Ember
Ember builds
Comet Night — Optimised
Optimised4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceNetracellsArchon HuntsShards optional

Ember — Comet Night

Optimised build. Spam Inferno. Exothermic prints energy orbs. Casting speed shards. The room stays on fire. Shards and a finished config. Tauforged is the last card.

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

Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

First Heat first

This loadout sits at Optimised. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Open First Heat

Why this build?

Optimised for Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.

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

Play this in NetracellsPlay this in Archon HuntsPlay this in Level cap
  • Inferno is the 2026 Ember nuke. Casting speed makes it a machine gun.
  • Exothermic plus Equilibrium is infinite 4.
  • Keep Immolation up. The heat gate is DR and the strip scaler.

Don’t use this for: new accounts · Star Chart only

Helminth, shards, and a finished configuration

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

Bring: No exalted — Inferno is the gun. A Heat primer still helps inherit later. This config just presses 4.

Alternative if…

Instead: First HeatInstead: First Heat — Star ChartInstead: Comet Night — Steel PathInstead: Comet Night — Endgame

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  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/5 · required — 5 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: 5 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 5 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: Comet Night — Endgame

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

Comet Night — Endgame

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.

  1. TodayPlay First HeatThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
  2. NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  3. After that4–5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  4. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  5. FinalComet Night — OptimisedOptimised · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Upgrade from here

Comet Night — Endgame

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

Open Comet Night — Endgame

Farm the gap

  • Fire augments — Exothermic · Healing Flame · Immolated Radiance · Fireball Frenzy

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 2 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — Inferno is fire rate.Archon locked
  • 2 Crimson · Strength — Comet damage and Blast strip.Archon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

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

  1. 30 minutes

    Farm Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, then Forma

    Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

  3. 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.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

Steel Path rooms. You bought Exothermic.

Time to a playable copy
After Exothermic, Blind Rage, a casting-speed shard.
First mission to practice in
A packed Survival.

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

Comet loop

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

  1. 1Immolation (2) on. Let heat climb. Do not full-vent unless energy is dying.
  2. 2Inferno (4) every pack. Comets, spread, passive Strength.
  3. 3Fire Blast (3) when armor is rude. High heat = more strip.
  4. 4Fireball is filler. Recast Inferno. Never stand still waiting for World on Fire. It is gone.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Gate on, comets out

    2 4

    2 then 4 every pack. Orbs drop. Equilibrium drinks.

  2. 2

    Blast the heavies

    3 at high heat.

Common mistakes

  • Starving energy at full heat

    Vent 2, recast. Exothermic is not instant.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Two Amber casting-speed shardsInferno is fire rate.

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. 1●emberframe
  2. 2○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Exothermicaugment
  5. 5○Blind Ragemod
  6. 6○Umbral Intensifymod
  7. 7○Archon Stretchmod
  8. 8○Primed Continuitymod
  9. 9○Primed Flowmod
  10. 10○Equilibriummod
  11. 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
  12. 12○Arcane Energizearcane
  13. 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  14. 14○Crimson · Strengthshard
  15. 15○Steel Pathunlock
  16. 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

Recommended

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Strength stacks. Inferno and the passive both eat it.

  • Arcane Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Orbs from Exothermic dump the pool.

Optional

Strength

~220–280%

Duration

enough for Heat status to linger

Range

175% so comets find people

Exothermic (Inferno augment) drops energy orbs. Passive Strength climbs as the tile burns.

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
155%
Range
145%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+277%
Capacity
55 / 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

Ember mods

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
  • ExilusPower DriftVaults
  • 1ExothermicInferno kills can drop energy orbs. The battery.Red Veil / Steel Meridian · 25k
  • 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 4Archon StretchHeat procs can feed energy. Stretch is also Inferno range.Kahl / Archon Hunts
  • 5Primed ContinuityBaro
  • 6Primed FlowBaro
  • 7EquilibriumThe New Strange

No exalted

Inferno is the gun. A Heat primer still helps inherit later. This config just presses 4.

Arcanes

Molt Augmented

Strength stacks. Inferno and the passive both eat it.

Zariman

Arcane Energize

Orbs from Exothermic dump the pool.

Eidolon

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedInferno is fire rate.2 Tauforged · EDA
  • 2Crimson · StrengthComet damage and Blast strip.2 · Netracells
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