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Release Date: October 18th, 2023
By twilight crepuscule on Naberus Eve, when the damned revel in ritual while the bereaved beseech for seance, an autumn draught rattles these wretched bones. Unseal the haunted crypt of Dagath at your peril, lest her night mares plague the living. Awaken, oh mighty Hollow Rider, to bestride ye ghastly steeds. Ne'er do they dare forget the whirl of splintered spines, the vendetta of her untaken soul, and the vestige of Rakhali's spectral stampede.
Dagath and her loyal steed rode into service in Update 34.0 (2023-10-18): Abyss of Dagath.
Acquisition
Dagath's main and component blueprints are acquired from Dagath's Hollow within the Clan Dojo. Unlike most Clan Dojo rooms, Dagath does not require Research and can be acquired immediately following the room's construction.
Component blueprints require a total of 102 
Vainthorns, obtained from the Abyssal Zone, a unique Exterminate mission on Ceres. Access requires Abyssal Beacons, purchased from Faction Syndicate (Steel Meridian, Arbiters of Hexis, Cephalon Suda, The Perrin Sequence, Red Veil, or New Loka) at Rank 2 and 
5,000, consuming only the beacon from the player who started the mission vote upon mission completion. Each clear awards 6, 7, or 8 Vainthorns (8, 11, or 12 on The Steel Path).
Crafting
| Manufacturing Requirements | |||||
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 25,000 |
 1 |
 1 |
 1 |
 Orokin Cell3 |
Time: 3 Day(s) |
Rush:  50
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 Market Price: 275
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 Blueprints Price: N/A
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| Dagath Neuroptics Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
Vainthorn 34 |
 Alloy Plate2,000 |
 Neurodes3 |
 Neural Sensors3 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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| Dagath Chassis Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
Vainthorn 34 |
 Salvage1,500 |
 Morphics4 |
 Argon Crystal2 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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| Dagath Systems Blueprint | |||||
15,000 |
Vainthorn 34 |
 Circuits1,000 |
 Control Module5 |
 Gallium4 |
Time: 12 Hour(s) |
| Rush: 25
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Lore
Dagath's story is told in a Naberus tale narrated by Grandmother. The story cutscene can be accessed in Dagath's Hollow at the shrine located near her resting place.
The Warframe known as Dagath was originally a Dax cavalrywoman, who served an 
Orokin couple named Corphel and Irilia, and was secretly their lover. The couple never used the cavalrywoman's original name, instead calling her by pet names, for names have great power. Among other gifts, the couple gave her a horse, on the one condition that she never named it, for she would love the horse more than the couple. Unable to bear the sadness of not giving it a name, the Dax named the horse after all, giving it the name Rakhali, meaning "freshness-after-rain". As the couple's fears came to pass, they arranged for the horse's 'accidental' death. However, the rider was accidentally mortally injured as well. As she coughed up blood, the couple pleaded with Ballas to allow her to live forever. He complied, and after some time, returned the rider to the couple, now a Warframe of living steel, with a smiling face that would never fade.
However, the rider was not the same. Vacant of emotion, she would simply stand idly by, like a nonliving doll, staring at them with her perpetual smile. The couple quickly tired of their lover, and since she was no longer a Dax, their relationship was abandoned. They made a deal with an unknown master of industry, and took the rider to his facility. There, she was secured with restraints, and killed via a disintegration beam to the face, which burned a hole clean through her head.
However, the Warframe survived, and clambered out of the facility's trash heap. Still believing herself to be a Dax, the rider sought for her Nikana, but only found the whip-blade of the facility's overseer. She would remember what her masters had done to her, and with a head full of despair and betrayal, the renegade summoned a ghostly Rakhali to her side. Before the following sunrise, she took revenge on Corphel and Irilia, leaving them as faceless as she was.
On a lonesome Naberus night, wandering without purpose, she later encountered Grandmother, and as per Naberus tradition, demanded a gift. But the old woman had nothing to give but her name. So the Warframe rode away, now named Dagath, meaning "the mirror that accuses". And Grandmother was then only known as Grandmother.
With Dagath's name came her new purpose: she would ride throughout the land, her empty face acting as a mirror to show others their sins – and always ready to deliver the sentence thereafter.
Notes
- When Dagath wields her Signature
![Dorrclave](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="32" height="32"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Dorrclave, striking an enemy will heal 6 health per active Status Effect. - Dagath's horse skull on her right shoulder is an Appearance Right Arm Attachment called Dagath Armor.
Trivia
- Dagath is the 54th unique Warframe to be released.
- Dagath was first revealed in TennoCon 2023 Art of Warframe panel, showcasing her concept art by Keith Thompson and early in-game model by Mike Skyers. In Devstream 173, Dagath's alt helmet, abilities and her signature Dorrclave were revealed.
