Ivara
Ivara builds
Concentrated Light — Steel Path
Steel Path3–4 FormaAdvancedMedium confidenceStar ChartSteel PathShards optional

IvaraConcentrated Light

Steel Path build. Artemis Bow with Concentrated Arrow. One charged headshot becomes a room-wide explosion. This is 2026 Ivara. 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 yetHelminth, 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
  • Artemis Bow is an exalted primary. If the bow grid is empty, this loadout does nothing.
  • Concentrated Arrow plus Range plus Primed Firestorm is one of the fattest explosions in the game.
  • Crepuscular does nothing if Prowl is down. Duration mods are damage mods here.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · loadouts that need Helminth · open combat endurance · open-world / Eidolons · frames played as a gun platform only

Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy

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

Bring: Artemis Bow (exalted primary)Open Artemis Bow's own rifle grid. Concentrated Arrow lives on the Warframe, but the bow still wants crit, fire rate, and Primed Firestorm. This grid is the build.

Alternative if…

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  • Required mods 0/17 · required0/17 named
  • Forma 0/4 · required4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth · optionalNot required
  • Arcanes · recommended0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optionalOptional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 3 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: Concentrated Light — Optimised

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

Concentrated Light — 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 Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  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. FinalConcentrated Light — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma

Upgrade from here

Concentrated Light — Optimised

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

Open Concentrated Light — Optimised

Farm the gap

  • Ivara augmentsInfiltrate · Concentrated Arrow · Empowered Quiver · Piercing Navigator

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Amber · Casting SpeedDraw Prowl and 4 faster.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 Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, 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 forma'd Artemis Bow and bought Concentrated Arrow.

Time to a playable copy
After Concentrated Arrow, Primed Firestorm, and a few bow forma.
First mission to practice in
SP Exterminate. You want heads.

2 button drills · 20 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

0 of 3 done

Put it on the Warframe

0 of 5 done

Keep this up

Bow loop

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

  1. 1Prowl (3). Crepuscular on. Walk, do not sprint.
  2. 2Artemis Bow (4). Aim at a head. Charge. The explosion eats the pack.
  3. 3Sleep Arrow (1) anything that would break Prowl — Bombards, cameras, the Eximus that looked at you.
  4. 4Recast Prowl before it dies. You are a glass archer without it.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Prowl

    3

    Crepuscular on.

  2. 2

    Draw, headshot, boom

    4

    4, aim at a head, charge, fire. The explosion should eat the pack.

    You will know it worked when: A single arrow. A blast. Empty tile.

Common mistakes

  • Body shots

    Concentrated Arrow's explosion wants a weak point. Aim higher.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Primed FirestormRadius is damage. Range mods plus this.
  2. 2Empower subsumeNext config.

Parts checklist

0 of 20 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

23 dependencies

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

  1. 1ivaraframe
  2. 2Growing Powermod
  3. 3Cunning Driftmod
  4. 4Concentrated Arrowaugment
  5. 5Blind Ragemod
  6. 6Overextendedmod
  7. 7Stretchmod
  8. 8Primed Continuitymod
  9. 9Primed Flowmod
  10. 10Streamlinemod
  11. 11Serrationmod
  12. 12Split Chambermod
  13. 13Point Strikemod
  14. 14Vital Sensemod
  15. 15Primed Firestormmod
  16. 16Vile Accelerationmod
  17. 17Malignant Forcemod
  18. 18Rime Roundsmod
  19. 19Arcane Crepusculararcane
  20. 20Molt Augmentedarcane
  21. 21Amber · Casting Speedshard
  22. 22Steel Pathunlock
  23. 23Archon 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 Crepuscular

    missing · Duviri / trade

    Damage and crit while invisible. Prowl is the on-switch. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Strength as you kill. Feeds the bow. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Optional

Strength

~180–250% (bow damage)

Duration

155%+ Prowl

Range

200%+ (Concentrated Arrow explosion scales with Range AND Firestorm)

Range is blast radius. Strength is arrow damage. Duration keeps Prowl — and Crepuscular — up.

From the mods

Live power

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

Strength
139%
Duration
155%
Range
250%
Efficiency
75%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
48 / 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
126
Crit
30% × 4.40
Status
57%
Fire rate
18.20
Multishot
1.90
Avg hit
255
Arsenal DPS
8802

Toggle common mods

Ivara mods

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
  • ExilusCunning DriftLua Halls
  • 1Concentrated ArrowSeven arrows become one. Headshot explodes. Punch through dies. This is the nuke.Cephalon Suda / Red Veil · 25k
  • 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 3OverextendedExplosion radius. Strength shards pay it back.Orokin Vaults
  • 4StretchEnemy drops
  • 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
  • 6Primed FlowBaro / relics
  • 7StreamlineEnemy drops

Artemis Bow (exalted primary)

  • 1SerrationEnemy drops / Invasion
  • 2Split ChamberEnemy drops
  • 3Point StrikeEnemy drops
  • 4Vital SenseEnemy drops
  • 5Primed FirestormBlast radius stacks with Ability Range. This is why rooms vanish.Baro Ki'Teer
  • 6Vile AccelerationCharge speed. The bow is a fire-rate weapon now.Orokin Vaults
  • 7Malignant ForceEnemy drops
  • 8Rime RoundsViral on the explosion so health melts after the boom.Enemy drops

Arcanes

Arcane Crepuscular

Damage and crit while invisible. Prowl is the on-switch. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Duviri / trade

Molt Augmented

Strength as you kill. Feeds the bow. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.

Zariman

Archon shards

  • 1Amber · Casting SpeedDraw Prowl and 4 faster.1 · EDA
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