How Nekros Conjured His Way Into Warframe

[@NovaUmbral]

PLEASE READ: The shadows DO NOT take up spawns in missions, instead they are accounted for and ignored for future spawns, HOWEVER if this does resurface as a reoccurring (possible) bug I will update this pinned, thank you to user Jig for pointing this out. Sorry the description hit the 5000 character limit, here are the timestamps 0:00 - 0:56 - Intro 0:57 - 4:04 - U10 4:05 - 6:27 - Greedy Pull 6:28 - 9:08 - AFK? 9:09 - 11:51 - Rework 11:52 - 14:26 - Farms 14:27 - 17:23 - 2017+ 17:24 - 20:06 - Jovian Concord (loot nerf) 20:07 - 23:39 - Buffs 23:40 - 28:29 - More Buffs 28:30 - 38:32 - Present 38:33 - 39:23 Conclusion ALSO Some of you may be wondering as to why some details were missed, like what about that Oxium farm with Nekros? Or what about that event farm with Nekros? Or what about Nekros in this endless mission farming materials? Well If I were to go through EVERY event and farm with Nekros this video would be a lot longer than it already is, Nekros was good for just about everything farm related and I thought it would be boring if I delved into literally every single farm for him. And second, why didn't I cover the dozens of melee changes? Well Nekros could still split body parts so I didn't feel like spending time talking about how they updated melee again and again when a core mechanic to Desecrate still worked. Thanks for understanding!

[@dashawnrobinson6436]

Not boring

[@michaelthompson273]

Honey get the popcorn, new NovaUmbral upload

[@nuffingwong]

That's a fact lol I'm always like ooo something to listen to while working oh yes

[@cristianparedes9173]

Real shit 💯

[@spectrosinjkai6973]

Honey, get the honey.

[@Flustershy]

As an ancient Nekros main of 5k+ hours in Warframe I must say I really did enjoy this video, this video felt almost personal the way you took a deep dive to the history I played through and experienced firsthand. Though it might have been only my personal experience, but you keep calling Nekros a decent warframe many times before his latest buffs, which in my personal experience is not what the community thought of him AT ALL. If it wasn't a farm for new resources, rare drops, or survival, you had to fight tooth and nail to be able to bring Nekros to any sort of group, I still remember when I had to argue with the Law Of Retribution host for 20 minutes to let me bring Nekros, only for the whole team to be surprised that when people failed the shockplate room, I was tossing people on their feet left right and center with Soul Survivor. Though on the other hand I also had very positive interactions throughout the years for being the designated Nekros. One of my clanmates who still plays to this day, was the greedy pull Mag and I was the Nekros when we met on Draco years back. I also would like to give some insight on few painpoints in Nekros's history and in current day you didn't mention. First there was about 1-2 year gap after plains of eidolon (if memory serves correctly) where shadows of the dead refused to spawn eximi units, this was a sizeable hidden nerf to SOTD as even before the eximus rework they were substantially more tanky than regular units, and some units like leech scorches could self sustain themselves basically forever with their passive lifesteal. Another SOTD related hidden nerf came with the rework where his shades were capped to 7, before this update ancient healers could revive bleeding team mates, including nekros, so shield of shadows was actually not really a needed augment as you could basically have free self revives as long as you took care of your healer ancient. (Mind you this was a feature well before things like Soul Survivor or Vazarin quick revives trough focus) Another unfortunate feature that was removed in more recent times was the ability to create shadow fighters in Railjack missions which was quite nice to have your own small minifeet protecting your ship, this also worked for inactive dargyns in plains of eidolon which allowed you to create shadow dargyns your team could fly with. *As for more recent painpoints of Nekros* You already did mention that Nekros is a high maintenance frame, maybe the biggest one in the game, and that is true, not only are mods like Despoil/Creeping terrify hard to pass which takes up precious modspace which Nekros needs desperately, Nekros also is one of the rare few frames in 2023 that has the archaic system of ''max units affected'' on terrify and its completely unnecessary. Terrify itself is also one of the few abilities in current day Warframe that can actually slowdown missions as the enemies in missions like defense run to the far ends of the map and stay there out of reach from most of your teams arsenal. Another issue with Nekros today is that leech eximi lifesteal does not work on other eximus units if they have their own overguard on, which is quite annoying as leech eximi can perma sustain themselves and nearby shadows on endless modes, which negates having to worry about things like duration and recasting SOTD. But if you have any other eximi units summoned they block the incoming healing from friendly leeches, and the skill naturally focuses on eximi units as shadow candidates. Another issue with Nekros simply is that his ulti is a skill that makes you compete against your team as if they just run and gun all the good shades, you are left with bottom of the barrel trash like normal lancers and butchers. And maybe the last issue with todays nekros still is synergy, Nekros just simply has very little of it, Terrify scares enemies from Desecrate radius, Soulpunch can also do the same thing with bad ragdoll, and the abilities themselves have very little synergy with Nekros's ulti. (would be cool if soulpunch could be used to kill existing shadows) But yeah all in all a very good video and I for one can tell that this was not simply a video reading off patchnotes of Warframe wikis Nekros page. *ALSO* if you made it all the way down here as a reward I will give you a little Nekros tip. If you spam multiple casts of soulpunch on a ragdolled target and kill them during the same ragdoll before they get up, you will split the same target into multiple, this way you can turn 1 leech eximus into 2-4 or any other unit you want to. (5 is my personal best record)

