Warframe Follie's Hunt Guide: Canvas Objectives & Invulnerable Hunter

Follie’s Hunt is one of those Relay event modes that looks like a chaotic mess the first time you step through the painting. Collection objectives, active traps, spawning enemies, and a single invulnerable pursuer that never stops closing the distance — it is easy to feel overwhelmed. Once you internalize the flow, however, the mode opens up nicely. This guide walks you through everything you need to know to clear Follie’s Hunt consistently, from unlock requirements to loadout choices and the most common mistakes that get players wiped.

Note: Verified as of July 2026. Check official patch notes for any updates.

Where to Start Follie’s Hunt

You access Follie’s Hunt by entering the large painting located in the main lobby area of the Vesper Relay. Simply walk up to the frame and interact with it to enter the event instance.

This makes Follie’s Hunt one of the more accessible Relay event modes, since the Vesper Relay is a hub node you pass through regularly during your Nightwave or story progress. The mode becomes available once The Shadowgrapher questline is completed, which grants you access to the Vesper Relay in the first place. If you have not finished that quest yet, you can find a dedicated Shadowgrapher unlock guide to get through it quickly.

The Vesper Relay itself sits in the Cambion Drift on Deimos, reachable after progressing through the Arbiters of Hexis storyline. Make sure your squad has cleared the necessary prerequisites before attempting this mode solo, since group coordination makes a noticeable difference in completion speed.

How Follie’s Hunt Works

The official mode loop runs on a tight cycle:

• Gather paint — Paint splashes spawn across the arena at regular intervals. These are your primary resource and must be collected to fuel the canvas objectives.
• Complete incomplete canvases — Stand near an unfinished canvas and spend your accumulated paint to fill it in. Each canvas requires a set amount of paint to complete.
• Avoid or fight ink-ified enemies — Enemies that become “ink-ified” gain enhanced aggression and movement. They do not block canvas completion but add constant pressure to your positioning.
• Dodge arena traps — Traps activate periodically throughout the arena. These deal damage and can interrupt your painting if you are standing in the wrong spot.
• Survive while an overpowering invulnerable foe hunts your squad — A single powerful enemy pursues your team throughout the entire run. This hunter cannot be killed and exists purely to keep the pace aggressive.

You can run Follie’s Hunt with up to three friends in a full squad of four. Squad coordination is far smoother than solo, especially when splitting roles between paint collection and canvas defense.

The mode is structured as a wave-based objective survival. Each canvas completion adds time or advances the round counter. The invulnerable hunter gradually closes in, and if it reaches any player the round ends in failure. There is no PvP element, trading system, or co-op matchmaking outside of pre-formed squad invites — this is a purely PvE Relay event mode.

Best Beginner Strategy

For early clears, keep the plan simple and repeatable:

1. Assign one dedicated paint runner — Pick one player whose sole job is to collect paint splashes as they spawn. Do not let this player get distracted by canvas defense. Pure routing efficiency turns around the whole run.
2. Have the rest clear safe space around canvases — While the paint runner works, the other players should stay near active canvases and thin out nearby ink-ified enemies. This creates a safe zone for the paint runner to return and deposit collected paint.
3. Keep moving instead of tunneling one corner — Paint spawns rotate across the arena. Stationary play makes you an easy target for both the hunter and spawn traps. Constant low-movement keeps your positioning flexible.
4. Finish canvases quickly whenever pressure ramps up — Do not hoard paint waiting for the perfect moment. The longer you hold paint, the more enemies accumulate and the tighter the hunter gets. Complete canvases as soon as you have enough.

The mode punishes hesitation far more than it punishes average damage output. A squad that routes efficiently with minimal wasted movement will outperform a squad with higher DPS but poor coordination every single time.

Loadout Tips for Follie’s Hunt

You do not need a hyper-specific meta build to start clearing Follie’s Hunt. The right trait combination matters more than raw damage numbers. Focus your loadout around these pillars:

• Strong mobility — Warframes with dash, slide, vault, or wall-cling abilities let you reposition faster than the hunter can close distance. Atlas rock throw navigation, Mag magnet quick returns, and Volt speed buffs all qualify.
• Quick add clear — Area denial abilities help thin ink-ified enemy groups without burning cooldowns on individual targets. Nova’s molecular separation, Hydroid’s tentacles, and Ember’s conflagration are strong picks.
• Enough survivability to recover from trap mistakes — Traps will catch you. Having damage reduction, energy shields, or built-in healing lets you survive a bad position and rejoin the objective.
• Squad synergy near objective zones — Buff abilities that boost nearby allies, such as Saryn’s spore or Nekrose’s life strike aura, create compound value when your whole team stacks near canvases.

Treat this mode like a pressure mission rather than a normal extermination. Damage is useful for crowd control, but objective completion speed is the real win condition. Bring Warframes that excel at area control and sustained survival over burst damage dealers.

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What New Players Usually Do Wrong

The most common failures in Follie’s Hunt follow a predictable pattern. Recognizing these habits early will save you dozens of wiped runs:

• Chasing kills instead of paint — Your team needs paint to complete canvases. Killing enemies is secondary. Every second spent chasing a straggler is a second your paint runner is unprotected.
• Splitting too far from the objective — Wide dispersion gives the hunter free passage through empty space and leaves canvases undefended. Stay within visual range of your nearest canvas at all times.
• Trying to brute-force the invulnerable threat — The hunter cannot be damaged. Spending cooldowns on it is a waste. Route around it, use abilities to create distance, and never stand still near its path.
• Ignoring the canvas objective while enemies pile up — Clearing enemies for its own sake does nothing if canvases remain unfinished. Prioritize canvas proximity, then thin enemies as a supporting action.

The invulnerable hunter exists to keep your pace high. You are supposed to route around the danger, not duel it. Every moment you spend fighting it is a moment your canvases go unpaid.

Final Tip

If you are wiping repeatedly in Follie’s Hunt, the fix is almost never “bring more damage.” The actual solution is usually “complete canvases faster and stop drifting off-route.” Stay objective-focused, move as a unit, communicate paint routes, and treat the hunter as environmental pressure rather than a fight target. Once that mindset clicks, the mode becomes much easier to control and your clear rate will improve noticeably within just a few attempts.

FAQ

How do I unlock Follie’s Hunt in Warframe?

Complete The Shadowgrapher quest to gain access to the Vesper Relay, then enter the large painting in the main lobby to start Follie’s Hunt.

Can I play Follie’s Hunt solo?

Yes, but running with a full squad of up to four players makes coordination significantly easier and improves your completion speed.

Can the invulnerable hunter be killed or damaged in Follie’s Hunt?

No. The hunter is completely invulnerable by design. It exists to apply pressure and enforce movement. Route around it rather than engaging it directly.

What is the best strategy for Follie’s Hunt objectives?

Assign one player to collect paint, keep the rest near active canvases, finish canvases as soon as you have enough paint, and never split beyond visual range of your objective zone.