CHANGES SINCE POSTING Hotfix 37.0.4 • The Nataruk Particle Accelerator is dead. Now projectiles entering a portal consume 0.1 charges (portals spawn with 4). Portals cannot lose a charge to projectiles more than once per 0.1 seconds, giving it a 4 second lifespan when used as a loop like this. • Molecular Prime once again shows its duration on the ability icon
That sucks. It would have been so nice to set up a choke somewhere with the portals going both directions and we could in relative safety go for hours on end in survival. It would have been a better fix if the projectile itself vanished instead of the set up portals. They are not practical to set up for different strategies anymore as every 4 seconds you have to run around and precision place portals.
@@TheKengineer worth noting that also nerfs it to a 4s lifespan when shot through by ANY weapon with moderate fire rate, not just the Nataruk infinite. It'd be better if shots passing through got a lifetime set to some value instead so it doesn't consume the portal and nerf all other weapon interactions.
@@Zodrynthat actually wasn't something I even thought of after reading the change. That's very unfortunate. Would've been nice if after going through the portal the projectile only lasted like 4-5s after passing through a portal
The fact that NPCs that need to move from point A to point B (PoE Drones and Kavor Defectors) without following you actually change their path to seek your portal is peak pathfinding.
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@@DiscoHeadSuitable Damage used to stack with Vigorous Swap and Arcane Arachne. It doesn’t anymore. Nothing to do with the double tap mechanic, that was a welcome addition imo
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Hey Kengineer? A bit off topic, but if you have the time can you look into Steel Path Lephantis’s damage attenuation? Right now it feels broken, with it capping your damage to like 500 to 600 per tick. That stacked on top of the EHP/Armor rework a while back, using non-shotgun or slow fire rate weapons on SP Lephantis makes the mission take like 20+ minutes. I tried to bring this up in the forums but was immediately buried under the “git gud” crowd. Idk how else to get attention to this issue. If you see this, thanks!
I think that was always the case with lephantis? Like it has its own seperate damage reduction on top of armor in the first phase so it gets exponentially worse in steel path.Though I havent fought it in forever to be honest
Is that the lantern boss on demios? Yeah, I was using ember, roar, first augment and incarnon atmos with an insane riven. Yeah wtf is happening with that boss. 10 mins for first phase. I noped out. People say use revenant or nyx for friendly fire to take him down. Who the heck has nyx built. That boss is not ok.
the most informative Warframe youtuber out there!...you explain things so nice and clear and get straight to the point. you don't waste time explaining every ability from zero like most youtubers do, but get right into what has been changed about them. amazing, and I look forward to your thoughts and ideas about The Caliban rework and Koumei.
if you are focusing on speedva, range is almost useless as it doesnt affect 4th range, only duration affects it. I think it is still worth to focus on duration with some strength (around 150 is max speed/slow)
I did not know about the portals that way! I mostly used the portals to spice up my friends' runs by placing them behind doors to keep them on their toes when a door opens. Now I can say it was for strategic purposes! Loved Nova when I first got her along with the fashion! Thanks for the guide!
That's the stealth feature of koumei update T posing model in arch wing stealth, t posing void mode. Fissure Warframe buff T pose and enemy does the same too. It's been here for so long yet no hotfix is beyond me
I've always been a big Nova fan, so this rework...it's the highlight of the update for me. I'm still agonizing over how I want to re-forma her (needs a couple, I think), but I got distracted by Grendel and Hildryn's new augments (both so much fun!). Thanks for some added clarity on how things work. It should help me to get to grips with what I want to do.
WAIT A BIG SECOND. 7:17 The drone SEEKS the portal. UNITS ARE CODED TO KNOW TO USE IT. This is about as big of an addition they could have done to her kit and make Nova nearly mandatory for any Defection / Rescue mission!
1:08 it is cool the game add a pseudo null star on energy orbs gained by passive, so you can see how effective it is if you have a high damage secondary and use secondary surge with it, you can overcharge the anti matter drop.
for those who don't see it, the second from the left orb has 2 nullstars orbiting it. actually what arcane or you talking about. Virtuos Surge is for operator, are you thinking of Cascadia Flare for 480% damage for secondaries?
@@UNGGodYT It only boosts secondary dmg right? I prefer Cascadia flare as I believe that's just damage for anything, I could be wrong but it does only say damage. Anyway all my builds lack flow with 55 efficiency
@@zionlakins49 secondary surge is to do less attack since it multiples the damage, so less shoots, it is ideal for grimoire secondary shoot of plinx secondary as they do aoe damage. Flare is base damage, while surge is multiplicative , so it is more, but they balanced it by making only one shoot consumes all stacks. but just pointing it existe and can be full to do use on high resistant enemies since it is one stance of damage, so no time to adapt to it.
