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Become enraptured by the song of devastation. Through her, the Jade Light can be a force of destruction or a source of support.
For the IconOrokinOn Orokin execution method, see Jade Light.

Release Date: June 18th, 2024

Angelic allure graces the assembly in blissful song, hymns threefold of wartime armistice and abhorrent passion. Echo the Naga Drums to TennoIcon Tenno heartbeats, delivered thus to the IconOrokinOn Orokin a coup d'état. Amidst the anthems of devastation, a solemn soul sings proud, her audience awestruck by oblivion's embrace. Blessed be the Lucent Virtuoso, Jade, whose glorious choir casts forth a crescendo of emerald blaze. Before heavenly ascent, thou shall behold one final glimpse: sublime plumes unfurl to seraphic wings most divine. Jade descended from the heavens in Update 36.0 (2024-06-18).

Acquisition

Jade's main blueprint is acquired upon completion of the Jade Shadows quest. Her component blueprints are obtained from Ascension on Brutus, Uranus, at a 5% drop rate.

Alternatively, the blueprints can also be purchased from Ordis in the Drifter's Camp with VestigialMotes Vestigial Motes, awarded from Ascension in quantities of 11-13 (16-18 on The Steel Path) from mission completion and 5-7 (8-10 on The Steel Path) from the optional Sisters of Parvos objective. Each component blueprint requires 150 and the main blueprint requires 450, totaling 900 Vestigial Mote.
Item Source Chance Expected Nearly Guaranteed
Systems Systems Blueprint Ascension 5% ~ 20 A Rotations 134 ± 44 A Rotations
Chassis Chassis Blueprint Ascension 5% ~ 20 A Rotations 134 ± 44 A Rotations
Helmet Neuroptics Blueprint Ascension 5% ~ 20 A Rotations 134 ± 44 A Rotations

All drop rates data is obtained from DE's official drop tables. See Mission Rewards#Standard Missions for definitions on reward table rotations.
For more detailed definitions and information, visit here.

Crafting

Manufacturing Requirements
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Credits
25,000
Helmet
1
Chassis
1
Systems
1
OrokinCell Orokin Cell
3
Time: 3 Day(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 50
MarketIcon Market Price: PlatinumLarge 325 Blueprint2 Blueprints Price: N/A
Jade Neuroptics Blueprint
Credits
15,000
Circuits Circuits
1,000
PolymerBundle Polymer Bundle
750
NeuralSensors Neural Sensors
3
Neurodes Neurodes
4
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 25
Jade Chassis Blueprint
Credits
15,000
AlloyPlate Alloy Plate
600
NanoSpores Nano Spores
4,000
Plastids Plastids
1,500
Morphics Morphics
6
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 25
Jade Systems Blueprint
Credits
15,000
Ferrite Ferrite
600
Plastids Plastids
600
Rubedo Rubedo
1,100
ControlModule Control Module
10
Time: 12 Hour(s)
Rush: PlatinumLarge 25

Lore

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“You're not supposed to be in here! You're going to ruin the surprise!”
The following article/section contains spoilers. Please complete Jade Shadows quest before viewing.

Jade Shadows

Jade Shadows

You're going to be a father, Sorren.

But... the Legems! If the Lords found out-

You'll take care of us, always, won't you?
—Jade and Sorren

Before becoming a Warframe, Jade was engaged in an unsanctioned relationship with Sorren, who would later become Stalker. The desire to sire a child, which was considered a violation of the Orokin legems, worried Sorren.

During The Collapse where the Tenno rebelled against the Orokin, Stalker was unable to protect his Orokin masters, but was spared by the Jade Warframe. According to Ordis, Jade vanished after The Collapse, with information on her scarce as if redacted.

In present day, Jade has fallen critically ill and Stalker attempts to nurse her to health, forcing him to turn to the Tenno Operator for help. While attempting to heal her and catching the attention of Corpus Captain Xeto, the Operator discovers that Jade is not fighting her illness: she is revealed to be conceiving and passes during childbirth. Xeto, upon hearing the cries of the child, orders her forces to stand down and allow the Stalker to escape.

