Hildryn — First Pillage
Star Chart build. She has 0 energy. Abilities cost shields. Pillage steals armor and shields and puts them on you. Do not slot Flow. It does nothing. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.
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- Hildryn is a shield caster. Energy mods are dead slots. Redirection is Flow. Streamline is how casts get cheaper.
- Pillage is the kit. Two cheap casts strip more than you think even at 145% Strength.
- Passive: her shield gate is long (up to 3.5s). When shields break you have time to Pillage them back.
Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · frames played as a gun platform only
Accessible mods and a working energy / survivability loop
Bring: Any gun — Pillage is the gun. A decent primary finishes stripped targets. Balefire waits until the exalted grid has mods.
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 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — None listed
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 1 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
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Your next step
Next: Aegis Gale — Steel Path
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Aegis Gale — Steel PathPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- FinalFirst Pillage — Star ChartStar Chart · Moderate · 2–3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Aegis Gale — Steel Path
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Aegis Gale — Steel PathTonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Corrosive Projection
One named gap. Open Nightwave
60 minutes
Corrosive Projection, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
Two farm routes, then a test run
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
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You just beat Exploiter and the energy bar is missing. That is correct.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same day. Redirection, Intensify, Streamline. Do not buy Flow.
- First mission to practice in
- A Corpus Exterminate so Pillage has shields to steal. Infested will confuse you — they have nothing to pillage.
3 button drills · 10 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
Pillage loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Pillage (2). A pulse expands, peels shields and armor, comes back as your shields / overshields. Status also wipes.
- 2If you have no shields, you cannot cast. Hide, let them recharge, or Pillage a packed room so the return trip fills you.
- 3Haven (3) if a teammate is taking chip damage. Starter can ignore it.
- 4Balefire (1) and Aegis Storm (4) wait. Empty exalted and empty 4 are traps on day one.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Press 2 at a pack
2A pulse goes out and comes back. Their shields/armor dip. Yours climb. Status wipes.
You will know it worked when: A expanding ring. Overshields. Yellow armor bars shrinking.
- 2
If you cannot cast, you have no shields
Hide. Let them recharge. Or find a packed room so the return trip fills you.
- 3
Leave 1 and 4 alone
4Empty Balefire and empty Storm are sad. Next configs.
Common mistakes
Slotting Flow because every other starter does
Energy is 0. The mod does nothing. Put Redirection there.
When this feels easy
- 1Primed Redirection, not Primed FlowBaro. This is her energy pool and later her Gale damage.
- 2Aegis GaleThe 2026 purchase. Next config. Also forma the Balefire grid.
Parts checklist
0 of 10 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
11 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●hildrynframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Redirectionmod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Vitalitymod
- 10○Fast Deflectionmod
- 11○Arcane Aegisarcane
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
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Efficiency reduces shield cost. This is her Streamline-as-Flow.
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Recommended
- Arcane Aegis
missing · Cetus / trade
Shield regen. Optional on day one. Never buy Energize for this frame. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Strength
~145%
Duration
130% Pillage travel
Range
145% Pillage pulse
Pillage costs 150 shields, not energy. Streamline reduces that cost. Flow / Primed Flow do nothing — her energy is 0. Full strip is 400% Strength, or ~328% with Corrosive Projection. You are not there yet. Two casts still peel a lot.
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
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- base
- Capacity
- 44 / 67
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
Hildryn mods
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionLater this is strip math. Now it is free armor shred.Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2RedirectionThis is her energy pool. Bigger shields, more casts.Enemy drops
- 3StretchEnemy drops
- 4StreamlineEfficiency reduces shield cost. This is her Streamline-as-Flow.Enemy drops
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer / relics
- 6VitalityWhen shields break she still has a tiny health bar. Don't skip it.Earth / drops
- 7Fast DeflectionShields recharge. Her gate is already long — help the refill.Enemy drops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection Later this is strip math. Now it is free armor shred. | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Redirection This is her energy pool. Bigger shields, more casts. | Enemy drops | |
| 3 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 4 | Streamline Efficiency reduces shield cost. This is her Streamline-as-Flow. | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer / relics | |
| 6 | Vitality When shields break she still has a tiny health bar. Don't skip it. | Earth / drops | |
| 7 | Fast Deflection Shields recharge. Her gate is already long — help the refill. | Enemy drops |
Any gun
Pillage is the gun. A decent primary finishes stripped targets. Balefire waits until the exalted grid has mods.
Arcanes
Arcane Aegis
Shield regen. Optional on day one. Never buy Energize for this frame. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.
Cetus / trade
Archon shards
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
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