I was playing around with the reworked Nova for the first time just last night and literally found myself thinking, "man, I wish I had a Kengineer video on this."
Nova was the first frame I got other than Excalibur and she's the one I did the rest of the star chart with. I'm so happy to use her in endgame content easier now!
I feel like DE have stated on every post asking for it to be removed that "it's intentional and will stay" the bug was how it also caused the same delay to be applied to all other abilities if attempted to be cast after null star - which has been fixed.
I knew I should expect it from you but still gotta shout out the correct use of quadratic instead of exponential for damage on the nourish + null star combo
@@Leverian_VII Using roughly 70% Strength Nova meant that whenever you used your 4th, enemy speed remained neutral (neither fast or slow). Made Nova more rounded for general play, so you wouldn't accidentally bring your Slow build for a Def mission for example.
@@Leverian_VII When you had 70% ability strength (With just [Power Donation]), her 4th ability did not affect enemy speed. It'd simply give the double damage buff and explosion when killed... We could bring her into any mission type we wanted without annoying our teammates.
My favourite build is 320+ strength Pillage Nova with AMD augment. With that Nova has great defences, complete armour strip, constant shield replenishment, and high AMD and MP explosion damage. It is also very active to play which I find more fun that the old boring pop max duration MP -> shoot build.
ohh, didnt know her 1 particles worked like Breach Surge particles! in that case also consider Vigorous Swap, it's additive with Arachne and has a nicer trigger condition imo edit: you also missed something kinda big...at the moment, the augment isn't just applying heat dmg in an AoE, it's also adding an AoE null star hit. meaning the primary target takes 2x null star hits (the actual one plus the new AoE one) and the heat damage, for a total of 3 status procs, and enemies in the AoE take 1x null star shits + the heat damage. I suspect the extra AoE null star hit is a bug, but as a result the augment is enabling way more damage and status spread than it would if it just added an AoE heat wave. (see also the recent vid I made for more details ;p)
@@IceBen4444 Probably too much code and also: max 315% additive damage to orb that does 200,000 max damage + power strength, then explodes enemies for 300% blast proc on death or max. Plus MP. Plus Viral. Yeah, if only LOL. Mostly sad about not being able to spam her 2 honestly.
3:50 if a frame doesn't have a "looting" ability (an ability that breaks containers to make searching for loot items in tilesets quicker by blowing everything up) this is actually an ideal looting ability when given the augment to put over an ability you don't require as much. as you can spam cast neutron star periodically to blast large areas of both enemies and containers in search of voca/medallions/void plumes and other nice things when paired with a range build.
It makes me think the whole strength thing was a bug back then after this update but now idk. I'm looking forward to playing as her again she was my main as she was one of the 3 frames I had for the longest time when I got back into the game, so it'll be fun to play again. If Inaros update made him drastically more fun I bet it'll do the same here.
i also run eclipse as helminth, fun thing about that, even at 1k mobs sometimes i see how i get hit, yet it drops by 1-3 shields and insta regen back... nova is FUN 😂
Been trying something really similar, but swapping Arachne out with Molt Efficiency, gaining around 26+ Null Star charges. With spamming Null Star the more stars seem to be doing more damage than the extra per star.
Maybe they can make wormhole count the projectile that goes in it past its first up a count based on if it had hit a enemy (say 10 times of going in it with a hit) so it works has tech but not for afk (or cap the effect to 1 portal?)
I hope they change the amount of charges to 5, to make it feel better for defection missions. Usually you want to use the portal to jump too and defectors spawn in groups of 4, so you either need 2 portals, leave one defector behind or catch-up with them without using the portal. Before rework it wasn't an issue, because portals were duration-based, but now I have a wonky build with infested mobility for this purposes, tried wrathful advance as a subsume, but it feels worse. Alternatively, I'd like separate counters for player/NPC jumps or to have amount of charges scale with duration
@@basedx. Son, you have to listen. Bad days, that were hard days ... back when i was your age, one had to use Quick Thinking and Flow Combo to stay alive as Nova.
@@basedx. I was jealous of a friend, because he chose syndicates for EXT and Capture, while i had to sit min. 5 minutes into a Survival mission just to get 5 Rare Fusion Cores.
With the stealth focus build I would still go in favor of Perspicacity since it just lets you bypass locks because that invisibility just seems to really only to stealth at the locks.
