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Deep Archimedea Guide (2026): Modifiers, Research Points and Rewards

Three missions, one loadout, 37 points: the weekly math

Last Updated on September 11, 2026

The short answer

Three missions in a row, one locked loadout, once a week. Equip the offered gear, switch on every Personal Modifier your build can survive, and you bank up to 27 Research Points on Normal or 37 on Elite; 34 guarantees a Legendary melee Arcane or a Tauforged shard. Armor strip and Overguard matter more than raw damage at level 250 to 400.

Reviewed September 10, 2026, current through Update 43.5. Iceblade of Narin lands September 23 and is not reflected yet; this page is re-checked after every major patch.

Rule	Detail
Cost	2 Search Pulses from your weekly pool of 5 (Netracells use the other 3)
Shape	3 missions back to back, no loadout changes between them
Enemy level	Normal 250 to 275, Elite 375 to 400
Max points	27 on Normal, 37 on Elite
Reset	Monday 00:00 UTC

What you need first

Requirement	Why
Whispers in the Walls	Opens the Sanctum Anatomica and the Cavia.
Cavia rank 5 (Illuminate)	Loid will not offer Deep Archimedea below it.
One completed Netracell	The on-ramp; do it the same week.
25 points in one Normal run	Unlocks Elite Archimedea permanently.

How Research Points work

3 points for clearing all three missions.
+1 per active Personal Modifier per mission. Four are offered each week, so up to 12.
+1 per matching loadout slot per mission. Warframe, primary, secondary and melee are offered each week, so up to 12. Primes and variants of the offered item count.
Elite adds a flat 10, which is how 27 becomes 37.
Mission Modifiers (Deviations and Risk Variables) are fixed for the week and not your choice; Elite doubles the Risk Variables.

How a run works

Talk to Loid in the Sanctum Anatomica and spend 2 Search Pulses to open the week's run.
Read the four Personal Modifiers. Toggle on every one your build can live with; each is a point per mission.
Check the four offered loadout slots and equip anything you own that matches.
Set the build in the Arsenal before you launch. It is locked for all three missions.
Clear mission one and extract. Mission two starts from the same screen.
Clear mission two. No swaps, no re-modding.
Clear mission three to bank the points.
Open every reward cache you reached; the point total decides which pools you roll.
Hit 25 on Normal once and Elite is unlocked for good.

Dying here is different

Self-revive is off. Thirty seconds after you bleed out, a dormant Void Angel carrying your glyph spawns; your squad wakes it and kills it to bring you back.
Each Angel after the first is much stronger, and bleedout timers shrink with every revive.
Three minutes dead earns a Mortis Strike. Three strikes and the run pays nothing (caches already opened stay yours).
Solo players have no Angel to lean on: stay alive or restart.

Rewards by Research Points

Reward	From	Note
5 and 10 points	Uncommon pool	Archon Shards, Melee Arcane Adapter
15 points	Fixed	3 Entrati Lanthorn
20 points	Rare pool	Tauforged Archon Shard chance
25 points	Unlock	Elite Archimedea, permanently
28 points (Elite)	Fixed	20 Vosfor
31 points (Elite)	Rare pool	Tauforged chance again
34 points (Elite)	Legendary pool	Melee Crescendo or Melee Duplicate, or a Tauforged shard
37 points (Elite)	Fixed	50 Vosfor and the Archimedean Eye Sumdali
Every completion	Cavia standing	On top of the caches

Best frames

DanteOverguard

CitrineSquad damage reduction

Frame	Role	Why
Dante	Overguard	Overguard for the squad and a nuke that still clears at 375.
Citrine	Squad damage reduction	Crystals stack damage reduction and healing for everyone; the safest Archimedea frame.
Revenant	Cannot die	Mesmer Skin does not care about the modifiers or the level.
Wisp	Sustain	Reservoirs keep three strangers with offered loadouts alive.
Trinity	Healer	Blessing and Energy Vampire when the offered gear leaves the squad thin.
Kullervo	Solo pick	Wrathful Advance and Recompense keep him near-unkillable when nobody can revive you.

Best weapons

ToridScales forever

Kuva SobekArmor strip

Kuva NukorPrimer

Kronen PrimeCondition Overload

Weapon	Why
Torid	The Incarnon beam keeps stacking status into level 400 health pools.
Kuva Sobek	With its augment it strips armor while it fires; armor is the whole problem here.
Kuva Nukor	Chains status onto the pack so the melee and Galvanized guns scale.
Kronen Prime	The melee that cashes in the primer, with reach for the crowds.

Mods that survive level 400

Survivability and energy first; a dead squad banks nothing.

Adaptation

When Damaged: +10% Resistance to that Damage Type for 20s. Stacks up to 90%.

WARFRAME

Rolling Guard

On Dodge: Become invulnerable for 3s and remove all Status Effects. 7s cooldown.

WARFRAME

Quick Thinking

Drains Energy to stop Lethal Damage with +80% Efficiency.

WARFRAME

Primed Continuity

+55% Ability Duration

WARFRAME

Primed Flow

+185% Energy Max

WARFRAME

Primed Sure Footed

+100% Chance to Resist Knockdown

WARFRAME

Galvanized Chamber

+80% Multishot

On Kill: +30% Multishot for 20s. Stacks up to 5x.

Rifle

Galvanized Aptitude

+80% Status Chance

On Kill: +40% Direct Damage per Status Type affecting the target for 20s. Stacks up to 2x.

Rifle

Tips that save runs

The matching loadout is up to 12 free points. Equip it even if the weapon is bad and let the frame carry.
Read each Personal Modifier before toggling. Transference Distortion and Constricted can shut a build off entirely.
Armor strip is not optional past level 300; raw damage falls off the cliff.
Stay near the squad. Reviving means killing a Void Angel, not pressing X.
Elite unlocks at 25 points; it does not mean you are ready for 375 to 400 with two Risk Variables. Build for it first.
Temporal Archimedea in Hollvania (The Hex rank 5) is a separate weekly with its own enemies and higher levels; do not mix up their numbers.

Mistakes that waste runs

Launching without the offered gear equipped.
Treating it like Steel Path and skipping armor strip.
Wandering off and collecting Mortis Strikes.
Stacking modifiers that hard-counter your frame just for points; a failed run banks nothing.

Table of Contents

What you need first

How Research Points work

How a run works

Dying here is different

Rewards by Research Points

Best frames

Best weapons

Mods that survive level 400

Tips that save runs

Mistakes that waste runs

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