Dagath — Second Life
Steel Path build. Grave Spirit as a cheat death, Adaptation, health orbs, 566 HP. You refuse to stay dead. Horses optional.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Learning Spirit, endurance, people who picked the headless knight to not die
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Learning Spirit, endurance, people who picked the headless knight to not die
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Vanilla Spirit is already a cheat death. You do not need the augment to live Star Chart and early Steel Path.
- Passive orb supercharge plus Blessing is a quiet health engine.
- 125 armor means Adaptation is doing real work. Do not skip it.
Don’t use this for: solo level-cap
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Comfort weapons — Anything. You are a health tank with a ghost form. DPS is not this config.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Doom
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Doom — Star Chart
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Readiness
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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 · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 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
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: Phantom Stampede — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Phantom Stampede — OptimisedPlan
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 that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAzure · HealthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalSecond LifeSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Phantom Stampede — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Phantom Stampede — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2 Azure · Health — 566 becomes greedier.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast Spirit after the ghost.Archon 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 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
One Archon Hunt
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 want the extra life without farming the augment yet.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same week. Vitality, Adaptation, Continuity.
- First mission to practice in
- A nasty Defense. Let something almost kill you once so you see the ghost.
2 button drills · 13 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
Ghost loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Grave Spirit (3) every time it is up. Do not wait to die — the crit coat is free.
- 2When you would have died, you become a ghost instead. Keep shooting. You drop orbs. You come back.
- 3Doom and Cavalry still work. This config just spends slots on not dying.
- 4Buy Spectral Spirit later and migrate to Phantom Stampede. This is the training-wheels tank.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Keep Spirit up
33 on cooldown. The coat is free. The ghost is the panic.
- 2
Live through a death
When you would have died, you go spectral. Keep shooting. Walk back.
Common mistakes
Letting 3 lapse
No coat, no cheat death. Recast.
When this feels easy
- 1Then buy Spectral SpiritOn-demand ghost is better than panic ghost. Stampede config.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
16 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●dagathframe
- 2○Brief Respitemod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Umbral Vitalitymod
- 5○Adaptationmod
- 6○Primed Continuitymod
- 7○Equilibriummod
- 8○Stretchmod
- 9○Intensifymod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Arcane Blessingarcane
- 12○Arcane Gracearcane
- 13○Azure · Healthshard
- 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 15○Steel Pathunlock
- 16○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
- Brief Respite
missing · The Index / Nightwave
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Umbral Vitality
missing · The Sacrifice
- Adaptation
missing · Arbitration / Arbitrations
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
- Arcane Blessing
missing · Orphix / trade
Health orbs pad the pool. Passive can supercharge those orbs.
Optional
Strength
~180%
Duration
180%+ so Spirit's ghost window is long
Range
130%
Without Spectral Spirit, 3 is a crit coat plus a panic ghost when you would have died. Duration is the panic window.
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
- 100%
- Energy
- base
- Capacity
- 50 / 67
1 Umbral piece
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
Dagath mods
- AuraBrief RespiteIndex / Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftVaults
- 1Umbral VitalityThe Sacrifice
- 2AdaptationArbitration
- 3Primed ContinuityBaro
- 4EquilibriumThe New Strange
- 5StretchDrops
- 6IntensifyDrops
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Brief Respite | Index / Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults | |
| 1 | Umbral Vitality | The Sacrifice | |
| 2 | Adaptation | Arbitration | |
| 3 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 4 | Equilibrium | The New Strange | |
| 5 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 6 | Intensify | Drops | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Comfort weapons
Anything. You are a health tank with a ghost form. DPS is not this config.
Arcanes
Arcane Blessing
Health orbs pad the pool. Passive can supercharge those orbs.
Cavia
Arcane Grace
Regen when you get slapped.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Azure · Health566 becomes greedier.2 · Netracells - 2
Amber · Casting SpeedRecast Spirit after the ghost.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Azure · Health 566 becomes greedier. | 2 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Recast Spirit after the ghost. | 1 | EDA |