The changes are definetly good,. It's just that i kind liked that how you buidl nova was jsut completly differnt. espcially the neagtive strenght build. I am glad for these chagnes but i did lik eth build variety.
12:38, off-topic but I feel betrayed that someone said that Arcane Barrier was more useful than Arcane Aegis so that's what I farmed in the Jade event. Now every shield-tanking build I see has Aegis and I've only got a single copy 😭
ive been running high duration low range to prevent particles from seeking on my "tank" nova - i subsume over her 3 and i dont need antimatter drop for damage, so it suits me fine. i tend to hover around 30 particles, which is major overkill at 180 strength, but its very comfy.
Thank goodness I don't have to make two separate builds to get the most Nova lol. Also, out of curiosity, what progenitor bonus are you using on your Kuva Hek?
So... Anti matter drop... More damage from shooting it. Scales with strength. More damage for boosting it's speed by recast. More damage for sending it through a portal. And more damage to enemies that are primed. I know it's not the voruna crit spaghetti code... But that's still a hefty amount of doubling.
I just get all my strength from shards for the new nova then I freed up mod slots and didn’t negateffect my duration range or efficiency then I have a separate nova for my nuke build
My "funball" bomb when shot into with my Lex Prime does upward of 562,000 damage. The average is 250,000. Plus I did not know weapon damage goes thru the portal..Omg thanks. My normal Nova is an absolute assassin. Peace all.
Still wish the homing range on her Null Star didn't scale with ability range (at least not without Neutron Star), because all of her other abilities arguably want some range, but increased range on Null Star just makes her DR less reliable, even if you can recast it.
As someone who mained Nova for like 3 years this is an amazing change. I already loved her kit as it was and now she has ascended to godly levels. She is much much tankier and enemies pose basically no threat with them being slowed down. She is so comfy to play hell I might just stick with her forever and forget other frames exist 😂 On top of that they released SYBARIS INCARNON which is probably my favorite underdog weapon in this game. This is the best update ever.
I have a question regarding Nova's viability as a loot frame. Given that she can both speed enemies up, and therefore increase spawn rates leading to higher kpm, would she outperform loot frames in resource gathering? Or is the added resource drop rate from loot frames like khora, nekros, ans hydroid more beneficial despite having a potentially lower kpm? Thanks!
Theoretically if warframe were real, AFK gameplay would allow adaptive enemies (AI or intelligent species) to 9/10 (or whatever) times capture the warframe if anything is exploitable... AND the chance you code a better afk mechanic than DE if they should use it is close to 0 (considering they would have more expensive infrastructure to drive complex AI) interestingly the code might be able to be annexed by other larger behemoths of war and even the assets and the trade secrets therewith should it become very valuable... I hope this is not too geeky look at why AFK is so frowned upon (I'm not an engineer (didn't finish my degree) but I have been obsessed with AI since 2018 and think deeply&/overthink it with a scientific flavour)
What about incarnate bonuses from some months ago with Xaku whisper making the explosion very nasty, has that been patched out and no longer the go to?
Nova is now *easily* the number one generalist frame I’ll always tell new players to get and heavily invest into. Also, Exergis is a big slept-on choice for her Antimatter Drop, especially since it’s (typically) not built for crit. I can charge its single shot
They were good before, now they're far better plus viable as damage sources and all Kavats/Vulpaphylas can now have Swipe for no downside at all, and also Crescent does Electric innately, and multiple additional giant damage multipliers, your pets can now close in on lower-end Exergis numbers every swipe
@@kindredbarkmaw2509 They just never had the synergies with my particular kits like Diriga, Nautilus, and the Hounds did. And with how much changed in general, it's hard to look at them and see exactly where they changed.
So if Null Stars count as "weapons" (i.e. take generic +damage and elements) can you make them crit with Avenger/Adarza? Would using Thermal Transfer buff the Heat DoT?
Honestly, I can accept her numbers went up, but I don't agree there's that much difference between old Nova and new Nova. The passive's good but hardly game-breaking. Null Star is still better off with low range. Antimatter Drop is basically exactly the same. Wormhole is just as janky as it always was, the change from duration to charges means pretty much nothing. As for Molecular Prime, okay you can do both Speed and Slow with the same build now, but who's switching between the two? Either you like Speed and are sticking to that, or you play with Slow (normally solo) and will never touch the Speed. The only change that would have made sense for her, changing Wormhole into a Portal Gun, is nowhere to be seen.
About that no afk rule, last night i had a guy on a macro on saryn on netracells, we waited 15 minutes before it got to the vault to use its sigil. I should have reported it but it was late and I just went to bed. Will DE detect it by them self or do they need the report to find these people?
