Nidus, The Teams Dream | Warframe

[@Darthmufin]

You could easily replaced primed flow with rage or hunter adrenalines and replace energize with arcane grace, which allows him to regen a stupid amount of health. Very few enemies are capable of killing him, he can just stand here like nidus and just yawn all the damage away but hes better than inaros as he has DR as well as a large health pool. I did a video on him and i made a build with 35k health. Nidus biggest issue is hes impossible to use on public squads and non survival, it can take up to 20 or 30 minutes to reach 300 stacks lol.

[@Unified-Codex]

True, HA/RAGE likely is better - pinned your comment

[@DavidUtau]

@@Darthmufin use his 4th augment. It takes 3-4 minutes tops to get near 300 stacks

[@NinjaSyao]

Like David said, 4th ability augment is great for getting stacks fast and triple augment is actually a very viable build on Nidus. It doesn't completely eliminate the issue of the team preventing him from getting stacks, but he can get enough stacks with just a bit of mindful playing in squads and solo he can reach 300 stacks in what? 20-40 seconds or something in a survival? XD I consider Insatiable a mandatory augment for making Nidus comfy to play.

[@Darthmufin]

@@DavidUtau I'm talking about public squads, aka your allies are blowing up enemies and spreading out spawns. Solo takes no time at all.

[@SillySpaceMonkey]

@Unified-Codex if you can do something with the mod slot, it may be a viable to use Arcane Battery over flow for max energy, as well.

[@Karmagasm]

Nidus is my favorite frame to play as, he's been around for good long while now and his kit is *still* one of the best ever made in terms of synergy and cohesion.

[@lerosallyn9279]

@@Karmagasm Facts, the only two frames that I feel march up in terms of full self-sufficient synergy are Gauss and Dante. Even then, Nidus has held up after all these years

[@hardluckmk.52]

On an unrelated note nidus inspired my whole excalibur multibuild adventure (way back when channeling was a thing) of making every build possible and seeing what works the best, but it was mainly making fashion out of ability themes and then making the builds good and weapons match Out of all my looks my two infested Excalibur looks i would argue are among the best out there, I’m confident, certainly better than the presets DE made for players 😂

[@shartshooter]

I've been running a pretty similar build but I drop arcane energize and use arcane battery. Nidus can fill his energy by stomping more than 4 enemies at once, so I've never felt the need to use energize and battery can give more energy than primed flow depending on your armor. This would give a slot for abundant mutation without losing much on this build.

[@dmajorray6154]

Arcane battery my beloved

[@fezeltroyard468]

I do crazy amount of experiment with nidus, so im pretty confident playing him wiht so many playstyles. Right now the playstyle that I love the most is using Teeming virulence and Subsuming his 4th to roar, his 4th makes him stationary and all it did is heal him and CC, its good in missions like defense or MB or something similar, but when its survival or anythign that require you to not stationary I use the Roar build instead. Also when you use link to your team and use roar you going to give 200% roar buff whch is pretty crazy, and teeming virulence is just simply the best augment because it give you like 400% CC everytime, easy red. How I manage my energy is with equilibrium and my Hound with synth deconstruct, HA or Rage is pretty bad on nidus because with adaptation and link he has too much DR that the energy you get wont be enough to cast your second also only increase max energy from Archon shards, just 1 tau azure is enough to sustain his energy, for the other archon shard its preference, for me I use 2 shard for casting speed and 2 tau amber for duration just so I have a positive duration. Lastly how I heal myself there are multiple ways, you can choose the classic Arcane Grace, but its too expensive for some players even me, so I use Molt Reconstruct instead, considering that Nidus spamming all of his skills so much Reconstruct wll kept healing him, or if you a chad you dont have to run reconstruct at all and heal from the Synth deconstruct lol. Also, I disagree with not using triple umbra, because the triple umbra enhance each other so wellits hard to drop any, and with the link augment you need to build the stacks first, moreover 10kHp and 2kHp will have the same EHP anyway, so more HP wont really do much, there are reasons why Inaros is not as tanky and Nidus.

