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Which Gauss are you building?
Finder asks which loadout you should use. Compare frames is a different tool — which Warframe you should use.
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Star Chart2–3 FormaModerateHigh confidenceStar ChartSteel Path
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.
Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.
- Steel Path ready: Arcanes are fair game, shards can wait.
- Content: Steel Path matched against what this loadout is actually for.
- Playstyle: Thermal Sunder.
- Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts on Progress and Thermal Paradox — Steel Path replaces this.
By player stage
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| Build | Stage | Cost | Dmg | Sur | En | Mob | Ease | Forma | Helminth | Best for |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| First Battery | Starter | Starter | 4 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 0–2 | Full kit | Star Chart, first Gauss, learning battery / Redline |
| First Battery — Star Chart | Star Chart | Moderate | 4 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 5 | 2–3 | Full kit | Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one. |
| Thermal Paradox — Steel Path Thermal Transfer | Steel Path | Advanced | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 3–4 | Full kit | Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card. |
| Thermal Paradox — Optimised Thermal Transfer | Optimised | Endgame | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4–5 | Full kit | Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it. |
| Thermal Paradox — Endgame Thermal Transfer | Endgame | Endgame | 5 | 3 | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4–5 | Full kit | endgame / endurance caster Gauss, the 2026 kit, Heat / Cold inherit |
| Redline Guns Thermal Transfer | Endgame | Endgame | 2 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 2 | 4 | Roar (Rhino) or Eclipse (Mirage) | Incarnons, beam weapons, melee, people who picked Gauss to go brrrt |
| Plated | Steel Path | Advanced | 2 | 3 | 3 | 2 | 4 | 3–4 | Full kit | Survival, endurance, people who bounce off Eximus slams on other frames |
| Mach Crash Mach Crash | Steel Path | Advanced | 2 | 2 | 2 | 4 | 4 | 2–3 | Full kit | Capture speedruns, Index, moving between objectives, people who picked Gauss to go fast |