I was under the impression that combining her Neutron Star and Molecular Fission augments would make the 1 automatically prime enemies in its aoe, but I haven't seen anyone talk about this and I haven't actually tested it myself... Can anyone confirm whether or not this works?
No way are you able to lose your account for being AFK. A source on this would be nice. Should you go afk on purpose when playing in a squad? No. But no one should tell you how to play if you're completely solo. You're sabotaging nobody.
CHANGES SINCE POSTING
Hotfix 37.0.4
• The Nataruk Particle Accelerator is dead. Now projectiles entering a portal consume 0.1 charges (portals spawn with 4). Portals cannot lose a charge to projectiles more than once per 0.1 seconds, giving it a 4 second lifespan when used as a loop like this.
• Molecular Prime once again shows its duration on the ability icon
That sucks. It would have been so nice to set up a choke somewhere with the portals going both directions and we could in relative safety go for hours on end in survival.
It would have been a better fix if the projectile itself vanished instead of the set up portals. They are not practical to set up for different strategies anymore as every 4 seconds you have to run around and precision place portals.
Thank goodness now if they could just get rid of shock mote trolls
@@TheKengineer worth noting that also nerfs it to a 4s lifespan when shot through by ANY weapon with moderate fire rate, not just the Nataruk infinite. It'd be better if shots passing through got a lifetime set to some value instead so it doesn't consume the portal and nerf all other weapon interactions.
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@@Zodrynthat actually wasn't something I even thought of after reading the change. That's very unfortunate. Would've been nice if after going through the portal the projectile only lasted like 4-5s after passing through a portal
The fact that NPCs that need to move from point A to point B (PoE Drones and Kavor Defectors) without following you actually change their path to seek your portal is peak pathfinding.
I guess it's a relatively new thing, as the NPC and enemy AI has been improved through several updates. It's really nice to see those details!
what the hell my defectors just run backwards into walls still
@@VioletSteel13 uhhh, yours msut be defective. you can get a refund at the DEfector Store
@@Blue-vs6fj 😂😂😂
@@osvaldoprado9906it came with plague star last year
Reworked Nova: You've done well so far but up untill now I've been only using a mere 5% of my power. Now let's see how well you fare against my
*A N T I M A T T E R D R O P*
New antimatter drop is weaker than old antimatter drop though
Ponder my orb!
@@lerosallyn9279 im doing 2 million dmg with it
@@lerosallyn9279 no its not, you just have to press the ability again to boost it after you fill it up
@@DiscoHeadSuitable Damage used to stack with Vigorous Swap and Arcane Arachne. It doesn’t anymore. Nothing to do with the double tap mechanic, that was a welcome addition imo
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Hey Kengineer? A bit off topic, but if you have the time can you look into Steel Path Lephantis’s damage attenuation? Right now it feels broken, with it capping your damage to like 500 to 600 per tick. That stacked on top of the EHP/Armor rework a while back, using non-shotgun or slow fire rate weapons on SP Lephantis makes the mission take like 20+ minutes. I tried to bring this up in the forums but was immediately buried under the “git gud” crowd. Idk how else to get attention to this issue. If you see this, thanks!
Liking and replying to boost, if anyone can figure it out it's Kengineer
I think that was always the case with lephantis? Like it has its own seperate damage reduction on top of armor in the first phase so it gets exponentially worse in steel path.Though I havent fought it in forever to be honest
Is that the lantern boss on demios? Yeah, I was using ember, roar, first augment and incarnon atmos with an insane riven. Yeah wtf is happening with that boss. 10 mins for first phase. I noped out.
People say use revenant or nyx for friendly fire to take him down. Who the heck has nyx built. That boss is not ok.
@@nicktheninja3166no, the lantern boss is Zealot, the Lephantis is a two-phase boss with 3 heads, who drops Nekros' parts
I haven't tried SP Lephantis in a long time but the zealot is DEFINITELY guilty of this, just have to lay into it forever.
I re-forma'd Nova 6 more times just to use the Null Star build. Probably the most fun I've had with Nova since she released. Well done, sir!
the most informative Warframe youtuber out there!...you explain things so nice and clear and get straight to the point.
you don't waste time explaining every ability from zero like most youtubers do, but get right into what has been changed about them.
amazing, and I look forward to your thoughts and ideas about The Caliban rework and Koumei.
if you are focusing on speedva, range is almost useless as it doesnt affect 4th range, only duration affects it. I think it is still worth to focus on duration with some strength (around 150 is max speed/slow)
145* so Umbral Intensify (+44%) pretty much covers it if you don't want even higher Strength for 1/2/Helminth
That was changed in her rework, she now requires 150% Strength for max Slow/Speed.
