Frost

Hotfix 38.0.6 (2025-01-09)

• Frost’s passives now apply to their Affinity Range, instead of being a fixed range.

Update 38.0 (2024-12-13)

• Fixed Glaive projectiles launched within Frost’s Snowglobe not targeting enemies that are also in the globe.
• Fixed Frost equipped with the Icy Avalanche Augment losing gained Overguard when falling into a teleport volume.

Hotfix 37.0.6 (2024-10-11)

• Fixed Koumei’s Kumihimo strings not spawning correctly when cast in Frost’s Snowglobe.

Update 37.0 (2024-10-02)

• Fixed bug where Clients would see Frost’s Snow Globe at 1 Health after the invulnerability window ends (visual bug only).

Hotfix 36.0.5 (2024-07-20)

• Fixed Melee-based foes no longer attacking while in Frost’s Snow Globe.

Hotfix 36.0.4 (2024-06-26)

• Changed Frost’s “Icy Avalanche” Augment Mod (stats shown at Max Rank) to improve its Overguard capacities:
  • Now: Allies within Affinity Range are coated with ice that grants 60 Overguard per enemy hit. Overguard increases by 20% of your Armor once per enemy.
  • Previous: Coat nearby allies with ice that grants Overguard and absorbs 60 damage per enemy hit.
• Fixed Frost’s Snow Globe unintentionally doubling weapon Critical Hit Damage when shooting through it.
• Fixed a script error caused by using Frost’s Freeze to shatter Snow Globe.
• Fixed several script errors caused by Frost’s Snow Globe.

Hotfix 36.0.3 (2024-06-20)

• Improved the accuracy of Frost’s Freeze projectile when cast within Snow Globe.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

Warframe Changes

Frost Rework

Frost, the definitively-themed Cold Warframe, has received a rework to better situate him for how Cold works with this Update! While Frost dealt icy attacks to his foes, the Freeze from his hit was not tied to Cold Status Effects. With the update to the Cold status, we have also amended his kit to properly use Cold Status Effects to Freeze enemies!

New passive - Fortifying Freeze:

Cold Status Effects applied by Frost Abilities have their duration increased by 100%. Frost gains 50 Armor per enemy inflicted with Cold Status within 15m.

Freeze (1st Ability):

• Adds required Cold stacks to freeze instead of simply freezing to both initial hit and AoE interactions.
• “Duration” is now known as “Freeze Duration,” indicating how long an affected target is Frozen.
• Doubled the baseline Area of Effect component of the projectiles.
• The Area-of-Effect aspect now scales with the Ability Range stat. The Area-of-Effect Radius is now present in the Ability description.

Ice Wave (2nd Ability):

• “Duration” is now known as “Freeze Duration,” indicating how long an affected target is Frozen.
• Ice Wave Impedance Augment Changes:
  • Leaves a frozen trail for 12s that adds a Cold Status Effect per second on enemies in contact with it.

Snow Globe (3rd Ability):

• Applies a Cold Status Effect every 3 seconds to enemies inside the Globe.
• Updated “Slow” stat to “Cold Status/Second”.
• Instantly apply full Cold stacks on cast if an enemy is within Snow Globe range.
• No longer blocks player projectiles from the outside!
• Snow Globe now visually cracks as it takes damage.
  • When the Snow Globe breaks, it’ll also explode and deal damage and 3 Cold stacks to enemies within its radius.
• Chilling Globe Augment Changes:
  • Updated the Augment to add 10 Cold stacks if the condition is met (i.e., unify the freeze with the Cold Status Effects as we normally do now).

Avalanche (4th Ability):

• Adds the required Cold stacks instead of simply freezing.
• It’s “Duration” stat is now “Freeze Duration,” indicating how long an affected target is Frozen.

Hotfix 35.0.3 (2023-12-18)

• Fixed a script error caused by Frost’s Freeze.

