage of a specific word.
What? Don't you appreciate the 4D Chess-tier strategy involved in using Rhino? You have to see if there are enemies around to shoot you before you press the ability button and everything, its an entire separate videogame in and of itself!
"non binary" is a political term and is unsuitable it is not even a sex. Androgynous (genderless) is the correct term
https://www.oed.com/search/dictionary/?scope=Entries&q=sex
Non-binary is not a political term but an umbrella term for the gender identities that are not part of the traditional gender binary (man or woman).
By all technicality, Xaku and every other warframe is nonbinary with the exception of umbra since they're not sentient and don't have gender, they would all be agender.
You are also wrong about the androgynous part since androgynous and genderless (agender) are completely different things.
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That last lone tenno was wrong. Other Warframes have distinguished gender and Xaku is the only genderless one.
Of course they're non-binary. They're three Warframes, so they're trinary! Ha!
But the greatest question of all: How does one pronounce their name?
[Kshaku]?
[Ksaku]?
[Shaku]?
[Saku]?
Zah-ku
/ˈzɑkʊ/
Ah hell nah they Umbra’d the Undertale guy!
They made the funny bone man more voidy.
Are they good for Eidolon hunts? Cause void damage stuff
No, only amp damage works on eidolons.
Imagine being such an incompetent develoent studio, at tge point to think that nerfing hard Khora making her Whipclaw as a shitty LoS ability would have sopved every single balancing problem, when we have these toxic Xaku main nuking the entire tileset until level cap by doing literally nothing else than sitting afk :)
That is standard procedure. Nerf current OP warframes/weapons then release the next OP warframes/weapons.
Meanwhile me seeing a video where khora was doing 4 million damage by pressing 1: wtf this guy is talking about it
My khora hits for 8 mil <3
Big grind but worth it. All of their abilities together, stacking damage, disarm, dodge chance and armor strip means you can go mildly AFK in most missions. Xaku's survivability is occasionally an issue as they have no reliable healing (the Vampiric Grasp augment is a bit too clunky IMO), but in most cases you'll be passively dodging and auto-targeting enough that things are dead well before they're a threat. One of my mains for sure.