Xaku — Lohk Battery
Steel Path build. Max Range Grasp. Stolen guns scale with enemy level so Steel Path feeds them. Untime pauses the timer. This is 2026 Xaku. 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.
- Grasp plus Untime is Xaku. Range is gun count. Strength is strip.
- Stolen guns scaling with enemy level is why Xaku gets better as the mission gets worse.
- Do not skip Untime to 'save energy.' The pause is the energy save.
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: Stolen guns are the weapon — Your primary is a backup. Grasp weapons scale off enemy level and Range (how many you steal). The Lost: Gaze can strip while they shoot.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Bones
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Bones — Star Chart
- You wanted the ability loop, not guns → Vast Strip
My test
Did this still work for you?
Your note, in this browser. Separate from Codex verification — the stamp on the card is editorial, this is yours.
Readiness
Inventory unknown
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 · 1 shard · 3 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: Lohk Battery — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Lohk Battery — 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 Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that3–4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Casting SpeedHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalLohk Battery — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Lohk Battery — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Lohk Battery — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast Grasp and Untime 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 Corrosive Projection
One named gap. Open Nightwave
60 minutes
Corrosive Projection, 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 Corrosive Projection
Open Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
Steel Path. You want a halo, not a sniper.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Overextended, Stretch, and a habit of recasting Untime.
- First mission to practice in
- SP Defense. Guns should cover the pod.
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
Grasp loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Grasp (2) every dense pack until you are a halo of rifles.
- 2Untime (4) so those guns never expire while 4 is running, and the blast strips / slows.
- 3Gaze (cycle 3) a heavy if you still see armor.
- 4Xata (1) only if you are shooting too. Many people Helminth 1.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Steal until the halo is fat
22 on every pack. Range is count.
- 2
Pause the timer
44. Guns stop expiring. Recast 4 when the skeleton form is about to end.
Common mistakes
Tiny Range
You stole two pistols. Overextended is the gun mod.
When this feels easy
- 1Casting speed2 and 4 are the rotation.
- 2Nourish over WhisperLast config.
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●xakuframe
- 2○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Overextendedmod
- 5○Stretchmod
- 6○Primed Continuitymod
- 7○Blind Ragemod
- 8○Intensifymod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 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
Corrosive Projectionmissing · Open Nightwave
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Molt Augmentedmissing · Unlock the Zariman
Strength as you kill. Guns and Untime strip both like it. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
4 plus 2 is expensive if you drop Untime. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Optional
Strength
~200%
Duration
150–180%
Range
250%+
Overextended is the build. More Range = more guns. Untime freeze means Duration can be 'good enough' not huge.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 169%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 250%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 50 / 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
Xaku mods
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionNightwave
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1OverextendedGun count. The whole config.Orokin Vaults
- 2StretchDrops
- 3Primed ContinuityBaro
- 4Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 5IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 6Primed FlowBaro
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Overextended Gun count. The whole config. | Orokin Vaults | |
| 2 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 3 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 4 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 5 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Stolen guns are the weapon
Your primary is a backup. Grasp weapons scale off enemy level and Range (how many you steal). The Lost: Gaze can strip while they shoot.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength as you kill. Guns and Untime strip both like it. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
4 plus 2 is expensive if you drop Untime. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Eidolon / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Casting SpeedRecast Grasp and Untime on tempo.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Casting Speed Recast Grasp and Untime on tempo. | 1 | EDA |