Garuda
Garuda builds
Open Veins
Starter0–2 FormaStarterHigh confidenceStar ChartShards optional

Garuda — Open Veins

Starter build. Bloodletting is a free energy button. You pay health. Altar puts the health back. Do not fear the red bar.

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

Star Chart, first Garuda, learning the health-for-energy trade

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Why this build?

Starter for Star Chart, first Garuda, learning the health-for-energy trade

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

Play this in Star Chart
  • Bloodletting is Garuda. Other frames beg for Energize. You press 3.
  • Altar is the refund. If you Bloodlet with no Altar and no kills, you will faceplant.
  • Do not Helminth 3. Ever.

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

0 Forma, basic mods, no Helminth or shards required

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

Bring: Any slash melee / primer — Garuda's talons come out if you unequip melee. A real slash melee is still better on day one. Seeking Talons is the later nuke.

Instead: Open Veins — Star ChartInstead: Seeking Room — Steel PathInstead: Seeking Room — OptimisedInstead: Seeking Room — Endgame

My test

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Readiness

Inventory unknown

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

  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/2 · required — 2 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth · optional — Not required
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard. 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

Open Open Veins — Star Chart

The next rung on this frame is unlocked. Mark I run this, then step up.

Open Veins — Star Chart

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 Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
  2. After that0–2 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  4. FinalOpen VeinsStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma

Upgrade from here

Open Veins — Star Chart

Bloodletting is a free energy button. You pay health. Altar puts the health back. Do not fear the red bar. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Open Open Veins — Star Chart

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Bloodletting then Altar should be one motion.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 Steel Charge

    One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave

  2. 60 minutes

    Steel Charge, 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.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You just finished Vox Solaris and the 3 button looks like it will kill you.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Vitality, Intensify, Continuity.
First mission to practice in
A low Fortuna bounty or a Venus Exterminate. You want bodies for Altar.

3 button drills · 11 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

Bleed loop

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

  1. 1Bloodletting (3) whenever energy is empty. Your health halves. Energy fills. Status wipes.
  2. 2Blood Altar (2) a grunt. Stand near it. Health comes back for you and anyone else in range.
  3. 3Dread Mirror (1) a heavy if you want a shield. Hold 1 to throw the stored damage.
  4. 4Seeking Talons (4) a pack when you have the energy. Slash procs. Starter guns finish.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Altar a grunt

    2

    Look at a healthy-enough enemy, press 2. A red tether. Stand near it. Health comes back.

    You will know it worked when: An impaled enemy. A heal pulse.

  2. 2

    Press 3

    3

    Health halves. Energy fills. You did not die. The Altar is putting HP back.

  3. 3

    Talons a pack if you have the energy

    4

    Hold 4, cover them, release.

Common mistakes

  • Bloodletting at 50 HP with no Altar

    You will die. Altar first, or kill something, then 3.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Blending TalonsThe Steel Path purchase. Next config.
  2. 2Don't buy Primed Flow firstBuy Vitality and Altar uptime. You print energy.

Parts checklist

0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

13 dependencies

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

  1. 1●garudaframe
  2. 2○Steel Chargemod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Continuitymod
  6. 6○Stretchmod
  7. 7○Vitalitymod
  8. 8○Flowmod
  9. 9○Streamlinemod
  10. 10○Steel Fibermod
  11. 11○Arcane Blessingarcane
  12. 12○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  13. 13○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

Recommended

  • Arcane Blessing

    missing · Orphix / trade

    Health orbs raise max HP. Optional on day one.

Optional

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

All videos
The kitTheKengineer · Mar 2021

Garuda, Nagantaka, and Corvas Prime triple guide

Bloodletting energy and Seeking Talons. The kit still holds; skip pre-rework talon videos.

Play in WatchYouTube

Strength

~145%

Duration

130% Altar uptime

Range

145%

Bloodletting always costs half your current health and always fills energy. Strength does not change the energy refund. Duration is Altar. Range is Talons later.

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
130%
Range
145%
Efficiency
130%
Energy
+150%
Capacity
43 / 69

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

Garuda mods

  • AuraSteel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2ContinuityEnemy drops
  • 3StretchEnemy drops
  • 4VitalityHealth tank. You spend this bar on purpose.Earth / drops
  • 5FlowEnemy drops
  • 6StreamlineEnemy drops
  • 7Steel FiberEnemy drops

Any slash melee / primer

Garuda's talons come out if you unequip melee. A real slash melee is still better on day one. Seeking Talons is the later nuke.

Arcanes

Arcane Blessing

Health orbs raise max HP. Optional on day one.

Duviri / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedBloodletting then Altar should be one motion.1 · Archon Hunt
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