[@NovaUmbral]

When it comes to opinions on frames over the years I tend to look / showcase a more deeper perspective, while yeah a lot of people still just used him for farming, it would be a disservice to call him "bad" when a lot of other players find value and enjoyed his other attributes. And I did not know that about soul punch splitting target into multiple shadows!

[@J0eMega]

OG spooky bois master race!!!

[@vivekkparashar]

Good to see another nekros player here, I used to put despoil...then two mods from semaris Equilibrium, and plus Armor on health pickup , along with shield of shadows for a nekros that never died .. But that was before steel path and shield gating

[@gloopyfeather]

You wrote an entire english essay I just read an entire english essay I now know more about nekros even after this video! Soul punch splitting is cool thanks for the tip!

[@quantumblur_3145]

Is soulpunch's splitting still a thing?

[@joshe994]

I don’t know why but when I see the thumbnail all I see is Nekros flipping the sky off

[@ScorchedIce]

Nekros be like: "FUCK YOU RNGEESUS, I AM A LOOT GOD!"

[@warsawwilliams2012]

​@@ScorchedIce 😂😂

[@sickslickhick]

And let's not forget, after Grendel's rework, Nourish will give your Shadows viral damage and the retaliation buff, making the most elite death squad this world has ever seen

[@blueray2174]

Man rework Nourish really is the gift that keeps on giving huh? Put that shit on Styanax with negative 5000% efficiency and continue to not care about energy.

[@hi7535]

B RO i'm gonna desecrate all over the place right now. Have you tried it? How good is it?

[@brightenblack207]

I've mentioned it in comments previously but I do wish Nekros had his abilities adjusted. Punch doesn't always let you get the shadows you want, Terrify scatters enemies and thus your shadows (lessening your damage and tanking ability), and Despoil and Shield of Shadows are must-have mods. 1. Punch should no longer knockback and should mark an enemy for your summons to shoot 2. Terrify should be a swappable curse. One for armor stripping (which would probably have to go down to 50% or something) and another for the actual Terrify effect. It'd be nice to have a third curse that marked enemies for a life leech for yourself, companions, and team 3. Desecrate should use health as default, if not all of his abilities (he's a Necromancer. Blood magic makes sense) 4. Let Shadows of the Dead store more enemies or maybe let Punch kill a summon.

[@NovaUmbral]

This is what I noticed when I played him at default with no augments and subsumes and he does feel like a different warframe in all honesty, whereas other frames don't require that much of an investment to get the ball rolling Nekros requires those augments and subsumes to offset the drawbacks his abilities have at base and make him feel more raid boss like

[@michaelmorgan2880]

I use just the despoil mod and no helminths.

