Talk:Nekros (Warframe)/@comment-174.47.56.206-20140304192354/@comment-188.103.79.57-20140305005914

I don't recommend it. I'm not a Nekros fan, so I'll say that in advance. The skills aren't easy to use or powerful at all. The frame is rather squishy. Many players buy it for the looks and get incapacitated over and over. As far as I've noticed, Nekros is a support char for defense and survival due to his ability to spawn more items from corpses. He isn't viable for combat though. His abilities:

1) Soul Punch needs to be aimed exactly at an enemy and deals mild damage. Its greatest advantage is knocking down single heavy enemies if you aim properly, after a short cast time. You should use the cast time to simply shoot at that enemy instead if you're aiming anyway and in range.

2) Terrify is a useful skill in Survival and similar situations. It's an AoE spell that renders enemies helpless. In my opinion the best skill Nekros has. It costs a lot of mana (75) and cannot be spammed, so it is not remotely as useful as other crowd control skills. Especially not for noob play.

3) Desecrate is a utility skill that allows for more loot. This makes people look for Nekros in Defense missions as he can harvest a couple of mods. Spamming Desecrate pretty much disables all other spells due to horrid mana consumption. It is only useful with lots of enemies around (Survival, Defense, Mobile Defense).

4) Shadows of the Dead is a cool ultimate but since it requires you to kill enemies yourself, it is only useful if you can actually take down enemies by yourself. In which case you don't need that skill.

In addition, his cost is exaggerated, so new players can only obtain him for platinum. The things that are really appealing about this frame are animations and looks. If you are new to the game and don't care about really supporting your team or going solo on medium difficulty missions, this frame can be cool to watch. Otherwise, since you were asking about it, go for Rhino as your definite starter frame if you want the power without much skill.