Garuda — Red Slow

Don’t build this yet

Open Veins 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.

Why this build?

Endgame for Steel Path endurance, solo, anyone who kept dying between Altars

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

• Gloom plus Bloodletting is infinite energy plus a heal aura. Mirror is the cheapest Helminth slot.
• You gave up Dread Ward invuln. Adaptation and lifesteal replace it.
• If Gloom drain scares you, Duration first, then Bloodletting. You print energy.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · solo level-cap · 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: Status / slash weapons — Gloom wants you in the aura killing. A melee or a close primary. Talons still mark the pack.

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.

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 Open VeinsThe 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. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalRed SlowEndgame · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Gloom on, Talons on.Archon locked
• 2 Crimson · Strength — Slow cap without living on Blind Rage alone.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 Gloom (Sevagoth)

   If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

• Farm Corrosive Projection

  Open Nightwave

Dependencies

18 dependencies

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

1. 1●garudaframe
2. 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
3. 3○Cunning Driftmod
4. 4○Blind Ragemod
5. 5○Primed Continuitymod
6. 6○Stretchmod
7. 7○Overextendedmod
8. 8○Adaptationmod
9. 9○Umbral Intensifymod
10. 10○Equilibriummod
11. 11○Arcane Blessingarcane
12. 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
13. 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
14. 14○Crimson · Strengthshard
15. 15○Gloomhelminth
16. 16○Helminth · Gloom (Sevagoth)unlock
17. 17○Steel Pathunlock
18. 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.