Top Tips to Beat Steel Path! | Warframe 

Warframe was always pretty fun, but I didn't become obsessed with it until I discovered the joys of learning how to prep different frames for steel path.

One thing I'd recommend is to do the 6 daily SP inssurections -> Not only will you (nearly) always find players to Co-OP with, you can also clear the "new" star chart out of order.

And if all that fails, just play as Octavia and bring the party to Steel Path.

"Become the lore accurate Warframe you know you can be" Atlas mains suddenly on the raise as a giant swarm of meteors approaches

Kengineer really hit us with the "You can do it" at the end fr fr.

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="3">0:03</a> Mutalist Alad V Assassination and Jordas Golem do not count towards unlocking Steel Path, just an FYI. I completed Star Chart without them! They don’t count towards “planet mastery.”

Tip: Dont rush steelpath

What kengineer says after <a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="643">10:43</a> are the true guide and motivation to steelpath

I stopped playing warframe 3 years ago, and you were the highest quality warframe creator then, I came back last week and you’re still the highest quality wf creator! I appreciate your work sir 🙏🏻

Hildryn Prime (who’s easily accessible right now) is also a great choice for Steel Path as long as the enemy faction is *not* Infested. Easy armor strip and infinite shield tanking with one button press: Pillage. Don’t need Blazing Pillage for that.

You also get a handy bundle of Steel Essence upon fully clearing a SP Planet for the first time, if you're close to the end but are left with only the most annoying nodes like Interception or Defense, you can always just ask nicely in recruiting chat and you'll usually find players willing to help. It's how I've handled literally all of the Interception missions I've done on the SP. Also Also, you can still pop relics on nodes you haven't unlocked on SP. Finally, the Ceramic Dagger is a very convenient Melee Incarnon even outside of being a stat stick. Even if you don't plan on using it for Khora or Atlas or whoever else, the ability to passively charge it with Primary kills makes it very convenient as it's basically a free Parkour boost.

Literally just started dabbling with Steel Path today. Great timing.

awww the moment you said yareli i smiled. so nice seeing her become peak

I honestly love when this dude solves practical problems

Tip for steel path on anything that isn't interception or deimos bosses: Use Mag bubble with Nataruk and grind hordes of enemies into dust with ease. Just watch out for those toxin eximus.

Tried slowly getting to SP after coming back and thinking "i'm an old player with good setups.i can do it easy." and then got hit with it being being harder than i expected. Now im farming helminth segment, xaku (to play) and arcadia flare.

Incursions are great for 2 things, there usually are people running them in open squad, so it's an easy and fast way to get Steel Essences. And it serves as a "taxi", meaning you discover the node it takes place on even if you didn't get to that planet yet. I unlocked most of the Steel Path star chart that way, there was no rush anymore, at that point it's just a bit of rank mastery XP. I still remember my first venture into Steel Path - normal Rhino and Broken War. It wasn't pretty, it wasn't the fastest, but it got the job done quite alright :)

Or use Nova, she can make enemies not only move very slow, but molecular also increase the damage they take, you can mod negative range so her 1 can give you 90 DR for longer duration, her 2 can nuke group of enemies, her 3 help with travel or can be changed for a skill you might need.

Thanks for the prep/pep talk! I’m getting ready for steel path soon myself! Here’s my Loadout. Rhino Prime Ocucor w/ sentient surge Xoris w/max influence I’m comfortably in the mid game I feel now. I’ve judiciously spent 10 Forma and wasted one Exilus adapter😂. Now I’m just collecting mods, learning new frames, and most importantly, not rushing it. Gonna subsume thermal sunder cause I adore blast! 💥 This channel is a huge help! Your guides are info dense, but understandable, and entertaining! You’ve earned my sub!

if i remember correctly back when SP first launched, we didnt have the galvanized mods, nor did we have arcanes for weapons either. I remember struggling quite a bit with teh current gear we had at the time. but it was because of those hurdles DE made all those new implements and made the power scaling more fun

Back when SP was new, I completed entire SP chart solo with Nyx (and Vauban for Defence and Interception). Pacyfing Bolts locking entire groups of enemies while stripping defences was a godsend. Nowadays defence strip is less important and Xoris can obliterate half of tile with Melee Influence that can be farmed in non-SP, its much easier than before the enemy defence changes. Hell, even decently build Verglas with Contagion Bond can clear groups for you. If at the point you reading this Nautilus Prime is not available anymore, you can achieve similar results with Cryotra that is craftable and can be bought for standing in Fortuna. Healing arcanes can be also helpful, either Magus Elevate for operators or Molt Reconstruct for Warframes, depending on what content is comfortable for you (Magus Repair too, but it requires farming toroids, Profit Taker or Exploiter, which can be annoying). Use Specters to complete your loadout, with Styanax or Citrine specter being a standout.

