The Grendel rework has made this Warframe a powerhouse for all content.
Learn how to create the best builds for this eater of worlds.
A new Thermal Sunder build has also been added that can handle the toughest content Warframe has to offer.
you could obtain Void Relics from most Star Chart missions, Syndicate Relic Packs, and player trading.
Your reward will be revealed when you reach extraction.
Maintain Mach Rush’s hyper-sprint mode to charge your battery quickly.
Mach Rush
Mach Rush:Burst into a hyper-sprint, bowling over enemies while charging the battery.
Crashing into solid objects generates a powerful shockwave.
Hold to rush continuously.
While in hyper-sprint, you will be unable to shoot, melee, or perform parkour maneuvers.
Your turning radius is also substantially reduced, encouraging you to sprint in a straight line.
you’ve got the option to always aim or deactivate Mach Rush if you better course-correct.
Alternatively, run into a wall.
This will create a shockwave that will damage and knockdown all nearby enemies, leaving Gauss unharmed.
Strength only buffs the pitiful damage this skill does, so you could safely ignore it.
Also protects Gauss from being staggered or knocked down.
Damage resistance is relative to Gauss' battery level.
Your battery will also passively decay when active.
These penalties sound severe, but the damage resistance (DR) is well worth the drawbacks.
The only damage key in not included there is Toxin, so be careful playing Gauss in Infested missions.
Kinetic Plating will reduce all incoming damage by 20% by default when your battery is empty.
While Kinetic Plating is active, Gauss is immune to all sources of stagger and knockdown.
Surprisingly, this includes the stagger animation from the Quick Thinking mod.
This works exactly like Rage and Hunter Adrenaline but also applies to shields and Overguard.
This conversion rate is unaffected by Strength.
Hold reverses the process, draining the battery and inflicting Heat status on nearby enemies.
This ability can be subsumed withthe Helminth system.
Thermal Sunder’s damage is equal to Gauss at 50% battery level when used on other Warframes.
If you cast both Cold and Heat variants back-to-back, you will perform a Blast version of Thermal Sunder.
Since Thermal Sunder is dealing Heat damage, this creates a feedback loop that experiencesexponential damage scaling.
The damage of your Thermal Sunder doesn’t matter.
The number of Heat procs you inflict will compound the amount of damage Thermal Sunder does.
Redline will also double the damage of Thermal Sunder’s Heat procs.
Be mindful of this when creating builds.
These mods are also tradeable.
While in this state, enemies are ragdolled and cannot attack.
This augment scales with Ability Range, increasing its effective pull radius.
Thermal Transfer’s mod description isn’t entirely accurate.
Both damage buffs linger for 30 seconds.
The elements are appliedaftermods for the purposes of combining elements.
As for Focus schools, we recommendZenurik or Maduraidepending on your build.
For a Redline build, we suggest Zenurik to passively restore your Energy.
Thermal Sunder builds should use Madurai to scale their cast speed and Ability Strength.
Archon Shards
Gauss can makegreat use of Archon Shards.
The former can be replaced with Continuity if you don’t have one.
Narrow Minded doesn’t need to be max rank either, but higher ranks are preferred.
Adaptation is also fully optional.
You’ll want toincrease your Ability Duration as much as possibleto buff Redline.
We usePrimed Continuity, Narrow Minded, and Augur Messageto greatly buff Gauss' duration to 278%.
Strength isn’t a hard requirement here, but we do recommendIntensifyto buff the DR provided by Kinetic Plating.
For the last two slots, we useAdaptationto scale our damage resistance andRushto buff Gauss' sprint speed.
you might replace Adaptation with Redirection or Vitality if you don’t own it.
Archon Shards can be used to further boost this value.
Mach Crash may be replaced with more Strength, Efficiency, Duration, or a QoL mod.
As powerful as Redline is, keeping your battery charged can be annoying at times.
The added utility makes Mach Rush a far stronger ability for smaller tilesets.
Since Mach Crash scales off Range, we useOverextendedto increase its vacuum distance to 15 meters.
Since Overextended drops our Strength, we useMolt AugmentedandUmbral Intensifyto get some Strength back.
To finish the build, we useAdaptationto scale our DR andPrimed Flowto increase Gauss' Energy reserves.
Since Mach Rush scales off sprint speed, we might as well useSprint BoostandRush.
This is possible thanks to the way Thermal Sunder scales its damage off Heat procs.
Heat status effects are added to the initial damage of Thermal Sunder, scaling that cast’s Heat proc.
This creates a feedback loop that leads to exponential damage scaling.
With that knowledge, it becomes clear that we want to scale as muchEfficiency and Rangeas possible.
To do so, head to the options menu and look for the “Invert Tap/Hold Abilities” setting.
If you want to max it, you’ll need another Forma.
Redline is another ability that scales Thermal Sunder, doubling its Heat damage while active.
Since Redline also gives cast speed, scaling Ability Duration indirectly gives us cast speed.
For our Energy economy, we useArchon FlowandArcane Energize.
Since we’ll be spamming so many Thermal Sunders,Fleeting Expertiseis also used.
This will cut down Thermal Sunder’s cost to 20 Energy.
If you don’t have Arcane Energize, drop Archon Flow for Primed Flow.
The Arcane slot can be replaced with any Arcane of your choosing.
If Energy becomes an issue, use the Zenurik Focus School.
To bring it back up, we use Molt Augmented.
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