Update 34.0 (2023-10-18)

Base vs Final Stats in Modding - Health / Energy / Shield / Armor Stat Overhaul

If you’ve spent any time invested in the deeper nuances of Modding, you may be familiar with “Warframe Math” - math that upon first glance doesn’t really make sense, but once you learn the inner workings of the game, it all comes together. While we can appreciate the value that complex systems offer to a certain subsect of players, there are other aspects of the game that should have clear and understandable outcomes. Namely: Shield, Health, Energy, and Armor Modding.

Pop quiz: what is 300 + 440%? If you answered 740, you may just be an Excalibur player.

Vitality (+440% Heath), Redirection (+440% Shields), Flow (+150% Energy), and Steel Fiber (+110% Armor) come with large modifier values that don’t seem to match their outcome in-game. This is because these Mods apply their multiplier to the base stats of the Warframe - i.e., the stats you have at Rank 0. In the Excalibur example, a Rank 30 Excalibur’s Health stat of 300 earns an additional 440 Health from max rank Vitality (+440% Heath) since it applies to his base rank Health stat of 100, resulting in 740 total health.

In this update, we have removed this obfuscation by having Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor Mods apply to the stats of Warframes at their current rank. Continuing our Excalibur example, instead of Vitality always applying to Excalibur’s base rank 100 Health, it would apply to his Health stat based on his rank - namely, the stat you can actually see in your Arsenal. If your Excalibur were Rank 30, his Health stat would be 300, which means Vitality’s multiplier would be calculated off of 300.

With previous Health and Mod values, additional adjustments are needed to make this revision work while maintaining game balance. By only changing where the multiplier applies, a Rank 30 Excalibur would receive an extra 1,320 Health from max rank Vitality, resulting in a total health stat of 1,600. This outcome is a significant buff, which is not the intention of this system change.

To remedy this, we approached this problem in two ways:

1 - We reduced the overall multiplier for Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor Mods.
Since these now affect Max Rank Warframe stats, these Mods need to scale differently to maintain the status quo. Additionally, we wanted these new values to be as clear and understandable to all players as possible! Here are a few examples of these value changes:

• Vitality: Reduced from +440% to +100% Health
• Redirection: Reduced from +440% to +100% Shield Capacity
• Steel Fiber: Reduced from +110% to +100% Armor
• Flow: Reduced from +150% to +100% Energy Max

Note: These are not all of the Mods affected by this change. We share the comprehensive list further down in this section of the update notes.

Doing some quick math, this means that a Rank 30 Excalibur (300 Health) with a reworked Vitality Mod (+100% Health, applied to the final Health stat) would receive 300 extra Health, for a total of 600. That, in contrast, is a nerf, which we also don’t want to do.

So, our next step:

2 - We adjusted Warframe Health, Shield, Energy, and Armor values to keep the end result of the revised Mods as close to the original values as possible.

With this change, Excalibur’s Rank 30 Health stat is 370. With +100% Health from a max Vitality Mod, his resulting Health stat would be 740, which matches what it was originally.

While this path to the same result may seem a little complicated, the outcome matches our intention: we want players to be able to look at their Health, Shield, and Armor Mods, and be able to understand how they affect the stats they see in their Arsenal.

In addition to everything above, we also increased the base stat values for Warframes so that these revised Mods offer similar value for lower-ranked Frames. To do so, we reduced the amount of Health/Shield/Energy that Warframes earn per rank in half, and transferred the sum of that value to their base stats.

For Armor, this is the one stat that does not increase with your Warframe’s level (with some exceptions). Armor values across the board have been slightly increased to compensate for the Mod changes.

Not to beat a dead Kaithe, but Mods will now be applying to the Max Rank stat instead of the Base Rank. You may look at these numbers and think “nerf” or “buff” depending, but the outcome is that total Modded values are the same, if not a little higher in some cases.

