Inaros — Scarab Tide

Don’t build this yet

First Sand first

This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Why this build?

Endgame for Dense endgame / endurance, grouping tiles, people who want Inaros to press 4

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

• Swarm is Inaros' actual ability damage. It scales with the health pile you already built.
• Umbral set is legal greed — health, armor, Strength, all of which this kit wants.
• Persistence plus Shell is the 2025–2026 immortality line. Charge the shell.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · solo level-cap

Specialised investment for hard content

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

Bring: High-status melee or primer — Swarm already Corrosives. A Viral primer makes health melt. The Swarm Kavats need bodies — do not vacuum every corpse before they spawn.

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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. TodayPlay First SandThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
2. NextGet Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
3. After that4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
4. LaterTauforged Azure · ArmorHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalScarab Tide — EndgameEndgame · Endgame · 4 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 1–2 Tauforged Azure · Armor — Help Persistence's 700 armor line with Shell up.Archon locked
• 2 Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Swarm and Shell both scale.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.

• Farm Steel Charge

  Invasion / Nightwave

Dependencies

16 dependencies

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

1. 1●inarosframe
2. 2○Steel Chargemod
3. 3○Cunning Driftmod
4. 4○Blind Ragemod
5. 5○Umbral Intensifymod
6. 6○Umbral Vitalitymod
7. 7○Umbral Fibermod
8. 8○Primed Continuitymod
9. 9○Stretchmod
10. 10○Hunter Adrenalinemod
11. 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
12. 12○Arcane Blessingarcane
13. 13○Tauforged Azure · Armorshard
14. 14○Crimson · Strengthshard
15. 15○Steel Pathunlock
16. 16○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.