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Growing Power
On Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.
Garuda
Bleeding Engine
Bloodletting Energy Engine
- Frame
- Garuda
- Forma
- 5
- Playstyle
- Helminth
- Replace 2 (Nourish)
Bloodletting Garuda - health-to-energy under Nourish so Talons, Mirror, and guns never starve on long Steel Path runs.
Alternative builds
Build dossier · Bleeding Engine
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
14
Primed Continuity
+55% Ability Duration
14
Stretch
+82.5% Ability Range
14
Primed Flow
+185% Energy Max
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Blending Talons
Seeking Talons Augment: Tap to perform a 9m AoE around Garuda. Garuda's Talons gain 100% additional Combo Count Chance when hitting targets affected by Slash Status.
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Blood Forge
Bloodletting Augment: Garuda's equipped weapon is reloaded up to 100%.
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Umbral Intensify
+44% Ability Strength · +11% Tau Resistance
Arcanes
Recommended pair first, then flexible swaps.
Arsenal
Primary
Flex / primer — talons or abilities carry.
Melee
Garuda Talons exalted / movement stick.
Playstyle
Bloodletting is the build — dump health for energy, heal back, repeat under Nourish so every orb and Bloodletting multiplies. Talons and Mirror spend the surplus.
Passive abilities
Deaths near Garuda raise her damage. Bloodletting converts health to energy and cleanses status — pair with a heal source (Altar, Gloom, Nourish/Molt Reconstruct, Operator) so the engine never stalls.
Active abilities
- 1 Dread Mirror — Life-steal shield that absorbs damage into a chargeable Dread Heart. Dread Ward grants brief unkillable on Mirror kills.
- 2 Blood Altar — Impale heal station. Most common Helminth slot (Nourish / Gloom / Pillage).
- 3 Bloodletting — Health for energy + status cleanse. Blood Forge reloads weapons. Core of every modern loop.
- 4 Seeking Talons — Slash force-procs + slash vulnerability debuff. Blending Talons adds tap AoE and Talon combo.
- Keep Bloodletting. Nourish over Blood Altar. Primed Flow fattens Bloodletting returns.
Mod breakdown
Strength / Energy
Strength scales Nourish and Talons; max energy makes Bloodletting print more.
Aura / Exilus
- AuraGrowing PowerOn Status Effect with Weapon: Squad increases personal Ability Strength by 25% for 6s.Strength
- Blood ForgeBloodletting Augment: Garuda's equipped weapon is reloaded up to 100%.Reload on Bloodletting
- Blending TalonsSeeking Talons Augment: Tap to perform a 9m AoE around Garuda. Garuda's Talons gain 100% additional Combo Count Chance when hitting targets affected by Slash Status.Spend energy
- ExilusPower Drift+15% Ability Strength · +30% Chance to Resist KnockdownStrength
Helminth
Nourish is the point of this page. Keep Bloodletting.
Mission Usefulness
Steel Path Survival / Defense / Disruption
Bloodletting + Nourish energy engine funds endless Talons and Dread Mirror on SP.
Mobile Defense / Excavation
Never dry on the point — Bloodletting refunds, Nourish multiplies.
Exterminate / Capture Speed Runs
Energy comfort speeds ability clears.
Spy / Rescue / Nightmare
Not stealth.
Open World / Bounties
Long bounty stages stay fueled.
Long-Range Gunplay / Eidolon-Style Content
Energy helps gun hunts; Garuda is not an Eidolon frame.