- In the original concept, she wielded an executioner's axe as her signature weapon. Community Coordinator Megan Everett implied that the axe design was borrowed by the Soulframe art team, as such Dagath now wields a new blade and whip weapon.
- Themed after the Headless Horseman mythos originating from the Middle Ages, it is depicted as a horse-riding vengeful spirit missing or carrying its severed head. Popularized in American folklore by the 1820 story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow and 1999 film adaptation, Sleepy Hollow by Tim Burton, the horseman became a mainstay creature for modern day Halloween.
- The headless horseman folklore differs between countries such as Ireland, Scotland, and Germany, with Dagath most closely resembling the Irish Dullahan, a male or female spirit wielding a whip made of spines and rides a coach pulled by several horses.
- An unmodded Dagath at rank 30 will have 666 health. This is a reference to the Devil's number and Dagath's theme of death, along with being similar to
![NekrosIcon272](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="31" height="32"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Nekros' 666 shields. - On the ceiling of Dagath's Hollow depicts Dagath's helmet wearing a grinning mask, which may have been her original face that the Orokin couple wished to be rid of.
- She is the first Warframe whose name starts with the letter 'D'. At the time of her announcement, there were 3 remaining letters in the English Alphabet 'J' (which would be later rectified with Jade), 'Q' (which would later be rectified with Qorvex), and 'U', that did not have an associated Warframe.
- She is the first Warframe to possess a
![Zenurik Pol](data:image/svg+xml,<svg xmlns="http://www.w3.org/2000/svg" width="20" height="20"><rect fill-opacity="0"/></svg>)
Zenurik aura polarity. - She is the second Warframe, after Citrine, that lacks a face due to the hole in her helmet.
- She is the next female Warframe in line after Trinity, Equinox. Wisp, Yareli, and Gyre to wear a skirt or dress with cloth physics. In theme with Halloween, Dagath's dress is textured similar to torn and stitched rags.
- Similar to Voruna and her wolf pack, Dagath is adorned with the skeletal remains of her loyal equine companion named Rakhali, which bears resemblance to the Kaithes of Duviri. Rakhali herself adorns distinct Kaithe gear: the Aumen Chamfron, Saddle, and Tail.
- In the week leading to Abyss of Dagath's release, dark cryptic poems based on individual Warframes ( Caliban, Garuda, Nekros, Harrow, Revenant, Valkyr, Grendel and lastly Dagath) appeared on WARFRAME's X (formerly known as Twitter) account. Each poem described its Warframe and their namesake, ending in inquiry on who named Dagath.
References
| Warframes | ||
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 Ash •  Atlas •  Banshee •  Baruuk •  Caliban •  Chroma •  Citrine •  Dagath •  Dante •  Ember •  Equinox •  Excalibur ( Umbra) •  Frost •  Gara •  Garuda •  Gauss •  Grendel •  Gyre •  Harrow •  Hildryn •  Hydroid •  Inaros •  Ivara •  Jade •  Khora •  Kullervo •  Lavos •  Limbo •  Loki •  Mag •  Mesa •  Mirage •  Nekros •  Nezha •  Nidus •  Nova •  Nyx •  Oberon •  Octavia •  Protea •  Qorvex •  Revenant •  Rhino •  Saryn •  Sevagoth •  Styanax •  Titania •  Trinity •  Valkyr •  Vauban •  Volt •  Voruna •  Wisp •  Wukong •  Xaku •  Yareli •  Zephyr
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114 comments
The Headless Horseman of Sleepy Deimos
As others have pointed out in the comments, you can not bother with constant shield-gating and simply build Dagath for health and armor using arcanes and crystals. At that point, her tiny 250 shields are irrelevant and she can take big hits. As a weapons platform, it is a Great warframe. I build my weapons for crit, so her 200% crit damage is a great buff. If you want to to 2-hit eximus in steel path with your fave incarnon crit-based weapons, Dagath is the one.
Worth noting that her armor-strip (4) ONLY WORKS if those enemies are Doomed FIRST.
The biggest annoyance is you have to spam her abilities a lot to gain the synergies they provide.
Her constant CD buff lasts until she is off the board or dies which is fantastic.
However, her augment makes no sense if you want her constant CD buff.
She no defense reduction which is why increasing her armor and adding adaptation is so important to her not dying.
If you really want occasional immunity like you get with rolling guard, use the Carnis mod set with a melee since you are using her for a crit-based weapons platform anyway.
I initially skipped over Dagath because I have no interest in shield-gating, but she def works as a tank.
