Nidus
Nidus draws strength from the Infestation. It bolsters him with survivability as he deals high damage and provides crowd control. Plague your enemies.
Start a build
(Base stats)
- Health
- 675
- Shield
- 0
- Armor
- 350
- Energy
- 100
- Sprint
- 1
- Mastery
- 0
Values at max rank as reported by the game export · snapshot 30 Sept 2026
(Where it sits)
Across the 119 frames in the roster, Nidus sits in the top fifteen per cent for health (7th of 119) and armor (18th of 119).
It is thin on shield (118th of 119) and energy (108th of 119), which is what a build has to answer for.
It ships with 2 polarities already installed, plus Madurai on the aura slot, so that much of the board costs no forma.
(Loadout facts)
- Pre-installed polarities
- MaduraiVazarin
- Aura slot
- Madurai
- Helminth can subsume
- Larva
- Progenitor element
- Toxin
- Role
- Damage · Survival · Crowd Control
- Introduced
- 19.5
(Passive)
If Nidus is killed with at least _ stacks of Mutation, those _ stacks are consumed; this grants _s of invulnerability and restores Health to _%.
(Abilities)
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01 Virulence 40 energy
Rupture the ground with a damaging fungal growth that steals energy from each enemy it strikes. For every five enemies hit, the Infestation mutates, multiplying its destructive force.
Augment: Teeming Virulence
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02 Larva 25 energy Subsumable
Spawn an Infested pod that erupts with tendrils, latches onto nearby enemies and pulls them in. Enemies killed while held have a chance of generating a Mutation stack.
Augment: Larva Burst
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03 Parasitic Link 25 energy
Bind to a target with parasitic link. When cast on an ally, both the host and Nidus have their Ability Strength and Weapon Damage increased. Linked enemies take some of the damage inflicted on Nidus.
Augment: Parasitic Vitality
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04 Ravenous 3 mutation stacks
Gluttonous maggots swarm nearby enemies, feasting until they are hit with Virulence and burst with Infestation. The maggots benefit from Mutation and each enemy hit adds to the Mutation stack.
Augment: Insatiable
Costs are base figures, before efficiency.
Also written for Nidus, under no one ability: Abundant Mutation
How to get Nidus
The blueprint is a reward for The Glast Gambit; Cephalon Simaris sells a replacement if you lose it. The parts are farmed separately. Skipping all of it costs 225 platinum in the market.
Blueprint
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Cephalon Simaris, Complete The Glast Gambit | — | 100% |
Chassis
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | C | 14.29% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | A | 7.69% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | B | 7.69% |
Neuroptics
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | C | 14.29% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | A | 7.69% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | B | 7.69% |
Systems
| Where | Rotation | Chance |
|---|---|---|
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | C | 14.29% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | A | 7.69% |
| Eris/Oestrus (Infested Salvage) | B | 7.69% |
Chances are per reward roll, as the drop tables state them. Relic rows show the chance at each refinement; a relic drops Intact.
How to craft Nidus
- Credits, all in
- 70,000
- Build time
- 3 days 12 hours
- Rush, all in
- 125 p
- Or buy outright
- 225 p
Build time assumes the 3 components build at the same time in separate foundry slots — 12 hours for the slowest, then 3 days for the frame itself. One slot at a time comes to 4 days 12 hours.
Everything it eats
- 11,000Nano SporesDeimos · Saturn · Neptune · Eris
- 8,600Polymer BundleMercury · Venus · Uranus
- 3,500CircuitsVenus · Ceres · Kuva Fortress
- 2,400PlastidsPhobos · Saturn · Uranus · Pluto · Eris
- 2,000KuvaKuva Siphon Missions and Taveuni (Kuva Fortress)
- 14MorphicsMercury · Mars · Phobos · Europa · Pluto
- 10Mutagen SampleDeimos · Eris
- 6Orokin CellDeimos · Ceres · Saturn
- 3Neural SensorsJupiter · Kuva Fortress
- 3NeurodesEarth · Deimos · Eris · Lua
Under each resource, the planets whose missions drop it — or, where no planet does, how it is found, as the WARFRAME Wiki records it.
The tree
- 1 Neuroptics · 15,000 cr · 12 hours
- 1 Chassis · 15,000 cr · 12 hours
- 1 Systems · 15,000 cr · 12 hours
- 2,000 Kuva
- 10 Mutagen Sample
- 2,600 Polymer Bundle
- 1,000 Plastids
- 3 Neural Sensors
- 6,000 Polymer Bundle
- 5,000 Nano Spores
- 1,400 Plastids
- 3 Neurodes
- 6,000 Nano Spores
- 3,500 Circuits
- 14 Morphics
- 6 Orokin Cell
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Stats, ability text and art come from the game export. Polarities, ability costs, augments, subsume status and the crafting recipes come from the WARFRAME Wiki, CC BY-SA. Every figure, ranking and total on this page is computed from our own dataset.