Nidus
Nidus builds
Persistence God — Endgame
Endgame3–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathShards optional

Nidus — Persistence God

Endgame build. 700 armor. 500 damage per second, period. Ravenous outheals the cap.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

endgame / endurance, endurance, never dying, squad anchor

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

The Hatchling first

This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Open The Hatchling

Why this build?

Endgame for endgame / endurance, endurance, never dying, squad anchor

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

Play this in Steel Path
  • Persistence is the 2026 Nidus identity. Without 700 armor it does nothing.
  • Parasitic Vitality replaced Vitality. At 100 stacks and 200% Strength you are already in the 8k HP club.
  • Do not Helminth off Ravenous on this build. The heal is the other half of the cap.
  • Companion link is comfort. Enemy link is status immunity plus 90% redirect. Persistence does not stop statuses.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · solo level-cap

Specialised investment for hard content

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: No exalted weapon — Link a Panzer Vulpaphyla or a Hound. Companion link is QoL (buff survives them going down) but you lose status immunity — swap to an enemy when Viral/Toxin tiles get ugly.

Alternative if…

Instead: The HatchlingInstead: The Hatchling — Star ChartInstead: Persistence God — Steel PathInstead: Persistence God — Optimised

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  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/5 · required — 5 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth · optional — Not required
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · 3 shards · 5 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.

Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

  1. TodayPlay The HatchlingThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
  2. NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  3. After that3–5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  4. LaterTauforged Azure · ArmorHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  5. FinalPersistence God — EndgameEndgame · Endgame · 3–5 Forma

Farm the gap

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

  • 1 Tauforged Azure · Armor — 525 + 225 = 750. Persistence online without Fiber.Archon locked
  • 2 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — MandatoryArchon locked
  • 2 Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Bigger Vitality pools, bigger healsArchon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

  1. 30 minutes

    Farm Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, then Forma

    Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

  3. 120 minutes

    One Archon Hunt

    If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

Steel Path. You want to be the person who stands on the objective. Persistence is on, Vitality is on, the carpet is on. This is default Nidus in 2026.

Time to a playable copy
After The Old Peace (Persistence), one Tau Azure or Umbral Fiber, and Parasitic Vitality. A week of weeklies.
First mission to practice in
Steel Path Defense or a Netracell. You should be able to afk-adjacent on the point.

4 button drills · 14 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

0 of 3 done

Put it on the Warframe

0 of 3 done

Keep this up

Immortal loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

  1. 1Link (3) your companion the moment you have energy. Recast to refresh. Recast again after stacks climb if you run Bellicose.
  2. 2Larva (2) → Virulence (1) until stacks climb. Vitality scales the bar every stack.
  3. 3Ravenous (4) on cooldown. 75 × Strength health/s is more than Persistence will ever take.
  4. 4Enemy-link when you need status immunity. If you drop, Undying spends 15 stacks, 5 s god-mode, 50% HP. Get the carpet back down.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Link, immediately

    3

    On spawn, 3 your companion or the nearest ally. Recast to refresh. If you run Bellicose, recast again after your Mutation bar has jumped — Link snapshots Strength from the health pool you had at recast.

    You will know it worked when: A tether. Strength number higher with the link up. If it broke, you walked 40 metres away.

  2. 2

    Larva → Virulence until the bar is ugly

    2 then 1

    Same engine as Hatchling, now with Blind Rage. Energy refunds on Virulence hits, so Blind Rage is comfortable. Vitality grows the health bar every stack. You should see the number climb into the thousands, then the tens of thousands.

    You will know it worked when: Health pool jumping after each stack. Mutation 20, 40, 80. Armor still 700+.

  3. 3

    Ravenous on cooldown

    4

    Drop the carpet and stand in it. 75 × Strength health per second is more than Persistence will ever take (500/s). This is the other half of immortality. Do not Helminth this off on this build.

    You will know it worked when: Health ticking up while orange 500/s chip hits you. If health goes down net, the carpet expired or Strength is much lower than you think.

  4. 4

    When you 'die'

    If something bypasses you at 15+ stacks, Undying spends 15, 5 seconds of god mode, 50% health. Get the carpet back down during those 5 seconds. Do not sprint out of the tile like a maniac — plant, 4, live.

    You will know it worked when: A flash of invulnerability instead of the bleedout prompt. Stacks down by 15.

Common mistakes

  • Persistence below 700 armor

    It will look equipped. It will do nothing. Read the armor stat.

  • Helminthing Ravenous on this setup

    The heal is how you outpace the 500/s cap. Without it you are on a clock.

