Frost
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Freeze Force
Endgame4 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathHelminthShards optional

Frost — Freeze Force

Endgame build. Frost as a Cold gun platform. Freeze Force paints your guns. Biting Frost pays you for frozen targets.

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

Incarnons, Cold Kuva / Tenet weapons, people who picked Frost to shoot not to sit in a ball

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 Incarnons, Cold Kuva / Tenet weapons, people who picked Frost to shoot not to sit in a ball

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

Play this in Steel Path
  • Not every Frost wants to live in a snowball. This is the 'I brought ice guns' loadout.
  • Biting Frost does nothing if nothing is frozen. Avalanche is still the primer.
  • Helminth 2, not 4. If you drop Avalanche you dropped the strip and the freeze.

Don’t use this for: Avalanche-strip as the damage · players without a Cold-friendly primary

Specialised investment for hard content

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

Bring: Cold / Viral primary — Kuva Nukor, Incarnons, any Cold-leaning gun. Freeze Force adds extra Cold. Biting Frost is crit against frozen enemies — Avalanche is the primer.

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 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino)
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino)) · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

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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 Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  3. After that4 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. FinalFreeze ForceEndgame · Endgame · 4 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

Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino) over Ice Wave (2)

You will not paint floors. Xata adds Void and a damage multiplier. Roar if the squad wants a buff instead. Freeze Force stays on 1.

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

  • 2 Crimson · Strength — Force bonus and Avalanche strip.Archon locked
  • 2 Violet · Primary crit / electric — The gun is the nuke.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

    Subsume Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino)

    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 brought Frost because you like Cold guns, not because you like sitting in a ball.

Time to a playable copy
After Freeze Force, Biting Frost, and a Helminth over Ice Wave.
First mission to practice in
A long SP Exterminate or Disruption.

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 5 done

Keep this up

Cold-gun loop

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

  1. 1Hold Freeze (1) to Charge Freeze Force onto the gun.
  2. 2Xata or Roar (2).
  3. 3Avalanche (4) to freeze and strip. Biting Frost turns on.
  4. 4Shoot. Recast Force before the Cold falls off. Globe only if the objective is screaming.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Hold 1 until the buff is on the gun

    1

    Your weapons pick up extra Cold.

  2. 2

    Avalanche, then shoot

    4

    Frozen plus stripped plus Biting Frost crits.

Common mistakes

  • Helminthing Avalanche

    Then nothing is frozen and Biting Frost is a dead mod.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Violet primary shardsThe gun is the build. Globe forma can wait.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 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○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Freeze Forceaugment
  5. 5○Biting Frostaugment
  6. 6○Blind Ragemod
  7. 7○Umbral Intensifymod
  8. 8○Primed Continuitymod
  9. 9○Primed Flowmod
  10. 10○Rolling Guardmod
  11. 11○Arcane Ice Stormarcane
  12. 12○Arcane Precisionarcane
  13. 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
  14. 14○Violet · Primary crit / electricshard
  15. 15○Xata's Whisperhelminth
  16. 16○Roar (Rhino)helminth
  17. 17○Helminth · Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino)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

  • Growing Power

    missing · The Silver Grove quest

  • Power Drift

    missing · Unlock Lua

  • Freeze Force

    missing · Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25,000 standing

    Hold 1 to charge Cold onto your weapons, like Shock Trooper.

  • Biting Frost

    missing · Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25,000

    Crit chance and crit damage vs frozen targets.

  • Blind Rage

    missing · Run Orokin Vaults

  • Umbral Intensify

    missing · Finish The Sacrifice

  • Primed Continuity

    missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer

  • Primed Flow

    missing · Baro Ki'Teer

  • Rolling Guard

    missing · Arbitrations

  • Xata's Whisper

    missing · Helminth

    You will not paint floors. Xata adds Void and a damage multiplier. Roar if the squad wants a buff instead. Freeze Force stays on 1.

  • Roar (Rhino)

    missing · Own Rhino

    You will not paint floors. Xata adds Void and a damage multiplier. Roar if the squad wants a buff instead. Freeze Force stays on 1.

Recommended

  • Arcane Ice Storm

    missing · 1999 / trade

    Cold stacks from your guns and Avalanche pump Strength/Duration.

  • Arcane Precision

    missing · Buy it

    Secondary variant. Arcane Rage for primaries.

Optional

Helminth

Subsume Xata's Whisper (Xaku) or Roar (Rhino) over Ice Wave (2)

You will not paint floors. Xata adds Void and a damage multiplier. Roar if the squad wants a buff instead. Freeze Force stays on 1.

Strength

~200%+ for Freeze Force / Roar / Xata

Duration

155%+ buff uptime

Range

145% Avalanche still wants a room

Duration is the weapon buff. Avalanche still wants 167% Strength for strip.

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
100%
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

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1Freeze ForceHold 1 to charge Cold onto your weapons, like Shock Trooper.Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25k
  • 2Biting FrostCrit chance and crit damage vs frozen targets.Steel Meridian / Cephalon Suda · 25k
  • 3Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 4Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
  • 6Primed FlowBaro / relics
  • 7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Cold / Viral primary

Kuva Nukor, Incarnons, any Cold-leaning gun. Freeze Force adds extra Cold. Biting Frost is crit against frozen enemies — Avalanche is the primer.

Arcanes

Arcane Ice Storm

Cold stacks from your guns and Avalanche pump Strength/Duration.

1999 / trade

Arcane Precision

Secondary variant. Arcane Rage for primaries.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Crimson · StrengthForce bonus and Avalanche strip.2 · Netracells
  • 2Violet · Primary crit / electricThe gun is the nuke.2 · Elite Temporal Archimedea
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