The Best Jade Build In Warframe

How to Unlock Jade

Released on June 18, 2024, unlocking Jade means getting her blueprint. Her main blueprint is available via the Jade Shadows quest, which is launched via the Codex. From there, you’ll need to get her components from Acension on Brutus, Uranus. Alternatively, you can buy Jade’s blueprint and Component Blueprints via Ordis in the Larunda Relay on Mercury in exchange for Vestigial Motes. We’ve detailed the whole thing here. As for the resources required to get Jade, you can consult the handy table below:

How to Play Jade, Explained

The playstyle for Jade is nice and simple. Select which song you wish to use on your second ability, and fire up your third ability to slow enemies and reduce defenses. Mark them up with your first ability, and then nuke them from above with the alt-fire of your fourth ability. You’ll need to be mindful of your overall energy use and ensure you don’t take too much incoming damage. You’ll find two builds below to help mitigate both of these issues, one for early game players and one that should act as a great base for experimentation for Steel Path enjoyers.

A Good Beginner Jade Build

Before jumping into our favorite late game build, we’re going to go into our choice for the best beginner Jade build in Waframe. For this build, we are not going to have any Helminth ability swapping or Archon shards. This build should be doable for newer players, and give you a lot to work with. Remember, Jade can equip two Aura mods, so don’t let that confuse you. I’d argue that the first four mods of Continuity, Intensify, Flow, and Stretch are basic mods that you can use on almost any Warframe and any build as a new player. This build also doesn’t include any Arcanes, although Arcane Energize would keep you well topped up with even more energy Now, as well as the Warframe build from Jade, you will also need to build her Exalted weapon, Glory. By using the alt-fire in this mod, we can do a lot of damage to any marked enemies. You can use her first ability to mark lots of enemies below you, then nuke them with Glory. This should be cheap enough to do with the following mods. Once again, the first four are all pretty standard mods for any pistol build and will give us a great base of damage, critical chance, multishot, and fire rate.

Hornet Strike Target Cracker Barrel Diffusion Lethal Torrent Anemic Agility

Anemic Agility will cost us a little damage for a vastly improved rate of fire, giving us a better pure DPS number. The last three slots should be dedicated to damage types that suit the enemy you are facing. These can be a mix of elements that will work well against the faction you are 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 do not think you need to subsume anything on Jade, as the kit all works very well together and nothing feels weak right now. This might change in the future, but for now, I really like the kit. Arcanes are Molt Augmented for more ability power and Arcane Avenger for increased criticals from the exalted weapon. The Glory build for Jade in Warframe is a very standard Pistol build with no real surprises.

Hornet Strike Primed Target Cracker Prime Pistol Gambit Galvanized Diffusion Lethal Torrent

After that, take the elemental mods that suit your opponents. This build is really just a platform from which to start experimenting and find something that really works for you. I’ve noticed a pretty big variety of builds for this Warframe out there already, although this is the one I have settled on for myself.

All Jade Abilities

In addition to those suggestions for the best Jade builds in Warframe, here’s a list of her abilities. Warframe is available now. UPDATE: This article was updated on 1/31/25 by Escapist Editorial to add additional value.