Protea
Protea builds
First Gadgets — Star Chart
Star Chart2–3 FormaModerateHigh confidenceStar ChartSteel Path

Protea — First Gadgets

Star Chart build. Hold Grenade Fan for Shield Satellites. Drop Blaze Artillery. Drop Dispensary. You are a turret engineer. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.

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Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Why this build?

Star Chart for Junctions through the Outer Terminus. Steel Path is the next card, not this one.

Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.

Play this in Star ChartPlay this in Steel Path
  • Hold 1 is why Protea lives. Tap 1 is a slash toy. Learn the hold.
  • Artillery is the DPS. It faces where you look. Aim the door, not the ceiling.
  • Dispensary is the best deployable battery in the game. Keep it on her.

Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content · solo level-cap

Accessible mods and a working energy / survivability loop

Bring: Any gun — Artillery is the damage. Your rifle chips. Dispensary feeds ammo so you never think about it.

Instead: First GadgetsInstead: Siege Cannons — Steel PathInstead: Siege Cannons — OptimisedInstead: Siege Cannons — Endgame

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 0/3 · 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 · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

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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

Next: Siege Cannons — Steel Path

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

Siege Cannons — Steel Path

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 Brief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
  2. After that2–3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  3. FinalFirst Gadgets — Star ChartStar Chart · Moderate · 2–3 Forma

Upgrade from here

Siege Cannons — Steel Path

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

Open Siege Cannons — Steel Path

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 Brief Respite

    One named gap. The Index / Nightwave

  2. 60 minutes

    Brief Respite, then Forma

    Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

  3. 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.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

You just left Granum Void and keep tapping 1 by accident.

Time to a playable copy
Same day. Intensify, Continuity, Redirection. Practice the hold in Simulacrum.
First mission to practice in
A Corpus Exterminate. Hold 1, drop a turret at a door, drop a pad.

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

Gadget loop

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

  1. 1HOLD Grenade Fan (1). Shield Satellites orbit you and allies. When shields break, a Satellite extends the gate.
  2. 2Blaze Artillery (2) facing the door. It ramps damage each hit. Recast when it dies — Duration is short on purpose.
  3. 3Dispensary (3) around a corner. Health orb, energy orb, ammo. Walk over them.
  4. 4Temporal Anchor (4) is a rewind. Starter can ignore it except as a panic undo.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Hold 1 until drones pop out

    1

    They orbit you. Shields overcharge.

    You will know it worked when: Little satellites, not a slash swirl.

  2. 2

    Look at a doorway, press 2

    2

    A turret deploys facing that way. It ticks faster and harder as it hits.

  3. 3

    Dispensary around a corner

    3

    3. Walk over the orbs. Ammo, energy, health.

Common mistakes

  • Tapping 1 in a panic

    You threw shrapnel. Hold next time. The swirl is not the gate.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Watch the 4th-cast glowPassive. Try to land Artillery on the boosted cast.
  2. 2Temporal ArtilleryNext config. The backpack turret.

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. 1●proteaframe
  2. 2○Brief Respitemod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Intensifymod
  5. 5○Primed Continuitymod
  6. 6○Stretchmod
  7. 7○Streamlinemod
  8. 8○Primed Flowmod
  9. 9○Redirectionmod
  10. 10○Vitalitymod
  11. 11○Arcane Energizearcane

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 Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Optional. Dispensary is the energy plan. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.

Strength

~145%

Duration

155% (Artillery lifetime and Dispensary)

Range

145%

Hold 1 is shield drones. Tap 1 is a slash vortex. New players hold 1. Passive: every 4th cast gets bonus Strength.

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
+275%
Capacity
47 / 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
35
Crit
12% × 2.00
Status
26%
Fire rate
9.58
Multishot
1.00
Avg hit
39
Arsenal DPS
376

Toggle common mods

Protea mods

  • AuraBrief RespiteCasting gates shields. Satellites already help — this is extra.The Index / Nightwave
  • ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
  • 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
  • 2Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer / relics
  • 3StretchEnemy drops
  • 4StreamlineEnemy drops
  • 5Primed FlowBaro Ki'Teer / relics
  • 6RedirectionSatellites overcharge shields. Give them a pool.Enemy drops
  • 7VitalityEarth / drops

Any gun

Artillery is the damage. Your rifle chips. Dispensary feeds ammo so you never think about it.

Arcanes

Arcane Energize

Optional. Dispensary is the energy plan. Skip until you have it — Star Chart does not need Eidolon arcanes.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

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