@@basedx.With the scaling change on 4 you need 150% to reach the cap. Umbral intensify gets you to 72% now which is basically unnoticeable from 75%
@@tylerprime6741 good call, ty
I did not know about the portals that way! I mostly used the portals to spice up my friends' runs by placing them behind doors to keep them on their toes when a door opens. Now I can say it was for strategic purposes! Loved Nova when I first got her along with the fashion! Thanks for the guide!
6:55 I see you also have the bug where effects on models aren't actually attached to the model, and are A-posed instead. Beautiful.
That's the stealth feature of koumei update T posing model in arch wing stealth, t posing void mode. Fissure Warframe buff T pose and enemy does the same too. It's been here for so long yet no hotfix is beyond me
Finally! I've been waiting for this video. Good work Ken!
Always get all giddy when I see a new video from TheKengineer! Love how you explain things dude! Keep up the good work. 👍👍
7:04
I never noticed the in the ability card, now I actually want it to have travel time, sometimes it can get a bit doozy when using her portals
By far the best and most in depth warframe TH-camr out there. You my goat fr
I've always been a big Nova fan, so this rework...it's the highlight of the update for me. I'm still agonizing over how I want to re-forma her (needs a couple, I think), but I got distracted by Grendel and Hildryn's new augments (both so much fun!). Thanks for some added clarity on how things work. It should help me to get to grips with what I want to do.
WAIT A BIG SECOND.
7:17
The drone SEEKS the portal. UNITS ARE CODED TO KNOW TO USE IT.
This is about as big of an addition they could have done to her kit and make Nova nearly mandatory for any Defection / Rescue mission!
1:08 it is cool the game add a pseudo null star on energy orbs gained by passive, so you can see how effective it is
if you have a high damage secondary and use secondary surge with it, you can overcharge the anti matter drop.
for those who don't see it, the second from the left orb has 2 nullstars orbiting it.
actually what arcane or you talking about. Virtuos Surge is for operator, are you thinking of Cascadia Flare for 480% damage for secondaries?
@@magic_cfw secondary surge, abilty cast, it multiples the next shoot based on energy, since nova have a lot of energy, you can get 7x easily.
@@UNGGodYT ohhh. that exists.
@@UNGGodYT It only boosts secondary dmg right? I prefer Cascadia flare as I believe that's just damage for anything, I could be wrong but it does only say damage. Anyway all my builds lack flow with 55 efficiency
@@zionlakins49 secondary surge is to do less attack since it multiples the damage, so less shoots, it is ideal for grimoire secondary shoot of plinx secondary as they do aoe damage. Flare is base damage, while surge is multiplicative , so it is more, but they balanced it by making only one shoot consumes all stacks. but just pointing it existe and can be full to do use on high resistant enemies since it is one stance of damage, so no time to adapt to it.
A wonderful guide as always
Silence absolutely shuts down enemies with Molecular Prime
PSA: AFK portal setups were nerfed, but officially kept. Each shot now eats 1/10th of a charge. You no longer have to fear getting banned using it.
which is weird to begin with.. you put a protal in your game that bullets can go through and DONT expect people to afk it??
i guess they didnt think about the possibility of looping with inf punch trough like that? hence the change@@joogled1839
This is one of my favorite reworks in the game I am so excited to play more of her
Nataruk+Nova feels like Caramelldansen should be playing somewhere.
Thanks for this guide, i used it as a template to make my own build.
I was playing around with the reworked Nova for the first time just last night and literally found myself thinking, "man, I wish I had a Kengineer video on this."
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Nova T-Posing at 6:45 is a scene I'll never forget.
Nova was the first frame I got other than Excalibur and she's the one I did the rest of the star chart with. I'm so happy to use her in endgame content easier now!
Thanks for the recommendation of the Kuva Hek. I haven't done any Lich beyond my first because I wasn't sure what to get next.
Worth noting that the 2 second delay on recasting null star is a bug that Pablo is aware of
Oh interesting. It felt like a balancing choice to me, given it's already pretty powerful.
I feel like DE have stated on every post asking for it to be removed that "it's intentional and will stay" the bug was how it also caused the same delay to be applied to all other abilities if attempted to be cast after null star - which has been fixed.
Taylor said it was intentional to prevent spamming...feels awful though and they didn't do that to other spammy abilities.
"a bug that Pablo is aware of" could be used to describe much of the game
An unfortunate change. I wish it could was a one handed cast, still very powerful but now feels clunky.
Always such good guides!