[@Vaz_G]

If terrifys fear bothers you that much then use its augment

[@brightenblack207]

@@Vaz_G You shouldn't have to use an augment to solve an issue with an ability or kit's fundamental problem. Weaknesses with abilities is fine but not when it negatively affects other abilities on the same frame. I use Piercing Roar in place of Punch because at least it's an augment that's enhancing an ability rather than making it usable

[@Vaz_G]

@@brightenblack207 Imo theres nothing wrong with terrify. Its still a mass armor strip with little strength requirement. The fear can be annoying but the enemies usually just die to an aoe anyway so it doesnt bother me

[@marco8047]

Nekros is amazing You don't need a slash weapon for mor body parts The amgal mod for ripkas give you 100% more gore That means more gore effect =more parts That even works whit all weapons not only on your ripkas

[@DragonfireEric]

I really like the old version look of his shadows because i can tell they are his shadows, with his new shadows i tend to attack them when someone is playing nekros and dont realize it for a few seconds as its a little harder to tell they are the shadows.

[@nightlock3697]

Nekros Prime summons zombie models, non-prime still summons shadows

[@MissBabyForte]

Nekros is my forever my beloved frame b/c he was the frame that make interested in playing Wf, I saw his prime trailer and make want to play as the nercomancer in this free game. He also became my first prime who was gifted by a very kind stranger when I didnt know/understand the game and mechanics before I ever got my 3rd frame at the time. (I was literally only playing just to get my hands on him) He was my most played frame for a very long time b/c he so versatile and make farming very fun and easy to do. Even now, if there is a survival or any mission where I need to stay for a long time, I always use my dead boi.

[@enderlordmac3336]

I love imagining necktie yelling out “ RISE AND SERVE YOUR LORD ONCE MORE” as he casts shadows of the dead

[@craftscats4045]

Ahhhh Nekros. My first ever main and Prime. I'll never forget him.

[@Arkitrin]

32:06 Nourish pretty much completely removes the need for despoil and applies viral to your shadows which can be nice. Frees up the slot for creeping terrify so the only thing lost is the lifesteal from gloom. Works very well with some brief respite in the aura and a couple of augur mods for ye olden shield gate. Ended up going this way because I wasn't a fan of how mobs would run away if they happened to get out of gloom radius.

[@cothrone3651]

Don’t forget nourish makes your entire crowed of summons explode into viral stacks whenever they are hit (which happens all the time). Basically turning them into walking epitaph primers

[@Cantaloupe_Connoiseur]

With the right gloom build setup you can reach the max slow and pretty much always be able to kill enemies before they escape. Works even better the higher the level after 500 since enemy damage starts to outscale

[@lornelorne5727]

You lose the passive slow from Gloom as well, not just the lifesteal. Creeping Terrify is not equivalent as it needs to be cast on every group of enemies - new enemies will be at full speed. Gloom is just set and forget and then runs 24/7.

[@Freeky_Deeky]

Our harbinger.. our terror. NECK ROSS

[@MarshallGTV]

Biggest issue with shadows is players that don’t pick colors that are differentiated from normal enemies.

[@starstreakalex7372]

this is why I opt for a high saturation scarlet red

[@bozhidardimitrov3573]

ohhhhh.... you can change their colour... imma do that next time I play xD

[@Chickenchu]

Yay, thank you for doing a video on ma boi, Nekros, he was my first Warframe. I personally enjoy using his first and fourth abilities, and I only have his despoil augment so far.

[@JcProdi]

Honestly, would love if they made all augments able to go into the exilus slot

[@nuti7306]

But then you would just move primed sure footed to normal modslot. I guess it would be nice to frames who don't need it tho.

[@errorcode9542]

Yes then I'd have space for maglev and streamlined

[@VexytheWolf]

I love these videos, keep it up! Maybe Limbo next? He was my first Prime when I started, but I admit now he's really tough to use since the Eximus update. I play Nekros, Chroma, Xaku, Gause, and Mirage now.

[@damearstor2120]

Limbo is in the pipeline but he'll take a while to get released

[@brightenblack207]

It's mah boy. Long have I waited.

[@BirbyBird]

Our boaaaaah

[@NecrosVideos]

This Warframe has a nice ring to its name, great video!

[@RisingStarL96A1]

I also love the animation where you did with the Nekros doing like "Yeahhhhh" or "Yes" lol.

[@nilesrodriguez4343]

I love playing Nekros. I realize most people like playing big DPS, so I can play Nekros without feeling bad about it. The homie gave me Despoil and we've been getting so much loot with his Khora Prime, I love it!

