Nova help

[Nova]

So I'm getting the prime vault pack for Nova because I won a youtubers giveaway.
What are these slow/fast builds for Nova is see people talking about and whats a good melee weapon for her?

[blox]

the speed is in relation to power strength. more strength the slower the enemy.

[Thomas]

slowva : max dur and more than 145% str
Seedva : use overextended and max dur. you can also go crazy with 10% str with power donation but its not recommended

EDIT : get neutron star and min range for tankva, 160str to use your 2 to blast everything

[Mint]

get up to 175 power strength and always use narrow minded. Get the augment that lets you recast your 1 and make sure you constantly have the max number of ball things from it (you get damage resistance per ball, but they will dissapear and attack enemies if the come close, which is why narrow minded helps). Use the rest of the mods for health and power duration and you should be fine. If you wanna go for speeding up enemies, it's basically the same but no power strength and use overextended.

[Nova]

Ok, i understand that now.
Whats a good melee weapon for her?

[Thomas]

dont use melee, get a nuke primary to use with her 2

EDIT: you don't want her star (skill 1) to fly everywhere everytime you strike an enemy. play range with nova since she is kinda soft

[Nibbie]

Her ultimate, Molecular Prime, creates an expanding area in which enemies take more damage, and more relevant to your question, move slower (and explode on death). To what extent each of these effect enemies is affected by her power strength.

A Slowva is one who increases the slow amount by increasing their power strength. This is useful for harder defensive missions, where enemies can pose a real threat to you or the objective.

A Speedva is one who does the opposite, due to the ability strength effect being additive instead of multiplicative like most other abilities. What this means is that with reduced power strength (via Overextend, a corrupted mod that increases power range but decrease power strength) you send the slow percent into the negatives, causing enemies affected to speed up instead. This is mainly used to speed up easy defensive missions by allowing enemies to get from spawn to your team's line of sight faster.

Both builds want as much duration as they can, since that increases not only how long her ult lasts in general, but since the range of it is based solely on a constant expansion, duration increases range as well. After that effeciency and survivability I guess, whatever you need that fits in your remaining slots.

As for a melee weapon, don't know if she needs anything in particular. Just keep in mind she is a pretty squishy frame, so hitting something with melee can be risk already regardless of what you bring.

[Nova]

So i guess i should use something long range?
I have orthos prime but would another polearm be better?
Also im currently crafting phantasma, would that be a good primary for her?

[Thomas]

I use a shotgun like hek, tigris or plasmor with her. personally I never actually use a melee with nova since her 2 can nuke a crowd

[Nolo Contendere]

Messaggio originale di Ractii_7:

So i guess i should use something long range?
I have orthos prime but would another polearm be better?
Also im currently crafting phantasma, would that be a good primary for her?

it.....MIGHT be

the thing with nova is her antimatter drop can do a truckload of damage if you shoot it enough with a high damage weapon (not a crit weapon, a weapon that does a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ of damage per shot like the tigris prime or opticor). I dont know how well the phantasma works with antimatter drop.

there are very few frames with synergy for a speciffic type of weapon; the few off the top of my head are ivara with projectile weapons (as opposed to hitscan) and ash with claw weapons (ie: venka prime) and Inaros with daggers, and even fewer frames with synergy with speciffic weapons (ivara and the zenistar is the only one i can think of honestly). The orthos prime, venka prime, nikana prime, and obex are all equally good on nova. if you like the orthos prime, you'll like it on nova.