Styanax — Final Stand
Steel Path build. Tharros strips, Rally feeds energy, Final Stand rains the tile. Intrepid Stand dumps Overguard on every hit. This is 2026 Styanax. 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.
- Final Stand plus Tharros is Styanax. The rain on armored Grineer without 2 is a massage.
- Intrepid Stand is why the nuke is also a tank. Overguard per hit adds up in a packed tile.
- Axios is the Helminth slot on this config. Keep it on the grouping loadout.
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: No exalted — Final Stand is an ability rain, not a grid. Precision Intensify is legal if you only care about 4 — full Strength is better if Tharros still has to strip.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Spear
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Spear — Star Chart
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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: Final Stand — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Final Stand — 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.
- FinalFinal Stand — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Final Stand — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Final Stand — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Intrepid Stand — Intrepid Stand
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Crimson · Strength — Rain and strip.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. Intrepid Stand is bought. You want the tile to drown.
- Time to a playable copy
- After the augment and ~250% Strength.
- First mission to practice in
- SP Exterminate or Onslaught. You want clumps, not a hallway of singles.
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 4 done
Keep this up
Rain loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Rally Point (3). Roar or Nourish (1) if you subsumed.
- 2Tharros Strike (2) the pack so armor is gone.
- 3Final Stand (4). Hover. Rain. Direct-hit the heavies, let puddles cook the rest.
- 4You are airborne and loud. Recast Rally before you land broke.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Rally and the subsume
3Buffs on before you leave the floor.
- 2
Tharros, then Stand
4Naked pack, then rain. Overguard should tick up.
You will know it worked when: Hover. Javelin puddles. Fat Overguard.
Common mistakes
Helminthing Tharros 'because Roar is more damage'
Then the rain hits armor. Put Roar on 1.
When this feels easy
- 1Tau Strength shardsRain scales.
- 2Don't Precision-Intensify if Tharros still has to stripIt only buffs 4. Full Strength pays both.
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●styanaxframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intrepid Standaugment
- 5○Blind Ragemod
- 6○Transient Fortitudemod
- 7○Intensifymod
- 8○Primed Continuitymod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Equilibriummod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 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
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Intrepid Stand
missing · Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25,000 standing
Final Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment.
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Transient Fortitudemissing · Same vaults as Blind Rage
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
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 into the rain. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
100-energy Stand plus Rally is still hungry on Blind Rage. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Optional
Strength
~250–300% (rain damage, Tharros toward full strip ~200%)
Duration
155%+ Rally and Stand hang time
Range
145–175% so javelins find neighbors
Full Tharros strip is a Strength breakpoint (~200%). Check the Arsenal. Intrepid Stand Overguard scales with hits, not with hope.
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
- 53 / 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
Styanax mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Intrepid StandFinal Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment.Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25k
- 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 3Transient FortitudeOrokin Vaults
- 4IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 5Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 6Primed FlowBaro / relics
- 7EquilibriumThe New Strange
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove specters | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intrepid Stand Final Stand hits grant Overguard to you and allies. The tank-nuke augment. | Steel Meridian / Arbiters of Hexis · 25k | |
| 2 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Transient Fortitude | Orokin Vaults | |
| 4 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 5 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro / relics | |
| 7 | Equilibrium | The New Strange |
No exalted
Final Stand is an ability rain, not a grid. Precision Intensify is legal if you only care about 4 — full Strength is better if Tharros still has to strip.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength stacks into the rain. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
100-energy Stand plus Rally is still hungry on Blind Rage. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · StrengthRain and strip.1 · Netracells / EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Rain and strip. | 1 | Netracells / EDA |