Chroma
Unleash the draconic. Chroma employs Heat, Electricity, Toxin, and Cold to deal high damage while maintaining survivability. Soar with winged fury.
Build this frame
(Base stats)
- Health
- 270
- Shield
- 270
- Armor
- 370
- Energy
- 175
- Sprint
- 1
- Mastery
- 0
Values as reported by the game export at max rank · snapshot 19 Sept 2026
(Where it sits)
Across the 117 frames in the roster, Chroma sits in the top fifteen per cent for armor (16th of 117).
It ships with 2 polarities already installed, plus Madurai on the aura slot, so that much of the board costs no forma.
(Loadout facts)
- Pre-installed polarities
- NaramonMadurai
- Aura slot
- Madurai
- Helminth can subsume
- Elemental Ward
- Progenitor element
- Heat
- Role
- Survival · Damage
- Introduced
- 16
(Passive)
Wings sprout for an additional jump and bullet jump.
(Abilities)
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01 Spectral Scream 10 energy
Exhale a deep breath of elemental destruction. Tap to cycle through elements, hold to cast. The chosen element applies to all of Chroma's abilities.
Augment: Afterburn
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02 Elemental Ward 50 energy Subsumable
Depending on Chroma's elemental alignment, an offensive area-of-effect is created. Chroma and its nearby allies are imbued with defensive energy.
Augment: Everlasting Ward
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03 Vex Armor 75 energy
Chroma fortifies squad Armor when his Shields are damaged or he kills an enemy with a melee weapon. He increases squad Weapon Damage when he loses Health or he kills an enemy with a ranged weapon, double the effect on weak point kills.
Augments: Guardian Armor , Vexing Retaliation
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04 Effigy 50 energy
Chroma turns his pelt into a massive sentry that strengthens nearby allies and engulfs enemies in elemental attacks.
Augment: Guided Effigy
Costs are base figures, before efficiency.
(Acquisition)
The blueprint is a reward for The New Strange; Cephalon Simaris sells a replacement if you lose it. The parts are farmed separately. Skipping all of it costs 375 platinum in the market.
Blueprint
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalon Simaris, Complete The New Strange | — | 100% |
Chassis
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalon Simaris, Complete Neptune Junction | — | 100% |
Neuroptics
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalon Simaris, Complete Uranus Junction | — | 100% |
Systems
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalon Simaris, Complete Pluto Junction | — | 100% |
Chances are per reward roll, as the drop tables state them. Relic rows show the chance at each refinement; a relic drops Intact.
(Craft)
- Credits, all in
- 70,000
- Build time
- 3 days 12 hours
- Rush, all in
- 175 p
- Or buy outright
- 375 p
Build time assumes the 3 components build at the same time in separate foundry slots — 12 hours for the slowest, then 3 days for the frame itself. One slot at a time comes to 4 days 12 hours.
Everything it eats
- 900 Salvage
- 400 Oxium
- 350 Polymer Bundle
- 250 Plastids
- 3 Neurodes
- 2 Argon Crystal
- 2 Neural Sensors
Parts from other frames
- Ember Neuroptics
- Frost Chassis
- Saryn Systems
- Volt Neuroptics
These are built or farmed as that frame's part, so their own cost is not in the totals above.
The tree
- 200 Plastids
- 2 Neural Sensors
- 350 Polymer Bundle
- 1 Ember Neuroptics
- 2 Neurodes
- 900 Salvage
- 50 Plastids
- 1 Frost Chassis
- 400 Oxium
- 2 Argon Crystal
- 1 Neurodes
- 1 Saryn Systems
(Builds)
No build has been written up for Chroma yet. Anything published by the community shows up below as soon as it exists.
(Sources)
Stats, ability text and art come from the game export. Polarities, ability costs, augments, subsume status and the crafting recipes come from the WARFRAME Wiki , CC BY-SA. Every figure, ranking and total on this page is computed from our own dataset.