I do not use all warframes or have all built to perfection so few mods or arcanes are not maxed/equipped but there's note below every build. More warframes coming soon.

Shards are only mandatory on mesa, ivara and nezha so their builds can actually work, rest is just a tiny bonus you can add

Rate 5 pls

I just built her today, and I was really impressed how she performed even after sitting in my arsenal for over 5 years. Ngl I've never expected to enjoy playing banshee on cascade.


Subsumed Gloom over sound quake.

Gloom extends stun from silence so you have more time to locate weakspot made by sonar.
Resonance is nice addition as it helps to spread sonar to new enemies without need to cast new one.
In case you don't have external armor strip, replace Rolling Guard with Sonic Fracture augment.
If your shields ever got deplated, just cast sonar to regain full shield.
If you don't feel confident enough you can add 1 more forma and swap Power Drift with Primed Sure Footed.

1 yellow casting speed
4 red ability strength

Insane damage, insane damage reduction, insane sleep.


Subsume Wrathful advance or warcry over 1st ability

By going more into strength and range we can have really strong exalted weapon and alot of daggers for damage reduction. With this build and fully stacked molt augmented we have over 600% status chance on reactive storm. Exilus slot on desert wind can be for discipline's merit.
Archon stretch for energy regen with desert wind.

4 purple melee critical damage
1 yellow casting speed

Caliban, Taliban??? idk

Im not sure if this is a proper build for him but this is by far dumbest thing I've ever seen. This build is focused around Razor Mortar augment and ortholysts.


I think Coaction Drift on exilus slot would be a best choice.


not 100% sure but I think that Purple shards for ability damage on electricity status should work
so the setup should be
4 Purple mentioned above
1 Yellow casting speed
If it's not working, then
4 Red strength
1 Yellow casting speed

Another warframe that doesn't need subsume (in my opinion ofc) and also great support.

Exilus slot is flexible
Augment allows for transfering weakspot on enemies

1 green tauforged for max corrosive stacks
1 yellow casting speed
3 red duration shards

Honse away (no honse)

Ya like damage redirection? Viral damage on abilities? Death evasion?
I have good news for you!
Dagath has everything listed above and also a little spice up...

Exilus for power drift.
Subsumed Ophanim Eyes over Cavalary
So now Dagath also have armor strip!
Because of lack of ideas I had no clue how to make her survive longer so I just put some shield recharge delay mods and arcane aegis and honestly, It seems to work fine.

1 Yellow casting speed
4 Red ability strength

We want more strength so Ophanim Eyes can strip faster

She's like the cheapest warframe to build. First build is easily 0 forma.

Set her emmisive color to bright to start in day form. Cast 3 for ability strength then 4, then cast 1 to swap to night form. Few kills and you accumulate around 1million damage, then simply swap back to day form and press 4 to nuke. Easy ESO focus farm.

Set emmisive to any bright color for day form. Shield gate/armor strip with pillage. Run madurai and grimoire with vome invocation for more strength. I recommend slam melee or glaive. Do the following:
Alt fire grimoire on enemies to stack ability strength > switch to operator and void sling few times > switch back to warframe > cast 3 > cast 4. With this you have huge headstart with ability strength, repeat this later once you stack molt augmented. Just never cancel 3 after that. Gameplay loop is simple: Kill few enemies to stack it to 1mil damage, then detonate it and repeat.

1 yellow for casting speed
4 red for ability strength

For Pillagequinox
1 yellow for casting speed
1 yellow for parkour velocity
3 purple for melee critical damage

No one plays ember but I have build for her for unknown reasons

I honestly have nothing to say about her, she's just caster frame

1 yellow casting speed
4 red strength shards

Glass, glass, ummmm, glass cutter?

Nothing ever happened in update 38.5
Jokes aside, gara is really funny exalted spammer. Range, scaling and her design - honestly peak.

(note for future self: Forma her one more time for maxed equilibrium and put Power Drift in exilus slot)
Subsuming nourish over spectrosiphon gives viral and more energy to maintain splinter storm.

Shattered Lash build

1 yellow casting speed
4 red strength
More strength more energy mult, duh?

