Warframe: How to Get Frost & Frost Prime (2026) Guide

Frost is a Warframe that harnesses the power of ice, using his abilities to slow enemies and freeze them in place for strategic advantage.

With a combination of crowd control, offensive, and defensive skills, he is a reliable choice for a wide variety of mission types and objectives.

Focusing on dealing Cold damage with his abilities, Frost ensures status effects are consistently applied, making him valuable for both solo play and coordinated team strategies.

How To Get Frost?

A fully-built Frost Warframe can be purchased for 375 Platinum, or you can craft it after purchasing its main blueprint and obtaining its components.

Frost Blueprint

The Frost Main Blueprint will cost 25,000 Credits and can be purchased from the in-game market that is accessible from your Orbiter.

Frost Components

The Frost Components can be obtained by defeating Captain Vor and Lieutenant Lech Kril in the Exta mission located on Ceres.

During this mission, you will need to navigate through the map to reach the bosses and defeat them before heading to the extraction point.

After successfully extracting, you will receive one of Frost’s Components as a reward, which is determined by the drop chance from the mission’s drop table.

Frost Crafting Requirements

Frost Main Blueprint

• 25,000 Credits
• 1 Frost Neuroptics
• 1 Frost Chassis
• 1 Frost Systems
• 1 Orokin Cell

Frost Neuroptics

• 15,000 Credits
• 150 Alloy Plate
• 1 Neural Sensors
• 150 Polymer Bundle
• 500 Rubedo

Frost Chassis

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Morphics
• 1,000 Ferrite
• 300 Rubedo

Frost Systems

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Control Module
• 1 Morphics
• 500 Salvage
• 500 Plastids

How To Get Frost Prime?

Frost Prime was released on May 3, 2013, featuring increased shields compared to the original variant, and was introduced alongside the Latron Prime and Reaper Prime.

Stat Comparison

Frost Prime Void Relics

Frost Prime Crafting Requirements

Frost Prime Blueprint

• 25,000 Credits
• 1 Frost Prime Neuroptics
• 1 Frost Prime Chassis
• 1 Frost Prime Systems
• 1 Orokin Cell

Frost Prime Neuroptics

• 15,000 Credits
• 150 Alloy Plate
• 1 Neural Sensors
• 150 Polymer Bundle
• 500 Rubedo

Frost Prime Chassis

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Morphics
• 1,000 Ferrite
• 300 Rubedo

Frost Prime Systems

• 15,000 Credits
• 1 Control Module
• 1 Morphics
• 500 Salvage
• 220 Plastids

If you would like to know some of the effective “Frost Builds” then read our below guide:

Warframe Frost Builds (2025) Guide

Frost Abilities

Passive Ability

Frost’s passive ability increases the duration of all Cold Status Effects he inflicts by 100%, making his attacks and abilities more effective at slowing and freezing enemies.

Additionally, his Fortifying Freeze passive grants him 50 bonus Armor for each enemy affected by a Cold Status Effect within Affinity Range, improving his overall durability in combat.

Frost’s Passive can have the Biting Frost Augment Mod equipped, which increases his Critical Chance and Critical Damage against enemies that are frozen by 10 Cold Status Effects.

1) Freeze

Frost unleashes a frigid energy blast that travels forward and explodes upon colliding with an enemy, freezing them in place.

This ability damages both the primary target and nearby enemies and can also be used to destroy Frost’s Snow Globes when necessary.

Freeze (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Freeze Force allows Frost to empower all of his allies within a certain range with additional Cold Damage for a period when the ability is held. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Cephalon Suda.

2) Ice Wave

When cast, Frost releases a wave of crystallized ice that travels forward, damaging enemies caught in its path.

Enemies that survive the attack may become slowed or frozen, leaving them vulnerable for Frost and his allies to finish them off.

Ice Wave (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Ice Wave Impedance causes Ice Wave to leave a frozen trail that inflicts enemies with the Cold Status every second. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Cephalon Suda.

3) Snow Globe

Frost creates a protective sphere at his location, which initially provides a brief period of invulnerability before shielding those within from damage.

Projectiles fired from outside of the sphere will not be able to penetrate it, and the Snow Globe will have a certain amount of health before it is shattered.

Snow Globe (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Chilling Globe provides Snow Globe with a chance to inflict 10 Cold Status Effects on enemies and freeze them. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Cephalon Suda.

4) Avalanche

Frost releases a surge of icy power that freezes enemies in a radius around him, shattering the ice to deal damage while reducing their armor.

The affected enemies remain frozen for a short duration after the shatter, leaving them vulnerable and easy to eliminate.

Avalanche (Max Rank)

Augment Mods: 

• Icy Avalanche causes allies within Affinity Range to be coated in ice, granting them Overguard based on how many enemies are hit. Overguard also increases by 20% of your Armor once per enemy. Obtained from Steel Meridian/Cephalon Suda.

Verdict

Frost is capable of dealing significant damage while maintaining strong survivability thanks to his high shields, armor, and defensive abilities.

His Snow Globe ability is highly valued by players for protection, while Avalanche remains one of the strongest crowd control tools available in the game.

Using Frost effectively for offense and defense is straightforward, as his abilities are efficient, versatile, and easy to deploy in nearly any mission scenario.