Nidus

Hello, guess my name.

I am immortal, can give CC, can group enemies, can regen, can buff allies STR and HP, have built-in PSF & status immunity, and can regen health on myself and allies, I have good crowd control.

Despite all this, i am USELESS in almost every single mission (exception is : playing solo in survival missions).

How to fix Nidus:

1) Make his 3 a toggle, if it's on, you will automatically link to an ally or enemy nearby, this would allow you to move around the map without having to recast it all the time

2) Make his 4 scale with range, so you don't have to stand in a tiny area to get the health regen

3) Make his stacks have no limit, or at least raise the limit, at least 300 with no augment, more with augment

The problem with Nidus is that he's really only got one game plan that isn't even compatible with most mission types.

It goes:

1: Start endless SP mission, either Defense or Survival

2: Group up a bunch of enemies with Larva and slam into them with Virulence over and over again to generate stacks

3: Pick a favourite spot

4: Link to an enemy

5: Cast Ravenous

6: Proceed to spam out Larva and Virulence, recast Link and Ravenous when they run out.

Nidus' entire kit basically forces him to hunker down in some corner and just murder everyone who comes at him. You wanna stay on Ravenous at all times for the extra health regen and you wanna be linked at all times for damage redirection and status immunity and both Ravenous and Link targets are stationary.

Also, he's basically useless outside of Steel Path because Mutation Stacks don't generate quick enough if you don't have extreme enemy density.

At the same time, if you lose your stacks in SP in any way, you're screwed. If you run into something that can munch through your healthbar too quickly and that you cannot yourself kill quickly, like the Oni from the Shrine defense gamemode, and that eats through your mutation stacks and immortalities until you actually die, there's no way for you to recover. Once things have picked up, you're taking damage way too quickly to get your stacks back since that basically involves standing still and stomping the ground repeatedly.

Stomp Ground

Gain Stacks

If there's one thing I want changed about Nidus it's why do his abilities have seemingly random lockouts?

If he's got a 1 cast traveling it becomes locked out until it finishes, so it's literally better to spam it into a wall so it travels less.

Man of Cancer

I've got two nidus frames and all i want to say how dead Nidus is unless you use him for obscure grinding

does anyone know if Hunter Adrenaline and Rage still work?? or is that rewording they got curtains for them

Really din't knew what i was doing wrong before Parasitic vitality came to save my dumb ass from dying all the time, i just couldn't make nidus (before the augment) tanky without needing the damage reduction from parasitic link

Still haven't figured out to this day

So what happens if you link to a mind controlled target? will it count as an ally or is it still considered an enemy?

Buggy appearance. Every time you end a mission or look at your profile your nidus will switch to his full form and switch back immediately and when you aim he will look up.

My Nidus got injected with the virus but it is my Loki who got the cyst, I don't have the Helminth Segment, so Loki can't get there

No idea if this actually works but you can theoretically get a 4 and a half minute duration on Parasitic Link with all the duration mods and 5 Tauforged Crimson shards. Not sure why you'd want to but someone out there definitely does want to because funny numbers

Up until this moment, I never knew nidus had a prime, or that nidus even existed

With Parasitic Vitality and Abundant Mutation + some strength from either mods, arcanes or Grimoire he can build full tank and survive lvl cap more easily without losing stacks.

Parasitic vitality + Abundant Mutation adds another 5x+ to ehp for my super tank build.

You could add Eclipse for even more max ehp+dmg or just Gloom.

For lvl cap I recommend Gloom for full auto heals (linked enemies in Gloom range auto-heal you when you take dmg).

Was able to face tank 9999 before without losing stacks, but now it is much, much more comfortable.

(Using all possible, conditional dmg reduction mods like Aviator, Adaptation, Arcane Double Back, 2x Boreal set mods, etc. and 5x Tau armor shards + Unairu)

So the new augment is interesting. Takes the place of normal vitality mods but much stronger with a caveat. Takes time and investment, but significantly improves nidus' durability in long missions.

Tested with his passive augment and around 270 power strength: Reached an hp level of 21k health.

I subsumed Tharros Strike over Ravenous so he has some kind of defense strip. Otherwise he isn't doing much in late game Grineer or Corrupted.

So, do maggots from ult apply corosive if using archon continuity?

Are there any downsides to linking to an ally?

He looks so much cooler in prime form