After reminiscing his promise to protect his family, Stalker names the child either Sirius or Orion.

Because of the circumstances during Jade's conversion into a Warframe, any copies of her, like the playable Jade, also appear to be pregnant.

Jade's Promise

After completing Jade Shadows, an assembly of seven of Jade's feathers will appear near Teshin in any Relay, in front of the tombstones.

Jade's Promise

MEMORY FEATHER 01
BESIDE. LAIR. URANUS.

I will live, little one. We will live.

MEMORY FEATHER 02
CREVASSE. LUA.

The Executor smirked down at me. "What is a life but a mass of unfulfilled potential? Just like the life that would have grown within you. But you chose to spite Us. And for that sin, you will mother only ashes and oblivion. Jade."

I screamed in defiance in his face, but my voice was razors and steel.

Did you hear me, my beloved child? Did you feel my promise? Whatever they have done to us, I SHALL bring you to into the world. I WILL see your face shining down on me.

I will raise you to the skies over Lua as my mother lifted me and show you the first mother they desecrated, radiant in blue. When you cry, I will cry too.

MEMORY FEATHER 03
HIBERNATION POD. JADE LIGHT EXECUTION CHAMBER. LUA.

They keep me in what they imagine to be sleep in between the executions. I pass the time dreaming of us. The games we can still play.

I close my mask.

Mummy is gone!

I open my mask.

Here she is!

Over and over.

The Dax murmur behind their hands.

MEMORY FEATHER 04
RUINS. OROKIN MANSION. VENUS.

Your father blamed himself. As if love could ever be a crime! As if I had no say in the matter!

So now he repents. In his changed skin, he serves them, "like a devoted dog." Ballas gloats to me of how they dangle the promise of me - of us - over his head.

"He lives in hope of seeing you again, one day. I have promised him this. You should be proud."

He wants me to hate. I shall not. I own myself.

MEMORY FEATHER 05
BATTLEFIELD. THARSIS.

There is a child in my head. Not you, my love. Some battle-shattered thing, a ghost, a dream. She calls me by a name I do not choose.

What are you? I ask.

"Your Operator," the child says. "C'mon."

What did they DO to you?

"Let's go! We're being called up! Time to fight!"

My hand raises of its own volition. It is trembling. I hear the unvoiced tears in her thoughts.

"I can do this. I'm Tenno. I can do this."

I repeat, softly, firmly: What did they do to you?

I feel the child curl up, fetal. She whimpers.

"I... I want my mom."

With my mind, I embrace her. I sing her the old songs of Cathal-Rah and the riddle-verses of Lyrim of Haq. I tell her the winding, meandering story of Lankity Hopkin. I am a thing all clouds and feathers. I rock her to sleep.

And so I go to war, and none suspect. I am as much the warrior as I ever was. With bow and scythe, I fight for the people I despise against a foe that deserves their victory. Because I know the reckoning will come.

MEMORY FEATHER 06
WRECKAGE. PLUTO TERMINUS.

When the drums struck, I saw him. Changed, just as I was changed. But the medal was his. There is no other like it.

My Sorren. And he did not know me.

I took him. I flew. Through blood and storm and insanity, I flew.

MEMORY FEATHER 07
URANUS. TOMB. THE SENTIENT.

He could not have known it, but in taunting me, Ballas gave me hope.

"There is plentiful strength within you - but only to keep you preserved as you are now. Your child, alas, will never grow. Even if you fed it with all the strength in your body! Perhaps if you lay lifeless for a year, the child would twitch a little. A century and its heart might begin to beat. A thousand years, and who knows? Perhaps you might feel a kick."

And so, I lie here. Stubborn as the day is long, as my father used to say.

I promised that you would live, little one. I will keep that promise.

