Frost
Frost builds
Whiteout — Endgame
Endgame4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathHelminthShards optional

Frost — Whiteout

Endgame build. 167% Strength, Avalanche full-strips and freeze-locks the tile. Breach Surge over Freeze turns the shatter into a room clear.

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

endgame / endurance, the 2026 Frost, anyone who was told Globe is the damage

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

First Globe 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 Globe

Why this build?

Endgame for endgame / endurance, the 2026 Frost, anyone who was told Globe is the damage

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

Play this in Steel Path
  • Avalanche is Frost's 2026 identity. Globe is still the objective tool — it is not the nuke.
  • Icy Avalanche Overguard is why you stop dying after the first 4.
  • Breach Surge plus freeze is a sparkle factory. Freeze (1) was never the damage.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · tiles with nothing to strip

Specialised investment for hard content

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

Bring: Primer (optional) — Viral primer (Epitaph / primaries) is comfort. Naked Grineer die to guns once Avalanche has stripped them.

Alternative if…

Instead: First GlobeInstead: First Globe — Star ChartInstead: Whiteout — Steel PathInstead: Whiteout — Optimised

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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 Breach Surge (Wisp)
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/3 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Breach Surge (Wisp)) · 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.

  1. TodayPlay First GlobeThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
  2. NextGet Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
  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. FinalWhiteout — EndgameEndgame · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Farm the gap

  • Frost augments — Icy Avalanche · Chilling Globe · Ice Wave Impedance · Freeze Force · Biting Frost

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

Breach Surge (Wisp) over Freeze (1)

Avalanche freezes and strips. Breach sparks on the frozen pack and multiplies. Freeze Force lives on the weapon-cold config instead.

Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.

  • 2 Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Hold 167% even with Overextended.Archon locked
  • 1–2 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — Avalanche is your fire rate.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 Corrosive Projection

    One named gap. Open Nightwave

  2. 60 minutes

    Corrosive Projection, then Forma

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

  3. 120 minutes

    Subsume Breach Surge (Wisp)

    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. You own Icy Avalanche and a Wisp subsume.

Time to a playable copy
After 167% Strength in the Arsenal and Breach Surge over Freeze.
First mission to practice in
SP Exterminate. You want clumps, not a Defense tile.

3 button drills · 15 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

Avalanche loop

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

  1. 1Breach Surge (1) the doorway.
  2. 2Avalanche (4). Armor gone, frozen, sparks jump. Icy Avalanche Overguard lands on the squad.
  3. 3Snow Globe (3) only if the objective is actually taking fire. Do not Globe yourself into a closet mid-Exterminate.
  4. 4Ice Wave (2) stragglers in a lane. Recast Avalanche when new armor walks in.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Surge the pack

    1

    1. Sparks wait for the freeze.

  2. 2

    Avalanche

    4

    4. Armor gone, frozen, sparks jump, Overguard lands.

    You will know it worked when: Yellow armor bars vanish. A pale Overguard chunk on your health.

  3. 3

    Shoot leftovers

    Naked frozen enemies are a gun problem, not a 4-spam problem.

Common mistakes

  • Skipping Icy Avalanche

    Then 4 is only CC. The Overguard is the tank.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Ice Storm + Molt AugmentedCold stacks and kills both feed Strength. Recast 4 after they stack if you started near the breakpoint.
  2. 2Don't overcap Strength foreverPast 167%, buy Range.

Parts checklist

0 of 15 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

19 dependencies

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

  1. 1●frostframe
  2. 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
  3. 3○Cunning Driftmod
  4. 4○Icy Avalancheaugment
  5. 5○Blind Ragemod
  6. 6○Umbral Intensifymod
  7. 7○Primed Continuitymod
  8. 8○Stretchmod
  9. 9○Overextendedmod
  10. 10○Primed Flowmod
  11. 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
  12. 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
  13. 13○Arcane Ice Stormarcane
  14. 14○Crimson · Strengthshard
  15. 15○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  16. 16○Breach Surgehelminth
  17. 17○Helminth · Breach Surge (Wisp)unlock
  18. 18○Steel Pathunlock
  19. 19○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

  • Corrosive Projection

    missing · Open Nightwave

    Drops the strip breakpoint to ~137%.

  • Cunning Drift

    missing · Lua Halls of Ascension

  • Icy Avalanche

    missing · Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25,000

    Overguard per enemy hit. This is how Frost tanks in 2026.

  • Blind Rage

    missing · Run Orokin Vaults

  • Umbral Intensify

    missing · Finish The Sacrifice

  • Primed Continuity

    missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer

  • Stretch

    missing · Enemy drops

  • Overextended

    missing · Orokin Vaults

    Avalanche radius. Pay Strength back with shards if you dip under 167%.

  • Primed Flow

    missing · Baro Ki'Teer

  • Breach Surge

    missing · Helminth

    Avalanche freezes and strips. Breach sparks on the frozen pack and multiplies. Freeze Force lives on the weapon-cold config instead.

Recommended

  • Arcane Persistence

    missing · Finish The Old Peace

    At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom).

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Kills add Strength. Recast Avalanche after it stacks if you started under breakpoint.

  • Arcane Ice Storm

    missing · 1999 / trade

    Cold stacks from Avalanche feed Strength and Duration. Very Frost.

Optional

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

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The kitCephalon Jizo · Nov 2021

How to Frost

Avalanche strip, Snow Globe, Ice Wave. Defense Frost, not the old 4-spam.

Play in WatchYouTube

Helminth

Subsume Breach Surge (Wisp) over Freeze (1)

Avalanche freezes and strips. Breach sparks on the frozen pack and multiplies. Freeze Force lives on the weapon-cold config instead.

Strength

~167–200% (Intensify + Power Drift is the floor; Blind Rage if you overcap)

Duration

130–155% freeze time

Range

175%+ so Avalanche is a room

Full armor strip at 167% Strength, 137% with Corrosive Projection. Range is more kill than extra Strength past the breakpoint.

From the mods

Live power

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

Strength
183%
Duration
155%
Range
250%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
51 / 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

Frost mods

  • AuraCorrosive ProjectionDrops the strip breakpoint to ~137%.Nightwave
  • ExilusCunning DriftLua Halls
  • 1Icy AvalancheOverguard per enemy hit. This is how Frost tanks in 2026.Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25k
  • 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 4Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
  • 5StretchEnemy drops
  • 6OverextendedAvalanche radius. Pay Strength back with shards if you dip under 167%.Orokin Vaults
  • 7Primed FlowBaro / relics

Primer (optional)

Viral primer (Epitaph / primaries) is comfort. Naked Grineer die to guns once Avalanche has stripped them.

Arcanes

Arcane Persistence

At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom).

Roathe, La Cathédrale · 5 Maphica (The Descendia)

Molt Augmented

Kills add Strength. Recast Avalanche after it stacks if you started under breakpoint.

Zariman bounties

Arcane Ice Storm

Cold stacks from Avalanche feed Strength and Duration. Very Frost.

1999 / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Tauforged Crimson · StrengthHold 167% even with Overextended.2 · Netracells
  • 2Tauforged Amber · Casting SpeedAvalanche is your fire rate.1–2 · EDA
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