Valkyr — Gloom Berserker

Don’t build this yet

First Rage 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.

Why this build?

Endgame for Solo Steel Path, endurance, people who hate being rushed

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

• Rip Line is the Helminth slot on almost every 2026 endurance Valkyr.
• Gloom is the slow that makes 855 armor look immortal because nothing swings back in time.
• Energy is the failure mode. Equilibrium plus orbs, or you toggle Gloom off between packs.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · frames played as a gun platform only · 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: Hysteria Talons — Same claw grid as Hysteria Claws. Gloom life steal stacks with claw life steal. You become a health sponge.

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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 RageThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
2. NextGet Brief RespiteThe Index / Nightwave
3. After that5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
4. LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
5. FinalGloom BerserkerEndgame · Endgame · 5 Forma

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

• 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Warcry plus Gloom on tempo.Archon locked
• 3 Crimson · Strength — Gloom slow cap and Warcry.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 Brief Respite

   One named gap. The Index / Nightwave

2. 60 minutes

   Brief Respite, then Forma

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

3. 120 minutes

   Subsume Gloom (Sevagoth)

   If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

• Farm Brief Respite

  The Index / Nightwave

Dependencies

27 dependencies

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

1. 1●valkyrframe
2. 2○Brief Respitemod
3. 3○Cunning Driftmod
4. 4○Blind Ragemod
5. 5○Umbral Intensifymod
6. 6○Umbral Fibermod
7. 7○Stretchmod
8. 8○Primed Continuitymod
9. 9○Primed Flowmod
10. 10○Equilibriummod
11. 11○Hysteria stancemod
12. 12○Blood Rushmod
13. 13○Weeping Woundsmod
14. 14○Condition Overloadmod
15. 15○Organ Shattermod
16. 16○Gladiator Mightmod
17. 17○Primed Fever Strikemod
18. 18○Healing Returnmod
19. 19○Primed Reachmod
20. 20○Arcane Energizearcane
21. 21○Melee Duplicatearcane
22. 22○Amber · Casting Speedshard
23. 23○Crimson · Strengthshard
24. 24○Gloomhelminth
25. 25○Helminth · Gloom (Sevagoth)unlock
26. 26○Steel Pathunlock
27. 27○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.