Follie
Follie builds
First Ink — Star Chart
Star Chart2–3 FormaModerateHigh confidenceStar ChartSteel Path

Follie — First Ink

Star Chart build. Self Portrait is DR. Forced Perspective is a panic teleport with a cleanse. Shadowgraph starts as barrels and traps. Plein Air can wait. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

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

Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Why this build?

Star Chart for Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.

Play this in Star ChartPlay this in Steel Path
  • Follie is an ink controller. Portrait is the survive button. Shadowgraph is the unique gun. Perspective is the panic / detonator.
  • Inkblot slows and prints orbs. Equilibrium is not optional for long.
  • You unlock more Shadowgraph objects as you rank her. Rank 30 is the full wheel. Do not judge 2 at rank 5.

Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content

Accessible mods and a working energy / survivability loop

Bring: Any gun — A primer helps. Inkblot already slows. Arc Traps and barrels do the early damage.

Instead: First InkInstead: Balloon Drop — Steel PathInstead: Balloon Drop — OptimisedInstead: Balloon Drop — Endgame

My test

Did this still work for you?

Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.

Readiness

Inventory unknown

Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.

  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth · optional — Not required
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
  • Shards · optional — None listed

Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 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

High confidence. How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.

Your next step

Next: Balloon Drop — Steel Path

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

Balloon Drop — Steel Path

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. NextGet Brief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
  2. After that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. FinalFirst Ink — Star ChartStar Chart · Moderate · 2–3 Forma

Upgrade from here

Balloon Drop — Steel Path

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

Open Balloon Drop — Steel Path

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 Brief Respite

    One named gap. The Index / Nightwave

  2. 60 minutes

    Brief Respite, then Forma

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

  3. 120 minutes

    Two farm routes, then a test run

    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

You just left Zorba with a Shadowgrapher and the wheel looks like a gear menu.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Intensify, Stretch, Continuity, Equilibrium, Vitality.
First mission to practice in
A low Exterminate with a doorway. You want a choke for Arc Traps.

3 button drills · 10 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

Ink loop

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

  1. 1Self Portrait (3) in the tile. Stand near it. DR climbs as you kill inside the ink puddle. Recast to move it.
  2. 2Hold Shadowgraph (2) to open the wheel. Pick Arc Trap or Explosive Barrel. Tap 2 to spam the one you picked (three traps max).
  3. 3Forced Perspective (1) when you are in trouble — dive, cleanse statuses, 3.5 s invulnerable, splash Inkblot on both ends. Aim at a barrel to detonate it.
  4. 4Plein Air (4) lifts a pack on balloons, strips, Inkblot. Shoot the balloons to slam them. Optional on day one.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Plant Portrait

    3

    3 in the room. Stand near it. Kill in the puddle. DR climbs.

    You will know it worked when: An ink copy of you. Floor goes black.

  2. 2

    Hold 2, pick Arc Trap, tap 2

    2

    Three traps in the doorway. Enemies slow and zap.

  3. 3

    Dive if it bites

    1

    1 at your feet or at a barrel. Status gone, 3.5 s invuln.

Common mistakes

  • Never holding 2

    Tap 2 without picking spawns the default object. Hold first.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Rank her to 30The wheel unlocks objects as she levels. Full kit at 30.
  2. 2Then pick a configBalloons, puddle-tank, or full wheel.

Parts checklist

0 of 10 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

11 dependencies

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

  1. 1●follieframe
  2. 2○Brief Respitemod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Stretchmod
  6. 6○Primed Continuitymod
  7. 7○Streamlinemod
  8. 8○Primed Flowmod
  9. 9○Vitalitymod
  10. 10○Equilibriummod
  11. 11○Arcane Blessingarcane

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

  • Arcane Blessing

    missing · Orphix / trade

    Ink orbs pad health. Skip until you have it. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.

Strength

~145%

Duration

130%

Range

145% ink coverage

Range is how far ink and Portrait puddles go. Strength is Portrait DR and later Plein Air strip. Duration is Portrait / trap lifetime.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
145%
Duration
155%
Range
145%
Efficiency
130%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
48 / 67

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

Follie mods

  • AuraBrief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2StretchDrops
  • 3Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer / relics
  • 4StreamlineDrops
  • 5Primed FlowBaro Ki'Teer / relics
  • 6Vitality485 health. You are a health frame. Feed it.Drops
  • 7EquilibriumInkblot deaths drop orbs. This is the battery.The New Strange / drops

Any gun

A primer helps. Inkblot already slows. Arc Traps and barrels do the early damage.

Arcanes

Arcane Blessing

Ink orbs pad health. Skip until you have it. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.

Cavia / trade

Archon shards

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