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Gauss

Take charge with the Saint of Altra. Gauss is fast, deals high damage, and has strong survivability. Movement charges his powerful battery, so never stop moving.

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Gauss

(Base stats)

Health
270
Shield
455
Armor
185
Energy
175
Sprint
1.4
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, Gauss sits in the top fifteen per cent for shield (19th of 117).

It ships with 2 polarities already installed, plus Naramon on the aura slot, so that much of the board costs no forma.

(Loadout facts)

Pre-installed polarities
MaduraiVazarin
Aura slot
Naramon
Helminth can subsume
Thermal Sunder
Progenitor element
Impact
Role
Damage · Survival
Introduced
25.7

(Passive)

Moving generates an electrical current that fills Gauss' battery. Shields recharge up to _% faster while the Recharge Delay is up to _% shorter, based on the battery level.

(Abilities)

  1. 01

    Mach Rush 15 energy

    Burst into a hyper-sprint bowling over enemies and charging the battery. Crashing into solid objects generates a powerful shockwave. Hold to rush continuously.

    Augment: Mach Crash

  2. 02

    Kinetic Plating 50 energy

    Generate armor plating that converts a portion of absorbed Kinetic Damage (Physical, Heat, Cold, and Blast) into Energy. Also protects Gauss from being staggered or knocked down. Damage Resistance is relative to the battery level.

  3. 03

    Thermal Sunder 50 energy Subsumable

    Siphon kinetic energy from the area, charging the battery and inflicting Cold Status on nearby enemies. Hold reverses the process, draining the battery and inflicting Heat Status on nearby enemies.

    Augment: Thermal Transfer

  4. 04

    Redline 100 energy

    Push Gauss' battery beyond the redline, supercharging his Abilities and setting Fire Rate, Attack Speed, Reload Speed, and Casting Speed into overdrive. When past the redline, bolts of arcing electricity dance periodically from Gauss, exploding en masse when the ability is deactivated.

Costs are base figures, before efficiency.

(Acquisition)

Gauss's parts drop across 3 separate reward tables. Skipping all of it costs 325 platinum in the market, or 30,000 credits for the blueprint alone.

Chassis

Where Rotation Chance
Sedna/Kappa (Disruption) C 7.84%

Neuroptics

Where Rotation Chance
Sedna/Kappa (Disruption) C 7.84%

Systems

Where Rotation Chance
Sedna/Kappa (Disruption) C 7.84%

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
325 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

  • 6,200 Salvage
  • 2,950 Alloy Plate
  • 1,600 Rubedo
  • 85 Thermal Sludge
  • 70 Mytocardia Spore
  • 55 Grokdrul
  • 6 Star Crimzian
  • 3 Heart Nyth
  • 3 Marquise Thyst
  • 3 Orokin Cell
  • 3 Radian Sentirum
  • 3 Radiant Zodian
  • 1 Argon Crystal

The tree

Gauss blueprint 25,000 cr · 3 days · rush 50 p
  • 3 Orokin Cell
Neuroptics 15,000 cr · 12 hours
  • 1 Argon Crystal
  • 1,600 Rubedo
  • 6,200 Salvage
  • 2,950 Alloy Plate
Chassis 15,000 cr · 12 hours
  • 3 Radian Sentirum
  • 3 Heart Nyth
  • 6 Star Crimzian
  • 55 Grokdrul
Systems 15,000 cr · 12 hours
  • 3 Radiant Zodian
  • 3 Marquise Thyst
  • 70 Mytocardia Spore
  • 85 Thermal Sludge

(Builds)

No build has been written up for Gauss 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.