  • Never enemy-linking

    Companion link does not give status immunity. Viral plus Magnetic still exists. Press 3 on a heavy unit when the tile is disgusting.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Two Amber Casting Speed, two Crimson StrengthSpeed is still mandatory. Strength feeds Vitality’s health coefficient and the carpet heal.
  2. 2From here, pick a personalityTeeming Crit if you want the bow to nuke. Roar Plague if you want the tile to vanish. Abundant Scourge if you want 50k HP screenshots.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

17 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

  1. 1●nidusframe
  2. 2○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Primed Sure Footedmod
  4. 4○Blind Ragemod
  5. 5○Umbral Intensifymod
  6. 6○Parasitic Vitalityaugment
  7. 7○Hunter Adrenalinemod
  8. 8○Archon Continuitymod
  9. 9○Stretchmod
  10. 10○Umbral Fibermod
  11. 11○Arcane Persistencearcane
  12. 12○Arcane Bellicosearcane
  13. 13○Tauforged Azure · Armorshard
  14. 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  15. 15○Crimson · Strengthshard
  16. 16○Steel Pathunlock
  17. 17○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock

Depends on

What this loadout needs

Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.

Required

Recommended

  • Arcane Persistence

    missing · Finish The Old Peace

    At 700+ armor, incoming damage is capped at 500 per second. You lose shields — Nidus has none.

  • Arcane Bellicose

    missing · Buy it

    Strength from Health. Recast Link after stacks climb so it snapshots the new pool. Swap to Arcane Grace if you want 6% HP/s that outheals the 500 cap past 8,333 Health.

Optional

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

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ReworkMHBlacky · Jun 2026

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The 2026 rework bible. Passive through Ravenous, then the invincible Persistence tank, a 1500% crit gun platform, and the ability nuke.

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BuildsWarframeFlo · Jun 2026

Nidus Just Became A Monster After His Retouch!

Mutation stacks, every augment, a budget Hatchling, a no-Helminth tank, then health-maxxing and Helminth. Maps onto all five god builds here.

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BuildsBrozime · Jun 2026

New Nidus Rework is Monstrous | Build Guide

Shards first, then a full Persistence tank, then a Steel Path mission where he just stands there. Proof the 700-armor breakpoint is real.

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Strength

~279% with Blind Rage + Umbral Intensify + Growing Power

Duration

155% with Archon Continuity

Range

145–175% (Stretch, skip Overextended if you want Strength)

Nidus Prime is 525 armor. One Tauforged Azure (+225) or Umbral Fiber puts you over 700 for Persistence.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
254%
Duration
155%
Range
145%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
base
Capacity
56 / 67

2 Umbral pieces

Open slots

Weapon HUD

Arsenal numbers

Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.

Damage
35
Crit
12% × 2.00
Status
26%
Fire rate
9.58
Multishot
1.00
Avg hit
39
Arsenal DPS
376

Toggle common mods

Nidus mods

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove specters
  • ExilusPrimed Sure FootedKnockdowns drop the carpetDaily login 400+ / trade
  • 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 2Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 3Parasitic Vitality4% max HP per stack. This is the health pool.Steel Meridian / Perrin · 25k
  • 4Hunter AdrenalineEnergy from the 500 dps Persistence still lets throughCetus / Ghoul bounties
  • 5Archon ContinuityDuration + Toxin abilities apply CorrosiveKahl / Archon Hunts
  • 6StretchEnemy drops
  • 7Umbral FiberSkip if you already Tau-Azure to 700The Sacrifice / rare

No exalted weapon

Link a Panzer Vulpaphyla or a Hound. Companion link is QoL (buff survives them going down) but you lose status immunity — swap to an enemy when Viral/Toxin tiles get ugly.

Arcanes

Arcane Persistence

At 700+ armor, incoming damage is capped at 500 per second. You lose shields — Nidus has none.

Roathe, La Cathédrale · 5 Maphica (The Descendia, The Old Peace)

Arcane Bellicose

Strength from Health. Recast Link after stacks climb so it snapshots the new pool. Swap to Arcane Grace if you want 6% HP/s that outheals the 500 cap past 8,333 Health.

Market / The Descendia

Archon shards

  • 1Tauforged Azure · Armor525 + 225 = 750. Persistence online without Fiber.1 · Netracells / EDA
  • 2Tauforged Amber · Casting SpeedMandatory2 · EDA / Bird 3
  • 3Tauforged Crimson · StrengthBigger Vitality pools, bigger heals2 · Netracells
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