With your father watching over us, I will give you the gift of myself.

And one day, these metal fingers of mine will dip in slippery paint and draw a smiley sun and a house and a dog, and all of us together, and I will hear you laugh.

Jade's and Sorren's unsanctioned relationship was eventually caught by Orokin Executor Ballas, who turned them both into Warframes as punishment. Jade was converted during her pregnancy, with Ballas taunting that she will fail to give birth. She was also kept in the execution chamber to channel the Jade Light. Meanwhile, Sorren became Stalker, having blamed himself and attempted to repent by serving as an Orokin lapdog.

Jade was eventually given an Operator. Horrified, Jade lulled the Operator to sleep and fought of her own free will, believing that the Orokin's reckoning will one day come.

When the Naga drums resounded and The Collapse saw the fall of the Orokin Empire, Jade encountered Stalker but he did not recognize her. She fought her way to him and spirited him away. Recalling Ballas's taunts that her unborn child may move if she laid still for a long time, Jade spent the remainder of her life channeling all her energy into her pregnancy.

Notes

Trivia

  • Jade is the 57th unique Warframe to be released.
  • In the Pax East 2024 live audience Devstream 178, Jade's update teaser splash art was revealed with the Stalker's Landing Craft looming in the background. In Devstream 179, Jade's concept art, theme, signature weapons, and alt helmet were shown. In Devstream 180 her full gameplay reveal was demonstrated by a prerecording from [DE]Pablo.
    • Notably, considerable effort was done to hide her pregnancy prior to her introduction to the game: Teaser art either featured her from behind or in one case, with Harmony Harmony obscuring her stomach, while gameplay footage and animations never showed her from up front.
  • Jade takes several inspirations from Angels from Abrahamic religions. Most notable in the numerous sets of wings she has and her link to choral music.
    • Her dress and the covers wrapped around her chest and her helmet are feather-like protrusions with cloth physics; they stay folded and compact when idle, then expand into angelic wings during Idle Animations and GloryonHigh130xWhite Glory on High.
    • Symbols for SymphonyofMercy130xWhite Symphony of Mercy's three auras resemble biblical angel's wings in various shapes and forms.
    • Additionally, Jade is named "Choir" in the game files.
  • She is the first Warframe whose name starts with the letter 'J'. At the time of her announcement, there was 1 remaining letter in the English Alphabet 'U', that did not have an associated Warframe.
  • She is the next female Warframe in line after TrinityIcon272 Trinity, EquinoxIcon272 Equinox, WispIcon272 Wisp, YareliIcon272 Yareli, GyreIcon272 Gyre, and DagathIcon272 Dagath to wear a skirt or dress with cloth physics.
  • Jade is also the name NyxIcon272 Nyx originally went by during development.
  • She is the first Warframe to have two Aura mod slots as her unique passive.
  • She is the second Warframe to have three Signature Weapons after GaraIcon272 Gara.
  • She is the third Warframe after ProteaIcon272 Protea and DanteIcon272 Dante with a built-in universal Aura polarity.
  • She is the third Warframe after TitaniaIcon272 Titania and HildrynIcon272 Hildryn to use a flight-based fourth ability associated with an Exalted Weapon.
  • She is the eleventh Warframe after LimboIcon272 Limbo, HildrynIcon272 Hildryn, WispIcon272 Wisp, TitaniaPrimeIcon272 Titania Prime, ProteaIcon272 Protea, XakuIcon272 Xaku, SevagothIcon272 Sevagoth, GyreIcon272 Gyre, QorvexIcon272 Qorvex, and DanteIcon272 Dante with a unique dodge roll animation, where Jade dashes with her arms outstretched, or twirls during sidesprings, along with the wings on her torso spreading.
  • Jade's weapons are parallel to the Stalker's: Dread Dread vs. Evensong Evensong bow, Despair Despair vs. Cantare Cantare throwing knives, and Hate Hate vs. Harmony Harmony scythe.
  • Jade's component blueprints were accidentally included in Dagath's Hollow in the Clan Dojo upon the initial release of the Jade Shadows update. The blueprints were subsequently removed on Hotfix 36.0.1 (2024-06-19), and all players who bought copies of Jade's component blueprints this way were allowed to keep them.
    • This unintentional feature ends up showcasing parallels between the two Warframes, as Jade and DagathIcon272 Dagath were both in relationships forbidden in Orokin society prior to their conversion to Warframes, though whereas Jade and Sorren's relationship was borne out of genuine love and led to Jade bearing a child, Dagath's relationship with Corphel & Irilia was only done to satisfy the couple's lust and ended with them dead after the couple failed to kill Dagath.