Warframe Stat Changes:

FROST
Health: Base Rank - 270 (from 100) / Max Rank - 370 (from 300)
Shields: Base Rank - 455 (from 150) / Max Rank - 555 (from 450)
Armor: Base Rank - 315 (from 300)
Energy: Base Rank - 100 (from 100) / Max Rank - 150 (from 150)

FROST PRIME
Health: Base Rank - 270 (from 100) / Max Rank - 370 (from 300)
Shields: Base Rank - 550 (from 175) / Max Rank - 650 (from 525)
Armor: Base Rank - 315 (from 300)
Energy: Base Rank - 100 (from 100) / Max Rank - 150 (from 150)

While there may be significant changes to Warframe Stats and Mod values as a part of this overhaul, the end result is that your Builds should mostly stay the same. The key difference is the added clarity of what your Health / Shield / Energy / Armor Mods do in your Upgrade screens!

Hotfix 33.5.1 (2023-06-21)

• Fixed a script error caused by Frost’s Avalanche ability.

Update 33.5 (2023-06-21)

OVERGUARD ON WARFRAME ABILITIES

Overguard as a Warframe defense mechanism was introduced in Drifter Intrinsics and Decrees with The Duviri Paradox update - it grants additional Health protection and provides Knockdown Immunity while active.

Overguard has virtually the same function (Health buffs and immunities*) as the listed abilities and Augment Mods, so in an effort to expose the mechanic more and establish familiarity with Overguard as a whole (as it also appears on enemies) we have made it the visual indicator for them.

• Frost’s Icy Avalanche Augment Mod

*The base defensive properties of these abilities and Augment Mods have not changed!

This change also has the added benefit of allowing “On Damaged” Mods and Arcanes to apply to all of the above! Prior to this change, the aforementioned abilities would make the player "invulnerable" until the added survivability was depleted. Now, Mods and Arcanes like Adaptation and Arcane Avenger can now be triggered when damage is taken to Overguard, because it is treated similarly to Health and Shields.

The HUD Overguard element has also had slight upgrades for the purposes of registering for these abilities and Augment Mods:

Update 32.0 (2022-09-07)

• Increased Frost's Avalanche armor reduction from 40% to 60% and changed the armor reduction to be permanent.
  • Frost’s Avalanche can also now reduce armor from targets even if they are immune to crowd control abilities.
• Fixed enemies affected by Frost’s Avalanche not losing any armor while Overguard is active.

Update 31.1 (2022-02-09)

• Augment: Passive -  Biting Frost

Hotfix 30.8.1 (2021-10-06)

• Updated to Frost Prime Passive description with the “Prime” indication to avoid confusion.

Update 29.10 (2021-03-19)

• Fixed Frost’s leg stretching and cape (with all Skins, including Frost Prime) clipping through him in the login screen.

Update 29.5 (2020-11-19)

• Fixed Frost/Frost Prime’s capes (on all skins) clipping through him in the login screen.

Update 28.3 (2020-08-12)

• Increased the Cold Status Effects from 1 to 6 for these Frost Abilities (which brings it back to pre-Status Changes):
  • Freeze (Area of Effect)
  • Ice Wave (slow)
  • Avalanche (slow)

Update 27.4 (2020-05-01)

• Frost Ability videos have been added to their respective Arsenals!
• Fixed some rendering artifacts (black squares) that could appear if you killed an enemy and their ragdoll had severed body parts (notably with Frost's Avalanche).

Hotfix 27.3.11 (2020-04-09)

• Fixed Frost’s Snowglobe not blocking certain Sentient Attacks.

Hotfix 27.0.9 (2020-01-09)

• Fixed Frost’s Snowglobe missing the invulnerability period on cast.

Update 25.7 (2019-08-29)

• If you freeze enemies with things like Frost, Atlas, or Gara’s abilities, you can now immediately apply other Status Effects! Before these powers would prevent Status Effects from being added. Read more on that here: https://forums.warframe.com/topic/1119134-cold-status-effects-how-they-block-new-status-effects-coming-changes/
• Partial fixes toward Leg Armor clipping with Frost.

Hotfix 25.6.3 (2019-08-14)

• Fixed having all Energy drained when casting Frost’s Freeze ability with the Freeze Frost Augment equipped on a Snow Globe.

