Temple — First Backbeat
Starter build. Watch the metronome. Cast on the beat. You get Efficiency and extra Heat. Miss the beat and you are a louder Rhino.
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Star Chart, first Temple, Höllvania newbies learning the metronome
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Why this build?
Starter for Star Chart, first Temple, Höllvania newbies learning the metronome
Health: Inventory unknown — Mark what you own. Until then this is a recommendation, not a test you failed.
- Temple is a rhythm frame. Missing the beat is missing the kit.
- Ripper's Wail is the survive button and the squad Heat buff. Learn 3 before 4.
- Lizzie is an exalted guitar. Empty grids are a concert with no amp.
Don’t use this for: Steel Path endurance · level-cap content
0 Forma, basic mods, no Helminth or shards required
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Lizzie (exalted) — later — Leave Exalted Solo off until you can hit Backbeat on purpose. Pyrotechnics and Ripper's Wail already clear Star Chart.
My test
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Readiness
Inventory unknown
Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.
- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/2 · required — 2 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 2 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
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Your next step
Open First Backbeat — Star Chart
The next rung on this frame is unlocked. Mark I run this, then step up.
First Backbeat — Star ChartPlan
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 that0–2 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalFirst BackbeatStarter · Starter · 0–2 Forma
Upgrade from here
First Backbeat — Star Chart
Watch the metronome. Cast on the beat. You get Efficiency and extra Heat. Miss the beat and you are a louder Rhino. Primed Continuity and Primed Flow are the first real upgrade — not Blind Rage.
Open First Backbeat — Star ChartHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Easier to land the beat window.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
You just pulled a rockstar out of Solstice Square and the UI is ticking.
- Time to a playable copy
- Same day. Intensify plus Continuity. Simulacrum until you can hit three beats in a row.
- First mission to practice in
- Simulacrum first. Then a Höllvania Exterminate with the metronome visible.
3 button drills · 11 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
Beat loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Look at the Backbeat metronome on the ability UI. Cast Pyrotechnics (1) on the beat — extra pillars, and Ripper's Wail grows if it is up.
- 2Ripper's Wail (3) on the beat for a longer invuln plus a heal. Ally guns in affinity range pick up Heat as you land on-beat hits.
- 3Overdrive (2) is a Heat wave and a crit-vulnerability debuff. On-beat doubles the crit chance.
- 4Exalted Solo (4) waits. When the metronome has a charge and you press 4 on the beat, Lizzie costs no energy — that is the next config.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Wait for the beat, then Wail
3Invuln should feel long. If it was a blink, you missed.
You will know it worked when: Metronome tick lining up with the cast.
- 2
Pyrotechnics on the next beat
1Extra pillars if you hit it. Wail's Heat grows if 3 is up.
- 3
Leave 4 alone
No guitar mods, no charge discipline. Next config.
Common mistakes
Mashing 1 off-beat because 'it's only 25 energy'
You paid full price for fewer pillars. Wait a half-second.
When this feels easy
- 1Casting speed shardLanding the window is DPS.
- 2Then mod LizzieSolo config.
Parts checklist
0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
13 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●templeframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Continuitymod
- 6○Stretchmod
- 7○Streamlinemod
- 8○Flowmod
- 9○Vitalitymod
- 10○Redirectionmod
- 11○Arcane Energizearcane
- 12○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 13○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
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Continuitymissing · Run low-level Defense or Survival
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Flowmissing · Enemy drops
Vitalitymissing · Jackal
- Redirection
missing · Drops
Recommended
Optional
Watch it played
YouTube for this loadout
Bring the heat to the beat with Temple! - Full guide
Lizzie, Backbeat, Ripper's Wail. The 1999 guitar kit.
Strength
~145% (Intensify)
Duration
155% (Continuity) so Wail and Overdrive last
Range
145% (Stretch)
The passive is a metronome. On-beat casts cost less and supercharge the ability. Practice in the Simulacrum until the UI click is a habit.
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
- 130%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +150%
- Capacity
- 42 / 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
Temple mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
- ExilusPower DriftOrokin Vaults / Lua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2ContinuityEnemy drops
- 3StretchEnemy drops
- 4StreamlineEnemy drops
- 5FlowEnemy drops
- 6VitalityEarth / drops
- 7RedirectionEnemy drops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove specters | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Orokin Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Continuity | Enemy drops | |
| 3 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 4 | Streamline | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Flow | Enemy drops | |
| 6 | Vitality | Earth / drops | |
| 7 | Redirection | Enemy drops |
Lizzie (exalted) — later
Leave Exalted Solo off until you can hit Backbeat on purpose. Pyrotechnics and Ripper's Wail already clear Star Chart.
Arcanes
Arcane Energize
Skip. Hitting the beat is the cheap efficiency.
Eidolon / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Casting SpeedEasier to land the beat window.1 · Archon Hunt
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Casting Speed Easier to land the beat window. | 1 | Archon Hunt |