The secrets of Thermal Sunder | Warframe 170-200 KPM Gauss Prime build

Despite being known as the speed frame, Gauss wields one of the strongest nuke in the game capable of dishing out damage cap numbers with a bit of help from heat inherit. Even without heat inherit it can still room clear steel path enemies until level cap.

[@worm6738]

Quick correction for 1:55: Corrosive projection will only allow you to full strip at 96.4% battery rather than 82%. This is because Gauss' armor strip only scales off his **redline** battery, rather than his entire battery. What is Redline battery? It's the top 20% of his battery that only unlocks when you activate redline (the battery is normally capped at 80%). So if your battery is 80% full, you would get no strip at all. At 90% battery, you would get 50% strip. At 96.4% battery, you would get 82% strip, which would allow you to full strip with corrosive projection. Thank you to AznvasionsPlays for pointing this out! You can see his video here: kzbin.info/www/bejne/ZqDVi2adoZl-rJI Due to DE logic, Kinetic Plating and Redline counts as a channeled ability which means you can proc seismic bond for an extra 30% efficiency. This gives you the option to use streamline instead of fleeting expertise, or a rank 3 fleeting expertise to hit the cap of 175% efficiency. Any companion with work but if you want one that can reliably proc seismic bond, use Diriga with Helstrum. Even if it gets patched in the future Mach Rush is a channeled ability, so seismic bond will always work. Congrats on graduating Gauss university, claim your degree here :D My Overframe guide: overframe.gg/build/592912/gauss-prime/170-200-kpm-gauss-nuke-for-all-steel-path-content/ Ninjase's furis build: overframe.gg/build/492085/furis/furis-incarnon-heat-inherit-for-levelcap-disruption/ My Bubonico primer: overframe.gg/build/594883/

[@r.c.s.3541]

🎓👨‍🎓🗿🗿

[@vonrelevanz1963]

It's a good guide, tho. I see ways to improve it nonetheless. Who in their right mind would use kuva ogris? What about tenet cycron? I f all heat procs get summed up by cold sunder, does it matter if they are many or large ones? If x is 10 and y is 1 , it should make no difference if x is damage or number of procs.

[@NaregChakhbasian]

You damn goof ball, I spent like 3 hours trying to see why I couldn't stripbat 82% battery

[@inval_L]

Do you think this build would work with full armor strip Saryn?

[@lanestoltzfus4871]

Then how did you full strip in the simulacrum when your battery wasnt almost full?

[@siromnoms]

> get over your sprint speed addiction. -Day ruined.

[@knayvik6482]

put mobilize in exilus

[@Boovel]

​@@knayvik6482does that give us sprint speed tho? I THINK NOT SO YOUR SUGGESTION IS INVALID

[@johankaruyan5536]

rush gives more than sprint boost @@Boovel

[@kejiozz]

put amalgam serration and praedos and ur fine with sprinting

[@Ixarus6713]

Dude should also switch out for archon flow, gives the exact same energy + a bonus on energy with cold kills, which is how you'll be nuking anyway. (Just more capacity hungry) Then you can get rid of the yellows and put in 4 red and have a spare slot. (I use a 50 energy increase on mine) Which at cap will bring me to about 700-800 energy. Making nuking much cheaper. Get rid of trash corrosive, wait for it to cap out and replace overextended with narrow minded, this guy is insane if he thinks range Gauss is better than duration Gauss. Plus for Gauss, you don't really need Rolling Guard unless you are going against level cap or smth. Keep that exilus rush and enjoy your nuking baby boy. I even threw umbral intensify and fiber on him, just to boost the damage and passive tank. And to top it off I'll eventually replace Redirection with Augur Accord, making for a very strong Gauss indeed. (Be warned I am not a modding expert and am in fact only a mad scientist, I cannot verify whether this build is absolute insanity or actually good, it just works really well for me.) All I know is higher shields is better for shield gating after recent updates, so yeah. Have fun folks, and remember: Don't stop modding!

[@vampireguy24]

Step 1: Get over your speed addiction It's not an addiction, it's a need. A NEED for SPEED.

[@lotuscat3173]

**cue NFS MW Shapeshifter**

[@xornedge8204]

Octane reference detected, opinion accepted.

[@bottomtext593]

Step 2: Fail

[@johnP0908]

Need?? I AM SPEED... kachow!

[@zackagonxm]

As Trib once said, “If you’re dealing 5 million damage on a 50 thousand health pool, at the end of the day, ya still did 50 thousand damage.” If you deal that massive damage to a radius of enemies, then it’s best.

