Steel Path3 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceSpyHelminthShards optional

Ash — Invisible Guns

Steel Path build. Ash as a stealth gun platform. Eclipse or Roar over Blade Storm. Smoke Screen is the buff.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Incarnons, snipers, people who picked Ash for invisibility not clones

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Why this build?

Steel Path for Incarnons, snipers, people who picked Ash for invisibility not clones

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

Play this in Spy

Not every Ash wants clones. This is the 'I picked the ninja to stay invisible' loadout.
Crepuscular does nothing if Smoke is down. Duration mods are damage mods here.
You can put Fatal Teleport on this config for mixed play. Config B if the slots fight.

Don’t use this for: Blade Storm clone gameplay · melee-only loadouts

Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: Primary (bring a real one) — Phenmor, Torid Incarnon, Felarx, any incarnon or sniper. Crepuscular plus Eclipse is the multiplier. Seeking Shuriken still strips.

Alternative if…

You don’t have Helminth yet → Smoke and Steel
Star Chart only → Smoke and Steel
This is too much Forma / cost → Smoke and Steel — Star Chart
You wanted the ability loop, not guns → Smoke and Steel

Instead: Smoke and Steel Instead: Smoke and Steel — Star Chart Instead: Wrathful Clones — Steel Path Instead: Wrathful Clones — Optimised

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Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino)
Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino)) · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.

Your next step

Next: Wrathful Clones — Optimised

Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.

Wrathful Clones — Optimised

Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
FinalInvisible GunsSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma

Upgrade from here

Wrathful Clones — Optimised

Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.

Open Wrathful Clones — Optimised

Farm the gap

Ash augments — Seeking Shuriken · Fatal Teleport · Rising Storm · Teleport Rush

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino) over Blade Storm (4)

You will not press 4. Eclipse while invisible is a huge damage multiplier. Roar if you want the squad buff instead.

Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.

1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast SmokeArchon locked
2 Violet · Primary crit / electric — The gun is the nukeArchon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

30 minutes
Farm Growing Power
One named gap. The Silver Grove quest
60 minutes
Growing Power, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
Subsume Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino)
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

Farm Growing Power
The Silver Grove quest

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You picked Ash to be an invisible gun platform, not a clone summoner.

Time to a playable copy: After a Helminth subsume of Eclipse or Roar over Blade Storm.
First mission to practice in: A long hallway Exterminate or a SP Disruption.

3 button drills · 14 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

0 of 3 done

Put it on the Warframe

0 of 5 done

Keep this up

Cloak loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

1Smoke Screen (2) every room.
2Eclipse or Roar (4).
3Shuriken (1) the armored target if you kept Seeking Shuriken.
4Shoot. Recast Smoke before the buff dies. Teleport is your panic button.

First mission — press these buttons

1
Smoke
2
You vanish. Crepuscular on.
2
Eclipse or Roar
4
4. Shoot.
3
Keep Smoke alive
Recast in cover. If it drops, you are a squishy frame holding a loud gun.

Common mistakes

Letting invis drop to 'see the reticle better'
Crepuscular is most of your damage. The cloak stays up.

When this feels easy

1Violet primary shardsThe gun is the build. Invest here, not in clone forma.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

19 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

Frame

Mods

Later

Unlocks

1●ashframe
2○Growing Powermod
3○Power Driftmod
4○Seeking Shurikenaugment
5○Blind Ragemod
6○Narrow Mindedmod
7○Primed Continuitymod
8○Umbral Intensifymod
9○Primed Flowmod
10○Rolling Guardmod
11○Arcane Crepusculararcane
12○Arcane Precisionarcane
13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
14○Violet · Primary crit / electricshard
15○Eclipsehelminth
16○Roar (Rhino)helminth
17○Helminth · Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino)unlock
18○Steel Pathunlock
19○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock

Depends on

What this loadout needs

Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.

Required

Growing Power
missing · The Silver Grove quest
Power Drift
missing · Unlock Lua
Seeking Shuriken
missing · Red Veil (Exalted) or Arbiters of Hexis (Maxim) · 25,000 standing
Blind Rage
missing · Run Orokin Vaults
Narrow Minded
missing · Orokin Vaults
Smoke Screen lasts a long time
Primed Continuity
missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Umbral Intensify
missing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Flow
missing · Baro Ki'Teer
Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Eclipse
missing · Helminth
You will not press 4. Eclipse while invisible is a huge damage multiplier. Roar if you want the squad buff instead.
Roar (Rhino)
missing · Own Rhino
You will not press 4. Eclipse while invisible is a huge damage multiplier. Roar if you want the squad buff instead.

Recommended

Arcane Crepuscular
missing · Duviri / trade
Crit and damage while invisible
Arcane Precision
missing · Buy it
Secondary variant. Swap to Arcane Rage for primaries.

Optional

Amber · Casting Speed
missing · Earn Amber shards
Recast Smoke
Violet · Primary crit / electric
missing · Elite Temporal Archimedea
The gun is the nuke

Helminth

Subsume Eclipse (Mirage) or Roar (Rhino) over Blade Storm (4)

You will not press 4. Eclipse while invisible is a huge damage multiplier. Roar if you want the squad buff instead.

Strength

~200% for Eclipse / Roar

Duration

200%+ Smoke Screen

Range

145%

Duration is invis uptime. You are a gun with a cloak.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength: 258%
Duration: 254%
Range: 34%
Efficiency: 45%
Energy: +275%
Capacity: 54 / 67

1 Umbral piece

Open slots

Weapon HUD

Arsenal numbers

Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.

Damage: 35
Crit: 12% × 2.00
Status: 26%
Fire rate: 9.58
Multishot: 1.00
Avg hit: 39
Arsenal DPS: 376

Toggle common mods

Ash mods

AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
1Seeking ShurikenRed Veil / Arbiters · 25k
2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
3Narrow MindedSmoke Screen lasts a long timeOrokin Vaults
4Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
5Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
6Primed FlowBaro / relics
7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Slot	Mod	Source
Aura	Growing Power	Silver Grove specters
Exilus	Power Drift	Orokin Vaults / Lua
1	Seeking Shuriken	Red Veil / Arbiters · 25k
2	Blind Rage	Orokin Vaults
3	Narrow Minded Smoke Screen lasts a long time	Orokin Vaults
4	Primed Continuity	Baro Ki'Teer
5	Umbral Intensify	The Sacrifice
6	Primed Flow	Baro / relics
7	Rolling Guard	Arbitrations

Primary (bring a real one)

Phenmor, Torid Incarnon, Felarx, any incarnon or sniper. Crepuscular plus Eclipse is the multiplier. Seeking Shuriken still strips.

Arcanes

Arcane Crepuscular

Crit and damage while invisible

Duviri / trade

Arcane Precision

Secondary variant. Swap to Arcane Rage for primaries.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

1Amber · Casting SpeedRecast Smoke1 · EDA
2Violet · Primary crit / electricThe gun is the nuke2 · Elite Temporal Archimedea

#	Shard	Qty	Source	How
1	Amber · Casting Speed Recast Smoke	1	EDA
2	Violet · Primary crit / electric The gun is the nuke	2	Elite Temporal Archimedea

Other loadouts

Smoke and Steel Smoke and Steel — Star Chart Wrathful Clones — Steel Path Wrathful Clones — Optimised Wrathful Clones — Endgame Fatal Teleport Savage Room

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