I knew I should expect it from you but still gotta shout out the correct use of quadratic instead of exponential for damage on the nourish + null star combo
2:25 RIP Neutral Nova, my beloved... No one got you like Nova mains did.
I haven't played Nova before the rework, so what exactly is neutral nova?
@@Leverian_VII Using roughly 70% Strength Nova meant that whenever you used your 4th, enemy speed remained neutral (neither fast or slow). Made Nova more rounded for general play, so you wouldn't accidentally bring your Slow build for a Def mission for example.
@@Leverian_VII When you had 70% ability strength (With just [Power Donation]), her 4th ability did not affect enemy speed. It'd simply give the double damage buff and explosion when killed...
We could bring her into any mission type we wanted without annoying our teammates.
You can still get like 5% slow/speed with power donation and overextended. A 5% change is basically neutral
@@tylerprime6741 Yeah and now you get a whopping 0% DR from her 1st that way. It used to be fixed at 5% per orb. Now it scales with strength.
My favourite build is 320+ strength Pillage Nova with AMD augment. With that Nova has great defences, complete armour strip, constant shield replenishment, and high AMD and MP explosion damage. It is also very active to play which I find more fun that the old boring pop max duration MP -> shoot build.
8:39 misery spawned on top of the teleporting nataruk arrows and instantly dissipated holy shit 💀
ohh, didnt know her 1 particles worked like Breach Surge particles! in that case also consider Vigorous Swap, it's additive with Arachne and has a nicer trigger condition imo
edit: you also missed something kinda big...at the moment, the augment isn't just applying heat dmg in an AoE, it's also adding an AoE null star hit. meaning the primary target takes 2x null star hits (the actual one plus the new AoE one) and the heat damage, for a total of 3 status procs, and enemies in the AoE take 1x null star shits + the heat damage. I suspect the extra AoE null star hit is a bug, but as a result the augment is enabling way more damage and status spread than it would if it just added an AoE heat wave. (see also the recent vid I made for more details ;p)
Oh, they reworked her 2 to not be a "weapon particle", but her 1 is one?
@@IceBen4444de smoking something
@@IceBen4444 Probably too much code and also: max 315% additive damage to orb that does 200,000 max damage + power strength, then explodes enemies for 300% blast proc on death or max. Plus MP. Plus Viral.
Yeah, if only LOL. Mostly sad about not being able to spam her 2 honestly.
@@theexurian1079 +crit, I kinda miss it xD
@@IceBen4444 does crit actually do anything? I know it shows up but not that it actually does double damage
For the Nova rework I had hoped she finally got proper portals where you can place start- and endpoint independently
3:50 if a frame doesn't have a "looting" ability (an ability that breaks containers to make searching for loot items in tilesets quicker by blowing everything up) this is actually an ideal looting ability when given the augment to put over an ability you don't require as much. as you can spam cast neutron star periodically to blast large areas of both enemies and containers in search of voca/medallions/void plumes and other nice things when paired with a range build.
Nova with neutron star and helminthed yareli blades is a personal favourite for Righteous Fire (PoE) at home
11:50 DomiNova least kept nova secret. So good
babe, new builds dropped
It makes me think the whole strength thing was a bug back then after this update but now idk. I'm looking forward to playing as her again she was my main as she was one of the 3 frames I had for the longest time when I got back into the game, so it'll be fun to play again. If Inaros update made him drastically more fun I bet it'll do the same here.
i also run eclipse as helminth, fun thing about that, even at 1k mobs sometimes i see how i get hit, yet it drops by 1-3 shields and insta regen back... nova is FUN 😂
i do too, double dr and aegis is op for her 😭
90%*90* DR plus Aegis sounds completely obscene and I love it
@@kindredbarkmaw2509 subsumed eclipse is 75% but yeah
@@kindredbarkmaw2509 me and a buddy use double use eclipse, aegis and prime redirection and it's actually busted
Btw, her 2 now have LoS check when previously it doesn't.
In exchange, range is moddable instead of the fixed 15m range, so overall it's a buff.
Been trying something really similar, but swapping Arachne out with Molt Efficiency, gaining around 26+ Null Star charges. With spamming Null Star the more stars seem to be doing more damage than the extra per star.
Maybe they can make wormhole count the projectile that goes in it past its first up a count based on if it had hit a enemy (say 10 times of going in it with a hit) so it works has tech but not for afk (or cap the effect to 1 portal?)
Thanks for this.
I hope they change the amount of charges to 5, to make it feel better for defection missions.
Usually you want to use the portal to jump too and defectors spawn in groups of 4, so you either need 2 portals, leave one defector behind or catch-up with them without using the portal.
