Whos better at farming additional resources?

[def.]

Nekros or Pilfering Hydroid?

[Dangeki]

Khora (im biased)

[Paroe]

If you can only choose a single one, Nekros hands down.

Nekros doesnt need power so you can sacrifice it easily for range and efficiency. The only real downside is that nekros optimal set up requires equilibrium and amalgam ripkas, since the amalgam ripkas gore effect is global.

Also both khora and hydroid are disruptive, although they are fun.

[Razer]

Think most people prefer Nekros. I dislike playing him. No, I hate playing him. He confuses everyone with the frikking ghost enemies and his casting animation for loot is annoying. Plus it only does that. Nothing else. It's actually the most boring farming ability in the game. I honestly dislike all of the resource bonus frames. The only one I can personally tolerate playing is Khora.

Don't forget to bring Chesa Kubrow.

Also, there's Atlas. The ability is subsumable, so you could put it on Khora for even more loot chance.

[Pakaku]

They farm differently (passive vs. focused) and are actually worth stacking because of how differently they farm

Khora and Hydroid, not so much

The only catch to Nekros is a priority on slash damage, unless you run the Amalgam Ripkas mod

[jonnin]

Whichever you enjoy really. Nekros is mobile, so you can run any type of mission and pop out extra loot as you go. The other 2 are stationary, so you do like defense or spawn-ins like survival where you can own a room. Nekros is also faster, as he hand-waves and the loot appears, while the other 2 ensnare the targets, making them hard to shoot and a chore to kill. Nekros kills first, loots after, and it makes sense, H&K ensnare first, then hunt them down to kill, which is annoying solo and any team helping needs to actually help -- most won't (not interested) or don't understand etc.

Personally I do hydroid on defense relic cracks or void crystal nodes and you get what you get in terms of team help / support, I don't troll for farmers.

[HappyCrasher]

Originally posted by def.:

Nekros or Pilfering Hydroid?

nekros and khora are far less annoying for look cuz hydroid spreads them out a ton and makes meleeing his tentacled victims annoying

[The Shaver]

Im biased to Khora. WIth a bit of investment, she can just spam 1 for millions of redcrits.
If you enjoy that playstyle, like Survival/Defense missions, Khora is really fun

[☼Solaire Of Astora☼]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Also both khora and hydroid are disruptive, although they are fun.

Not trying to white-knight but whay do you see hydroid as disruptive?

[Paroe]

Originally posted by ☼Solaire Of Astora☼:

Originally posted by Paroe:

Also both khora and hydroid are disruptive, although they are fun.

Not trying to white-knight but whay do you see hydroid as disruptive?

They disturb the general flow of gameplay by repositioning enemies for long periods of time. Limbos rift mechanics on enemies or Titania and Xakus (or was it revanent? I can never remember) single target CC that makes enemies invulnerable are disruptive in the same way.

I dont mean theyre bad for game health or unfun to play with, just that they slow things down.
edit: And i say this as someone who runs range/duration on my hydroid prime. A ton of people just ignore the CC'd enemies because they cant melee through them.

[CY13ERPUNK]

nekros with atlas petrify subsumed into his 4th

personally i run rolling guard/adaptation and the umbral set and give my nekros some blue shards plus arcane guard for more armor for survival , if i want shadows i use his #1

then chesa for those xtra rolls when despoil doesnt quite get them all

ripkas w/ amalgam if u wanna go super-duper xtra , but i dont usually

if im not trying to min/max loot , ill use silence or UWUburp as subsumes instead

used to love hydro back when his was xtra-loot as long as the tentacles hit them but did not need to deliver the killing blow , dunno how it is atm , love khora having the xtra kat but not a fan of her 4th , and def not a fan of spamming her whips , imho puddle-pirate>kinky-kat-lady

[Drago]

Nekros would usually be better. Used to like Hydroid for goofing around but part of that was his potential to heal with the augment - the curative part should have just been baked in - I find it best to consider his looting potential more as a helpful aid rather than a total replacement to dedicated looters.

[jonnin]

I liked old hydroid too ... puddle was a silly thing but it healed you while invulnerable, so it was not a total loss if you got hit by gas or something. The new stuff is OK but less interesting and unique, and feels like they just leaned into lootbot for him. I got a bad taste for khora with her chains dragging guys into walls etc where they never die and can't be killed. Maybe its better now, but I never got into that.\

Nekros is still probably top dog just because it works in all missions, not just stand there.

[☼Solaire Of Astora☼]

Originally posted by Paroe:

Originally posted by ☼Solaire Of Astora☼:

Not trying to white-knight but whay do you see hydroid as disruptive?

They disturb the general flow of gameplay by repositioning enemies for long periods of time. Limbos rift mechanics on enemies or Titania and Xakus (or was it revanent? I can never remember) single target CC that makes enemies invulnerable are disruptive in the same way.

I dont mean theyre bad for game health or unfun to play with, just that they slow things down.
edit: And i say this as someone who runs range/duration on my hydroid prime. A ton of people just ignore the CC'd enemies because they cant melee through them.

That is a fair opinion, I can't talk about disrupting other people since I always play solo (unless if I play with a friend or 2 or am in ESO to level stuff) due to me actually really liking Hydroid and Limbo.

[Howling-MoMo]

nekros because if you want more loot yours playing in a group of 4 for more kills per min and nekros power is just everything in an area where other loot frames require more setup which you wont get in random groups

[AYAYA]

The ideal setup is a Khora and a Nekros. Khora's strangledome kills enemies with slash damage, which turns them into two corpses for some reason so Nekros rerolls them twice. If you also get a Nova and a second Nekros you can make it real fast.
Also consider Ripkas with their unique augment.