Divine General | SP Nezha Status Nuke

by ninjase — last updated a month ago

Behold: the Scion of the Burning Wind, now before you in most courtly accoutrement. Featuring altered mod polarities for greater customization.

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APPLY CONDITIONALS

ENERGY: 225
HEALTH: 465
SHIELD: 185
SPRINT SPEED: 1.2

DURATION: 100%
EFFICIENCY: 100%
RANGE: 100%
STRENGTH: 100%

ARMOR: 265
Damage Reduction: 46.9%
EFFECTIVE HIT POINTS: 1,122

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Divine General | SP Nezha Status Nuke

INTRODUCTION

[Nezha] has one of the lowest base shields in the game, making it extremely easy to reset your 'shield gate' using abilities, allowing you to survive basically any amount of non-toxin damage up to level 9999. This is an alternative option to passive tanking as it uses less forma and frees up mod slots normally used on tanking so you can add more utility to your build.

UPDATE FEB 2024
The new augment [Divine Retribution] allows you to spread status among ALL speared enemies, then when spears end, all current status is compressed and multiplied in an "expedite suffering" like effect.

PLAYSTYLE

Activate Warding Halo (3) when you are surrounded by enemies (can use [Rolling Guard] for positioning so you don't die while you do this). This will let you absorb damage for 3s, converting it to halo health and give you a halo health of potentially into the hundreds of thousands. Upon breaking, warding halo gives 1s i-frames.
Optional if not subsumed: Keep [Firewalker] (1) active for passive heat procs and move speed
Cast divine spears (4) to lock down rooms of enemies for crowd control and allows [Divine Retribution] to spread all status effects. Shoot enemies with a status weapon to nuke all enemies affected by spears in 50+ metre range.
Cast blazing chakram (2) to debuff enemies. When cast on speared enemies, each chakram will multiply into two and the debuff effect will spread rapidly compared to un-speared enemies. Killing debuffed enemies also drops both health and energy orbs.
Whenever you lose shields, just cast abilities like chakram and divine spears to reset your shield gate.

Survivability
CASUAL TANK
In non-enduance (levels < 500), [Nezha] can tank using a combination of health, armor and damage reduction (90% from Warding Halo, 90% from adaptation). You will need to swap Stretch or Reaping Chakram for Adaptation, and add Arcane Guardian +/- Arcane Blessing over Molt Augmented/Eruption. For a full commitment Nezha Tank build, see here: https://overframe.gg/build/237159/

ENDURANCE SHIELD GATING
Survivability in Endurance (levels 500-1000+) is mainly by using i-frames generated by activation of warding halo (3s) and breaking of halo (1s), combined with shield gating as well as crowd control from Divine Spears:

At 185 base shields, [Nezha] has a default max shield gate duration of approximately 1s. You can either use [Catalyzing Shields] to reduce this to even lower to only 37 but sets the default max shield gate duration to 1.33s OR add an Azure Archon shield capacity shard to set max shields to higher up to 400ish, thereby increasing the max shield gate duration to 1.4s +. While it is somewhat harder to reset shield gating with azure shard, you are able to save a mod slot.
See here for quick video demonstration of shield gating principle (although slightly outdated info): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_SouSM_TmWU
With just ONE augur mod, 40% energy spent is converted to shields. At 45% efficiency, divine spears costs 155 energy, so 62 shield is regenerated, giving 1.33s i-frames if Catalyzing Shields is equipped but only 0.6s i-frames without Catalyzing Shields.
With [Brief Respite] and THREE augur mods (can be spread across your warframe and secondary weapon), 150%+120% energy is converted to shields. At 45% efficiency, a single cast of chakram costs 39 energy which generates 99 shield which gives 1.33s iframes with [Catalyzing Shields] and about 0.8s without. A single cast of Divine Spears however costs 155 energy which generates 418 shield, giving 1.4s i-frames when using an Azure Archon Shard.

Energy Economy
Nezha can sustain negative efficiency very easily due to Blazing Chakram and Equilibrium . Flow/[Primed Flow] is advised but not mandatory.
Blazing Chakram forces a 100% chance to drop a health orb on kill, and a 35% chance to drop an energy orb on kill, while [Equilibrium] converts health orbs to energy. This means every kill on an enemy affected by chakram gives 55 energy back and every 10 kills gives an average of 575 energy.

BUILD SPECIFICS

Duration
Low duration to neutral is preferred so Divine Spears will naturally end. Duration doesnt affect 3, and Blazing Chakram has a decent base duration of 15s. You could swap [Augur Reach] for [Transient Fortitude] to reduce duration even further.

Efficiency
Can be dumped due to [Equilibrium] converting health orbs generated by Chakram.

Range
Max range gives Divine Spears a 53m range, meaning you can spread statuses to enemies over 50m away.

Strength
Affects the debuff of chakram, size of warding halo and expedite multiplier of [Divine Retribution].

Flexible Slots
[Archon Vitality]: This is a FLEXIBLE SLOT, being only useful for doubling heat procs from [Reaping Chakram] and also giving a bit of extra EHP. If you prefer to focus on slash based weapons or electric based weapons, simply swap [Archon Vitality] out for [Augur Reach].
[Reaping Chakram]: This is another FLEXIBLE SLOT, being only useful for getting extra health orbs and increasing the damage of Chakram. If you prefer to focus on weapons, drop this for more Strength eg Transient Fortitude/Augur Secrets

ARCHON SHARDS

2 amber cast speed shards
1 tauforged azure Shield Capacity shard is optional - this boosts shield capacity so you maximum possible i-frame (without overshield) is closer to 1.3s rather than 0.7s at default. This means you could drop Catalyzing shields for more strength or reaping chakram.
2 Crimson Strength Shards.

HELMINTH OPTIONS

Roar - this is the preferred ability since Roar double dips DoTs like slash from weapons, triple dips electric from influence melee, double dips heat from chakram and triple dips the final Expedite from Divine Retribution.
Breach Surge - stuns enemies including Eximus allowing to do deal bonus stealth melee damage to them, and releases sparks on damage or death which 'double dips' with chakrams vulnerability debuff assuming both the initial spark and spark hit occur on enemies hit by chakram.
Silence - stuns enemies briefly and prevents Violence from dispelling abilties as well as eximus from using abilities
Ensnare and other grouping options
Gloom - crowd control and healing
Nourish - boost viral damage and multiplieis energy gain