[@gloopyfeather]

These videos on warframe are really interesting, keep going if you can :)

[@NovaUmbral]

Thanks, I'll try to get all the frames covered eventually!

[@gloopyfeather]

@@NovaUmbral And I'll try to watch them all :)

[@josephghodsee1710]

As always, great video 10/10! The thumbnail was impressive. the voice over was very good and consistent. the research level, understanding, and explanations were on point! Also the fact that you have a positive way of presenting information of my favorite game helps to!! Honestly if you ever want to expand, you could make educational science videos and I would watch them too. The level of research, mixed with how good of a teacher you are. It would probably be amazing! Overall, 10/10 I’m a fan of yours.

[@neilio827]

I started playing Warframe back in October of last year cause a friend introduced me to it and every time I watch one of your videos it inspires me to try out new warframes I've never played before and I love them cause your videos are so insightful and give a lot of information for a semi-new player (Only 103 hours lol).

[@GoatSays]

These videos give me so much nostalgia.

[@kakansitokun]

Your videos got me into the game. Right now it will be like a month of a lot of fun in Warframe. Continue with the great job 👍

[@maskcyan]

Stasis might not affect eximus units with oversheilds and maybe their abilities still hurt limbo even when he is in the rift. But their bullets are affected by stasis. So limbo wasn't that badly

[@BlackPaulPhoenix]

I cannot wait for that protea drop! It’s gonna be a lit year for this channel for sure

[@minzo_]

Was eagerly awaiting this, thanks for the continued great content!

[@asilverturtle7056]

Hats off to Nekros for helping me get Vauban Prime

[@heathmorris6100]

Nekros was my first prime and ill always enjoy playing him. One of my favorite frames for sure

[@IAzraelI]

He was my first prime. I love him so much.

[@jay_hebi]

Thanks for all of the info about macros it's been very useful for me to get him up to par for steel path

[@DrSlothMedic]

6:11 Yo thats my screenshot I uploaded on reddit, Mom get the camera I’ve made it

[@dimitrisjimmygtheodorou8478]

the most badass frame for sure....namewise ...lookwise....everything....

[@zaneex4043]

Nekros made farming Tellurium bearable on uranus especially with a resource blessing

[@LordGhostTurkey]

This is another Warframe I created a rework idea for a while ago. Since Nekros is a hard to change warframe due to how important Desecrate is so I opted to go all in on the necromancer theme. Passive Enemies killed by Nekros or summons have a chance to drop a Soul Fragment. Nekros can use his first ability to pick up these soul fragments for his Shadows of the Dead. Non-Eximus Enemies have a 25% drop chance while Eximus Enemies have a 10% drop chance. Nekros can carry seven Soul Fragments. Soul Fragments that have not been picked up eventually rot away. Bound Wraith Nekros summons a Wraith that will Soul Punch enemies in melee range. Nekros can command this Wraith to pick up Soul Fragments dropped by enemies. Wraith lasts 30 seconds but gains an extra 15 seconds for each Soul Fragment carried. Augment would allow Nekros to command the Wraith to Soul Punch downed allies, reviving them with 30% health. Terrify Ability would remain the same and will double the Soul Fragment drop chance. Augment will remain the same. Desecrate Ability would remain the same and allow for an extra chance to spawn a Soul Fragments. Augment would remain the same. Shadows of the Dead Ability is similar to the previous version but utilizes the Soul Fragments picked up. Recasting the ability with new Soul Fragments will teleport Shadows to Nekros' current location, healing them and replacing dead ones. Augment would remain the same While this wouldn't solve all of his issues at least it would kinda solve the negative synergy his abilities have with each other. Edit: Typo.

[@Qeboflu]

Feel like eximus units should have a 100 percent drop rate chance for the passive

[@LordGhostTurkey]

@@Qeboflu I chose the initial 10, buffed to 20 percent as it seemed more fitting. Nekros already gets to pick and choose what he wants now and having 7 eximus enemies so quickly is a bit OP. DE would nerf that very quickly.

[@Cantaloupe_Connoiseur]

​@LordGhostTurkey It's OP but how would it be stronger than a Mesa or Saryn killing the entire room which is totally acceptable right now?