[@90maducc]

W Trib reference.

[@EnriqueHernandez-kd1tg]

Bruh ur acting like u won’t run range on it 💀

[@leonardocastellanos7344]

@@EnriqueHernandez-kd1tgputting all the damage modifiers takes up spaces for opportunities to make range modifiers

[@bloopletank2491]

This doesn't require any strength on gauss, only archon vitality which just makes this go smoother​@@leonardocastellanos7344

[@hello_mr.yomi6627]

My friend who hits letters in his damage

[@NovaUmbral]

That’s actually so smart using corrosive projection then sunder rush to strip! Kudos! Will try this out next level cap I do

[@Sophie_V51]

Hey Nova!! caught you on here!

[@Nullonos]

This is a incredible guide that really helped me to understand thermal sunder and it's intricacies, thank you so much worm

[@Rich_Rulez]

Gauss University appreciates you

[@TuxPenguino]

Thank you. From the bottom of my heart. You guys make warframe so ez for me and other vets with k's of hours. People see your videos and do all the work. I love it. I haven't needed to put in any work now that these videos exist. Keep up the great work!

[@-geefius-5353]

As a returning player: What the fuck.

[@rick30521]

Hey, remember when the highest base level for enemies was like 30? And past 100 it was hard to deal with them?

[@ElemXCR]

@@rick30521I memeber. My saryn prime built was for level 100~ enemies in elite sim. Almost three years later, my saryn struggles doing good damage in SP. Sadge.

[@hann1bal197]

This is exactly what happened to me, all my builds from 4 years ago are useless@@ElemXCR

[@DarkeeQueen]

@@ElemXCRlook for a 2 green shard saryn build. Im running max lvl with her atm she’s amazing

[@UpstageBeast]

​@@hann1bal197As a returning player from 2019; 5 year old octavia builds still work. I've had no problems with warframe power creep so far lol.

[@cryw1092]

I never really understood Thermal Sunder's power until recently due to having taken a break from Warframe for a while. Thank you for the information!

[@whiterunguard1974]

I really hope gauss wont get nerfed now that he will be much easier to get for everyone and all eyes are on him atm

[@bruh7170]

What’s it with peeps thinking any good strategy is going to get nerfed? They are much worse offender frames like revenant, stynax, rhino, Octavia,…etc. I get that gauss is very good, but he’s neither stupid op nor braindead.

[@QantusVitae]

he is not getting nerfed lmaoooo

[@chungo2548]

@@bruh7170 Octavia wont get nerfed cause no one plays her, rhino, stynax and revenant aren't nearly as powerful as someone like gauss. I don't think gauss is gonna get nerfed though cause hes been a very popular frame who has been able to do this for a while

[@arrosdose]

honestly if wasn't for Excalibur, Gauss Probably would be the posterboy of Warframe, DE seems to like him a lot, so its unlikely he gets nerfed

[@Benzinilinguine]

Octavia literally just had Mallet changed because of Orange shards. ​@@chungo2548

[@Utigeon]

Now I finaly understand how that damn ability works. Thanks a lot! And no, I will not get over my sprint speed addiction.

[@PhilSpender69Billion]

Returning player here,just got gauss as my first prime the other day,thank you so much! I really like the frame I just didn’t really understand him until now thanks to you! Also that editing in the beginning was perfect I had to sub for that alone 😂

[@ryanthemustacheguy7449]

I have almost figured out this stuff over the years, but u my friend are the only person I've seen properly explain this TY! very much good sir. Doing DEs job for them.

[@Grizzyjhin]

Easy quick and precise, gauss has been sitting in my invent for quite some time, time to play this speedyboi. Thanks!

[@marvelbladez993]

keep making this type of content and youll grow sooo fast!

[@gj8622]

Great video, amazing explanation. Good stuff.

[@AkiraHikaru99]

Thank you for making my Gauss experience into a new type of hell for the enemy

[@justcallmemichael6682]

I love the “GAS GAS GAS and I’m all out of gas” loadout you got there

[@nucleatomic]

Amazing video, nice job. I didn’t know any of this shit and now gauss is back to my #1 frame

[@madgodzebraYT]

This was actually a good and informative video

[@RobertMichael]

Thank you for explaining this !