[@KhristianBolano]

Great video! With Abundant Mutation in this build you reach an EHP of 2.316.859, which is enough to tank a bombard's missile at level cap since they deal 1.600.000. Heavy Gunners at level cap deal 200k per shot. So that's a thing to keep in mind if you want to do level cap, because without Abundant Mutation in your build you're "only" getting 772.286 health. Another thing you can do is slap Eclipse for the 75% damage reduction and in your build, you would reach 5.792.149 EHP. That would require a subsume though. And you can't really subsume anything except his 4th, which wouldn't give you enough health regen anyway at level cap.

[@cyanide7270]

Replace Arcane Energize with Arcane Battery and youll have more total energy than with Primed Flow, letting you swap that out for something else, like Adaptation or Abundant Mutation, etc.

[@Unified-Codex]

Good point!

[@W.a.r_Comp]

Thanks a lot for the build codex this is exactly what I asked for on the life stream the other day. Thank a lot for listening to your audience and subscribers. Thanks again brother

[@nas5986]

You could replace arcane energy for arcane battery and free up a mod slot by taking off flow

[@Ailpine]

Love to see Nidus content

[@darkmugetsu6572]

I would use Archon Stretch instead of stretch since I run Diriga allot, the sentinel ability activates Archon Stretch all the time as well as the Hound ability.

[@tanaka_8112]

rage or hunter adrenaline is better than archon stretch

[@darkmugetsu6572]

@@tanaka_8112 He is using stretch in the first place cause he wants the range without it he gets base range, with archon stretch you at least get some small amount of energy regen with certain pets

[@MythicqI]

WAIT ARCHON STRETCH WORKS ON DIRIGA??????

[@adrianl8429]

@@MythicqI archon stretch works with any companion ability that deals dmg. You have to have electricity on the companion weapon and use the bond mod that spreads status though. I run dethcube with energy generator for more energy hungry frames.

[@chainsawplayin]

This is cool, I never thought about just how strong Nidus really is.

[@sapsx726]

if you do it on Chroma with relic corruption it can take a snapshot and keep that bonus until the end of the game. I don't even know how high it can go

[@Unified-Codex]

There is no cap, I've gotten 15,000%

[@progamasEjogos]

Nooo, the gatekeep is over XD nice vid i always wonder why there isn't many videos about nidus

[@A.T.O6969]

This build linked to a wisp would make cracked motes.

[@rhyshuber9981]

The problem though is that you die if you don’t link an enemy for the 90% dr. Even with it you die bc health tanking sucks for high level steel path

[@jargonbargo9667]

@@rhyshuber9981 What level of Steel Path are you normally playing at where Nidus is dying so easily? With abundant mutation, i have well over 20K raw hp. Even without link DR, armor plus adaptation makes you functionally unkillable for several hundred levels as long as you're playing the game.

[@rhyshuber9981]

@@jargonbargo9667 just base sp the ravenous healing is also negligible unless you have like 400% strength

[@jargonbargo9667]

​@@rhyshuber9981You're absolutely correct, i use arcane grace to supplement the healing

[@paulortiz6226]

Hello, I was wondering while watching the build, do you find your tanking capabilities while tethered to an ally to be enough at near level cap enemies?, since i think you lose your damage redirection, shouldn't you use adaptation?, just wanting to know

[@Unified-Codex]

Always stay linked to an enemy for max DR, only need to link allies when they want a buffed cast

[@XIVDock]

In all my time of playing Nidus, I've never cared for the impracticality of the 300 stacks mod; you're unlikely to ever reach even the base 100 outside of long survival or defense missions. As much as I love his 4, it's almost never worth spending the three stacks on, especially in public squads where it's hard to build them anyway. Roar, Terrify, and Voracious Metastasis work well on him, and I'm sure Nourish and others work well in place of his 4 while being less area limited. For support, Nidus feels best when the mission type forces the squad to slow down or otherwise help another crowd controller or squishy frame survive, especially with the new augment. Ability strength buffs from his 3 are also very fun (try with a Wisp or Volt for hilarious speed bonuses). I also really like the utility of his Virulence augment, and high power strength means he can serve as a decent weapons platform. Adaptation feels a lot more optional these days with the amount of health he can build up, especially on higher end content where he can be killed before it ramps up if you lack armor. Too much damage reduction can actually hamper Rage/HA, if you're in dire need of a Virulence or Larva cast due to Blind Rage efficiency. Ton of fun to play, and totally my favorite frame.

[@dmajorray6154]

Ik this is unrelated. But hear me out, jade subsume on grendels 4th. Use arcane battery and grace, roll around and never die

[@RPZSTA]

Speed Nova Joining the team. "Could you not?"