[@LordGhostTurkey]

@@Cantaloupe_Connoiseur It wouldn't matter either way. I'm simply trying to abide by the (un)reasonable rules of RNG.

[@Cantaloupe_Connoiseur]

@@LordGhostTurkey Less RNG is always better if it requires you to earn it. Rewarding the player for focusing on eximus units is totally reasonable especially when they aren't very mobile

[@mellowdarkness3344]

I try to time watching these with when i acquire the warframe. And now that i have the original king of farming, I'm here to learn of his history

[@thestrike2131]

Amazing video!!! Absolutely love it!

[@BartEmbregts]

For a moment I thought Nekros was flipping me off in the thumbnail.

[@alcrye6002]

Necros is sick I want to get him soon

[@JhaanUmbra-zl3qp]

You just made my day!

[@Tyler-vu8yr]

Good old Neck Roast, can’t do loot runs without him

[@EnderTricks]

40 minutes of pure bliss to relax to

[@Autzen_]

Damn. I wasn't expecting N00b-Showtek to be in here. I used to watch his videos all the time before he got banned. Rest in peace, I guess lmao

[@damearstor2120]

Good riddance tbh. The bug showcase guide he made wasn't his first offense either, he's been warned multiple times but still chose to fuck around and found out.

[@goreobsessed2308]

This is glorious I must get nekros and swim I'm the grineer souls

[@codebreaker1o119]

Nekros was one of the first Primes I really grinded for he was pretty cool to me back then. Really liked shadows of the dead and desecrate in theory.

[@rascal6543]

I main nekros but because of the breaks I've taken between updates I still did not know about a lot of the changes. I had no idea that the armor reduction on terrify was so high. In my opinion, it's still a pretty bad ability, because like you said it makes enemies run away, which is really annoying. What's worse is that it's just inconsistent sometimes - in the few niche cases where I might want an enemy to run away, such as if I'm healing an ally, hacking a terminal, or if I get too low on health, they sometimes just DON'T run away. I feel like they should rework the ability to be a stun, that way it works more consistently and it doesn't have the downside of enemies running away when you don't want them too. I know this would mess up the augment, but maybe they could change it so that the augment just does more armor reduction than the default ability.

[@MistaFahrenheit]

Nekros has always been one of my favs.

[@jordanbuhler9442]

I remember back in the day when a leach eximus just existing in high levels would drain your energy so damn fast

[@GODiKING]

The Daily Warframe, Warframe history news.

[@RoyalTfrii]

Dang it, I thought the title would be "how nekros ROSE from the dead"

[@AnymMusic]

17:47 and we know damn well who that person was to nerf it....

[@defalttheloner]

My first made frame ever, still with him to this day. Got him not much after launch. Barely knew English too 😂

[@ashemabahumat4173]

...huh. I actually got a warframe ad on a warframe video. Neat, lol

[@MrJarvisful]

A time period we're a single mag could accidentally kill the objective

[@fuloran1]

Nekros is certainly heavy investment, but is so worth it.

[@naejmarsh1356]

Nekros was the first warframe I farmed since I started playing last year. :)

[@carolthepyro899]

Hope Gara gets covered some day. I find it funny how everyone keeps dying on my archon sessions but I straight up take on the full assault from them but they tickle me at most. Tho I do have all umbral mods on and adaptation, making me extremely tanky.

[@renkuroex3548]

Could you please do a Zephyr video next? :3

[@Unclaimed_Username]

Nekros used to be my favorite warframe when I realized that the number of shadows scaled with power strength. I'd set my energy to the brightest white I could, pump my strength up to as high as I could, join a dark tileset like draco, and then just..flashbang people.

[@ThisChangeIsAwful]

Nekros: I am the Power Creep

[@pacificjr]

I was wondering when you'd get to nekros. Such a fun frame. First frame I started my GMV series with.

[@KyrosQuickfist]

I remember using low-mid level farms with nekros, mag and 2 hydroids in 2014-2015. Seeing the two most used farm spots definitely nostalgic. Just watching these videos in 2024, now I'm gonna have to figure out how Hydroid "became the worst warframe" XD.