[@budzee313]

some really nice tips here thanks

[@osful]

youre the first person to explain this in a way that makes sense

[@VF2024]

Bro your warframe dancing with that catchy music is so fun to watch and kinda distracting but i love it :D

[@dylankim4190]

Great video! Gauss always seemed pretty complicated to me but this gives me a great place to start

[@dionfrancisco8685]

Thank you so much of the info brother tysm mwa

[@proxy90909]

Thank you with this information I will be able to better use... Other frames once I throw Gauss into the blender now that the prime is out

[@pieguy7057]

unhinged greatness is all i have to say

[@ekusas475]

As gauss fan, quite glad to find this video, because I wanted to find some secret moment about him

[@humbletoast8552]

Honestly I wanna try this build. I normally use hildryn. Blazing pillage to light them on fire, pillage for armor strip, thermal sunder for cold and explosive

[@Kuran1986]

That sounds brilliant, can you share the build and play style please?

[@thenightingale7405]

Seems like this would work on Gauss too if you just put pillage on Gauss.

[@orcspanker]

its not hard to full armor strip on gauss already though and his kit feels really great all around @@thenightingale7405

[@megasparky2657]

@@thenightingale7405 yeah but why using pillage on gauss ? He's already durable and his armor stripping is easier to run ?

[@thenightingale7405]

@@megasparky2657 shield gate to upgrade from durable to invincible

[@ThePopeOfAwesomeness]

Brilliant video, all this build needs is the MIGHTY SEER

[@onepunchsans8276]

Idk why you are being mean but this is my favorite gauss video and build, i will sub and wish to see more from you 💜

[@MaxAce20]

Very informative video, I have no idea how you possibly dont have energy problems, but besides that this clears up a lot of confusion I had about consistently armor stripping enemies.

[@ARandomBoi_NothingToSeeHere]

well, enemies drop energy, so if you kill 10+ enemies in a single sunder you should be positive. Just like Acceltra's ammo. Can't run out of it if you kill everything on the map in one mag

[@MxCyberJorky.]

Crei que no hiba a funcionar está build, pero ya me doy cuenta de cómo se usa la 3 habilidad correctamente jeje Muy buena build bro

[@silverlyder]

Nice choice of music

[@williampeterson106]

I love the goofy background music.

[@JayTheTruth]

You lost me at “get over your sprint speed addiction” It’s not an addiction, I can stop whenever I want In all seriousness, great vid! Boutta try this out rn

[@seikatsu.]

Im still here waiting for my gauss prime to finish building

[@Ixarus6713]

Same, mines ready by Wednesday. 😂 Have fun!

[@seikatsu.]

@@Ixarus6713 mines on tuesday i am so excited to go mach 10 just need a volt prime friend

[@lovrovro]

and I cant even start building mine because im out of nitain extract lol

[@johankaruyan5536]

Nightwave is ur friend​@@lovrovro

[@FatCJ]

The best gauss mix between duration and nuking Brief respite i just use it cus this is a spamable thermal sunder build and if i were hit by electricity i can just spam it over and over till its over, cunning drift,primed continuity,streamline,equilibrium,umbrul intensify,overextended,primed flow,fleeting expertise rank 3 since you only need 170 efficiency,and stretch Arcanes: molt augmented and efficiency 4 red shards duration and one yellow casting speed You can switch out umbral intensify for any other mod if you have molt augmented maxed rank i use intensify cus i only need to get 60 kills to get 100% strength back instead of 200 this build took me to level 1k on zariman youll only have 65 seconds of his redline and kinetic plating but the lower the duration the quicker you reach 100% and the quicker you reach invincibility and full potential thermal sunder

[@Warframe11835]

Muito bom. Congratulations!

[@FluffieMichi]

Heya! amazing video! How did you full strip at 2:07 when the battery was below 20%? I thought the battery needs to be 80+ even with corrosive proj?

[@PYROM4NI4CC]

So the way people general refer to gausses battery is that the part that fills up without redline active is “80%”. So when the video said that with corrosive projection 82% is needed to fully strip it means have redline active and have the last 20% at least 2% full.

[@FluffieMichi]

@@PYROM4NI4CC Ahh I see, thank you so much! 💜

[@rivershen8954]

​@@PYROM4NI4CCwow what, i had always thought the part under the red line didnt count as battery or worked differently. I didnt know it was already 80% Then why does it show the % starting from 0 again when you use redline? Its so misleading and confusing

[@PYROM4NI4CC]

@@rivershen8954 I guess just the way DE decided to represent it. Best way I can explain it is the number you see is representative of the percent of the 20% so like seeing 50 would be the full 80% and then 10% since the last 20% is half full

[@rivershen8954]

@@PYROM4NI4CC yeah and i almost had a stroke reading your explanation as well. Its just unnecessary, why didnt they just show it as 80% battery, and when you use redline it starts charging up from 80% to 100% instead of 100% of the last 20% thing bullshit

[@Gauss_Prime]

now this is epic

[@devroraf1118]

U earned my sub.