[@ERBanmech]

I think a solid swap up for this build would be putting nourish over his 4 so he actively regenerates way more energy per enemy for his 1, remove arcane energize and swap it for arcane battery since he easily has enough armor to get a solid amount of energy, and then remove primed flow for either hunter adrenaline for more energy from nourish or umbral vitality for even stronger EHP.

[@Unified-Codex]

I agree I should have used battery, but umbral vitality would be orders of magnitude least ehp than parasitic vitality, you cant use both

[@ERBanmech]

@@Unified-Codex oh I was under the impression you could use both, wow never knew that.

[@LugdunonTG]

Great explanation on the damage increases & demonstration. Awesome work man!

[@SAGEtheGOD01]

this would be good with my 576 strength Chroma build.

[@sapsx726]

no no hear me out: if you have a 100% nidus bonus with corruption it becomes 200% or x2, if you have 300 str on chroma it becomes 600 with corruption x2 from Nidus= 1200 str. 0.O

[@dvdfrsr]

​@@sapsx726 in my testing from before this video, the link is additive with the fissure buff post-link... 100%buff(400%str) nidus with fissure ->200%buff; 300% chroma gets linked for the 200% (x3) link and has the fissure buff for a 300% buff (x4)... same 1200% but different math (in yours, you count +200% as a x2. It would be x3). If nidus was 200%buff(800%str)with fissure -> 400%buff; 300% chroma gets linked for the 400% (x5) link and has the fissure buff for a 500% buff (x6) ending with 1800%str Now that link buff also is applied to the nidus that cast it... so in that math, the nidus has 4800%str that can be used for any ability other than a new link (old link removed before calculating strength of new link). Plus, you can get 800ish% str solo without helminth nor mission buff but including situational strength buffs... imagine if you added in an equinox and jade Of course my numbers are if it's additive... if it's a separate multiplier then it's even higher! (Looks like I need to go back and do testing again)

[@sapsx726]

@@dvdfrsr this is my forbidden dream xD I already have a Nidus with a specific build for link, I would add a rhino with 200% roar. dmg cap go brrrr

[@hatty5515]

I hit an inaros with my abundant vitality build and he had 150k health

[@timcal2136]

Dope build, but no way am i gonna sink 2 umbral forma into Nidus, even if he is strong with this setup. Comes down to personal preference i guess

[@walkelftexasranger]

Wouldn't Reaper/Grace or Guardian be better than Molt Augmented? I understand that lot of strength mean lot of HP, but a lot of HP don't do much if you lack armor, no?

[@Hypercane_]

Why run energize and flow? If you have umbral fiber and two glowy blue armor shards I would think arcane battery would work pretty well with that and then you could run hunter adrenaline

[@Unified-Codex]

I agree, that was an oversight - there is already a pinned comment about it

[@zabombolo8412]

Have you tried replacing arcane energize with arcane Battery? It gives you even more max energy and frees a modslot for something else than flow.

[@Unified-Codex]

This was covered in comments already

[@EnderWolf90]

I love how unique your builds and guide are, I got the chroma working and I absolutely love it

[@Pose1dons_Wrath1]

Not sure I’ll get an answer since the vids been out for a while but I do that’ll be sick but what’s the build for the phantasma? Mine isn’t hit hard enough

[@Unified-Codex]

Galv Hell Galv Savvy Galvy Acceleration (exlius) toxic barrage frigid blast incendiary coat scattering inferno shotgun elementalist primed bane

[@PrimeRicci]

That helminth invigoration lmaoo

[@thearchitect5405]

If you play public, you'll probably want a decent chunk of Casting Speed since otherwise, other players will kill enemies a lot faster than your abilities can.

[@8octa8]

the ending LOL

[@asepdiankristian169]

❤❤❤ I have been running silence nidus and never change it . Bcz afraid of getting silent kill by toxin eximus😂😂😂

[@HeLLraiSa911]

Your previous intro was much more pleasant especially when you're wearing headphones

[@Unified-Codex]

I likely need to turn the volume down, still playing around with it!

[@jolyneallen8807]

i think you should use archon intensify and redirection instead of the two umbral mods in this setup, they’re also lower investment

[@LordBoltuwu]

How did you rename your Phantasma?