Before rework it wasn't an issue, because portals were duration-based, but now I have a wonky build with infested mobility for this purposes, tried wrathful advance as a subsume, but it feels worse.
Alternatively, I'd like separate counters for player/NPC jumps or to have amount of charges scale with duration
Hear me out, there was a time where Nullstar did not give any DR.
Yes, Grandpa, thank you for sharing your war stories 😭
@@basedx. Son, you have to listen. Bad days, that were hard days ... back when i was your age, one had to use Quick Thinking and Flow Combo to stay alive as Nova.
@@eventhorizon9598 ik bro, rip T4S keys 😭
@@basedx. I was jealous of a friend, because he chose syndicates for EXT and Capture, while i had to sit min. 5 minutes into a Survival mission just to get 5 Rare Fusion Cores.
With the stealth focus build I would still go in favor of Perspicacity since it just lets you bypass locks because that invisibility just seems to really only to stealth at the locks.
She's amazing with the MIGHTY SEER
my build has arrived
Hmm I like running both Null Star and Molecular Fusions augments same time~
Im sad that i no longer can become a mini galaxy by spamming nova's 2
The changes are definetly good,. It's just that i kind liked that how you buidl nova was jsut completly differnt. espcially the neagtive strenght build. I am glad for these chagnes but i did lik eth build variety.
Remembering that Damage Quantisation exists... 0.0
Melee influence can instantly charge Antimatter Drop
Believe me, we do want to hear about damage quantization.
12:38, off-topic but I feel betrayed that someone said that Arcane Barrier was more useful than Arcane Aegis so that's what I farmed in the Jade event. Now every shield-tanking build I see has Aegis and I've only got a single copy 😭
Good news, the bigger part of Aegis (being unkillable by not-toxin for 12 seconds) works even at rank 0
@@TheKengineer Huh, hadn't thought about that. Thanks!
omg i didnt realize how recent this was lmao, 20 minutes ago
ive been running high duration low range to prevent particles from seeking on my "tank" nova - i subsume over her 3 and i dont need antimatter drop for damage, so it suits me fine. i tend to hover around 30 particles, which is major overkill at 180 strength, but its very comfy.
We can call the rework for her nova nova.
Ya know because nova means "new"...
Or in cyberpunk slang nova means awesome, so quite fitting too.
Thank goodness I don't have to make two separate builds to get the most Nova lol. Also, out of curiosity, what progenitor bonus are you using on your Kuva Hek?
So... Anti matter drop...
More damage from shooting it.
Scales with strength.
More damage for boosting it's speed by recast.
More damage for sending it through a portal.
And more damage to enemies that are primed.
I know it's not the voruna crit spaghetti code... But that's still a hefty amount of doubling.
If i recall correctly the 2 sec cast on nullstar is a bug and pablo said they ll fix it
I just get all my strength from shards for the new nova then I freed up mod slots and didn’t negateffect my duration range or efficiency then I have a separate nova for my nuke build
My "funball" bomb when shot into with my Lex Prime does upward of 562,000 damage. The average is 250,000. Plus I did not know weapon damage goes thru the portal..Omg thanks. My normal Nova is an absolute assassin. Peace all.
Still wish the homing range on her Null Star didn't scale with ability range (at least not without Neutron Star), because all of her other abilities arguably want some range, but increased range on Null Star just makes her DR less reliable, even if you can recast it.
As someone who mained Nova for like 3 years this is an amazing change. I already loved her kit as it was and now she has ascended to godly levels. She is much much tankier and enemies pose basically no threat with them being slowed down. She is so comfy to play hell I might just stick with her forever and forget other frames exist 😂
On top of that they released SYBARIS INCARNON which is probably my favorite underdog weapon in this game. This is the best update ever.
So Speedva no longer needs neg Strength. That alone makes her much more powerful all around and opens up a lot of build possibilities.
How does Antimatter drop work with beam weapons like torid? 4 ticks of the beam (incarnon) fills it (obviously not going to be topped)?
Insanely W rework
I personally would replace Intensify with Umbral Intensify
I have a question regarding Nova's viability as a loot frame. Given that she can both speed enemies up, and therefore increase spawn rates leading to higher kpm, would she outperform loot frames in resource gathering? Or is the added resource drop rate from loot frames like khora, nekros, ans hydroid more beneficial despite having a potentially lower kpm? Thanks!
Portals now consume charges when you shoot through them. 10 shots will take away one charge. Sadge.