Update 25.6 (2019-08-08)

Freeze Force - Freeze Augment - Frost

• Holding the casting button will send out a wave (much like similar, expanding Warframe Abilities) giving the elemental buff to every player it touches, including the caster

Update 25.5 (2019-07-31)

• Fixed enemies being overly reluctant to shooting at Frost’s Snow Globe from a longer distance.

Update 25.1 (2019-06-05)

• Fixed Zanuka being unable to capture Frost.

Update 24.6 (2019-04-04)

• Removed "cast on ground" requirements for the following Warframe abilities:
  • Frost Avalanche

Hotfix 22.18.2 (2018-04-20)

• Fixed script error when casting Frost’s Snow Globe inside another invulnerable Snow Globe to stack them.

Update 22.18 (2018-04-20)

• Fixed Frost’s Snow Globe disappearing if a large amount of damage is taken during its invulnerable phase.

Hotfix 22.8.3 (2018-01-11)

• Boss Reward Location Changes:
  • In an effort to balance the acquisition of Warframes, we’ve shifted some boss drop locations:
    • Frost from Mars to Ceres - meaning Lieutenant Lech Kril/Captain Vor now possess Frost parts

Hotfix 19.6.1 (2017-01-13)

• Change: Tweaked visibility of Snowglobe when a dark Energy color is used.
• Fix: Fixed some issues with Frost’s abilities not applying enough of the chosen Energy color.

Update 19.6 (2017-01-11)

• Additions: Frost Harka Bundle, Frost Harka Skin, Frysta Longsword Skin and Frost Harka Icon added
• Change: Updated and improved the look of Frost’s abilities with fancy new ice textures!
• Fix: Fixed a script error when casting Ice Wave.

Update 19.2 (2016-12-01)

• Augment: Avalanche -  Icy Avalanche

Update 19.0 (2016-11-11)

• Frost/Prime Cloth Physics have been added to the Warframe's lower half of the coat.

Hotfix: The Index Preview 3 (2016-10-21)

• Fixed cases where NPCs would teleport sporadically when pushed by Snow Globe.

Update: The Silver Grove (2016-08-19)

• Conclave: Freeze, Ice Wave and Snow Globe now also reduce target’s Mobility.

Update: Specters of the Rail 0.0 (2016-07-08)

• Conclave: Increased slow duration of Icicle.
• Freeze will now be deflected when it encounter a Nullifier bubble.
• Snow Globe will now be destroyed if the bubble comes into contact with it.

Update 18.5 (2016-03-04)

• Conclave: Increased the range of Avalanche.
• Freeze and Avalanche will no longer freeze boss-type enemies.
• Snow Globe will no longer freeze or push boss-type enemies.

Update 18.2 (2016-01-05)

• Frost Prime removed from drop tables.

Hotfix 18.0.6 (2015-12-09)

• Fixed Frost Prime's arm textures using the incorrect color tinting.

Hotfix 18.0.5 (2015-12-08)

• Prime: Fixed gold trimmings not properly becoming tinted via player customization.

Hotfix 18.0.4 (2015-12-08)

• Prime: Frost Prime re-added into drop tables.

Update 18.0 (2015-12-03)

• Prime: Fixed PBR visuals appearing to be low quality compared to other textures.

Update 17.9.1 (2015-10-29)

• Frost and Frost Prime have been given the PBR treatment, in addition to some visual texture adjustments.

Update 17.7 (2015-10-14)

• Fixed Atlas’  Tectonics being unable to go through Snow Globe.
• Fixed Frost’s passive freeze ability working on ability-immune enemies like the Stalker.

Hotfix 17.6.2 (2015-10-08)

• Conclave: Increased the damage of Freeze.

Hotfix 17.6.1 (2015-10-07)

• Corpus Nullifiers will no longer destroy Snow Globes if Frost enters the Nullifier Shield and globes are placed elsewhere.

Update 17.5 (2015-10-01)

• Fixed Nullifier bubbles not properly stopping Frost’s Abilities.

Update 17.3 (2015-09-02)

• Conclave: Reduced the damage of Freeze.
• Conclave: Reduced the damage of Avalanche.

