Citrine — First Facets
Star Chart build. Gem paints four statuses. Fractured Blast groups and prints orbs. Crystallize is the shiny weak spot. You are a health tank. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Star Chart for Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.
Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.
- Citrine is a status engine with a health tank attached. The gem is the kit.
- Passive regen ticks on you and nearby allies. Pick up health orbs to raise the tick.
- Do not skip 2. 400 HP is real but Steel Path still bites.
Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · solo level-cap
Accessible mods and a working energy / survivability loop
Bring: Any gun — A status primary is enough. The gem does the status work. Shoot what the gem is lasering.
My test
Did this still work for you?
Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.
Readiness
Inventory unknown
Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.
- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — None listed
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 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
High confidence. How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Squad Prism — Steel Path
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Squad Prism — Steel PathPlan
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 Brief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
- After that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- FinalFirst Facets — Star ChartStar Chart · Moderate · 2–3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Squad Prism — Steel Path
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Squad Prism — Steel PathTonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Brief Respite
One named gap. The Index / Nightwave
60 minutes
Brief Respite, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
Two farm routes, then a test run
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Brief Respite
The Index / Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You just left Tyana Pass with a new crystal lady and have never parked a gem.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same day. Intensify, Stretch, Continuity, Vitality, Equilibrium if you have it.
- First mission to practice in
- A low Exterminate. You want to see orbs pop out of Blast.
3 button drills · 10 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Gem loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Preserving Shell (2) as you walk in. It decays. Kills refill it. This is your DR.
- 2Prismatic Gem (3) in the middle of the tile. Shoot anything — the gem lasers it with Heat, Cold, Toxin, and Electric.
- 3Fractured Blast (1) a clump. Slash, stagger, orbs. Equilibrium drinks them.
- 4Crystallize (4) when you see a heavy. Growths are crit spots. Shoot the crystal, not the face.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Shell, then gem
2 32 as you walk in. 3 in the middle of the room.
You will know it worked when: A floating crystal. Beams when you shoot.
- 2
Blast a clump
11. Slash, stagger, red and blue orbs. Walk over them.
- 3
Crystallize a heavy
44, then shoot the growth on their body. Yellow crits.
Common mistakes
Letting Shell hit zero
It decays. Kills refill it. Recast if the tile is empty.
When this feels easy
- 1Prismatic CompanionGem follows. Quality of life you will not give back.
- 2Arcane BlessingHealth orbs become max HP. Next tank configs.
Parts checklist
0 of 10 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
11 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●citrineframe
- 2○Brief Respitemod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Primed Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Primed Flowmod
- 9○Vitalitymod
- 10○Equilibriummod
- 11○Arcane Blessingarcane
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
- Brief Respite
missing · The Index / Nightwave
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
Fractured Blast prints health and energy orbs. This turns them into a battery.
Recommended
- Arcane Blessing
missing · Orphix / trade
Health orbs pad max health. Skip until you have it. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Strength
~145%
Duration
155%
Range
145%
Range is gem coverage and Blast grouping. Duration is gem uptime. Health is 400 — lean into it.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 145%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 48 / 67
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
Citrine mods
- AuraBrief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 3StretchDrops
- 4StreamlineDrops
- 5Primed FlowBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 6Vitality400 health plus passive regen. Feed the pool.Drops
- 7EquilibriumFractured Blast prints health and energy orbs. This turns them into a battery.The New Strange / drops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Brief Respite | The Index / Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 3 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 4 | Streamline | Drops | |
| 5 | Primed Flow | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 6 | Vitality 400 health plus passive regen. Feed the pool. | Drops | |
| 7 | Equilibrium Fractured Blast prints health and energy orbs. This turns them into a battery. | The New Strange / drops |
Any gun
A status primary is enough. The gem does the status work. Shoot what the gem is lasering.
Arcanes
Arcane Blessing
Health orbs pad max health. Skip until you have it. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Cavia / trade
Archon shards
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
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