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.
Pretty unfortunate that it seems the best way to survive is just nuking everything. It seems like buffed elements (Shock Trooper/Thermal Transfer) don’t buff Exalted Blade, I was hoping that I could use Melee Influence to force cold procs onto everything.
The current best non-subsume I can think of is making use of Arcane Trickery and opening enemies up to finishers with Radial Blind/Zakti/Dizzying rounds.