Qorvex — Chain Reaction
Steel Path build. Stack Radiation with pillars and walls, then Crucible Blast. Explosions scale per Radiation status. Fused Crucible channels it. 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.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Crucible Blast is not Wisp Sol Gate. It is a tap beam that detonates Radiation. Prime first, then press 4.
- Empty Radiation stacks make 4 a sad laser. Pillars exist so that never happens.
- Fused Crucible (augment) turns 4 into a channel that freezes pillar duration and forces chain pulses. Separate config if you like standing still.
Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · loadouts that need Helminth
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Radiation primer — Mandonel (his signature) charged shots empower pillars. Any Radiation weapon stacks the 4. Archon mods optional.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Concrete
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Concrete — Star Chart
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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 · 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: Chain Reaction — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Chain Reaction — OptimisedPlan
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 Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
- After that3–4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalChain Reaction — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Chain Reaction — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Chain Reaction — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Crimson · Strength — Beam and chain scale 1:1.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 Growing Power
One named gap. The Silver Grove quest
60 minutes
Growing Power, 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 Growing Power
The Silver Grove quest
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
Steel Path. You want rooms to chain-pop.
- Time to a playable copy
- After a Wall subsume and Blind Rage so Strength is rude.
- First mission to practice in
- A packed Exterminate. Two pillars, then 4.
2 button drills · 12 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
Detonation loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Pillars (1) in the room. Two is better than one.
- 2Nourish or Roar (2).
- 3Guard (3) so a Magnetic proc does not ruin your day.
- 4Blast (4) through the densest Radiation pile. Sweep. Empower a pillar on the way through. Chain reactions do the rest.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Two pillars
1Cover the room. Wait a pulse or two so stacks exist.
- 2
Blast the densest glow
44. Sweep. Hit a pillar on the way.
Common mistakes
Fused Crucible on a mobile tileset
The augment roots you. Camp config only. Tap 4 is the mobile nuke.
When this feels easy
- 1Tau Strength shardsBlast scales 1:1. This is the spend.
Parts checklist
0 of 12 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
15 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●qorvexframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Blind Ragemod
- 5○Intensifymod
- 6○Steel Fibermod
- 7○Stretchmod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Adaptationmod
- 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
- 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 14○Steel Pathunlock
- 15○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
Growing Powermissing · The Silver Grove quest
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Steel Fibermissing · Enemy drops
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Adaptation
missing · Arbitration / Arbitrations
Recommended
Arcane Persistencemissing · Finish The Old Peace
At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom). Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Molt Augmentedmissing · Unlock the Zariman
Strength stacks. Blast is a Strength nuke. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Optional
Strength
~250%+ (beam and explosion damage)
Duration
155% pillars
Range
175%+ beam length and explosion radius
Each Radiation status on the target fattens the chain explosion. 10 stacks is the dream. Pillars and Wall apply them.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 229%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 160%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 51 / 67
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
Qorvex mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
- ExilusCunning DriftLua Halls
- 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 2IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 3Steel FiberDrops
- 4StretchDrops
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro
- 6Primed FlowBaro
- 7AdaptationArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua Halls | |
| 1 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 2 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 3 | Steel Fiber | Drops | |
| 4 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 7 | Adaptation | Arbitrations |
Radiation primer
Mandonel (his signature) charged shots empower pillars. Any Radiation weapon stacks the 4. Archon mods optional.
Arcanes
Arcane Persistence
At 700+ armor, incoming damage caps at 500/s. Azure armor shards or Health Conversion to the breakpoint. Pair with a heal (Grace, kit heal, or Gloom). Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Roathe, La Cathédrale · 5 Maphica (The Descendia)
Molt Augmented
Strength stacks. Blast is a Strength nuke. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · StrengthBeam and chain scale 1:1.1 · Netracells / EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Beam and chain scale 1:1. | 1 | Netracells / EDA |