Talk:Larva Burst/@comment-30023704-20180127131008

In Simulacrum: Arid lancers lvl 60, oneshotted by virulence with 22 stacks, lvl 80 oneshotted with 52 stacks, lvl 99 100 stacks. In the meantime Larva Burst halves the HP of lvl 80s with 8 units in larva, and does just about 1/4 of HP to the 99s. Also keep in mind i don't have Augur Secrets, which would have otherwise be in place of Larva Burst, giving me a much better Virulence.

I don't get it, we have an amazing damage tool as Nidus, why should i ever care about this? Not even with a pull of 8 units it matches virulence, + you're not gaining stacks, you're not gaining energy (neg eff Nidus), you're using up a slot....

Even if it scaled with stacks it would have been awful, because you still are not gaining stacks, and consider the linked unit also casts a virulence when you do (doubling up the damage), and virulence also has interaction with the maggots. This augment is not even niche, it's plain useless. The fact that it has no interaction at all with stacks not only has little sense in Nidus' kit, but it ends up being pretty much detrimental.

Then again i believe Nidus is already amazingly strong as it is, he doesn't really need any augment