At this point Im too exhausted to even make short introduction as I always do.

This build is focused around her pseudo-exalted talons.

Subsumed Dark verse over blood altar for more slash procs. Blending Talon augment allows garuda talons to gain 100% combo count chance on enemies affected by slash, also her 4 has now tap to activate making 9m AoE around Garuda. Molt reconstruct to regen hp after casting abilities so bloodletting isn't THAT lethal, arcane fury for more talons damage.

Talons build
Because of augment we can stack x12 combo fast so weeping wounds and blood rush is perfect for this. As for nowadays melee influence is the only choice.

Simple thermal sunder gauss build.
VERY IMPORTANT!!!
To use this efficently you have to swap tap/hold of thermal sunder!
To do this simply head to settings and find this option:
Then just change gauss to inverted and that's it.
Build relies on stacking thermal sunder and nuking it for high kpm.

Gauss third ability "thermal sunder" applies cold or heat on enemies. tapping casts heat, holding cold. By casting both of them on enemies it creates blast which is sum of damage from remaining DoT of status, since cold caps at 10 its better to use heat. Gauss 4th ability "redline" doubles heat procs and archon vitality also doubles heat procs, so we achieve 4 heat stacks per cast. By stacking around 20-30 heat stacks you can reach even millions of damage and high kpm. Archon flow helps with energy.
Archon Vitality is mandatory
Archon Flow is optional

5 red for duration

Gyre just stole electricty out of volt but she's very good. She is mix of caster with self buffing capability.
Exilus slot is flexible. I recommend subsuming her first ability to breach surge or ophanim eyes for armor strip.

You have 2 options what shards to insert on her. Either you choose all purple with ability damage on electricity or red full strength for more crits.

Void priest :)
Really cheap and reliable build
In case your shield gets 1 tapped, just press 1

5 red duration

Muscle mommy.
She's lowkey good

Subsumed condemn over haven only for more shield recovery
There should be primed redirection but I don't want to buy it...
Arcane velocity can be swapped with arcane precision

Balefire build

Gunslinger can be replaced with bane mod, you can put -recoil in exilus slot,
and note for everyone - projectile speed doesn't work or its really minimal.

1 Yellow parkour velocity (just for more comfort)
4 Red strength

Oppenheimer ivara, I was surprised that she actually has potential in damage instead of being an invisible jellyfish

Build

You can replace inflitrate with Empowered Quiver for more critical chance. Fleeting expertise is not maxed because efficiency caps at 175%. I highly recommend to use coda tysis for prime instead of any other primers because we have xata's whisper subsumed, and we REALLY need to make void bubble centre on enemies head.

Artemis Bow



(Best if all tauforged)
3 Red primary status chance
1 Yellow casting speed
1 Green max corrosive stacks

I still have to forma him, my apologies for not maxed mods but since his new augment release he's even better than before.


2nd ability grants you A LITERAL IMMORTALITY for over 30 seconds.

Caster kullervo
After oberon rework, I think that dark verse can be replaced with smite but Im not 100% sure if this even works because of smite damage cap.

1 yellow casting speed
4 purple melee critical damage

For caster
1 yellow casting speed
4 strength

Kinda budget build because of lack of formas I have but here's the lavos build with new augment (its nuts)

If you want to use Valence Formation, swap with overextended
Forgot to mention. If you want you can swap Arcane Blessing with Arcane Ice Storm

1 Yellow casting speed
4 Green toxic damage

This is not final version of his build, still struggling to find something, even so it worked well on ETA.
Kinda cheap tho, Subsumed Xata's whisper over banish because I don't use it often.
Archon stretch is just prefrence to help regen energy with diriga.
Put on exilus, either cunning drift or PSF (idk if someone even use this mod)

5 red duration

Mag was one of my first warframes, I do not play her often but her nuking capability is rather silly.
If you subsume breach surge over pull you can kill enemies with single bullet jump, but that's only tip of an iceberg what this ability does, second option is to subsume 4th ability to flare ability "pyrotechnics". Counter pulse is very useful augment that helps you survive little longer and stun enemies.

mag pull ragdolls enemies, and pyrotechnics pillar do hit enemies more times if they're ragdolled because of ragdoll mechanic that "separate" enemy into individual hitboxes. I have no footage of this but trust me, its good.