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Passive

Where sacred light shines the song of life begins, as the shadow of time marches evermore toward deathly silence. As The Anointed, Jade possesses two passives:

  1. Access to 2 Aura mod slots in her Arsenal loadouts to assist herself and her squadmates.
  2. Enemies that enter Light'sJudgment130xWhite Light's Judgment well and GloryonHigh130xWhite Glory on High's primary fire at a 10% chance afflict enemies with the Judgements debuff as an overhead icon visual, applying 50% Damage Vulnerability lasting for 10 seconds.
    • Enemies killed while debuffed by Judgments extends SymphonyofMercy130xWhite Symphony of Mercy's duration by 2 seconds.
    • Glory on High's Alternate Fire can detonate Judgments, with increased damage and range.
      • Detonated Judgments have an increased 1.5x explosion radius while inside Light's Judgment.

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Light's Judgment

Create a well of light that heals allies and hurts enemies. Those who enter the well will be highlighted by Judgments.


Introduced in Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

AbilityStrengthBuff Strength:200 / 300 / 400 / 500 DmgFireSmall64 Heat damage per second
5 / 6 / 7 / 8 % health restore per second
AbilityDurationBuff Duration:4 / 6 / 8 / 10 s well and buff timer
AbilityRangeBuff Range:6 m

Misc: ∞ buff time inside well
5 wells limit

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Symphony of Mercy

Cycle through three songs that strengthen allies. Power of The Seven increases Ability Strength. Deathbringer increases Weapon Damage. Spirit of Resilience increases Shield Effectiveness. Extend the duration of each song by killing enemies surrounded by Judgments.


Introduced in Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

AbilityStrengthBuff Strength:10 / 15 / 20 / 25 % Power of The Seven AbilityStrengthBuff Ability Strength bonus
40 / 60 / 80 / 100 % Deathbringer weapon damage bonus
1 / 6 / 8 / 10 % Spirit of Resilience Shields recharge per second
-10% Spirit of Resilience shield recharge delay reduction
AbilityDurationBuff Duration:15 / 20 / 25 / 30 s
AbilityRangeBuff Range:N/A

Misc: 10m (pushback range)
5m (RollingDroneAvatar Stagger range)
1 s invulnerable during cast
50 m Affinity Range auras
150% Power of The Seven AbilityStrengthBuff Ability Strength cap
-80% Spirit of Resilience recharge delay cap
2 s Judgments extra aura duration on kill

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Ophanim Eyes

Jade summons an accusatory gaze that slows nearby enemies and dissolves their Shields and Armor. When the gaze falls upon allies, they can be revived from a distance.


Introduced in Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

AbilityStrengthBuff Strength:20 / 30 / 40 / 50 DmgFireSmall64 Heat damage per second
4 / 6 / 8 / 10 % armor and shield strip per second
AbilityDurationBuff Duration:15 / 20 / 25 / 30 s
AbilityRangeBuff Range:20 m

Misc: 70° cone angle
6 / 9 / 12 / 15 % slow per second
90% slow cap
DmgFireSmall64 Heat status after defense strip
Ally bleedout revival at range

Subsumable to Helminth
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Soar with destructive power. Use alternate-fire to detonate Judgments, causing an explosion of Jade Light. Enemies inside the Light's Judgment radius empower the explosion.


