"Dominate Warframe with This Jade Build"
- By Isaac
- May 02,2025
The 57th Frame added to Warframe, Jade, introduces a captivating aerial style of gameplay. With her angelic and divine presence, she floats above the battlefield, delivering destruction to her enemies while ensuring her allies remain safe and strike back effectively. In this comprehensive guide, we'll explore our top builds for Jade in *Warframe* to help you maximize her potential.
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How to Unlock JadeHow to Play Jade, ExplainedA Good Beginner Jade BuildBest Jade Steel Path BuildAll Jade Abilities
How to Unlock Jade
Jade was released on June 18, 2024, and unlocking her involves acquiring her blueprint. The main blueprint is accessible through the Jade Shadows quest, which you can start from the Codex. To obtain her components, you'll need to visit Acension on Brutus, Uranus. Alternatively, you can purchase Jade's blueprint and Component Blueprints from Ordis at the Larunda Relay on Mercury using Vestigial Motes. We've detailed the entire process in this guide.
For the resources required to craft Jade, refer to the table below:
| Chassis | 15000 Credits 600 Alloy Plate 4000 Nano Spores 1500 Plastids 6 Morphics |
| Neuroptics | 15000 Credits 1000 Circuits 750 Bundle 3 Neural Sensors 4 Neurodes |
| Systems | 15000 Credits 600 Ferrite 600 Plastids 1100 Rubedo 10 Control Module |
How to Play Jade, Explained
Jade's playstyle is straightforward yet effective. Begin by selecting a song with your second ability, then activate your third ability to slow enemies and reduce their defenses. Use your first ability to mark targets, and then unleash devastation from above with the alt-fire of your fourth ability. Be mindful of your energy consumption and minimize incoming damage. We've included two builds to help address these concerns—one for early game players and another optimized for Steel Path enthusiasts.
A Good Beginner Jade Build
Before diving into our preferred late-game build, let's explore our recommended beginner build for Jade in Warframe. This build does not require Helminth ability swapping or Archon shards, making it accessible to new players. Remember, Jade can equip two Aura mods, so don't be confused by this feature.
The first four mods—Continuity, Intensify, Flow, and Stretch—are essential and can be used on almost any Warframe build as a new player. This build excludes Arcanes, but Arcane Energize can significantly boost your energy reserves if you choose to include it.
| Mod | Effect |
|---|---|
| Aura Mod – Corrosive Projection | Reduces enemy armor by 18% at full rank. |
| Aura Mod – Pistol Amp | Increase exalted weapon damage as it is considered a pistol. |
| Exilus Slot | Aviator for damage reduction while airborne. |
| Continuity | A +30% increase to ability duration but it will also decrease energy drain from active abilities. |
| Intensify | Increase overall ability strength. |
| Flow | Gives you a larger energy pool to draw from. |
| Stretch | Increases the range of your abilities. |
| Redirection | Gives you a much bigger shield pool. |
| Equilibrium | Gives you a larger energy pool to draw from. |
| Augur Message/Streamline | Increases your ability duration further (and stacks with continuity). A small percentage of spent energy is also converted to shields. Streamline will just give a reduction in energy usage, but switch these out to your preference. |
| Player’s Choice | This is an empty slot where you can put something that will cover a weakness you perceive in the build. You can add more ability strength with Augur Secrets or ability range with Augur Reach. |
Alongside the Warframe build for Jade, you'll need to craft her Exalted weapon, Glory. By utilizing the alt-fire with this mod, you can deal significant damage to marked enemies. Use her first ability to mark multiple enemies below you, then obliterate them with Glory.
This build is budget-friendly and includes the following mods. The first four are standard for any pistol build and provide a solid foundation of damage, critical chance, multishot, and fire rate.
Hornet Strike Target Cracker Barrel Diffusion Lethal Torrent Anemic Agility Anemic Agility will cost you a little damage for a vastly improved rate of fire, enhancing your overall DPS. The last three slots should be dedicated to damage types that suit the enemies you're facing. These can be a mix of elements that work well against the faction you're playing, or perhaps a faction mod to really double down on it, as they are quite powerful in the game.
Best Jade Steel Path Build
I believe you don't need to subsume anything on Jade, as her kit works exceptionally well together, and nothing feels weak currently. This might change in the future, but for now, I really enjoy her kit. Use Arcanes like Molt Augmented for more ability power and Arcane Avenger for increased criticals from the exalted weapon.
| Mod | Effect |
|---|---|
| Aura Mod – Aerodynamic | Incoming damage reduction! You'll want this stacked up on Steel Path. |
| Aura Mod – Growing Power | Increase ability strength by 25% for 6 seconds after causing a status effect with a weapon. |
| Exilus Slot – Aviator | Damage reduction while airborne. |
| Primed Continuity | A huge increase to ability duration and still it will also decrease energy drain from active abilities. |
| Umbral Intensify | Increase overall ability strength. |
| Primed Redirection | Max those shields. |
| Stretch | Increases the range of your abilities. |
| Fast Deflection | Increase the recharge of your shields. |
| Equilibrium | Picking up health orbs also gives energy, and picking up energy orbs also gives health. |
| Adaptation | Further damage reduction. |
| Transient Fortitude | Pick up health orbs also gives energy, and picking up energy orbs also gives health. |
The Glory build for Jade in Warframe follows a standard Pistol build with no surprises.
Hornet Strike Primed Target Cracker Prime Pistol Gambit Galvanized Diffusion Lethal Torrent After that, choose the elemental mods that suit your opponents. This build serves as a platform from which to experiment and find what works best for you. There's a wide variety of builds for this Warframe, but this is the one I've settled on.
All Jade Abilities
In addition to these build suggestions for Jade in Warframe, here's a list of her abilities.
| Passive – The Anointed | Jade’s profound understanding of the relationship between life and death grants her two Aura Mod Slots. |
| Light’s Judgement | Create a well of light that heals allies and hurts enemies. Those who enter the well will be surrounded by Judgements. |
| Symphony of Mercy | Cycle through three songs that strengthen allies: **Power of the Seven** increases Ability Strength by +30 percent. **Deathbringer** increases Weapon Damage by +100 percent. **Spirit of Resilience** increases Shield Regeneration by +25 percent. Extend the duration of each song by killing enemies surrounded by Blessings. |
| Ophanim Eyes | Jade summons an accusatory gaze that slows nearby enemies and dissolves their armor. When the gaze falls upon allies, they can be revived from a distance. |
| Glory on High | Soar with destructive power. Use alternate-fire to detonate Judgments, causing an explosion of Jade Light. Enemies affected by Light’s Judgment strengthen the explosion. |
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UPDATE: This article was updated on 1/31/25 by Escapist Editorial to add additional value.
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