The first warframe, master of the sword, influence goes brrrr - Excalibur!
Passive: Excalibur has improved mastery in the Tenno art of the blade, receiving +10% Attack Speed and +10% damage bonuses for melee attacks while wielding swords, dual swords, nikanas and rapiers.
Slash Dash - Dash between enemies while slashing with the Exalted Blade.
Radial Blind - Emits a bright flash of light, blinding all enemies in a small radius for several seconds.
Radial Javelin - Launches javelins towards enemies, dealing high damage and impaling them to walls.
Exalted Blade - Summon a sword of pure light and immense power.
Acquisition: Available as one of the three starting Warframe options. Otherwise his main blueprint can be purchased from the Market, component blueprints can be obtained from defeating Lieutenant Lech Kril on War, Mars.
I tried Baruuk but I missed the mobility from Slash Dash too much, lol. I also can’t get the same numbers or speed from Baruuk that I get from Exalted Blade.
In terms of native survivability, you build around Slash Dash since it iframes you, albeit without protecting your shields, and I don’t believe Overguard either. For Circuit, as long as you’re running Fortifier on your secondary, there’s a bug with the decrees where one (or several?) will actually inherit Fortifier onto all of your weapons, although I don’t know which one/s. The melee kills -> overguard decree will do you too.
Otherwise it’s just Vaz spam, hope you like Magus Cloud.