Garuda
Garuda builds
Seeking Room — Steel Path
Steel Path3–4 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceStar ChartSteel PathShards optional

Garuda — Seeking Room

Steel Path build. Seeking Talons plus Blending Talons. Mark the tile, guaranteed Slash, extra statuses. Bloodletting pays for the spam. This is the peak you can run the day Steel Path unlocks — galvanized / arcanes, no Helminth.

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

Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.

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Why this build?

Steel Path for Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.

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

Play this in Star ChartPlay this in Steel PathPlay this in CircuitPlay this in ArbitrationsPlay this in Archon Hunts
  • Seeking Talons is the room. Range mods are damage mods.
  • Blending Talons is how 4 becomes a primer, not just a bleed.
  • Energy is not a problem. 3 exists. Stop putting Energize on this frame out of habit.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · loadouts that need Helminth

Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy

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

Bring: Slash primer / melee — A Viral primer (Epitaph, Kuva Nukor) makes the Slash ticks monstrous. Hunter Munitions guns also love the mark.

Alternative if…

Instead: Open VeinsInstead: Open Veins — Star ChartInstead: Seeking Room — OptimisedInstead: Seeking Room — Endgame

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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 · optional — Not required
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 2 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.

Your next step

Next: Seeking Room — Optimised

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

Seeking Room — Optimised

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 Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
  2. After that3–4 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. FinalSeeking Room — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma

Upgrade from here

Seeking Room — Optimised

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

Open Seeking Room — Optimised

Farm the gap

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Hold-4 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

    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

Steel Path. You own Blending Talons and you like rooms that bleed.

Time to a playable copy
After Blending Talons and a Range stack.
First mission to practice in
SP Exterminate. Hold-4 should paint the tile.

2 button drills · 12 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

Talon loop

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

  1. 1Altar (2) something. Bloodletting (3) whenever the bar is empty.
  2. 2Hold Seeking Talons (4) until the reticle covers the pack. Release. Slash rains.
  3. 3Dread Mirror (1) is a panic shield or a stored nuke on a heavy. Optional on this config.
  4. 4Viral primer first if the ticks feel small. Armor still exists until you strip or slash through it.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Altar, Bloodlet

    3

    Energy full. Health dripping back.

  2. 2

    Hold 4, cover the pack, release

    4

    Talons home. Slash and extra statuses land.

    You will know it worked when: A giant targeting circle. Then a flock of claws.

Common mistakes

  • Tapping 4

    The hold grows the mark. Tapping is a small circle. Hold it.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Viral primerEpitaph makes the Slash ticks respectable at level cap.
  2. 2Casting speedHold-4 is fire rate.

Parts checklist

0 of 12 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

15 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○Blending Talonsaugment
  5. 5○Blind Ragemod
  6. 6○Overextendedmod
  7. 7○Stretchmod
  8. 8○Intensifymod
  9. 9○Equilibriummod
  10. 10○Primed Flowmod
  11. 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
  12. 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
  13. 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  14. 14○Steel Pathunlock
  15. 15○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 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). Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Strength as you kill. Talon damage. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Optional

Strength

~200–250% Talon damage

Duration

100–130%

Range

200%+ mark radius

Range is the nuke. Hold 4 to grow the targeting reticle, release to send a talon at everything inside. Bloodletting ignores Strength for the energy refund.

From the mods

Live power

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

Strength
169%
Duration
100%
Range
250%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
49 / 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

Garuda mods

  • AuraCorrosive ProjectionNightwave
  • ExilusCunning DriftLua Halls
  • 1Blending TalonsTalons apply extra statuses. Slash plus friends.Steel Meridian / Red Veil · 25k
  • 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 3OverextendedMark radius is the build.Orokin Vaults
  • 4StretchEnemy drops
  • 5IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 6EquilibriumThe New Strange
  • 7Primed FlowBaro / relics

Slash primer / melee

A Viral primer (Epitaph, Kuva Nukor) makes the Slash ticks monstrous. Hunter Munitions guns also love the mark.

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). Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Roathe, La Cathédrale · 5 Maphica (The Descendia)

Molt Augmented

Strength as you kill. Talon damage. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Zariman

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedHold-4 is your fire rate.1 · EDA
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