Talk:Nidus/@comment-173.52.91.50-20170127194055

I can see why people want low duration for Larva but I don't see why you would want low duration on Ravenous. Sure, Maggots explode every time the ability ends, but you're spamming Virulence anyway. You're detonating all the maggots. Some people seem to be getting the idea that maggots don't detonate until the ability ends or if Virulence hits them. If you think that's true, you either don't have Nidus, immediately copied off of some "pro-build" and just never did something different, or you don't pay attention. Plus it's a lot less efficient for stacking since you need to use Ravenous 3-5 times more often than normally. Then your Link duration is lower, meaning if you want to use it more often, you need to expend more stacks.

I'm not saying build ridiculously high duration, or else you're screwed when Larva gets stuck with an obstructed enemy, but low duration just blows your stacks. The only benefit is spamming Larva, but you don't need to spam it if you're already one-shotting everything with Virulence. Hell I have 95% powerstrength and I can still one-shot most enemies in sortie. I've been completely fine with builds only ranging from 90%-130% duration.