This woman is an actual protagonist. She got statutory'd (Dax are physically incapable of going against Orokin, therefore, any consent they give is not of their own true will) while in servitude, died after finding a true companion, was reborn as a living wargod of steel alongside her companion, got head melted off, survived, killed her former masters, took someone's name Faery style, and is STILL NOT DEAD CANONICALLY. At no point did she ever truly die, she is literally just sleeping in the Hollow. She is one of the few Warframes whose original consciousness is still alive and still connected to their original body, just like Jade prior to birth. The fact that we can have her in our arsenal alone raises countless questions about our other Warframes, who we thought were just mindless shells, and Umbra, who should have been the only still-conscious Warframe. This woman is the GOAT frfr.
I swear, between Dagath, Gara, Mirage, Umbra, Voruna, and Dante, I'm not sure who's the bigger badass. They're all such chads.
When Mirage was being twisted and turned. She laughed.
In Ballas' face.
Dante is the most badass, since he's also a nerd.
I think the wording of her backstory is incredibly disturbing. It's written in a way to make it sound consensual but Dax are physically incapable of disobeying Orokin
Yeah the Orokin were into some freaky shit lol
Dagath was undoubtedly the victim in that whole exchange. Essentially a sex slave who was used and then thrown away when Corphel and Irilia no longer wanted her. I kind of want an alt helmet where we can see the 'smile' Dagath had before she got laser beamed through the face.
Same
I think the smile is that of the masks Grandmother has floating around her.
In the same update they fucked shield gating they released dagath as the frame they intended you to shield gate with..but added cooldowns on her abilities for some fucking reason also i assumed her passive would work for equilibrium conversion but screw me for expecting that I guess...Pretty cool overall but ultimately a shittier Garuda..if you are like me and like the way she looks..I would advise you to look elsewhere and invest into and play another frame..way too clunky to consider into a rotation
I wouldn't even keep it to low level room clearing, if you just click 1, 2, 4 she deletes rooms in steel path. she's my go-to for long sp murmur fissures
Anybody who claims she is weak is usually trying to play her in a way she wasn't designed. She is a weapons platform, has a get out of jail free card with a measly 25 sec CD (if you cant stay alive for that long, skill issue). You can do both shield gating OR HP tanks builds on her (done the latter myself), She's not caster frame, but more so you weave your abilities in between gunplay.
Op here again and its hilarious to read these comments after all this time...What I was trying to say is that her default shield-gating gameplay is terrible since it revolves around casting her 1 and 2 in cycle which at base efficiency costs 75, add to it the fact they have a cooldown and animation locks..it begins to feel really ass. I would definitely recommend the shield gating with condemn as it felt a lot smoother...also animation locks are really terrible especially on abilities you would use to shield gate with. No amount of casting speed will make it feel good.
Also her 4 is just not worth it imo...It hits in a narrow path which is great if you are camping a doorway but it whiffs more often than not and sucks up too much energy. Plus she is mainly focused being a weapons platform as others have pointed out.
My original posts were really stupid and I hope this makes me look less schizo lol..English is not my first language and back then I was really tired from spamming sp mot trying to figure out if it was a problem with frame or just skill issue on my part.
Also back then the OP augment for her 3 was not released...That thing fixes all of her issues anyways
Dogshit frame
It's literally OP lol
How on earth did you manage to make a Dagath build that is bad lmao, it's Dagath
Even if you went into a mission with no mods equipped, her 4 would still fully armour strip any enemy, and kill most fodder units instantly
HOW DID YOU MANAGE TO DO THIS
Is it possible to learn this power?
Friendly reminder that if an anonymous user ever says a frame is bad on this site, it usually means they can't nuke a room by pressing one button.
What some people consider to be "barely any good" is still excessively overpowered.
Thing is, she does nuke a room regardless of weapons equipped. You just need to press more than 1 button.
I feel like depending on exactly how the augment works, the new one coming for her grave spirit not only sounds like it will entirely replace her doom ability (as you get doom on all attacks) but it will make her even harder to kill as you only need to kill 25 enemies max to go invincible again. If the 1 second is affected by duration this becomes even less enemies.
Maybe the augment will cause more people to play her because despite her inconsistent energy issues, she can dish out quite a lot of damage.
Yes, it mostly depends on if the 1 second cooldown reduction offered by the augment is affected by mods, so 200% duration would reduce it by 2 seconds. If its not effected by mods at all, it will be harder to sell and will require players to use shield gating to survive long enough to get the 25 kills required.
After having played around with the augment for a bit, I feel like it manages to achieve what few augments do: modifying an ability in a way that creates an interesting alternative playstyle without being a clear-cut direct upgrade to the default.
On one hand, you lose the safety net that Grave Spirit provides, and the "passive" critical multiplier. On the other hand, you can apply doom on-hit with weapons and abilities, including subsumed ones, and while the cooldown reduction can't be modified, it's still quite impactful.
