Nidus — Persistence God

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 · 12 parts · tick the lists as you go

Before you start

Put it on the Warframe

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.