Introduced in Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

AbilityStrengthBuff Strength:75 / 100 / 125 / 150 DmgFireSmall64 Heat damage
750 / 1000 / 1,250 / 1,500 Alternate Fire DmgFireSmall64 Heat damage
20 / 25 / 30 / 35 % damage reduction
AbilityDurationBuff Duration:N/A
AbilityRangeBuff Range:2 m primary fire explosion
4 m alternate fire explosion

Misc: 50% damage reduction cap
10% Judgment chance on Glory primary fire
1.5x Light's Judgment empowered range multiplier

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Patch History

Hotfix 36.0.5 (2024-07-20)

  • Updated the Jade location descriptions to indicate that Ordis is found in the Drifter Camp now that Operation: Belly of the Beast has concluded.
  • Adjusted Jade’s Glory on High SFX as follows:
    • Reduced the volume of the chorus SFX while Jade is in motion. The chorus sound also no longer plays while Jade is stationary.
    • Players will no longer hear the Glory on High chorus SFX from Jades in their squad.

Hotfix 36.0.4 (2024-06-26)

  • Added more SFX to Jade’s Idle animations.
  • As noted in Hotfix 36.0.3, Jade’s Universal Polarity has been restored to its intended slot for players who had swapped it.
  • Fixed the subsumed version of Jade’s Ophanim Eyes not actually having the eyes present on cast (this was a visual only bug).
  • Fixed performance issues caused by Jade’s Ophanim Eyes VFX not despawning.
  • Fixed being unable to sell Jade from Inventory.
  • Fixed Jade’s Glory on High ability SFX ducking level music.
  • Fixed instance where Jade would not aim-glide in the fall after deactivating her Glory on High ability.

Hotfix 36.0.3 (2024-06-20)

  • Fixed Jade’s Aureolt Helmet not opening and closing.
  • Fixed being able to swap Jade’s Universal Polarity from her Aura Slot onto another slot.
    • We’ll be reverting the moved Universal Polarity back to its intended spot in a future Hotfix.
  • Fixed offset issues with the left Harkonar Wraith Leg Plate when equipped on Jade.
  • Fixed Jade’s Glory on High SFX clipping for Clients when rapidly firing.
  • Fixed a script error caused by Jade’s Glory on High alt-fire.

Hotfix 36.0.1 (2024-06-19)

  • Enemies are now visually ragdolled after being killed by Jade’s Glory on High ability.
  • Fixed Operation: Belly of the Beast missions not using the intended Ascension Drop Tables (which you can view in our public drop tables).
    • This meant that players were not earning Jade’s component or weapon blueprints from their Operation missions. Now you should be able to farm for Jade while also earning the Operation rewards!
  • Fixed Archon Intensify not triggering when Jade’s Light’s Judgment ability heals players.
  • Fixed Jade’s Blueprints being available to research in Dagath’s Hollow Clan room.
    • They snuck past their intended spot which are the Ascension/Operation drop tables and Ordis’ Volatile Motes store. For those who have already acquired those Blueprints via the Dojo, they are yours to keep!
  • Fixed hitting teleport volume while in Jade’s Glory on High ability causing the player to be teleported back to the location where they last touched the ground.
  • Fixed the Jade Chorus Pack exclusive items (Jade Ophanim Sigil and Jade In Action Glyph) being available for Platinum in the in-game Market.
    • For those who had purchased them there, they are yours to keep!
  • Fixed offset issues with the Harkonar Wraith Leg Plates when equipped on Jade.
  • Fixed several script errors in Jade’s Light’s Judgment ability.
  • Fixed a script error in Jade’s Ophanim Eyes ability.
  • Fixed several script errors in Jade’s Glory on High ability.
  • Fixed a script error caused by using Jade’s Glory on High alt-fire.

Update 36.0 (2024-06-18)

  • Introduced.

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