Yareli — Surging Blades
Optimised build. Aquablades orbit and slash. Surging Blades charges a thrown disc on kills. Ride Merulina so you can stand in the pack without dying. Shards and a finished config. Tauforged is the last card.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Don’t build this yet
First Surf 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 SurfWhy this build?
Optimised for Netracells, Archon, EDA. You have Helminth or you don't need it.
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Surging Blades is why 3 is a nuke and not a tickle.
- Merulina lets you stand in melee range as a caster. That is the whole synergy.
- Off-board Yareli dies. On-board Yareli is a blender.
Don’t use this for: new accounts · Star Chart only
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: Blades are the melee — No exalted grid. Strength and Range are the blade stats. A secondary still shoots off the board. Companion primer helps.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Surf
- This is too much Forma / cost → Surging Blades — Steel Path
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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 · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 4 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: Surging Blades — Endgame
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Surging Blades — EndgamePlan
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 SurfThe 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.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalSurging Blades — OptimisedOptimised · Endgame · 4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Surging Blades — Endgame
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Surging Blades — EndgameFarm the gap
- Yareli augments — Merulina Guardian · Surging Blades · Riptide Vortex
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 3 Crimson · Strength — Blade damage and disc.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast 3, throw the disc.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 bought Surging Blades and want 3 to be a nuke.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Surging Blades and Strength mods.
- First mission to practice in
- A dense Infested tile. Snare, blade, throw the disc.
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 4 done
Keep this up
Blade loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Merulina (2). Stay on it.
- 2Sea Snares (1) so they sit in the blades.
- 3Aquablades (3). Circle. Kills charge Surging. Tap 3 again to throw the disc into the next pack.
- 4Riptide (4) if a clump needs a vacuum first.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Ride into the snared pack
3Blades should be hitting because you are in melee range on a board.
You will know it worked when: Orbiting water swords. A charge counter if Surging is on.
- 2
Throw the disc
Recast 3 when charged. The next pack eats it.
Common mistakes
Blading from 40 meters off the board
Orbit range is not a sniper. Ride in.
When this feels easy
- 1ImpetusSnares plus Slash is unique statuses.
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.
- 1●yareliframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Surging Bladesaugment
- 5○Blind Ragemod
- 6○Umbral Intensifymod
- 7○Primed Continuitymod
- 8○Stretchmod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Arcane Impetusarcane
- 12○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 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 Powermissing · The Silver Grove quest
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
- Surging Blades
missing · New Loka / The Perrin Sequence · 25,000 standing
Kills with Aquablades charge a thrown disc. The blade augment.
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Umbral Intensifymissing · Finish The Sacrifice
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Optional
Strength
~250%
Duration
155%+
Range
160%
Duration is blade lifetime. Surging Blades stores charges as you kill with 3, then tap 3 again to throw a disc.
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
- 51 / 67
1 Umbral piece
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
Yareli mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Surging BladesKills with Aquablades charge a thrown disc. The blade augment.New Loka / Perrin Sequence · 25k
- 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
- 4Primed ContinuityBaro
- 5StretchDrops
- 6Primed FlowBaro
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Surging Blades Kills with Aquablades charge a thrown disc. The blade augment. | New Loka / Perrin Sequence · 25k | |
| 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 |
Blades are the melee
No exalted grid. Strength and Range are the blade stats. A secondary still shoots off the board. Companion primer helps.
Arcanes
Arcane Impetus
Ability damage on unique statuses. Snares plus Slash blades stack.
1999 / trade
Molt Augmented
Strength as you kill.
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · StrengthBlade damage and disc.3 · Netracells - 2
Amber · Casting SpeedRecast 3, throw the disc.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength Blade damage and disc. | 3 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Recast 3, throw the disc. | 1 | EDA |