Almighty_Jado Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 I’ve been a psychotic Nidus fan since our favourite Nasti Boi came out, so naturally a mod set that compliments him and his pupper seemed really awesome to me. Thematic awesomeness aside, how good is the mod set in terms of practicality? On paper alone it doesnt look anything spectacular, but I haven’t managed to acquire 2 of the mods yet. Anyone out there tested the usefulness of the mods? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rawbeard Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 those mods look good, if we only had like 5 more modslots to work with. as is just stuffing your frame, weapons and pupper with mods that are NOT conditional with marginal benefit seems like the way to go, considering how insanely fast paced most of the gameplay is. eruption might be worth your time, since it's on the charger and does scaling damage of a mostly favorable type Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eoc203 Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 I'm also a big, big Nidus fan, but I'm afraid I have some bad news for you if you expected synergy between Nidus and that mod set... Maybe I'm just naive, but personally, when I heard the announcement about these maggot-mods I thought I could use them like Nidus' other maggots. Apparently that is not the case however: 1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Lei-Lei_23 Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 It gives some AoE utility for the Helminth Charger outside a somewhat bland kit it had since its release. Also, it somewhat synergizes with Proboscis and with warframes that can vacuum enemies into a single spot to proc Strain Eruption. Could just be a case by case scenario if you choose to use it. Might work best with a buffer frame that can boost the Helminth Charger’s overall damage. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallisticSalsa Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 There's still potential. 160% crit chance is nothing to sneeze at. Passive healing, passive aoe, passive pet damage. Melee nidus with pack leader might be very strong with this set. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnKable Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 Full damage and zero utility helmint charger is a beast with this mod set. The real problem is still the awful dog AI and pathing, but the potential is there. Your helminth should be something like: Maul, bite, 2 set mods, link armor and health, 2 of the new +element+status mods and something else hits like a truck... when he does attack. no special sinergy with Nidus, except the heal that is welcome Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BallisticSalsa Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 3 minutes ago, JohnKable said: no special sinergy with Nidus, except the heal that is welcome It has aesthetic synergy. The most important kind. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JohnKable Posted December 22, 2018 Share Posted December 22, 2018 1 minute ago, BallisticSalsa said: It has aesthetic synergy. The most important kind. Sure that. With the new skin I think he looks great aside of any warframe. Its like the warframe version of chaos juggernauts from warhammer... The problem is that it is basically better than other companions only at damage, so you should really go for that. And since I like to have more utility I use him less than I want to Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JakCrow Posted December 23, 2018 Share Posted December 23, 2018 I havent been able to get the strain cysts to spawn on my charger at all. It would appear the mods are bugged along with much of the Fortuna 2 update Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Wehr_Wolff Posted December 26, 2018 Share Posted December 26, 2018 So the Strain Eruption doesn't work on the maggots spawned by Nidus? Because that would make the set actually good Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Almighty_Jado Posted December 27, 2018 Author Share Posted December 27, 2018 UPDATE: I finally got the whole set. Honestly, not too bad, but I think isn't as effective as other builds that are out there. I probably won't be using the entire set, but I admit that using the two Helminth mods on my charger gives it the ability to dish out some incredibly helpful CC (maggots drawing aggro, stunning enemies by crawling on them, stagger from explosions, etc). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Emurdah1 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 perhaps instead of trying for synergy with Nidus, how about Saryn or Khora? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr.SpookSpook Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 24 minutes ago, (PS4)Emurdah1 said: perhaps instead of trying for synergy with Nidus, how about Saryn or Khora? Sure, seems a lot more logical since they are completely unrelated. Why not Limbo then? Or Titania? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Genesix6 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 The problem with kurbow, helminth, and kavat is that they have only 10 mods slots, you need to have mods for survival and utilities at the same while sentinel doesn't experience this issue the reason why is because they have weapon that can be modded as well Honestly it looks cool, but kurbrow, kavat and helminth really need to have weapon mods so we can use this mods to the fullest Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Emurdah1 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 5 hours ago, Mr.SpookSpook said: Sure, seems a lot more logical since they are completely unrelated. Why not Limbo then? Or Titania? Titania might be fun gonna have to try that one, not sure how limbo would work with it though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
EmberStar Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 I got the whole set. Played around with it for a bit, including on my Infested themed Nyx (with the Carnifex skin.) I thought it might help there since she doesn't have a tone of innate regen. The set is yet another that (in my opinion) sounds neat on paper and utterly underwhelms inside missions. The maggots are very short lived, and as with all pet powers it just goes off where ever it happens to be standing at the time. Since non-Sentinel pets frequently bug out and get stuck on completely smooth floors, this means that the maggots will often die before they can reach anything to gnaw on it. Only one maggot seems to attack a given target. If you can group enemies up, the blast will overlap. Otherwise, it does a relatively small amount of damage to a single target. Maggots that aren't latched on seem to do basically nothing. According to the wording on the mod, it also does a percentage of the target's *current* health when they explode, meaning unless you've got a Bombard surrounded by a bunch of low health mooks, it's unlikely to ever actually kill anything. The damage and critical bonus buffs increase as more cysts spawn on the Helminth. They stay at max value for a few seconds, then drop back to zero when the cysts drop off. There's an additional short delay before they start to regrow. So the vast majority of the time the buffs are at a *lot* less than their maximum value. The healing from Strain Consumption is barely noticeable. So barely noticeable that I'm not even completely sure it works at all. It's possible that maggots that explode don't leave bodies to be consumed. Even if they do, the 5m range is quite short. Honestly, you'll get more consistent and reliable results by equipping the Hunter set mods that allows the pet to heal you when it does damage, and the crit-link one. And you don't have to worry about modding your Warframe and melee weapon to make use of those. And if you don't want to use those, just equip Arcane Grace on your Warframe and potentially get healed by any attack that doesn't instantly kill you. The Strain set is different, and very thematic. And (in my opinion) kind of completely useless. 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)Emurdah1 Posted January 21, 2019 Share Posted January 21, 2019 that's sad, I hope they patch it to work better I'm trying to make a Saryn/PUP build and that makes it sound like mecha with a regular kubrow would work better at the moment Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
(PSN)G-Dubsupreme Posted January 31, 2019 Share Posted January 31, 2019 On 2018-12-27 at 6:06 AM, Almighty_Jado said: UPDATE: I finally got the whole set. Honestly, not too bad, but I think isn't as effective as other builds that are out there. I probably won't be using the entire set, but I admit that using the two Helminth mods on my charger gives it the ability to dish out some incredibly helpful CC (maggots drawing aggro, stunning enemies by crawling on them, stagger from explosions, etc). Does these mods interact with Titania's Full Moon buff. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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