Ember — Nikola Ember
Endgame build. Tesla Nervos over Fireball. Tesla Bank dumps stored Electricity when a roller dies. Inferno still cooks. This is the Overframe 43.0 caster that showed up in September 2026.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Chokepoints, Mobile Defense, anyone who wants Inferno plus a latching electric mine
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Heat first
This loadout sits at Endgame. 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 HeatWhy this build?
Endgame for Chokepoints, Mobile Defense, anyone who wants Inferno plus a latching electric mine
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- This is the caster that showed up on Overframe under Update 43.0 — Tesla Bank plus Exothermic, not Gloom.
- Fireball is still the subsume slot. You did not sell Inferno.
- Hallways. Open tiles are still Comet Night.
Don’t use this for: Capture / short missions · Exterminate speedruns · players without Helminth
Specialised investment for hard content
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Heat primer still helps — The rollers want a hallway. Inferno wants a pack. A Heat shotgun (Sobek) primes both.
Alternative if…
- You don’t have Helminth yet → First Heat
- Star Chart only → First Heat
- New account or low investment → First Heat
- This is too much Forma / cost → Comet Night — Optimised
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Readiness
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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 0/1 · required — Subsume Tesla Nervos (Vauban)
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Tesla Nervos (Vauban)) · 2 shards · 4 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.
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.
- TodayPlay First HeatThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
- NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
- After that5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalNikola EmberEndgame · Endgame · 5 Forma
Farm the gap
- Fire augments — Exothermic · Healing Flame · Immolated Radiance · Fireball Frenzy
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
Tesla Nervos (Vauban) over Fireball (1)
1 is empty. Tesla Bank (the Vauban augment, still works on subsumed Tesla) stores damage on the roller and detonates it on death. Inferno, Blast, Immolation stay.
Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.
- 2 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — Inferno fire rate.Archon locked
- 3 Tauforged Crimson · Duration — Roller lifetime. The Overframe 43.0 split.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 Growing Power
One named gap. The Silver Grove quest
60 minutes
Growing Power, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
Subsume Tesla Nervos (Vauban)
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Growing Power
The Silver Grove quest
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 · 14 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
Bank-comet loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Immolation (2) on.
- 2Tesla (1) at the door. Let it latch.
- 3Inferno (4) the pack. When the roller dies, Tesla Bank dumps.
- 4Fire Blast (3) if armor is still rude.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Gate on, comets out
2 42 then 4 every pack. Orbs drop. Equilibrium drinks.
- 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
- 1Two Amber casting-speed shardsInferno is fire rate.
Parts checklist
0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
18 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●emberframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Exothermicaugment
- 5○Tesla Bankmod
- 6○Blind Ragemod
- 7○Umbral Intensifymod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Archon Stretchmod
- 10○Equilibriummod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 14○Crimson · Durationshard
- 15○Tesla Nervoshelminth
- 16○Helminth · Tesla Nervos (Vauban)unlock
- 17○Steel Pathunlock
- 18○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
Growing Powermissing · The Silver Grove quest
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Exothermic
missing · Red Veil / Steel Meridian · 25,000
- Tesla Bank
missing · Perrin Sequence / Steel Meridian · 25k
Works on subsumed Tesla Nervos. Dying rollers dump stored Electricity.
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
- Tesla Nervos
missing · Helminth
1 is empty. Tesla Bank (the Vauban augment, still works on subsumed Tesla) stores damage on the roller and detonates it on death. Inferno, Blast, Immolation stay.
Recommended
Optional
Helminth
Subsume Tesla Nervos (Vauban) over Fireball (1)
1 is empty. Tesla Bank (the Vauban augment, still works on subsumed Tesla) stores damage on the roller and detonates it on death. Inferno, Blast, Immolation stay.
Strength
~200%
Duration
155% roller lifetime and Inferno Heat
Range
145%
Tau Amber casting speed plus Crimson Duration is the Overframe shard split. You are not building raw Inferno Strength first.
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
- +2%
- Capacity
- 53 / 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
Ember mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
- ExilusPower DriftVaults
- 1ExothermicRed Veil / Steel Meridian · 25k
- 2Tesla BankWorks on subsumed Tesla Nervos. Dying rollers dump stored Electricity.Perrin Sequence / Steel Meridian · 25k
- 3Blind RageVaults
- 4Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro
- 6Archon StretchElectric procs from Tesla feed energy.Kahl
- 7EquilibriumThe New Strange
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults | |
| 1 | Exothermic | Red Veil / Steel Meridian · 25k | |
| 2 | Tesla Bank Works on subsumed Tesla Nervos. Dying rollers dump stored Electricity. | Perrin Sequence / Steel Meridian · 25k | |
| 3 | Blind Rage | Vaults | |
| 4 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 6 | Archon Stretch Electric procs from Tesla feed energy. | Kahl | |
| 7 | Equilibrium | The New Strange |
Heat primer still helps
The rollers want a hallway. Inferno wants a pack. A Heat shotgun (Sobek) primes both.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength for Inferno and Bank dumps.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
Orbs from Exothermic.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Tauforged Amber · Casting SpeedInferno fire rate.2 · EDA - 2
Tauforged Crimson · DurationRoller lifetime. The Overframe 43.0 split.3 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed Inferno fire rate. | 2 | EDA | |
| 2 | Tauforged Crimson · Duration Roller lifetime. The Overframe 43.0 split. | 3 | EDA |