Gauss
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First Battery
Starter0–2 FormaStarterHigh confidenceStar ChartShards optional

Gauss — First Battery

Starter build. Run to fill the battery. Kinetic Plating so you don't bounce. Redline when the bar is fat. Mach Rush is a movement key.

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

Star Chart, first Gauss, learning battery / Redline

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Why this build?

Starter for Star Chart, first Gauss, learning battery / Redline

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

Play this in Star Chart
  • The battery is Gauss. Standing still is how you turn him into a worse Rhino.
  • Redline is the buff. Duration keeps it up. Mach Rush is how you feed it.
  • Do not Helminth 4. Do not Helminth 2. 1 is movement. 3 is the caster identity.

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

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 guns — Redline will make them fire and reload faster. A decent primary is enough. Thermal Sunder comes online next config.

Instead: First Battery — Star ChartInstead: Thermal Paradox — Steel PathInstead: Thermal Paradox — OptimisedInstead: Thermal Paradox — 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

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Your next step

Open First Battery — Star Chart

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

First Battery — 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 Sprint BoostNightwave / alerts
  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. FinalFirst BatteryStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma

Upgrade from here

First Battery — Star Chart

Run to fill the battery. Kinetic Plating so you don't bounce. Redline when the bar is fat. Mach Rush is a movement key. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

Open First Battery — Star Chart

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Redline on, Sunder on. Redline itself later gives casting speed.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 Sprint Boost

    One named gap. Nightwave / alerts

  2. 60 minutes

    Sprint Boost, 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 pulled him out of Kappa and the battery bar is new.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Rush in Exilus if you have it, Continuity, Intensify.
First mission to practice in
A Capture or a short Exterminate. You want to run.

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

Battery loop

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

  1. 1Mach Rush (1) through a hallway. Battery fills. Crash into a wall for a shockwave if you want.
  2. 2Kinetic Plating (2) before the room shoots you. DR, no knockdown, shots refund energy.
  3. 3Redline (4) once the battery is healthy. Fire rate, reload, melee speed, cast speed. Stay moving so it doesn't starve.
  4. 4Thermal Sunder (3): tap Cold, hold Heat. Starter can poke with it. The nuke is the next loadout.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Hold 1 down a hallway

    1

    You blur. The battery bar climbs. Hit a wall if you want a boom.

    You will know it worked when: The battery meter filling. A shockwave if you crash.

  2. 2

    2, then 4

    4

    Plating on, Redline on. Guns feel faster. Keep moving or the bar drops.

  3. 3

    Tap 3 once

    3

    Cold puff. That is Sunder. Hold next time for Heat.

Common mistakes

  • Redline then standing still

    The bar falls out of the red. You paid 100 energy to feel normal.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Thermal TransferThe 2026 purchase. Next config.
  2. 2Don't stand in the objective bubbleCircle it. Battery is the health bar.

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●gaussframe
  2. 2○Sprint Boostmod
  3. 3○Rushmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Continuitymod
  6. 6○Stretchmod
  7. 7○Streamlinemod
  8. 8○Flowmod
  9. 9○Vitalitymod
  10. 10○Redirectionmod
  11. 11○Arcane Energizearcane
  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

  • Sprint Boost

    missing · Nightwave / alerts

    Sprint fills battery. Gauss wants to move.

  • Rush

    missing · Enemy drops

    Same reason. The Exilus is a sprint slot.

  • Intensify

    missing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril

  • Continuity

    missing · Run low-level Defense or Survival

  • Stretch

    missing · Enemy drops

  • Streamline

    missing · Enemy drops and early missions

  • Flow

    missing · Enemy drops

  • Vitality

    missing · Jackal

  • Redirection

    missing · Drops

    Passive already speeds shield recharge off battery. Help it.

Recommended

  • Arcane Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Nice. Skip until you have it. Kinetic Plating also refunds energy when you get shot.

Optional

  • Amber · Casting Speed

    missing · Earn Amber shards

    Redline on, Sunder on. Redline itself later gives casting speed.

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

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Strength

~145%

Duration

155% Redline uptime

Range

100–145%

Duration is Redline. Battery fills by moving and Mach Rushing. Kinetic Plating DR scales with battery. You want the bar yellow/red, not empty.

From the mods

Live power

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

Strength
130%
Duration
130%
Range
145%
Efficiency
130%
Energy
+150%
Capacity
43 / 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

Gauss mods

  • AuraSprint BoostSprint fills battery. Gauss wants to move.Nightwave / alerts
  • ExilusRushSame reason. The Exilus is a sprint slot.Enemy drops
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2ContinuityEnemy drops
  • 3StretchEnemy drops
  • 4StreamlineEnemy drops
  • 5FlowEnemy drops
  • 6VitalityEarth / drops
  • 7RedirectionPassive already speeds shield recharge off battery. Help it.Enemy drops

Any guns

Redline will make them fire and reload faster. A decent primary is enough. Thermal Sunder comes online next config.

Arcanes

Arcane Energize

Nice. Skip until you have it. Kinetic Plating also refunds energy when you get shot.

Eidolon hunts / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedRedline on, Sunder on. Redline itself later gives casting speed.1 · Archon Hunt
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