Watching this made me realize that I am ready for steel path. I have most of the galvanized mods, considerable helminth builds on some frames for survivability and regular path has become very easy, almost mundane. Time to step up!

Tip : dont rush steelpath -get good mods. -if you're in a group, try not to think abt killing, but surviving. Most of the time you'll get some wukongs on your team killing the ads when you just started aiming at the enemies. The jump when you could do really high lvl mission will feel really good after taking your time. One thing that sometimes can make me a little bit eh in certain SP mission it felt like playing 'The reckoning' in Destiny. You're too strong that the only way to kill you is throw a dozen of enemies at you. Thats where aoe damage comes in. And get blinded by all the lights from all the abilities that you dont know what you're shooting at.

The video I wish I had a couple of months ago. Thanks for this absolute banger of a video!

Also, Hildryn is a pretty good choice too for steel path because of her built in shield gating passive. And let's not forget that she, herself is a shield tank.

Thanks for the tips. Personally I find it best not to rush things: get good weapons and all the essential mods, optimize your builds, test them in the Simulacrum and then go for it. I'd say surviving is the hardest part, because with the galvanized mods (and possibly arcanes) once you get the necessary initial kills you should be able to clear out the enemies without breaking a sweat. Also, if you have a good secondary weapon, I'd recommend using the arcane Secondary Fortifier. Not only it helps with dealing with enemy overguard, it also gives a part of it to your Warframe.

I would like to put forwards limbo as a good option. If you are comfortable with him on normal, you'll be just as good with him on steel path because he already has everything you suggested built in. Just remember that you'll need to put more focus on killing overguard than before because of the higher incoming damage

Tips: "use frames such as Rhino or Revenant, and weapons like Nataruk or Kuva Nukor" Me: "this Tigris build is gonna be dope on my Oberon"

For those struggling on the open world steel path: me too brother. even normal level cap enemies feel easier to me so dont get discouraged

What I got from this as a Rhino main is that Rhino gives you CC, Survivability and Damage Support all while having a free slot for Helminth subsume.

Zephyr carried me in my early steelpath days. Now steelpath is just another mission type.

Me: LR3 who has completed the entire Steel Path Star Chart. "Hmmm, very interesting"

love your videos man. keep it up, so much fun catching them when they release ❤❤❤

Man, I remember taking Umbra into SP for the first time and abusing Radial Howl and Skijakti’s invisibility to clear the mission because I kept dying

Oh this was perfect timing i was getting ready to try this out

Yareli mentioned, where's Sab?

Amazing tutorial, I wish I had this tutorial like a month ago before I brute forced myself into doing only SP. Also I feel targeted by thet Banshee comment, I did that, I saw someone doing milions of damage with her sonar and thought "that's what SP is (probably) about!" so I got her prime, used my 3 umbra forma on her and couldn't even do earth missions so now she sits in the shed and waits for me to get comfortable enough with SP to not rely on Khora

Nyx and Ash are also great for steel path, Ashe with arcane trickster and silence is basically always invisible and with enough strength and efficiency you can just kill them all. And Nyx has Chaos to CC a large area which is great for defense, Psychic bolts which is great to armor strip needing just 130% strength to full strip, and Assimilate on Absorb which will allow you to move without taking any damage. I have 2 builds, 1 working around max duration and efficiency with Assimilate, and another with max duration and range for Chaos, both work great just be careful of Acolytes cutting off your abilities.

I would like to add that a stationary Warframe will die a lot, even with the perfect build for that specific player. A moving target is harder to be shot and with last shots taken the less you'll die. Practice your movement a lot and stay alive for longer

The final part was so inspiring

I'm glad you didn't bring up shield gating in the defensive section, because that's very much not a beginner friendly way to stay alive in SP

Also don't be ashamed if you just keep running steel path exterminate on earth. We all gotta start somewhere and testing your builds there will be a great way for you to figure out how to mod on steel path. Imo it should also be a requirement to have galvanized mods before doing steel path as that will just make it a lot easier. Prioritize galvanzed chamber, diffusion, scope, crosshairs.

Perfect. I'll have to watch. Builds are my weakness.