You have to pay more attention to Grave Spirit's cooldown, and prepare to shift to a more defensive playstyle when it runs out, but it feels rewarding to play around your invulnerability periods to get the most out of the time when you aren't in Grave Spirit, kinda like a reverse Harrow. (better crits while invuln)
It's a solid sidegrade, with the biggest downside being the fact that, as an augment, it costs a mod slot. I honestly wish augments in general were like this, providing sidegrades instead of straight upgrades, and subsequently, wouldn't need to take the form of mods. Oh well.
I agree with the previous comment. NO AUGMENT should ever be a direct upgrade, nor should it be so overbloated that it feels more like a new ability with function (yareli surging blades *cough*, that should be in the base ability). For the modslot issue, I feel every augment should be an exilus mod, there is no reason why they shouldn't. Can't even use the "overpowered" argument, as there is loads of "overpowered" things in the game.
^all augment mods should fit in exilus, with zero exceptions. I dont care how good the mod is, its what it should have been since day one.
Augment incoming, the prophecy was true
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Imagine a protoframe of her, now imagine the horse... have a good day. :D
THIGH END IS NOW!
But I like thighs
CRUSH!
Dagath's Grave Spirit Activates! User is blinded and cannot see, this is super effective. User dies.
Grave Spirit is bugged and its visual effect has become permanent!
Dagath must leave the mission to fix the ability, this is super effective!
Man fuck the orokin
No don't that's how you lose your face!
Yeah she's pretty good.
Most underrated frame this day, can nuke any map on sp if you build properly, can go full melee or full spam abilities... is almost inmortal and the horse skill 4 is amazing for clearing hallways
She is pretty good, but the fact she crumples instantly on steel path is probably off putting to some people. She has the undying passive but you have 25 seconds to not die again before you can cast and use it again, so i get why people don't use her. I don't for that reason, even though she has a cool concept.
Agree but few days ago I noticed in WF forum someone mentioned ANTI synergy with DOOM (her 2) with on- kill effects on weapons , Trumna, Sepulcrum, Galvanized mods and Acolyte arcanes? How?
That's probably because enemies killed by doom ticks count as ability kills, rather than giving xp to the weapon. I was leveling up a melee and even though i had both an affinity boost AND the event booster it took me 15 minutes in steel path to max it lol. I was barely getting any xp to the melee because the doom ticks were doing the final blows.
So for those weapons you mentioned, you probably don't get charges for them if doom is the thing that deals the final blow.
More like Weird scythes amirite lads??
Okay class clown now get down from the table
^ LMFAO
Such a weird frame. There is basically no duration and the cast time is fairly slow on every ability. So it's a constant ability spam with no time to melee or shooting. But there's like...never enough energy and the range is awful. It's like...clunkier Atlas. And it's not like Atlas isn't already clunky. It's like DE applied 0.25% multiplier on duration and shipped it.
I really must be missing something.
For the wall of text trying to defend/accuse we can conclude:
She is clunkier,in terms of strength not a Dante, but is not a Caliban.
I think everyone in this wiki want every frame be like Ember with World On Fire.
@ Random Above
Dagath may be clumsy, but at least she kills most enemies with a simple button press.
I can't say the same about Caliban.
Exactly his point. Caliban is the bottom of the barell for clunky and not really super good. with dante being the top. just a hell of a round about way of saying"shes not the best but shes not the worst"
"that's like every health mod and then some on her" full umbral build is 1800+, arcane blessing with 1200
People always forget arcane blessing exists, it makes a huge difference on alot of frames that need more hp for a complete health tank build
Probably the most forgettable frame they've ever added, not even her face gimmick could save her, same as that shitty furry frame.
Ah yes, because Caliban is totally better than this lmao.
Maybe go touch some grass fam.
"4chan user" "touch grass"
Insults used by the terminally online. Please either get better at insulting other users (or just learn to disagree civilly), or don't waste space with your childish put-downs.
How's about....you make me?
People in real life be like: Hey how's it going?
Love the Crit damage ability (who wouldn't). So many posted builds use rolling guard for survival, which is sorta boring. Armor arcanes plus adaptation are worth considering too.
It's boring maybe but pretty effective since you'll be casting her 1, 2 and 4 often.
If something is boring but effective it’s still boring.
I run adaptation, health conversion, equilibrium, a couple armor shards and molt reconstruct + arcane blessing. She can absolutely be built as an HP tank and still pump out damage. But I don't expect that build to be able to handle anything over 1k, it's more for faceroll funsies
So, Dagath was a horse girl who got unicorn hunted by a rich couple and then turned into a Halloween-obsessed goth after it ended badly? I think I know a few of those.
I can fix her.
She is dead and has no face.
I can fix her face
I can fill her face ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)