Follie — Balloon Drop

Don’t build this yet

First Ink 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.

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.

• Plein Air is Follie's grouping plus strip. Most guides Helminth it. This config keeps it on purpose.
• The slam is fall damage plus ink splash. Pop them over the Portrait puddle for orbs.
• Range first, then Strength until armor actually leaves. Overextended plus shards is the usual math.

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: Pop gun — A hitscan or punch-through primary to pop balloons in a line. Perspective can also pop by diving a barrel into the clump.

My test

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Your next step

Next: Balloon Drop — Endgame

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

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 InkThe 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. LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalBalloon Drop — OptimisedOptimised · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 3 Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Strip breakpoint and slam.Archon locked
• 1 Amber · Casting Speed — 4, pop, 4.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.

• Farm Growing Power

  The Silver Grove quest

Dependencies

16 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

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