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Growing Power
On Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.
Chroma Prime
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Heat Ward Health
- Frame
- Chroma Prime
- Forma
- 2
- Playstyle
- Helminth
- Keep 2 · Heat Ward
Heat Ward Chroma — bigger health pool under Vex for Persistence-style health tanking while guns clear. Chroma Prime’s extra polarities cut Forma versus base Chroma for the same polarity story.
Alternative builds
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Loadout
Aura + Exilus on top, then eight general slots in two rows of four.
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Blind Rage
+99% Ability Strength · -55% Ability Efficiency
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Transient Fortitude
+55% Ability Strength · -27.5% Ability Duration
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Primed Continuity
+55% Ability Duration
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Narrow Minded
+99% Ability Duration · -66% Ability Range
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Primed Flow
+185% Energy Max
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Guardian Armor
Vex Armor Augment: Chroma reduces the damage his squadmates within Affinity Range take by 75%. Squad kills restore 5% of his Health over 3s and increases Vex Armor duration by 1s.
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Hunter Adrenaline
Convert +45% of Damage on Health to Energy. Without Shields, ally Overguard imitates Health.
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Umbral Vitality
+100% Health · +11% Tau Resistance
Arcanes
Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.
Arsenal
Playstyle
Heat Ward for max health, Vex for guns — pairs with health-tank arcanes like Persistence.
Passive abilities
Chroma’s emissive element still flavors Elemental Ward. Vex Armor is the damage engine — keep it up (Guardian Armor helps uptime). Spectral Scream and Effigy are common Helminth slots.
Active abilities
- 1 Spectral Scream — Element breath / cycle tool. Often subsumed.
- 2 Elemental Ward — Elemental self-buff — Cold armor, Heat health, Electric shields, Toxin holster/reload.
- 3 Vex Armor — Armor and weapon damage buff. Guardian Armor is the modern uptime augment.
- 4 Effigy — Sentry / credit lure. Often replaced for weapon platforms.
- Elemental Ward on Heat. Guardian Armor recommended.
Mod breakdown
Strength / Duration
Heat Ward health and Vex damage both want Strength.
Aura / Exilus
- AuraGrowing PowerOn Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.Strength
- Guardian ArmorVex Armor Augment: Chroma reduces the damage his squadmates within Affinity Range take by 75%. Squad kills restore 5% of his Health over 3s and increases Vex Armor duration by 1s.Vex
- Hunter AdrenalineConvert +45% of Damage on Health to Energy. Without Shields, ally Overguard imitates Health.Energy from health hits
Helminth
Nourish / Roar over Scream or Effigy.
Mission Usefulness
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Heat Ward health pool for Persistence / health-tank gun play.
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Bigger health buffer on the point.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Fine clear with Vex guns.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Not stealth.
Open World / Bounties
Health tank camps.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
Heat Ward is less classic than Cold for hunts — still workable with Vex.