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Growing Power
On Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.
Frost Prime
Biting Chill
Biting Frost Crits
- Frame
- Frost Prime
- Forma
- 3
- Playstyle
- Helminth
- Keep Biting Frost
Biting Frost - Avalanche freezes feed massive crit chance and crit damage for guns or follow-up ice casts. Frost Prime's extra polarities cut Forma versus base Frost for the same polarity story.
Alternative builds
Build dossier · Biting Chill
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
14
Stretch
+82.5% Ability Range
14
Primed Flow
+185% Energy Max
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Biting Frost
Frost gains +200% Critical Chance and +100% Critical Damage against frozen enemies.
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Icy Avalanche
Avalanche Augment: Allies within Affinity Range are coated in ice that grants 60 Overguard per enemy hit. Overguard increases by 20% of your Armor once per enemy.
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Intensify
+30% Ability Strength
Arcanes
Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.
Arsenal
Playstyle
Biting Frost — freeze with Avalanche / Globe, then guns or Avalanche again under huge crit chance / damage vs frozen enemies.
Passive abilities
Melee hits and freeze procs chill the room. Avalanche freezes and strips armor (aim ~167%+ Strength for full strip). Icy Avalanche converts hits into squad Overguard.
Active abilities
- 1 Freeze — Single-target freeze / Freeze Force hold buff. Often flexed.
- 2 Ice Wave — Cold wave. Common Helminth slot (Parasitic Armor / Roar / Airburst).
- 3 Snow Globe — Absorbing ice bubble. Chilling Globe freezes entrants. Recast to implode.
- 4 Avalanche — AoE freeze + armor strip. Icy Avalanche grants affinity-range Overguard per enemy.
- Augment: Biting Frost. Pair with Icy Avalanche for Overguard while you shoot.
Mod breakdown
Strength / Range
Still hit Avalanche strip; Range keeps freezes covering packs for Biting Frost.
Aura / Exilus
- AuraGrowing PowerOn Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.Strength
- Biting FrostFrost gains +200% Critical Chance and +100% Critical Damage against frozen enemies.Required
- Icy AvalancheAvalanche Augment: Allies within Affinity Range are coated in ice that grants 60 Overguard per enemy hit. Overguard increases by 20% of your Armor once per enemy.Overguard
- ExilusPower Drift+15% Ability Strength · +30% Chance to Resist KnockdownStrength
Helminth
Keep Avalanche. Flex Ice Wave for Roar to amp frozen gun crits.
Mission Usefulness
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Biting Frost crits into frozen packs under Avalanche / Snow Globe.
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Freeze the point, shoot or Avalanche under Biting Frost.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Frozen crit clear speeds tiles.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Not stealth.
Open World / Bounties
Crit guns on frozen camps.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
Frozen crits help guns at range; still not an Eidolon frame.