Ember burns everything around her and heats up herself: Immolation builds armour and eats energy, Inferno sets the crowd alight. The rework stopped her being a clear-the-map button and made her a frame you have to watch.
Can you buy Ember for platinum
Straight to it: yes, Ember costs 225 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 225 platinum for a built Ember with a slot for it.
- Mastery. It ticks the same whether the frame was bought or built, so buying saves time, not rank.
There is a second route people forget about. A full Ember Prime set on warframe.market goes for around 65 platinum as of 29 August 2026, which is 3.5 times cheaper than the 225 the shop wants for the regular version. The difference is what you get: 225 buys a finished frame with a slot, while a market set is blueprints that you still have to build and feed with resources. Platinum but no time, use the shop. Time but little platinum, buy the Prime set, which is the stronger frame anyway.
Is there a Ember Prime
Yes, Ember Prime exists, but it is vaulted: its relics left the drop tables on 06.10.2015. That leaves three ways in: trade the parts from other players, catch it in Prime Resurgence when Varzia offers it for Regal Aya, or wait for an unvaulting.
The Prime recipe is its own thing and noticeably heavier: it eats 1 000 Polymer Bundle instead of 150. Components cost 15,000 credits and 12 hours each, the final build costs 25,000 and sits for 72 h. The regular version takes exactly as long for its final build. Do not toss the spare parts, Baro Ki'Teer takes them for ducats, prices are in the table.
| Blueprint | Relics it drops from | Ducats | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main blueprint | Axi E1 Relic, Lith E1 Relic, Meso E1 Relic, Neo E1 Relic, Vanguard E1 Relic | 100 | Ember Prime Neuroptics x1, Ember Prime Chassis x1, Ember Prime Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
| Chassis | Meso B10 Relic, Meso F2 Relic, Neo F1 Relic, Vanguard C1 Relic | 15 | Morphics x3, Ferrite x1 000, Rubedo x300 |
| Neuroptics | Meso F3 Relic, Meso S14 Relic, Neo S5 Relic, Vanguard M1 Relic | 15 | Alloy Plate x150, Neural Sensors x2, Polymer Bundle x1 000, Rubedo x750 |
| Systems | Axi R4 Relic, Axi S2 Relic, Lith G1 Relic, Vanguard P1 Relic | 45 | Control Module x1, Morphics x1, Nano Spores x1 200, Plastids x700 |
Where the blueprints come from
The main blueprint is in the Market. Components drop from General Sargas Ruk on Tethys, Saturn. He is not the quickest boss, you have to hit the vents he opens, but the mission is short and repeats forever. The Circuit after The Duviri Paradox also gets there: tiers 2, 5, 8 and 10.
What it is built from
The usual order: three components in parallel, then the Warframe on top of them. Components run in the Foundry at the same time, so from the first click to a finished frame it is roughly 84 h: twelve for the parts and 72 for the Warframe itself.
| Blueprint | Credits | Time | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 15 000 | 12 h | Morphics x1, Ferrite x1 000, Rubedo x300 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Alloy Plate x150, Neural Sensors x1, Polymer Bundle x150, Rubedo x500 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Control Module x1, Morphics x1, Salvage x500, Plastids x220 |
| Ember | 25 000 | 72 h | Ember Neuroptics x1, Ember Chassis x1, Ember Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
Where to farm the resources
Ember has no real resource bottleneck: everything on the list piles up while you play. The only item worth a deliberate trip is Morphics, and you need 2. Mercury and Earth. Apollodorus on Mercury is a short survival that keeps handing them out.
| Resource | Where it drops |
|---|---|
| Orokin Cell | Ceres, Saturn, and Deimos |
| Morphics | Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto |
| Ferrite | Mercury, Earth, Lua, Neptune, and the Void |
| Rubedo | Earth, Lua, Phobos, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and the Void |
| Alloy Plate | Venus, Phobos, Ceres, Jupiter, Pluto, and Sedna |
| Neural Sensors | Jupiter |
| Polymer Bundle | Mercury, Venus, and Uranus |
| Control Module | Europa, Neptune, and the Void |
| Salvage | Mars, Jupiter, and Sedna |
| Plastids | Phobos, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Eris |
Is Ember worth building
Ember is a furnace: Immolation builds heat that feeds Inferno, and Fire Blast strips armour off everything in range.
The numbers look like this: no mastery rank requirement, roughly 84 hours from the first foundry press to a finished frame, and 70 000 credits across all the builds together. A finished Prime set on the market runs about 65 platinum.
Strong and simple, but you have to watch the heat meter or she burns her own energy away.
Every other frame is broken down the same way, the full list lives in the guide to all Warframes.
Sources
Recipes and build times: the official Digital Extremes export, ExportRecipes_en. Resource locations: item descriptions from ExportResources_en. Blueprint drops and relic contents: the official Warframe drop tables. Acquisition and Prime vault status were checked against the Ember page on the Warframe wiki. Data as of 28.08.2026. Prime set prices: the open warframe.market API, snapshot taken on 29 August 2026, using the median of live sell orders.