1 yellow for casting speed
4 strength for strength to have a better day :)

This is one of full effort build that I cannot live without.
She's literally top tier warframe with this build

4 orange secondary critical chance
1 green tauforged (important!) for max corrosive stacks

This build allows to hit +600% bonus critical chance on secondary weapons with insane damage, it has shield gate so once you see your shield pops, cast any ability to gain full shield gate duration.
Subsume nourish over battery for viral
I've made few months ago video about this silly build, maybe its not high quality video or any valuable piece of information but in my head this video was 10x better
this was recorded with rank 1 arcane hot shot

Finally an actual build for her.
You can forma her 2 times more to put primed sure footed in exilus slot, but you're probably gonna run akarius with secondary fortifier so it doesn't really matter.


5 Red strength or Duration, what suits you best tbh

so edgy!!!!!!

Edgelord has very simple yet good build (he also have mathematically correct build but I still need some time to make this build)


Subsume gloom over soul punch (its fine, energy economy here is good)

1 Yellow casting speed (its horrible without it)
Literally any 4 shards you think are good for you, I have 4 strength shards

Its divine retribution nuke build, simply press 4 then spam thermal sunder and quickly press 4 again to cancel it earlier.


Drak Verse version

Subsume Thermal Sunder/Dark verse over fire walker (1)

1 yellow for casting speed
3 red for ability strength
1 red for duration (23% ability duration is easier to work with)

Have a shroom
He's so fun to play and you can turn to cheeky sproodling so I guess that's more reason to play him.


I've tried using arcane crepuscular but I think it's patched because it no longer procs on sproodling.
This build is very oriented in making a shroom ball a nuke. You can put addidional forma to put maxed out power drift.

4 Green toxin damage
1 Green max corrosive stacks (I thought this will be good with archon continuity but the ball deals too much damage)

Do I even have to say anything? Its literally nova
She might get changed in the future but I don't play her often so I need to find something funny with her


1 yellow for casting speed
4 red for ability duration

I felt in love with new oberon.
Subsumed roar over renewal


By subsuming roar over renewal we increase damage of smite that has been readjusted in newest patch to be more lethal! Universall Fallout is here because of amount of radiation procs we have so we can have universal orbs anytime. I put stretch instead of more strength because smite caps at 75% and molt augmented pushesh it to the 75%.

5 topaz shards - ability damage on radiation status
this is only to fully traumatize enemies

Protea is great warframe that scales very good for endurance and high levels.
I think that she does not need subsume but I do not like her dispensers

You can technically subsume dispenser over ophanim eyes or roar but im not forcing anyone to do that.
Her duration on turret sucks but its reasonable to make them balanced

1 yellow casting speed
4 red ability duration

I do not like how revenant became most sleeper warframe due to mesmer shield. Before 1999 update he had better build that was better than what we can do now. The only option that left is

Full mesmer skin build
Mesmer shield augment helps your teammates not die often and grants +50% strength for mesmer skin. Subsume 4 over literally anything, expect duration based abilities but with that amount of strength pillage has 90% armor strip + Corrosive projection gives us 18% so we easily achieve 100% strip.

4 red shards for strength
1 yellow for casting speed Important!

I don't play saryn often, I only use her on vitus essence farm so only build I have is weapon platform but it's really strong and I guarantee you can do any mission with this that is not defense.


Subsume nourish/energized munitions/eclipse over Miasma
works like a charm.

4 green shards for bonus toxin damage
1 green for max corrosive stacks

Shards synergizes well with both of her augments.

This is another high KPM build that can help farm focus on ESO, do arbi and anything that has alot of enemies to kill.


Subsume roar over shadow because no one likes shadow, it sucks. Also roar buffs ability damage somehow idk why.

5 red ability strength

THE GOAT
carries literally anything, can easily level cap and do cascade without any problem.

