Warframe's Banshee is finally getting a rework in the Iceblade of Narin update

Digital Extremes announced at TennoCon 2026 that Banshee — one of Warframe's oldest frames — is getting a full kit rework. The overhaul arrives this fall as part of the Iceblade of Narin update.

Banshee launched in Warframe's first year and built her identity around crowd control: sonic pushes, staggers, stuns, and a debuff that highlights enemy weak spots. Creative director Rebecca Ford says the kit "used to be the best in the game" when crowd control was king, but 13 years of new frames, weak-spot damage mods, and Blast-focused area-of-effect play have left her behind. Community director Megan Everett put it plainly — every crowd control itch Banshee once scratched now has newer, more complex frames scratching it instead. Ford says the rework's thesis is taking all those modern systems and feeding them back into the original accuracy-rewarding, damage-scaling frame. Alongside the rework, Iceblade of Narin also brings Deluxe skins for Banshee and Qorvex, a new ice-themed Warframe, and Citrine Prime.

Banshee has been a fixture of Warframe since 2013, when Digital Extremes launched the game as a methodical, monochrome shooter. The studio has a long track record of revisiting older frames — Excalibur, Ember, Hydroid, and others have all received ability overhauls as the game evolved — but Banshee kept getting passed over despite her vocal fanbase. Digital Extremes tracks community demand through Devstreams and events like TennoCon, and Everett says Banshee has sat near the top of that internal wishlist for a long time.

The community response has been building for a while — Everett noted that at Anime Expo 2026, someone literally stood up during a panel and asked for a Banshee rework. With the announcement now official, players who have been waiting years for this can start theorycrafting builds ahead of the fall drop.