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Corrosive Projection
Enemies lose -18% Armor
Citrine
Gem Battery
Shell Gem Guns
- Frame
- Citrine
- Forma
- 4
- Playstyle
- Helminth
- Replace 4 (Roar / Eclipse / Nourish)
Gun Citrine without Crystallize — Preserving Shell and Prismatic Companion while a Helminth buffs weapons for Steel Path clear.
Alternative builds
Build dossier · Gem Battery
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
16
Transient Fortitude
+55% Ability Strength · -27.5% Ability Duration
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Primed Continuity
+55% Ability Duration
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Stretch
+82.5% Ability Range
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Primed Flow
+185% Energy Max
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Prismatic Companion
Prismatic Gem Augment: The gem now attaches to your free-moving companion. · Passive: +50% Prismatic Gem Duration.
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Adaptation
When Damaged: · +10% Resistance to that Damage Type for 20s. Stacks up to 90%.
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Umbral Intensify
+44% Ability Strength · +11% Tau Resistance
Arcanes
Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.
Arsenal
Primary
Hit Crystallize growths for forced red crits — status guns love Prismatic Gem priming.
Melee
Companion
Free-moving companions carry Prismatic Companion — sentinels do not.
Playstyle
Drop Crystallize for a Helminth weapon buff — Shell + Gem (Companion) while guns clear. Fractured Blast stays for orbs unless Nourish replaces it.
Passive abilities
Affinity-range health regen scales with Health Orb pickups. Fractured Blast feeds that loop — Strength toward ~200% locks health/energy orb chance and Preserving Shell’s DR cap.
Active abilities
- 1 Fractured Blast — Slash stagger + orb bait. Common Helminth slot when Nourish covers energy.
- 2 Preserving Shell — Decaying DR for you and allies — keep kills flowing to top it back up.
- 3 Prismatic Gem — Status beams + status chance/duration aura. Prismatic Companion sticks it to a free-moving companion.
- 4 Crystallize — Paralyze + guaranteed red-crit crystal weak spots. Recrystalize spreads on crystal kills.
- Helminth over Crystallize (Roar / Eclipse / Nourish). Prismatic Companion on Gem.
Mod breakdown
Strength / Duration
Buff potency, Shell DR, and Gem status all want Strength; Duration for uptime.
Helminth
Replace Crystallize. Roar is the generalist; Nourish if you also drop Blast.
Mission Usefulness
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Helminth gun buff + Shell / Gem — no Crystallize dependence.
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Park Shell on the point and shoot under the Helminth buff.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Skip crystal setup — guns clear under Gem priming.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Still loud.
Open World / Bounties
Guns cover travel better than Crystallize babysitting.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
Better than crystal plans if your guns reach; still not an Eidolon frame.