Update 17.2.4 (2015-08-26)

• Conclave: Decreased the health of Snow Globe.
• Conclave: Avalanche damage reduced.

Hotfix 17.2.2 (2015-08-21)

• Fixed some minor improper textures on Frost’s sleeve cuffs.

Hotfix 17.0.5 (2015-08-07)

• Snow Globes can now be broken when Freeze is cast on it, causing the Snow Globe to explode and do an AoE ragdoll effect on nearby enemies.
• Fixed the Drekar Elite Lancer being able to fire its Harpak through Snow Globe.

Hotfix 17.0.3 (2015-08-04)

• Conclave: Reduced the health of Snow Globe.
• Fixed Snow Globe not disappearing on death.

Hotfix 17.0.2 (2015-07-31)

• Fixed Snow Globe not using the proper timer for Clients.

Update 17.0 (2015-07-31)

• Freeze now does 100% cold proc in an AoE around target hit.
• Freeze now creates a patch of cold that slows any enemies that enter the area when used on terrain.
• Frost now has a passive ability: enemies who melee attack Frost have a chance to be frozen on impact.
• Ice Wave now flairs out as a cone as opposed to a straight line.
• Avalanche will now freeze for X seconds if they survive the initial damage.
• Survivors have their armour debuffed while frozen.
• Targets that die while frozen will explode and deal radial damage + cold proc.
• Snow Globe will Freeze and push out all enemies that are within radius upon cast.
• Snow Globe no longer has a Duration Timer.
• Players can now have a maximum of 4 Snow Globes.
• Recasting Snow Globe at 4 will destroy the oldest globe.
• Frozen enemies will no longer be frozen in place; instead enemies will maintain their velocity and be susceptible to gravity/pushback.
• Enemies that are frozen solid can be shattered by colliding with something if they are moving fast enough.
• Conclave: Freeze damage and slow duration has been reduced.
• Conclave: Avalanche damage has been reduced.
  • Conclave: Frost's passive applies Chill instead of Freeze.
• Prime: Base shield increased from 150 to 175.

Update 16.8 (2015-06-10)

• Fixed Snow Globe giving two visual effects for Clients.

Update 16.6 (2015-05-27)

• Conclave: Freeze damage has been reduced.

Hotfix 16.5.5 (2015-05-14)

• Fixed Snow Globe not properly getting a tint from the player’s energy color.

Hotfix 16.3.1 (2015-04-10)

• Fixed emblems not sitting properly on Frost, Frost Prime.

Update 16.2 (2015-04-01)

• Conclave: Increased Snow Globe slowdown effect.
• Fixed Avalanche showing duplicate effects for Clients.

Hotfix 16.1.5 (2015-03-31)

• Fixed extensive audio when using Frosts’ Augment Mods.

Hotfix 16.1.3 (2015-03-26)

• Augment: Added audio cue to Ice Wave Impedance Mod effect.
• Fixed some instances of black textures appearing on Snow Globe.

Hotfix 16.1.1 (2015-03-25)

• Conclave: Frost’s Icicle now have a slightly improved lock-on.
• Conclave: Improved velocity and lockon strength of Frost’s Icicle.
• Conclave: Fixed Frost’s Icicle not following proper flight paths.

Update 16.1 (2015-03-25)

• Fixed Frost’s Icicle auto-targeting the enemy’s torso when aiming manually at a target.

Hotfix 16.0.4 (2015-03-23)

• Conclave: Increased the damage of Freeze.

Update 16.0 (2015-03-19)

• Conclave: Frost can now be used in Conclave.
• Augment: Snow Globe -  Chilling Globe
• Conclave: Ice Wave Impedance augment mod can now be used in Conclave.

Update 15.14 (2015-02-12)

• Fixed incorrect energy color on Freeze effect.

Hotfix 15.13.3 (2015-02-06)

• Players should now be able to clearly see the short pulse of Snow Globe that indicates its invulnerability period.