[@W-Pachamory]

Based Gauss gamer

[@Alel1902]

is molt augmented necessary or can I swap it for something else? also is the bane needed on ogris if its just for priming?

[@kabe6927]

this vid made me a gauss player

[@nukkkun1833]

i'm gonna try this for sience reaserch purposes

[@EnriqueHernandez-kd1tg]

Results ?

[@Ixarus6713]

Crafting his prime now. 😈

[@Jechielwesterweele250]

“Khora chilling in the back with shade’s on”💀

[@4g3nt06]

unfortunately, not running Sprint boost on gauss is also not very gauss

[@novaprix8864]

Speed > Damage Wanna nuke? Use Volt :)

[@bloopletank2491]

​@novaprix8864 volts nuke has a wider range but it doesn't scale well

[@novaprix8864]

@@bloopletank2491 My guy, you don't need 2.1 Billion damage even in SP 😂

[@bloopletank2491]

@novaprix8864 yeah, but volts 4 doesn't kill at steel path levels due to armor

[@novaprix8864]

@@bloopletank2491 Oh. Well that sucks. Even with Nekros armor strip?

[@Technopath00]

I'm a founder, and have been around for a long fucking time...But BTW @worm6738 A user in Warframe just dipped into a survival i was doing and blew my damage out of the water. i asked about it, and he pointed me here to you. God tier move. Thumbs up and you have my support. His name is Neotheo and a bro in warframe.

[@greatkingbusa1542]

My Harrow still amazing, gauss is nice might give him to a friend

[@masonjames8825]

As a gauss main I feel personally attacked telling me to get over my speed addiction. How dare you good sir

[@violator6989]

Amazing

[@yk4569]

Almost similar build with Archon Vitality. 40% str, decent duration, 160 eff & 169 range. I don’t know why but I can never reach damage cap like you did, not complaining about it either. I can kill almost anything which spawns (except for Acolytes) with Thermal Sunder priming with my Epitaph. And I think the culprit is my Cucumber arcane on Epitaph. Will have to check it out once without the arcane.

[@Jaesais]

0:56 now I have to test this as a subsumable. 😯 something is telling me this will be insanely busted when I run it with my heat status builds. 🤩

[@NeightrixPrime]

I had assumed Kinetic Plating would more or less not work at such a low strength.

[@lorenzo7402]

Keep spreading the word, let brozime know the error in his ways of building gauss

[@bloopletank2491]

Ikr

[@GalletasCh]

🎓👨‍🎓 Thanks Teacher

[@Alatyreon]

hello! I have 5 duration shards and I use arcane energize. But that would put my strength at 40%. How am I supposed to deal with it? or will I be fine with just 40% strength? I was doing fine against lv3000+ on duviri but that's duviri where my sunder is more OP due to the buffs.

[@chromaticv1]

The floodgates are open now. 🏃‍♂🏃‍♂🏃‍♀🏃‍♀🏃‍♂🏃‍♂🏃‍♀🏃‍♀

[@CheeseSausageRiceSouP]

Bro am a gauss main and i didnt know any of this.. used to run gauss only for his survival and.. his 4.. i have got a new wah go play him now thanks man

[@MrMuziekman]

dayum i ahd no idea it worked like that i mainly use my gauss for melee mode his 1 is perfect gapcloser. imma ahve go and give this a go ^^

[@rabeelsyed9683]

Great video! So If I apply heat with only Ignis Wraith, and only use Cold Sunder, enemy will armor-strip? No need to use Heat Sunder? 2 Heat + 1 Cold Sunder for Base SteelPath enemy huh, will try it out :)

[@robbiestafford6889]

I could see one possible improvement. Sacrifice Auger Reach for Mach Crash to make your prime time easier.

[@RandomPerson59]

Question: how important is molt augmented for this build? Will it work fine up to a certain level without it?

[@mylittledarkworldjohn4289]

I have the feeling that G Prime loads the battery much faster, but could also be mainly cause I forget to use 2 once it runs out

[@sh0shin]

It's only slightly faster lol it doesn't make enough of a difference when pressing 1 anyway for battery

[@joseantoniovargas6548]

I'm sorry, but I'll never get over my speed addiction with Gauss, it's all or nothin lmao

[@diosbizarreadventure7383]

Gauss has now become Goku level threat 🗣️

[@wellplayedninjas]

👏🔥👏❄️

[@scholaire]

How did you build your bubonico for dmg cap in the beginning?