[@cmr2004]

Why thus thumnail looks like nekros serwing everyone around

[@zxzbg1236]

love your videos man

[@Vezon1121]

Arcane Blessing is also quite good for Nekros.

[@hellothere5107]

Ah yes, my good friend Neck-ross.

[@MRx36000]

I didn't know total eclipse affected nekros... Nice! ;D

[@bettywatson7987]

God I remember this update when it came out, and God it was so fun. The lephantis boss was amazing, and was the end game content at that time.

[@samb123078]

Could we get a limbo video. My favorite frame lore wise.

[@FeelTheseBlades]

Can we get informationals on some of the newer frames? Would love to fully understand them as well

[@princesscadance197]

Sometimes playing with Nekros can be annoying. When I’m playing Oberon, the shadows all contributing to the energy drain of Renewal is annoying, and when I’m not playing Oberon, sometimes I confuse a Nekros’s shadows for enemies, just to realize a second or two later I’m dealing no damage.

[@cardinalthewarden888]

rhino stomp still ignores eximus immunity btw. that 4 will lock them tight

[@chinossynthesizer705]

Ive always liked warframes that cam spawn allies or turn enemies into teammates i think its cool.

[@EngrNaLabo]

My daily back in the days

[@MaFeHu]

My build doesn't use despoil. I rely on equilibrium+synth fiber(I'll change it to health conversion for survivability and convince) for unlimited energy

[@thebatman7347]

My nekros INSTABTLY becomes inmortal after casting shadows, i could go crazy and add exalted blade to the mix and damn

[@mrkirbo5331]

Hell yea! new video

[@giorgiarchaia6313]

Idk but he should make video about limbo. there will be so much to tell. such as, limbo trolling.

[@Jon_EL]

Best frame to roleplay solo leveling lol

[@Srt_resium]

It’s funny that my mains subsume is used so much to the point no one says sevagoth ability gloom they just say gloom no matter who it is

[@ebhdre]

im watching this after recently playing again. did any information in this video change? nerf/buffs?

[@joeljansen5441]

you litterally only need equilibrium for most missions, just add slash and your all good.

[@cothrone3651]

I don’t believe despoil is an auto install if your already running equilibrium, you get so much energy with it that the energy drain isn’t too big of a problem. (granted you have the pet mod to let you pick up orbs) Especially if you’re running nourish nekros which is my favorite way to play him.

[@1chweissnicht367]

Nekros is my favoutite frame and i think its sad to see that many players think hes just a loot frame. He can do more than just loot, as an example i use him as a tank

[@mr.v1442]

My favourite nekrophi... nekromacer

[@uesuo]

I’m a Nyx main and I would love to see a video about her

[@WafelixRox]

Subsume her 4th ability with shooting gallery, press 3 where there's big amount of enemies pushing, cover good eximus for your side by pressing 1, take down his overshields, done. That's how you're playing nyx. C:

[@thedango6890]

Warframe is actually an arpgmmo with looter shooter mechamics and gameplay. The game has literally evolved from what it once was

[@WarframeFlo]

🐐🐐🐐🐐🐐

[@liamspruyt]

I still play nekros as absolute max range with no strenth just enjoying the dead giving me loot

[@KamiAbby]

Ah my fav one , gets some love

[@GoddessCynthia]

it’s still vry sad that nekros is just the loot frame, instead of the necromancer frame that he was meant to be

[@veyron4013]

Is there some kind of the Warframe list that you make video with or it's all just random?

[@NovaUmbral]

People vote through polls on my community tab

[@superb2625]

Hello 2024 now,and nekros is still alright

[@jonathandias7006]

Next vídeo, How did Limbo end up in Limbo

[@RisingStarL96A1]

I love nekros, he will always be my favorite. Not a lot of people play him, nowadays its all in Hydro, or Khora. Which I am guessing afk. With Nekros you still have to actively go out and do damage and do work.

[@Vaz_G]

Honestly i thought he was pretty trash until terrify got some nice buffs. Hes a decent crowd controller and utility frame now

[@jaybirdjargon]

have him; can't play him, stuck at level 21 on it. I'm just bad at anything except Saryn

[@conanemerson5217]

I have to know the drip he’s using