Theoretically if warframe were real, AFK gameplay would allow adaptive enemies (AI or intelligent species) to 9/10 (or whatever) times capture the warframe if anything is exploitable... AND the chance you code a better afk mechanic than DE if they should use it is close to 0 (considering they would have more expensive infrastructure to drive complex AI)
interestingly the code might be able to be annexed by other larger behemoths of war and even the assets and the trade secrets therewith should it become very valuable...
I hope this is not too geeky look at why AFK is so frowned upon (I'm not an engineer (didn't finish my degree) but I have been obsessed with AI since 2018 and think deeply&/overthink it with a scientific flavour)
Why did her 2 get line of sight nerf? meanwhile all explosive guns still kill thru walls
What about incarnate bonuses from some months ago with Xaku whisper making the explosion very nasty, has that been patched out and no longer the go to?
The 2000% damage perk on the Phenmor, Laetum, and Felarx no longer interacts with Xata's Whisper in that way
@@TheKengineer Thank you. I'm very on/off type of player, so my builds tend to be quite outdated! I'll get to farming that sobek then :D
Can you make a guide on the new caliban plz? Thank you! :)
Nova is now *easily* the number one generalist frame I’ll always tell new players to get and heavily invest into. Also, Exergis is a big slept-on choice for her Antimatter Drop, especially since it’s (typically) not built for crit. I can charge its single shot
Wouldn't replacing augur secrets with primed flow and the two tau blues with tau reds give you more energy and more strength?
What're the mathematical odds of solving the practical problem that is, "how good are companions now?"
They were good before, now they're far better plus viable as damage sources and all Kavats/Vulpaphylas can now have Swipe for no downside at all, and also Crescent does Electric innately, and multiple additional giant damage multipliers, your pets can now close in on lower-end Exergis numbers every swipe
@@kindredbarkmaw2509 They just never had the synergies with my particular kits like Diriga, Nautilus, and the Hounds did. And with how much changed in general, it's hard to look at them and see exactly where they changed.
What Progenitor did u have for the Kuva Hek 5:58
people are at risk of being banned for afk gameplay? isn't that the main abusable part of octavia's kit or?
If you helminth on Frost's Avalanche with the augment Icy Avalanche to slow them, will that procc her passive.
So if Null Stars count as "weapons" (i.e. take generic +damage and elements) can you make them crit with Avenger/Adarza? Would using Thermal Transfer buff the Heat DoT?
So.. How many null stars is enough null stars? Before the update, I got 20-21. After, I now get 41. same build
Has anyone tested to see if new Antimatter Drop can 1-tap Archons yet?
Honestly, I can accept her numbers went up, but I don't agree there's that much difference between old Nova and new Nova. The passive's good but hardly game-breaking. Null Star is still better off with low range. Antimatter Drop is basically exactly the same. Wormhole is just as janky as it always was, the change from duration to charges means pretty much nothing. As for Molecular Prime, okay you can do both Speed and Slow with the same build now, but who's switching between the two? Either you like Speed and are sticking to that, or you play with Slow (normally solo) and will never touch the Speed.
The only change that would have made sense for her, changing Wormhole into a Portal Gun, is nowhere to be seen.
About that no afk rule, last night i had a guy on a macro on saryn on netracells, we waited 15 minutes before it got to the vault to use its sigil. I should have reported it but it was late and I just went to bed. Will DE detect it by them self or do they need the report to find these people?
Reports definitely help but DE does have automated systems, most likely tuned for serious offenders.
Did.... Did they remove the ability to stand on her antimatter orb mid flight??
I was under the impression that combining her Neutron Star and Molecular Fission augments would make the 1 automatically prime enemies in its aoe, but I haven't seen anyone talk about this and I haven't actually tested it myself... Can anyone confirm whether or not this works?
It for sure works, I use it in my general build. It chains like crazy thanks to the heat proc getting the 200% damage increase as well
why would you need strength over 150?
Nullstar titania got put down for this "direct damage buff"....
no kuva hek scattered justice on the shotgun build?
unfortunate.
5:59 Wouldn't you rather have Scattered Justice instead of Vigilante Armaments? Now that it's (finally) available on the Kuva Hek.
That would be a better choice, yup. My mistake
I wonder why there's 2 defunct loadouts...
Because they used to contain builds for Slowva which now exists with the same modding as Speedva.
@@tomj819 I saw the twitter post.
"null star is weapon damage so nourish works"
ffs of course nourish works with another random ass ability.
for new nova players: please dont use her slow on defense missions 🙏🙏🙏
No way are you able to lose your account for being AFK.
A source on this would be nice.
Should you go afk on purpose when playing in a squad?
No.
But no one should tell you how to play if you're completely solo.
You're sabotaging nobody.