Dante — Overguard God

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You understand 2-2-4 and you want the squad to stop dying on Steel Path. This is the default Dante, the one you take to almost everything.

Time to a playable copy

A weekend if you buy Precision Intensify and the two corrupted mods. A week if you vault-farm them.

First mission to practice in

Any Steel Path Defense or a regular Sanctuary Onslaught. You want fire on you so you can see Overguard regen on kills.

4 button drills · 22 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

Put it on the Warframe

First mission — press these buttons

1. 1

   The loading-screen Triumph

   2→2→4

   The second the mission gives you control, press 2, 2, 4. Preparation means you have the energy. The squad should already be yellow-barred before the first enemy shoots. If you spawned dry, you do not have Preparation on.

   You will know it worked when: Yellow Overguard on everyone at the gate. If allies walk out of range they will not get the next recast — stand near them when you 4.

2. 2

   Keep a story rolling

   2→3→4 or 3→2→4

   Wordwarden (Light then Dark then 4) gives everyone a copy of your tome. Pageflight (Dark then Light then 4) gives birds. Alternate them. Recast Triumph whenever Overguard is chewed down — kills regenerate it while Triumph’s story is active, so keeping Triumph itself up is the whole job.

   You will know it worked when: Overguard ticking back up when things die. If it only goes down, Triumph’s story expired — write Light Light 4 again.

3. 3

   Tragedy is your crowd button

   3→3→4

   Two Dark Verses into a pack, then 4. Archon Vitality means any Heat you also applied ticks twice, and Tragedy eats that. Precision Intensify makes this 4 huge — it does not buff your 2 or 3, only the Final Verse.

   You will know it worked when: A single fat damage number. If it is tiny, you detonated a pack with no Slash/Heat sitting on it.

4. 4

   You are the medic who also kills

   Stand with the squad, not a side tile. Overguard range is not infinite. Light Verse (a single 2) is still a heal and a small Overguard top-up if someone is in the red and you do not have time for a full Triumph.

   You will know it worked when: Allies stopping their 'Dante?' pings.

Common mistakes

• Skipping Preparation

  Spawn-scrambling for an energy orb while the squad dies is the opposite of this build.

• Taking Archon Vitality off because 'it is a health mod'

  The Heat double-tick is the point. Tragedy cares.

• Duration below 128%

  You will recast Triumph every room and go dry. Primed Continuity is not optional forever.

When this feels easy

1. 1Two Amber Casting Speed, then Crimson StrengthSocket at the Helminth. Speed first. The build feels wrong without it even at 278% Strength.
2. 2If you never want to think about energy again, go BrightbonnetIf you want to delete rooms and do not care about the book, go Roar Nuke. Both replace Noctua.