[@Zorum24]

After watching the video I decided to try out the build. I hit up my Oberon friend, and we went to an Omnia fissure. When the relic cracked we both got the abilitry range and strength buff and ended up with over 7k armor from Oberon's Iron Renewal and approximately 1.5k hp regen per second. I'm stoked to try this out in a longer run and really see what it can do.

[@Unified-Codex]

Have fun!

[@Rubyllim]

I wonder if parasitic link works on blood altar

[@TilDrill]

can two nidus buff each other up forever?

[@vansserafim]

I’m on my way to buy nidus prime after your video

[@BloodyDIMISIS55]

hmm how about replace 4 with nourish so you can exchange arcane energize with the "heal yourself when casting skills arcane". thats about 360 heals per cast of 1 and probably out heal your 4 oh my god thanks for telling me it total multiplicative on link! so with that your own Nourish gots nuts ( hmmm imagine Roar as well )

[@rivershen8954]

The arcane is called Molt Reconstruct, only heals for 1-6 (based on rank) health per energy point spent, and with 45% efficiency Nidus 1 cost 62 Energy which means with this arcane he heals up 372 health per cast. Considering the build in the video has 10k+ health, i doubt that it would outheal or be good enough. I mean his 4 gives PASSIVE 8meter radius healing (if youre playing with team its good). You could also just replace energize with reconstruct only, since you gain a lot of energy back when casting 1

[@BloodyDIMISIS55]

@@rivershen8954 but Ravenous heals for 20 a sec and Nourish will effect your team and companions giving them more than twice the energy and Viral on attacks, but lets be real and just use Melee to heal your 10K in 1 second and have all the benefits of nourish

[@rivershen8954]

@@BloodyDIMISIS55 are you talking about using melee with lifesteal mods?

[@BloodyDIMISIS55]

@@rivershen8954 yes

[@jakdexter2075]

It’s not we don’t want to use on ally it’s just the fast pace of the game everyone goes their own way.

[@jijiXSama]

Oh wow, I love Nidus already but I didn’t know about this, if you could subsume his last ability, which one would you subsume?

[@Unified-Codex]

If you wanted to go really hardcore into the team support idea, you could put Empower on to make your link buff even stronger

[@ManLikePolo]

How come u don’t use the 2nd augment and what would i replace for it?

[@rivershen8954]

he literally says it in the video. You dont really NEED that 300 stacks, plus the fact that it puts your passive on 15s cooldown every time, if you were to go to higher lvls you'd keep dying and getting downed. tbh you could probably replace Stretch for it if you rlly wanted to use

[@sirius.0]

Where is the rotating decoration in front of your arsenal from?

[@iiMadeYouLose]

​@@sirius.0 It is a Baruuk Prime accessory

[@JunkyardGod]

As for Helminth abilities, I like running Ensnare over Larva.

[@benjaminwright7879]

i like your little oberon friend

[@efesarikaya4759]

Where did you get this Orbiter Item ehind your Warframe Arsenal that turns slowly all the time please?

[@Unified-Codex]

Baruuk Prime Mandala can’t get it right now

[@shockelectri893]

What is that hand ephemera you have bro? it looks amazing, like DLC Radhan

[@SeriousSean]

@shockelectri893 It's not an ephemera, that's one of Nidus' skins

[@GOLDplus2-yu5jp]

Enter Dante. Haven't playNidus, he is in my oven for the past 2 weeks. But th fact that he is still relevant makes it a goat i suppose.

[@xornedge8204]

I love Nidus but I think he has a few areas that might need reworks. He is very situational as to which game modes he is good in and his few advantages can be neglected by enemies half the time. Also another issue is that he has the first iteration of shield gating but sadly he has to work for it unlike Shield Gating which is just there for ANY Warframe except Nidus, Kullervo(who has Overguard) and Inaros. Also his survival skill messes him up by forcing him to remain stationary which also makes him take more damage. Its a bit sad but I think his kit has been a victim of Power Creep. On Public matches enemies get killed before you can gain stacks in order to even earn your survivability, so when you get to higher levels enemies will one shot you until you lose your "immortality" then bam you're on the ground. So maybe his kit needs to somehow either get number tweaks or a slight change to how his kit works(for an example Range mods start working on his ultimate or allowing him to recast his 1 even if the first cast isn't done without the need for the wall hugging strat) Also a health increase would be welcome because Frames without shields nowadays are extremely squishy if they can't use some kind of damage gating without weird conditions 😅 Another idea is to make it so 90% of the damage is redirected on his link BUT the target will ONLY take damage once the ability is over. And make the range for allies and enemies the same and make it so Overguarded enemies take the damage instead of linking to them and doing absolutely nothing because Overguard is such a fair mechanic on enemies.

