Optimised4 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathShards optional

Uriel — Vythelas Sobek

Optimised build. Vythelas runes dump Heat and fire rate onto your gun. Kuva / Incarnon Sobek (or any Heat shotgun) becomes the actual nuke. Brimstone is backup.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Weapon platforms, Heat inherit, people who like shooting more than standing in a ring

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

First Fiends first

This loadout sits at Optimised. 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 Fiends

Why this build?

Optimised for Weapon platforms, Heat inherit, people who like shooting more than standing in a ring

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

Play this in Steel Path

Vythelas is why Uriel is a weapon platform, not only a ring caster.
Sobek is the popular pairing, not a requirement. Any Heat gun that likes fire rate works.
Dead Vythelas means no runes. Remedium the right-hand demon first.

Don’t use this for: ability-nuke as the damage

Helminth, shards, and a finished configuration

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

Bring: Sobek (or any Heat primary) — Kuva Sobek, Sobek Incarnon, or a Heat-inherit shotgun. Pick up Vythelas runes off corpses. Arcane Hot Shot if you have it.

Alternative if…

Star Chart only → First Fiends
This is too much Forma / cost → Fire and Brimstone — Steel Path
You wanted the ability loop, not guns → First Fiends

Instead: First Fiends Instead: First Fiends — Star Chart Instead: Fire and Brimstone — Steel Path Instead: Fire and Brimstone — Optimised

My test

Did this still work for you?

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Readiness

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Not checked — add your collection. You have not failed a test.

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 · 2 shards · 5 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: Fire and Brimstone — Endgame

Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.

Fire and Brimstone — Endgame

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.

TodayPlay First FiendsThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
After that4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
LaterViolet · Primary crit / electricHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
FinalVythelas SobekOptimised · Endgame · 4 Forma

Upgrade from here

Fire and Brimstone — Endgame

Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.

Open Fire and Brimstone — Endgame

Farm the gap

Heat engine mods — Archon Vitality · Arcane Camisado · Arcane Hot Shot

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

2 Violet · Primary Heat / crit — The shotgun is the build.Archon locked
1 Amber · Casting Speed — Remedium and Demonium on tempo.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 brought a Heat shotgun and want Vythelas to buff it.

Time to a playable copy: After a modded Sobek (or similar) and Archon Vitality.
First mission to practice in: A dense Exterminate. Corpses should spawn runes.

2 button drills · 13 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

Rune loop

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

1Infernalis (1) on. Heat aura primes the first bodies.
2Kill something. Walk over the Vythelas rune — fire rate and Heat on the gun.
3Demonium (3) to print more corpses and more runes.
4Brimstone (4) when a room is too dense to shoot. Otherwise the Sobek is the 4.

First mission — press these buttons

1
Get a rune
1
Kill anything. Walk over the Vythelas glyph. Fire rate and Heat jump on the gun.
2
Shoot the tile
The gun is the 4. Brimstone only if you cannot shoot fast enough.

Common mistakes

Leaving runes on the floor
Vythelas does nothing until you pick them up.

When this feels easy

1Violet Heat/crit shardsInvest in the gun, not a sixth Strength mod.

Parts checklist

0 of 13 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

16 dependencies

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

Frame

uriel

Mods

Later

Unlocks

1●urielframe
2○Growing Powermod
3○Power Driftmod
4○Archon Vitalitymod
5○Blind Ragemod
6○Umbral Intensifymod
7○Primed Continuitymod
8○Stretchmod
9○Primed Flowmod
10○Rolling Guardmod
11○Arcane Hot Shotarcane
12○Arcane Camisadoarcane
13○Violet · Primary crit / electricshard
14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
15○Steel Pathunlock
16○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
Archon Vitality
missing · Kahl’s Garrison
Blind Rage
missing · Run Orokin Vaults
Umbral Intensify
missing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Continuity
missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretch
missing · Enemy drops
Primed Flow
missing · Baro Ki'Teer
Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations

Recommended

Arcane Hot Shot
missing · 1999 / trade
Heat status on weapons adds primary crit. Vythelas is Heat.
Arcane Camisado
missing · 1999 / trade
Demon kills still pay Strength.

Optional

Violet · Primary crit / electric
missing · Elite Temporal Archimedea
The shotgun is the build.
Amber · Casting Speed
missing · Earn Amber shards
Remedium and Demonium on tempo.

Strength

~200%

Duration

155%

Range

145%

Vythelas is the buff. Strength still scales Infernalis and rune value. You press 3 to keep bodies dropping.

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: 155%
Range: 145%
Efficiency: 45%
Energy: +275%
Capacity: 54 / 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

Uriel mods

AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
1Archon VitalityKahl / Archon Hunts
2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
4Primed ContinuityBaro
5StretchDrops
6Primed FlowBaro
7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Slot	Mod	Source
Aura	Growing Power	Silver Grove
Exilus	Power Drift	Vaults / Lua
1	Archon Vitality	Kahl / Archon Hunts
2	Blind Rage	Orokin Vaults
3	Umbral Intensify	The Sacrifice
4	Primed Continuity	Baro
5	Stretch	Drops
6	Primed Flow	Baro
7	Rolling Guard	Arbitrations

Sobek (or any Heat primary)

Kuva Sobek, Sobek Incarnon, or a Heat-inherit shotgun. Pick up Vythelas runes off corpses. Arcane Hot Shot if you have it.

Arcanes

Arcane Hot Shot

Heat status on weapons adds primary crit. Vythelas is Heat.

1999 / trade

Arcane Camisado

Demon kills still pay Strength.

1999 / Descendia

Archon shards

1Violet · Primary Heat / critThe shotgun is the build.2 · Elite Temporal Archimedea
2Amber · Casting SpeedRemedium and Demonium on tempo.1 · EDA

#	Shard	Qty	Source	How
1	Violet · Primary Heat / crit The shotgun is the build.	2	Elite Temporal Archimedea
2	Amber · Casting Speed Remedium and Demonium on tempo.	1	EDA

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