Frost
When Frost steps onto the battlefield, enemies experience a chill. Frost’s attacks control crowds, protect objectives, and increase survivability. Wield the biting cold.
Build this frame
(Base stats)
- Health
- 270
- Shield
- 455
- Armor
- 315
- Energy
- 100
- Sprint
- 0.95
- 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, Frost sits in the top fifteen per cent for shield (18th of 117).
It is thin on energy (100th of 117), which is what a build has to answer for.
It ships with 2 polarities already installed, plus Vazarin on the aura slot, so that much of the board costs no forma.
(Loadout facts)
- Pre-installed polarities
- NaramonVazarin
- Aura slot
- Vazarin
- Helminth can subsume
- Ice Wave
- Progenitor element
- Cold
- Role
- Crowd Control · Survival
- Introduced
- 6
(Passive)
Cold Status Effects from Frost's Abilities last _% longer. Frost gains _ Armor for each enemy afflicted with Cold within Affinity Range.
(Abilities)
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01 -
02 Ice Wave 50 energy Subsumable
Sends a wave of razor sharp, crystalized ice toward an enemy, dealing heavy damage.
Augment: Ice Wave Impedance
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03 Snow Globe 50 energy
Frost deep freezes any vapor and moisture in the area, creating a protective sphere with brief invulnerability to boost its strength.
Augment: Chilling Globe
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04 Avalanche 100 energy
Summons a treacherous landslide of ice that instantly freezes and shatters all enemies in its radius.
Augment: Icy Avalanche
Costs are base figures, before efficiency.
(Acquisition)
Frost is a boss drop — every part comes off Ceres/Exta (Assassination). The blueprint itself is bought from the in-game market. Skipping all of it costs 375 platinum in the market, or 25,000 credits for the blueprint alone.
Chassis
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Ceres/Exta (Assassination) | — | 38.72% |
Neuroptics
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Ceres/Exta (Assassination) | — | 38.72% |
Systems
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Ceres/Exta (Assassination) | — | 22.56% |
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
- 125 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
- 1,000 Ferrite
- 800 Rubedo
- 500 Plastids
- 500 Salvage
- 150 Alloy Plate
- 150 Polymer Bundle
- 2 Morphics
- 1 Control Module
- 1 Neural Sensors
- 1 Orokin Cell
The tree
- 1 Orokin Cell
- 150 Alloy Plate
- 1 Neural Sensors
- 150 Polymer Bundle
- 500 Rubedo
- 1 Morphics
- 1,000 Ferrite
- 300 Rubedo
- 1 Control Module
- 1 Morphics
- 500 Salvage
- 500 Plastids
(Builds)
No build has been written up for Frost 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.