Dante · The kit
Write light. Write dark. Close the book.
Dante is a support-nuker whose fourth ability is four abilities. Pages are order-sensitive. Light Verse heals and grants Overguard. Dark Verse writes Slash. Final Verse spends two pages. Noctua is the exalted tome.
Health
300 → 390
Shields
150 → 240
Armor
145 → 145
Energy
200 → 270
Chronicler's Mark
Noctua scans enemies into the Codex as it kills them. Fully scanned targets grant +50% Status Chance to Dante's weapons — including Noctua itself and Wordwarden's copied tomes.
Noctua
5 to draw · 2 / shotPrimary fire is automatic pure Slash that splits into 4 seeking page fragments. Alt-fire hurls a wide Radiation/Impact blast once the meter is full. Infinite ammo, no reload. Kills scan the Codex.
- Primary damage
- 250 Slash
- Fire rate
- 1.5
- Crit
- 30% / 2.0x
- Status
- 25%
- Alt-fire damage
- 2,750
- Alt crit / status
- 45% / 3.0x · 45%
Light Verse
25Restores 20% max Health and grants 350 Overguard (capped at 15,000, Strength-scaled) in a 20 m radius. 1 second of invulnerability on cast. Recast as soon as the circle is drawn. Full-body animation that still allows parkour.
- Overguard
- 350
- Overguard cap
- 15,000
- Heal
- 20% max HP
- Range
- 20 m
- Invuln
- 1 s on cast
Dark Verse
25Two instances of 1,250 Slash with guaranteed status and light stagger, 20 m / 50° cone, line of sight. Second stroke can be aimed separately. Dante's Helminth subsume. Breaks crates without LoS.
- Slash / stroke
- 1,250 × 2
- Statuses
- 2 Slash + stagger
- Range
- 20 m · 50°
- Helminth
- Subsumable
Final Verse
50Cannot be cast without two pages. 1 s invulnerability on cast. Duration 45 s and range 30 m at rank 3 (Triumph, Wordwarden, Pageflight). Tragedy is instant. Precision Intensify only buffs this ability.
- Duration
- 45 s
- Range
- 30 m
- Invuln
- 1 s on cast
- Pages required
- 2
The verse loop
01
Light Verse (2) writes a Light page and throws Overguard on the squad. Recast when the bar is thin.
02
Dark Verse (3) writes a Dark page and applies Slash. Two strokes — aim the second.
03
Final Verse (4) spends the two pages. Light+Light is Triumph. Dark+Dark is Tragedy. Mixed is Wordwarden or Pageflight.
04
Noctua (1) is the exalted tome. Draw it for scans, Slash, or the alt-fire blast. It is a separate mod grid.
Composer
Verse composer
Write two pages, then 4
Final Verse reads the last two verses in order. Tap Light or Dark to fill the book.
The book is unfinished
Write two verses. Light Light is Triumph. Dark Dark is Tragedy. Light then Dark is Wordwarden. Dark then Light is Pageflight.
Noctua
Exalted tome. Separate mod grid. Counts as a secondary. Same five-room guide as every other exalted — this is the weapon card, not a different kind of page.
Primary
- Damage
- 250 Slash (rank 3)
- Fire rate
- 1.5
- Critical
- 30% · 2.0×
- Status
- 25%
- Energy
- 2 per shot
- Fragments
- 4 seekers · 20 m · 60°
Alt-fire
- Damage
- 2,750 · 40% Impact / 60% Radiation
- Fire rate
- 1.0
- Critical
- 45% · 3.0×
- Status
- 45%
- Meter
- 60 s, −1 s per primary hit, −10 s per ammo pickup
- Punch through
- Infinite bodies · 1.4 m surfaces
- Noctua bypasses the usual one-Canticle plus one-Invocation limit — every Tome mod can sit on it at once. Four Invocations is +60% Strength, Duration, Efficiency and 10 energy per second.
- Counts as a secondary. Secondary mods, pistol arcanes, Pistol Amp, and Arcane Precision all apply. No Rivens.
- Kills scan the Codex. Fully scanned enemies take +50% Status Chance from Noctua and from Wordwarden copies.
- Amalgam Barrel Diffusion on Noctua grants dodge speed even while the tome is holstered.
- Electricity on the tome triggers Archon Stretch's energy regen.
- Galvanized Shot's bonus does not scale with Ability Strength the way you want — treat it as a flat 200 / 2,500 base.
YouTube
Watch the kit
Dante is AMAZING!
Best first watch. Acquisition, then every verse with the quartic Tragedy math — no shouting, just the kit.
Dante Is an Actual CHEAT CODE In Warframe
2025 full pass. Starchart build, Steel Path build, Noctua setups, then Helminth — the closest match to this guide’s five loadouts.
Warframe just made Dante EVEN STRONGER!
June 2026 update. Caster nuke plus several red-crit weapon platforms, Helminth options, and the current shard layout.
Warframe NERFED Dante… Now he's BETTER than EVER!
Why Galvanized Shot on Noctua is a trap, then a 2025 Dante that still holds as a Noctua DPS spine.
DANTE IS A TANK?! | BUILD & REVIEW
Launch review from the tank angle. Precision Intensify, Arcane Steadfast, and why Triumph is the identity — still the right first-week mindset.
DANTE Defies Logic | GODLIKE Dante Build
Short 2026 Overguard god loop. Ability sequence, Arcane Impetus + Noctua, companion synergy. Eight minutes, then you can copy it.
These ELEMENTS Will Unlock DANTE's TRUE NUKING Power
Tragedy as a status detonator. Heat, Slash, and Toxin stacking with Epitaph + Diriga so the 3 → 3 → 4 nuke actually hits millions.
Dante Was NEVER Supposed To Do This | Irradiate Noctua DPS
Wordwarden-summoned Noctua as the damage dealer. Strength, duration, Arcane Truculence viral pulses — a true exalted-weapon god setup.
DANTE | The NEW Wizard Frame is STRONG!
DE-sponsored launch farm. Deadlock Protocol + Whispers in the Walls, then Armatus Disruption. The farm has not moved.
The BEST Dante Farming Method
Short 2026 recap. Armatus Rotation C, then Loid’s 540-capillary shop. Watch this if you just want the numbers, not a launch-day walkthrough.