Nezha — First Ring
Starter build. Warding Halo is a damage sponge with a locked DR. Cast it before the room. Chakram is a teleport and an orb printer.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Star Chart, first Nezha, anyone who slides too far and needs a health bar
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Starter for Star Chart, first Nezha, anyone who slides too far and needs a health bar
Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.
- Warding Halo is Nezha. Cast it first, recast when it breaks. The break even gives a short invuln to recast in.
- You are a mobility tank, not a Mesa. The ring is the health bar.
- Controlled Slide (exilus augment) exists later if the ice-rink passive is ruining your aim.
Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · solo level-cap
0 Forma, basic mods, no Helminth or shards required
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Any gun — Halo keeps you alive. The gun does the killing. Chakram-marked enemies drop extra health / energy orbs on death — shoot what you tagged.
My test
Did this still work for you?
Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.
Readiness
Inventory unknown
Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.
- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/2 · required — 2 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard. Typical farm ~1–2 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
High confidence. How strongly the Codex recommends this for its stated purpose — not a test log. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Open First Ring — Star Chart
The next rung on this frame is unlocked. Mark I run this, then step up.
First Ring — Star ChartPlan
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 Steel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
- After that0–2 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalFirst RingStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma
Upgrade from here
First Ring — Star Chart
Warding Halo is a damage sponge with a locked DR. Cast it before the room. Chakram is a teleport and an orb printer. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.
Open First Ring — Star ChartFarm the gap
- Nezha augments — Safeguard · Divine Retribution · Reaping Chakram · Controlled Slide · Pyroclastic Flow
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Halo then Chakram then Spears in one breath.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 Steel Charge
One named gap. Invasion / Nightwave
60 minutes
Steel Charge, 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 Steel Charge
Invasion / Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You bought him from the Tenno Lab and you keep sliding past doorways.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same day. Intensify, Continuity, press 3.
- First mission to practice in
- A Grineer Exterminate. You want gunfire to test Halo, not a boss null field.
3 button drills · 11 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
Halo loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Warding Halo (3) in the hallway. A ring of fire sits on you. It soaks a huge chunk of incoming damage and stuns melee that walk into it.
- 2Fire Walker (1) is a heat trail that cleanses statuses on allies. Slide around. You will slide farther than you meant to — that is the passive.
- 3Blazing Chakram (2) — throw, teleport to it if you recast, mark enemies so they drop orbs.
- 4Divine Spears (4) pins a pack. Slam 4 again to smash them. Starter CC, not the nuke.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Halo in the first hallway
3Press 3. A ring of fire sits on you. Walk into gunfire. It should tickle.
You will know it worked when: A spinning ring. Melee units stagger if they touch it.
- 2
When it shatters, recast
3You get a short invuln on break. That is the recast window, not a death timer.
- 3
Throw 2, recast 2
2The ring flies. Recast blinks you to it.
Common mistakes
Saving Halo 'for later'
It is a health bar. Put it on now.
When this feels easy
- 1SafeguardHalo your Mag. Next config.
- 2Controlled SlideIf you hate the ice rink.
Parts checklist
0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
13 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●nezhaframe
- 2○Steel Chargemod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Flowmod
- 9○Vitalitymod
- 10○Steel Fibermod
- 11○Arcane Guardianarcane
- 12○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 13○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
- Steel Charge
missing · Invasion / Nightwave
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Continuitymissing · Run low-level Defense or Survival
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Flowmissing · Enemy drops
Vitalitymissing · Jackal
Recommended
Optional
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
Nezha build and abilities guide
Warding Halo, Chakram, Spears. Halo is still the survivability.
Strength
~145% (Intensify) — Halo's health sponge scales with Strength
Duration
155% Fire Walker and Spears
Range
145%
Warding Halo absorbs a pool of damage, then breaks. Strength fattens the pool. Recast after the break invuln.
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
- 130%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +150%
- Capacity
- 43 / 69
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
Nezha mods
- AuraSteel ChargeInvasion / Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2ContinuityEnemy drops / Saturn
- 3StretchEnemy drops
- 4StreamlineEnemy drops
- 5FlowEnemy drops
- 6VitalityEarth / drops
- 7Steel FiberHalo is a sponge on top of armor, not instead of it.Enemy drops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Steel Charge | Invasion / Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Continuity | Enemy drops / Saturn | |
| 3 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 4 | Streamline | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Flow | Enemy drops | |
| 6 | Vitality | Earth / drops | |
| 7 | Steel Fiber Halo is a sponge on top of armor, not instead of it. | Enemy drops |
Any gun
Halo keeps you alive. The gun does the killing. Chakram-marked enemies drop extra health / energy orbs on death — shoot what you tagged.
Arcanes
Arcane Guardian
Armor when hit. Helps the leftover damage after Halo's DR.
Cetus / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Casting SpeedHalo then Chakram then Spears in one breath.1 · Archon Hunt
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Casting Speed Halo then Chakram then Spears in one breath. | 1 | Archon Hunt |