Update 15.13 (2015-02-05)

• Casting Snow Globe inside of a Snow Globe you previously created will combine the health of both globes, eliminating the old Globe in the process.
• Ice Wave now has a bit of Prime flair to its visual effect.
• Augment: Freeze Force have had its duration increased from 24 seconds to 40 seconds, and its damage reduced from 125% to 100%.
• Made minor visual and audio FX changes to Avalanche.
• Fixed Syandanas clipping through Frost Prime’s clothing and armor.

Update 15.6 (2014-12-11)

• Augment: Ice Wave -  Ice Wave Impedance

Update 15.5 (2014-11-27)

• Freeze now has an AoE on impact similar to Ember’s  Fireball.

Update 15.0 (2014-10-24)

• Augment: Freeze -  Freeze Force.
• Fixed Snow Globe inner snowstorm effects not scaling properly with Range mods, resulting in it not matching the outer globe scale.

Update 14.9 (2014-10-01)

• Fixed Snow Globe countdown timer not going away if the shield is destroyed from damage.

Hotfix 14.0.9 (2014-07-26)

• Tweaked the sound of Snow Globe.

Hotfix 13.9.1 (2014-07-02)

• Snow Globe now indicates brief invulnerability window.

Update 13.4 (2014-05-21)

• Tweaked the emblem offsets on the Frost and Frost Prime.

Hotfix 13.3.1 (2014-05-15)

• Tweaked the leg armor offsets on the Frost and Frost Prime frames.

Update 13.3 (2014-05-14)

• Set a max limit on the max instances of Snow Globe sound effects.
• Tweaked the ability and energy visuals on Frost.

Update 13.2 (2014-05-01)

• Improved the performance of a number of Frost's abilities.

Update 13.0 (2014-04-09)

• Prime: Fixed Frost Prime not having the correct cast sound.

Hotfix 12.4.5 (2014-03-12)

• Snow Globe’s health is now affected by armor value.
• There is now a temporary invulnerability duration determined by the rank of the Snow Globe Mod.
• Snow Globe’s health is increased by the amount of damage received in the “Invulnerability Duration” window.
• The numerical details are as follows:
  • Unranked Snowglobe: Health = 1500 + Invulnerability Duration = 1 second
  • Rank 1 Snowglobe: Health = 2500 + Invulnerability Duration = 2 seconds
  • Rank 2 Snowglobe: Health = 3000 + Invulnerability Duration = 3 seconds
  • Rank 3 Snowglobe: Health = 3500 + Invulnerability Duration = 4 seconds
  • Snowglobe Health = Health + (Armor x 5)

Update 12.3 (2014-02-27)

• Changed Frost’s Ability Sounds to align with new casting times.

Update 12.0 (2014-02-05)

• Freeze now comparable to Ember’s  Fireball ability.
• Avalanche now has increased casting speed and damage.
• Snow Globe now has health in the following values as upgraded/fused: 1500,2500,3000,3500.
• Ice Wave now force procs slow (chill).

Update 11.2 (2013-12-04)

• Armor increased from 150 to 190.

Hotfix 10.7.1 (2013-11-08)

• Stalker is no longer affected by Snow Globe.

Update 10.5 (2013-10-23)

• New sound for Snow Globe ability.

Update 9.5 (2013-08-09)

• Fixed Vauban's abilities not working when stuck onto Snow Globe.

Update 8.3 (2013-07-04)

• Fixed Hammer Boss phases breaking after Avalanche ability.
• Fixed 'Power In Use' bug when using Avalanche.

Hotfix 8.0.2 (2013-05-24)

• Fixed Frost abilities not working.

Update 7.10 (2013-05-03)

• Introduced Frost Prime.

Update 7.9 (2013-04-26)

• Power mods moved to common pool.
• Fixed Freeze not being affected by Continuity mod.
• Fixed Snow Globe power not being affected by Continuity and Range mods.

Update 6.3 (2013-02-14)

• Boosted base sprint by 5%.

Update 6.0 (2013-01-29)

• Frost added into the game.