Temple
Temple builds
Overdrive Guns
Endgame4 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathHelminthShards optional

Temple — Overdrive Guns

Endgame build. Nourish over Pyrotechnics. Overdrive makes the tile crit-vulnerable. Wail adds Heat. Your Incarnon does the concert.

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Incarnon primaries, crit guns, people who wanted the metronome on a weapon platform

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

First Backbeat first

This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Open First Backbeat

Why this build?

Endgame for Incarnon primaries, crit guns, people who wanted the metronome on a weapon platform

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

Play this in Steel Path
  • This is the Helminth Temple. Pillars were the caster identity. Guns are this one.
  • Overdrive's on-beat double crit chance is a squad debuff. Missing the beat halves the reason you subsumed.
  • Keep Lizzie on Config A. Do not half-mod both.

Don’t use this for: ability-nuke as the damage · players without Helminth

Specialised investment for hard content

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: Primary (the actual build) — A crit primary. Overdrive's on-beat double crit chance is a room debuff. Wail's Heat rider sits on the gun. Lizzie can stay holstered.

Alternative if…

Instead: First BackbeatInstead: First Backbeat — Star ChartInstead: Exalted Solo — Steel PathInstead: Exalted Solo — Optimised

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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 0/1 · required — Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)) · 2 shards · 4 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

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Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.

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. TodayPlay First BackbeatThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
  2. NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  3. After that4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  4. LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  5. FinalOverdrive GunsEndgame · Endgame · 4 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino) over Pyrotechnics (1)

Pillars are caster Temple. You came to shoot. Nourish is Viral plus energy. Roar if you want the faction multiplier on top of Overdrive's crit vuln. Cast the subsume on the beat anyway — Efficiency still applies.

Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.

  • 3 Crimson · Strength — Overdrive and Nourish/Roar.Archon locked
  • 2 Violet · Primary crit / electric — The gun is the nuke.Archon locked

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 Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, then Forma

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

  3. 120 minutes

    Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)

    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 Helminthed pillars because the Incarnon was always the plan.

Time to a playable copy
After Nourish or Roar is on 1.
First mission to practice in
A long Survival with a crit primary.

1 button drills · 14 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

Amp-gun loop

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

  1. 1Wail (3) on beat.
  2. 2Nourish or Roar (1) on beat. Overdrive (2) on beat. Both icons on.
  3. 3Shoot the vulnerable tile. Recast 2 before the crit window dies.
  4. 44 is still legal if the charge is up. This config did not forma Lizzie — skip it.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Three on-beat buffs, then hold fire

    2

    Wail, subsume, Overdrive. Recast 2 when the vuln dies.

Common mistakes

  • Off-beat Overdrive

    You halved the crit chance you came for. Wait the tick.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Violet primary shardsThe gun is the nuke.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

19 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

  1. 1●templeframe
  2. 2○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Blind Ragemod
  5. 5○Umbral Intensifymod
  6. 6○Primed Continuitymod
  7. 7○Narrow Mindedmod
  8. 8○Primed Flowmod
  9. 9○Equilibriummod
  10. 10○Rolling Guardmod
  11. 11○Arcane Ragearcane
  12. 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
  13. 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
  14. 14○Violet · Primary crit / electricshard
  15. 15○Nourishhelminth
  16. 16○Roar (Rhino)helminth
  17. 17○Helminth · Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)unlock
  18. 18○Steel Pathunlock
  19. 19○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 Power

    missing · The Silver Grove quest

  • Power Drift

    missing · Unlock Lua

  • Blind Rage

    missing · Run Orokin Vaults

  • Umbral Intensify

    missing · Finish The Sacrifice

  • Primed Continuity

    missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer

  • Narrow Minded

    missing · Orokin Vaults

  • Primed Flow

    missing · Baro Ki'Teer

  • Equilibrium

    missing · The New Strange / drops

  • Rolling Guard

    missing · Arbitrations

  • Nourish

    missing · Helminth

    Pillars are caster Temple. You came to shoot. Nourish is Viral plus energy. Roar if you want the faction multiplier on top of Overdrive's crit vuln. Cast the subsume on the beat anyway — Efficiency still applies.

  • Roar (Rhino)

    missing · Own Rhino

    Pillars are caster Temple. You came to shoot. Nourish is Viral plus energy. Roar if you want the faction multiplier on top of Overdrive's crit vuln. Cast the subsume on the beat anyway — Efficiency still applies.

Recommended

  • Arcane Rage

    missing · Eidolon / trade

    Primary damage.

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Strength into the two buffs.

Optional

Helminth

Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino) over Pyrotechnics (1)

Pillars are caster Temple. You came to shoot. Nourish is Viral plus energy. Roar if you want the faction multiplier on top of Overdrive's crit vuln. Cast the subsume on the beat anyway — Efficiency still applies.

Strength

~220% for Overdrive vuln and Nourish/Roar

Duration

180%+ for Overdrive and Wail

Range

145%

You sold pillars. 2 and 3 are the buffs. On-beat 2 is the whole gun argument.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
258%
Duration
254%
Range
34%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
56 / 67

1 Umbral piece

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

Temple mods

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
  • ExilusPower DriftVaults
  • 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 2Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 3Primed ContinuityBaro
  • 4Narrow MindedOrokin Vaults
  • 5Primed FlowBaro
  • 6EquilibriumThe New Strange
  • 7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Primary (the actual build)

A crit primary. Overdrive's on-beat double crit chance is a room debuff. Wail's Heat rider sits on the gun. Lizzie can stay holstered.

Arcanes

Arcane Rage

Primary damage.

Eidolon

Molt Augmented

Strength into the two buffs.

Zariman

Archon shards

  • 1Crimson · StrengthOverdrive and Nourish/Roar.3 · Netracells
  • 2Violet · Primary crit / electricThe gun is the nuke.2 · EDA
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