Anyway here's the build

Subsume xata's whisper over 3rd ability (it double dips blast procs)
ITS VERY IMPORTANT TO HAVE MAXED OUT ARCANE PISTOLEER!!!

4 ability strength
1 casting speed

My first prime, and recently my favorite warframe.
Nice support to have, amazing damage reduction, damage and energy regen.

Its good to play with someone who plays nekros or anything that has summons, we can easily stack champion's blessing with this trick.
Trinity with this build provide to herself 395% bonus critical chance for primary and secondary.
Vampire Leech allows for easy shield gate and abating link grants 100% armor strip.

Subsume Marked for death over well of life.
Explanation: Trinity 2nd ability Energy Vampire deals true damage (This damage type only applies to health and overguard, bypassing shields and ignoring armor's damage reduction) sooooooo higher levels = more damage yeah? so we cast marked for death on enemy, then quickly cast energy vampire and we have 12.5m nuke. And trust me if enemy is over 300 level it deals huge damage.

Also be careful to not down yourself with Combat Discipline.

1 yellow casting speed
4 red ability strength

This on im proud of the most. After her rework she received strong buffs for her slide attack and QoL on abilities. Exilus slot on claws for Dreamer's Wrath



If you want you can subsume wrathful advance over rip-line

4 purple melee critical damage
1 purple equilibrium

How to play her after rework?
Press 2, press 3, press 4 then spam slide attacks

As xaku descreption says: "broken warframe". And DE wasn't lying. They are literally broken.
Archon shards are really important here or this build won't work.

5 tauforged strength shards

The way this build works is it let us achieve 400% strength which shouldn't make any sense on xaku but hear me out!

Xaku is the only frame that can achieve 100% slow on abilities.
Still good build tho

If you're not convinced by this, there's also an highly focused around level cap/grineer distruption build with new augment, it's kinda complicated so I'll split this to new segment.

引用自 Acceri：

This build was found by me on Youtube, check out Vu Thang as he took more in depth look into this augment and build. Credits to him, he's goated.

More in depth look on this build

This build, or if I could call it loadout is designed to effectively run higher level grineer missions.
For context U36 (Jade's shadow) increased grineer Health Scaling, and void damage don't scale with hp so xaku just... tickles them. But U40 dropped! New agument dropped


Untime Rift creates void portal everytime you cast you 4th ability.
It connects to enemies affected by void status, then it maintains xaku's damage vulnerability and void status effect onto enemies for the remaining ability duration.

and you might ask - why did you subsume nourish over xata's whisper?? Isn't that our only way to make void status?

and the answer is - Astral Bond

After dealing damage as operator/drifter your companion gains void damage to their weapon.
And for this we're using diriga (the goat). You might also wonder why don't we use hounds or wyrm or any other sentinel. And to adress the elephant in the room - Diriga for priming use Arc Coil, while rest use Coolant Leak (also hounds cannot use primed regen). What makes diriga better is Arc Coil has 1 second cooldown instead of 10 second Coolant Leak. Moving on...

By using Manifold Bond Arc Coil apply status effects from weapon including void status from astral bond. Synth deconstruction allows for energy printing with equilibrium. Restorative Bond, Tenacious Regen and Primed Regen helps with reviving Diriga as fast it is possible if she ever dies (also Tenacious Bond gives bonus 1.2 final critical damage).

Only requirement is any companion weapon that can achieve more than 50% critical chance to activate Tenacious Bond. You can use Prime Laser rifle with shivering contagion paired with tenet glaxion to print even more energy but, there's no problem with energy whatsoever.

1. Hop out of your warframe, shoot an enemy once to trigger Astral Bond.
   
2. Jump back in, cast your 4, and open the rift. Diriga will then prime enemies with Void status, The rift will link and slow them, and your damage vulnerability bonus kicks in.
   
3. Watch the melt

No viral stacks, no corrosive stacks, no gimmicks

1 Green corrosive stacks (in case DE adds back the old demolisher DR)
1 Yellow casting speed
1 Red ability strength
2 Blue max energy

Thanks to everyone who even clicked on this guide and looked through. Once I complete building other frames, I'll try to update the guide so there won't be any missing frame on the list.