This is seriously helpful, thanks TK. ❤

Ive pretty much done most of Steel Path with Banshee.....I feel called out.

The lavos bias is strong with this one

LAVOS PROPAGANDA DETECTED (Lavos is one of my favourites too)

Revenant, kuva nukor, tenet arca plasmor, praedos. Have fun

just hit LR4 last week might fuck around and start steel path finally

I like lycanths for the energy / health support, vorunas pretty easy to get too with the conjunction fissures these days

Me watching this having gone to level cap several times on sp: Hmmmm interesting

Step one pick octavia Step two profit Step three go shower

I still wish they didn't go as crazy on the power scaling with sp. it's not a such a big Difficulty wall like you said, but it still feel like they very much skipped a step difficulty wise. Like, a fair amount of stuff that is too strong for star chart also end up being too weak for sp.Let's not forget that galvinized mods and acolyte arcanes were not a thing at release, and they had to add that bit of player powercreep because they just went too hard with enemies. personally i'm really not a fan of it's current state, mostly due to the damage scaling on enemies that just make less mobile playstyle very hard to play, since their damage increace exponentially while our defensive stats are static. I do hope it gets ouched up to be less extreme on the entry difficulty so it's more of a proper starchart continuation, because we needed the harder mode, but not to that extreme

use the stug

The lavos main is comming out in this video. Its all true but its still funny

Anyone always said don't rush SP. Then I over prepared and when I started to run it I could solo Netracells. Just get Rev a Phenmor and try everything out

Guys I think Kengineer like Lavos but I'm not 100% sure. Can you confirm?

Torid incarnon: torid incarnon

Uh rhino with torid for general use and frost with torid for defending an objective missions idk I’m lazy

Do you by chance have a video guide on Nova? ^^

One thing I noticed is you managed to put on viral on top of heat with 3 elemental mods. How does that work? I could never understand that

At MR12 I'm just using Dante + Torid and I'm easing through the steel path it's so easy that it becomes boring tbh

I still have no idea how I am supposed to do interception on steel path, basically stuck on earth because of this. there too many ennemies, with too many hit points, that bomb rush all of the points and take them faster that you can take them back. and then there the acolyte, because that wasn't enough of a migraine inducing clusterfuck. this stopped me from caring for steelpath, honestly.

question about lavos: if i infuse his 4 with corrosive, will the ability do fire + corrosive or only corrosive?

My man Ken forgetting Citrine exists... 😢

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> YAYA MENTIONED LET'S GO!!

Do you have a video on that kitgun you were using with yareli?

am i the only one who can do early sp with no issues but somehow cant even solo a sortie, idk why but the enemies in there seem like they do way more damage than early sp

I think that my biggest problem as a mr16 is that i never bother using forma on my weapons it feals like a tideous process since i don't have a "fast" or "easy" way to get affinity. (And not having any arcanes is not helping)

hooooow can i solo interceptions in SP? (no one in public uses to appears hehe)

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="183">3:03</a> Every Hildryn main is disappointed with you right now.

Is steel path the end of the beginner arc? Or is it something else?

I could sleep to your voice no diddy

Tip: rush steelpath

Best way for steelpath is inc torid 🤣

can you do sp mission with a team?

I could be smart and actually tune my builds Or I can caveman the shit out of things with my Karyst. Swish swash, I procc some slash.

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I really have a lot to say about steel path but for now i ‘ ll just talk about one thing . I really wish primary merciless had a bigger duration . Even with galvanised mods , my naturak takes about 4 to 5 shots to kill a sp grineer on steep path and it is painful to get all the stacks moving around so much and trying to just get hits and kill everything . And when everything is said and done , those stacks just disappear instantly because merciless stacks only stay for 4 seconds . Merciless isn ‘ t providing damage if you are not getting kills . I really do not understand warframe ‘ s craze with precision headshots . Call it a skill issue but in a horde shooter with such fast movement , that seems too much to focus on . On that note , I feel like sp is inconsistent because I barely am able to fight lvl 100 grineer but breeze through Netracell murmurs . And there also don ‘ t exist any Galvan mods for melee ..

use revenant and a heavy attack scythe, or a torid if you feel like using a gun. there, one sentence.

just use revenant

to much Lavos propaganda! LOL!

the most minimal of builds can beat steel path im confused how people struggle

@TheKengineer, are you still updating your website with builds and stuff? Wasn't sure if that was a good place to look up your information still.

@<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="335">5:35</a> "a good way to unlock lake-tuh-ply-us nodes?" What are you saying here? hehe thanks