[@HeJauxoS]

GAS GAS GAS and I'm all out of gas

[@MrShifter21]

Yo but your frame drippy as hell my G

[@dominikkowalczyk3845]

Question from a Gauss begginer here: If I want to put arcane energize in one of my arcane slots(don't have 2 yellow shards open at the moment) which arcane do I swap it for? Do I leave Efficiency or Augmented in?

[@antoniohughes8841]

Subscribed

[@DeathDrager]

No thanks i go fast

[@Calaman228]

Hey i dont understand one thing here; so you said we need to do 1st ability in between heat sunder casts to keep up the battery. But when do you use cold sunder?

[@worm6738]

After two heat sunders. So it's heat > 1 > heat > 1 > cold.

[@lorenzobattistutta4761]

One day I will understand all those weird symbols near the health, since they do not look like arcanes to me

[@SpikeRose]

As someone who used to have a habit of crashing PS4/Switch players with Nightwatch Napalm spam via Energized Munitions (not really, I'm kidding), it feels good to have another way to play Gauss.

[@ezehalves]

Hi how are you not having a problem with energy? Just with the yellow fragments?

[@gramfero]

just gotta find a horde of enemies with 2 billion HP

[@isaacesquivel8397]

i question, why use molt efficiency for more duration? i mean, it's for maintain his 4 ability? or it's for something else? and the same for molt augmented

[@Relexx1336x3]

What are your thoughts on the new arcanes that give strenght on heat/cold procs?

[@kit_horror]

So i dont have all of these mods, but I do have some. What are the absolute necessities to make this build work?

[@JudgeDread-sj9ki]

Use the innondem to get + 30% or the incarnon tonfas for 20% speed and slide

[@anotheruser96]

So let me get this straight, first you build up the red line meter to 100% by using the first followed by a third (heat) followed again by a first to keep the meter from draining and lastly when meter is at 100% you spam third (heat) about 4 or 5 times and then detonate with third (cold) right?

[@blakefort8165]

Yes, but it's better to use a primer, I usually only have to shoot a group of enemies then cast cold

[@antiversum919]

this video cracked me up lmfao I can now say I graduated at Gauss University

[@quangtuantran7181]

After watching this, building Gauss, and watching it again, I still dont get it. Back to the funny slam into wall build

[@sh0shin]

I use archon flow over primed flow myself but tbh not sure it even helps 😅

[@zachadair52]

You lost me at getting over my sprint speed addiction

[@atlegin]

Oh. my. god. I have been using gauss wrong this whole time

[@theleoshowm3010]

cant u use HI for sunder? pluss you could use roar as another faction bonus instead of putting it on your heat spreader.

[@JuanHerrera-wx7jc]

Need more details… seems like you’re trying to say proc heat heat heat x10 and then cold? And somehow it expedites the damage of the heat procs?? Or are you saying the minute u armor strip, it nukes? I tried the build and strat but it didn’t do anywhere near as much damage.. Edit: my felarx with xata’s 2-taps eximus troops so this seems like a lot of work lol

[@stargazing209]

The more heat procs enemy has, the more damage u deal when casting cold thermal sunder. The first heat proc u do on enemy- u want it to be from a weapon primer that has bane mod and +heat dmg, and since the heat proc stacks infinitely, all the heat procs u do with thermal sunder will inherit the properties of the first heat proc that got applied to the enemy, so u basically apply some of the mods from ur primer to the heat damage from thermal sunder. That's how I understand it.

[@Zeroes211]

Thx I got the prime and wanted to understand a bit more

[@Tziouvaras]

Will coaction drift work? To like strip on even less %?

[@inval_L]

Ik this video was a evil invention “get over your sprint speed addiction“ I can stop anytime I want

[@cernos7230]

As Trib once said, “If you’re dealing 5 million damage on everyone at the end of the day, ya still killed everyone”.

[@kujojotaro5187]

I want to try this build but how are you not dying with that 40% ability strength? How much damage reduction you can get from kinetic plating with that amount of strength?

[@saomaidm123]

60 str from molt augmented when max.

[@kujojotaro5187]

Ok that makes sense

[@distraction2803]

kinetic plating still reaches 100% dr with redline regardless; strength only affects the initial dr value at 0 battery

[@Xzcouter]

@@distraction2803 Strength also affects max DR.

[@distraction2803]

@@Xzcouter no it most definitely does not

[@Jcorella]

power creep go brrrr