Mag — Naked Metal
Optimised build. Polarize melts shields and armor. Fracturing Crush finishes the strip and freezes. Then the bubble actually kills Grineer.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Steel Path Grineer, Demolysts, armor tiles, the Mag who is tired of yellow health bars
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Bubble first
This loadout sits at Optimised. 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.
Open First BubbleWhy this build?
Optimised for Steel Path Grineer, Demolysts, armor tiles, the Mag who is tired of yellow health bars
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Fracturing Crush is why you keep 4 on a strip Mag. Other configs Helminth it.
- Polarize is both your survivability and your strip. Recast it like a Wisp mote.
- Counter Pulse is the 'please stop shooting' Polarize augment. Take it or Rolling Guard, not neither in Steel Path.
Don’t use this for: unarmored Corpus tiles · Star Chart only
Helminth, shards, and a finished configuration
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Viral primer — Epitaph or a Viral secondary. Polarize / Fracturing Crush strip defenses; Viral plus the bubble does the health.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Bubble
- This is too much Forma / cost → Shrapnel Engine — Steel Path
My test
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 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: Shrapnel Engine — Endgame
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Shrapnel Engine — EndgamePlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- TodayPlay First BubbleThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
- NextGet Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalNaked MetalOptimised · Endgame · 4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Shrapnel Engine — Endgame
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Shrapnel Engine — EndgameFarm the gap
- Mag augments — Greedy Pull · Magnetized Discharge · Counter Pulse · Fracturing Crush
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 3–4 Crimson · Strength — Strip percent. Polarize is a percentage of remaining armor/shields.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — 3 then 4 then 2.Archon locked
Tonight
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
One Archon Hunt
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
Grineer armor is laughing at your bubble. You kept Crush for Fracturing Crush.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Fracturing Crush and real Strength.
- First mission to practice in
- SP Grineer. You should see armor bars vanish.
2 button drills · 13 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
Strip loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Polarize (3) the clump. Shields pop, armor chunks, shards spawn.
- 2Fracturing Crush (4). Armor hits zero. They freeze.
- 3Magnetize (2) the frozen clump. Shoot. Shards feed the bubble.
- 4Pull (1) if the next pack is spread. Repeat 3 on cooldown — it also tops squad shields.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Polarize
3Shields and a chunk of armor gone. Shards out.
- 2
Crush
4Armor to zero. Freeze. Then bubble.
Common mistakes
Helminthing 4 on this config
Fracturing Crush is the reason 4 still exists here.
When this feels easy
- 1Keep Corrosive ProjectionHelps the percent strip. Aura is a strip mod.
Parts checklist
0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
16 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●magframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Fracturing Crushaugment
- 5○Blind Ragemod
- 6○Umbral Intensifymod
- 7○Stretchmod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Counter Pulseaugment
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Aegisarcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 15○Steel Pathunlock
- 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.
Required
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Fracturing Crush
missing · The Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25,000 standing
Crush fully strips armor and freezes. Keep 4 on this config.
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Counter Pulse
missing · The Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25,000 standing
Polarize jams enemy weapons and disables Eximus / Ancient auras. Optional if you need the slot for Rolling Guard.
Recommended
Optional
Crimson · Strengthmissing · Netracells / Archon Hunt / Bird 3
Strip percent. Polarize is a percentage of remaining armor/shields.
Strength
~250%+ so Polarize's percent strip is greedy
Duration
145%
Range
175%
Fracturing Crush full-strips armor and petrifies. Polarize also restores ally shields — you are the battery.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 258%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 50 / 67
1 Umbral piece
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
Mag mods
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionHelps the strip math.Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Fracturing CrushCrush fully strips armor and freezes. Keep 4 on this config.Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25k
- 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 4StretchEnemy drops
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 6Primed FlowBaro / relics
- 7Counter PulsePolarize jams enemy weapons and disables Eximus / Ancient auras. Optional if you need the slot for Rolling Guard.Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25k
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection Helps the strip math. | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Fracturing Crush Crush fully strips armor and freezes. Keep 4 on this config. | Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25k | |
| 2 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Umbral Intensify | The Sacrifice | |
| 4 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro / relics | |
| 7 | Counter Pulse Polarize jams enemy weapons and disables Eximus / Ancient auras. Optional if you need the slot for Rolling Guard. | Perrin Sequence / New Loka · 25k |
Viral primer
Epitaph or a Viral secondary. Polarize / Fracturing Crush strip defenses; Viral plus the bubble does the health.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength for Polarize percent and Crush.
Zariman
Arcane Aegis
Shields are the health pool. Polarize refills them.
Cetus / trade
Archon shards
- 1Crimson · StrengthStrip percent. Polarize is a percentage of remaining armor/shields.3–4 · Netracells
- 2Amber · Casting Speed3 then 4 then 2.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Strip percent. Polarize is a percentage of remaining armor/shields. | 3–4 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed 3 then 4 then 2. | 1 | EDA |