Revenant — Mesmer Gun
Steel Path build. Roar over Enthrall. Mesmer Skin forever. You are an immortal weapons platform. This is 2026 Revenant. 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.
- Immortal gun platform is the reason Revenant is in every pub. It is not elegant. It works.
- Mesmer Shield (augment) if you want the squad to share charges. Slot it over Rolling Guard on a support config.
- Enthrall is gone. Nobody in your Steel Path cell missed it.
Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · loadouts that need Helminth · ability-nuke as the damage · solo level-cap
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Incarnon / status primary — Torid, Phenmor, Laetum, Felarx, whatever is currently unfair. Mesmer means you never stop shooting to panic-roll.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Mesmer
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Mesmer — Star Chart
- You wanted the ability loop, not guns → First Mesmer
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 · 1 shard · 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: Mesmer Gun — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Mesmer Gun — 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.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalMesmer Gun — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Mesmer Gun — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Mesmer Gun — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Eidolon augments — Mesmer Shield · Thrall Pact · Blinding Reave
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Mesmer recast is your roll. Instant.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 subsumed Enthrall for Roar and brought a real gun.
- Time to a playable copy
- After the Helminth inject and a Strength stack. Casting speed shards as soon as you can.
- First mission to practice in
- Steel Path Exterminate. Recast Mesmer like a reload.
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
Gun loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Mesmer Skin (2) in spawn and every time the count looks thin. Casting speed makes this a twitch recast.
- 2Roar (1).
- 3Shoot. Reave (3) only if you somehow dropped Skin and need a panic heal — you should not have dropped Skin.
- 4Danse (4) is a panic room-clear or a meme. Most gun configs never press it.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Mesmer, Roar, shoot
2 12, 1, hold trigger.
- 2
Glance at the 2 icon every room
Two charges left? Recast. Do not wait.
Common mistakes
Roar over Mesmer Skin
Then you are Rhino without Iron Skin. Put Skin back. Roar goes on 1.
When this feels easy
- 1Two Tau Amber casting speedMesmer recast becomes a blink. This is the feel of endgame Revenant.
- 2Mesmer ShieldIf you squad and want to share charges. Slot over Rolling Guard.
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●revenantframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Blind Ragemod
- 5○Intensifymod
- 6○Transient Fortitudemod
- 7○Primed Continuitymod
- 8○Primed Flowmod
- 9○Equilibriummod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 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
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Transient Fortitudemissing · Same vaults as Blind Rage
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
Recommended
Molt Augmentedmissing · Unlock the Zariman
Strength stacks. Charges and Roar both grow. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
Recast Mesmer forever. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Optional
Strength
~250–300% (Roar and Mesmer charges)
Duration
155% Roar uptime
Range
100–130%
More Strength = more Mesmer charges (rounded up). Casting speed shards are recast insurance. Mesmer Shield shares charges with allies.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 299%
- Duration
- 128%
- Range
- 100%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 54 / 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
Revenant mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 2IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 3Transient FortitudeOrokin Vaults
- 4Primed ContinuityBaro
- 5Primed FlowBaro
- 6EquilibriumThe New Strange
- 7Rolling GuardStatus cleanse if you recast Mesmer late and eat a Magnetic.Arbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 2 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 3 | Transient Fortitude | Orokin Vaults | |
| 4 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 5 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 6 | Equilibrium | The New Strange | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard Status cleanse if you recast Mesmer late and eat a Magnetic. | Arbitrations |
Incarnon / status primary
Torid, Phenmor, Laetum, Felarx, whatever is currently unfair. Mesmer means you never stop shooting to panic-roll.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength stacks. Charges and Roar both grow. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
Recast Mesmer forever. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Casting SpeedMesmer recast is your roll. Instant.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Casting Speed Mesmer recast is your roll. Instant. | 1 | EDA |