[@Unified-Codex]

Some good points, although in the right team Nidus is one of the most broken strong frames in the game with his ability to massively buff allies power str into the thousands of percents - that is my favorite use for him

[@hellkaiser1366]

Why arcane energize?like on Nidus it makes 0 sense,are not hiting many enemys to regen energy?

[@Unified-Codex]

This was already gone over in pinned comment

[@hellkaiser1366]

@@Unified-Codex I accept your explanation,even do I think rage is also not that great unless your using his 1 to kill

[@K486521]

Yo wtf happens if 2 nidusi keep linking to each other? Has anyone tested this?

[@Unified-Codex]

Not possible

[@fema_tequila7382]

I should check my invigoration before playing too😂

[@crististancu9662]

What happens if you link 4 Nidus in a loop?

[@Unified-Codex]

Not possible, one link per person

[@cheesejuice_]

ok now tell me why 4x Nidus squads each with diffirent Dmg buff subsumed is not a thing.

[@mason58538]

Him and bro doing a rescue for three hours: 💀

[@Unified-Codex]

Hacking those terminals takes time, ok?

[@mason58538]

@@Unified-Codex lmao fair enough, thank you for the information on Nidus, much appreciated

[@AeonianGainz]

Yesssssss finally😤😤😤😤

[@spekz7070]

Absolutely love Nidus, he's been my favourite ever since i came back to wf a few yrs ago. He's an absolute monster and imo greatly underappreciated. Never had a rework that im aware of and his kit is perfect as is without helminth. Personally i cant even think of any helminth ability that could even improve him (yes i saw the knightmare frame video and he can eat a fat chubby lol). So glad to see him getting some love and he's not been forgotten by the wf community. Also i use hunters adrenaline but i find with extremely high armor and parasitic link you take a lot less dmg and so gain a lot less energy tho i still don't really find it an issue just thought it worth a mention. Great video man, you earned this old Nidus main's sub. 👍😁

[@doonerknight8169]

nidus to me is like octavia. stupid powerful locked behind gimmickly niche activation requirements. stamp on the ground. parasitic link, parasitic link , parasitic link ... larva all around, doh, doh, dohdoh. nidus imo, needs a kit that proliferates more autonomously. i imagine infestation flesh latching onto nearby teamates giving them helf regen, max helth or armor, pwr str, wutever, while spawning maggots that eat enemies like a swarm further adding to the devouring attrition. sadly, his gameplay is just too gimped, spammy & ...just not enough consuming plague in my eyes. hope the nidussy mains still luv their booger boi tho~ ❤

[@Nitroband]

I do hope to see Nidus get some kind of self overguard generation at some point. Health only frames dont have access to shield gating, so I think they should have access to overguard, They could make his 4 capable of giving overguard when at max health.

[@husocc323]

@@Nitroband Nidus’ passive is literally a better shield/overguard gate. Why on earth would he need overguard generation?

[@Nitroband]

@husocc323 It would make Nidus a lot better outside of high density missions. I also just think it's backwards for frames with shields to have access to overguard, but neither of the health only units have access to it.

[@husocc323]

@@Nitroband Nidus isnt good outside of high density missions regardless. With few enemies, he shouldn’t really have a problem surviving anyways. Besides, how would such an augment work? I assume effectively with a lot of enemies anyways? I’m just not a fan of pushing overguard on every frame possible. DE would also have to redo how hunter adrenaline type mods work with overguard, since they only work through overguard if said overguard was granted by an ally, not yourself.

[@Nitroband]

@@husocc323 I don't believe the hunter adrenaline mods care where the overguard came from? It just says it treats overguard as health

[@husocc323]

@@Nitroband Unfortunately it only affects overguard given to the player from allies. On the wiki page for overguard, on the bottom paragraph of the player section it says there.

[@danielzemko6643]

Hello there🖤

[@napoto]

wait, so 200% nidus right at the end?? i wanna know how high you can get with his 3!! nice vid