Talk:Nova (Warframe)/@comment-85.196.248.150-20140103013818/@comment-99.72.167.116-20140111075213

I can definitely attest to this. Strength is extremely overrated for Nova. Let me point out everything:

- Null Star: Who cares because NS sucks (and I won't bring it up past this), but Strength affects it.

- AMD: Power Strength will buff/nerf the BASE damage of AMD, but has NO EFFECT on the absorbed damage (which is the only damage you care about)

- MPrime: Strength will buff/nerf the explosion damage, but that, too, shouldn't be what you really care about.

Range on the other hand is exceedingly more useful:

- AMD: Larger explosion radius, which will indirectly buff the damage that all targets take because they are closer to the center of the explosion.

- MPrime: Larger priming radius and larger explosion radius, which buffs the damage because ^

The best way to build your Nova is to build for Efficiency and Range while completely throwing away the useless Duration and fairly useless Strength. Sure your MPrimes will be weaker, but MPrime could never kill anything at the high levels anyways. The double damage taken ahd halved animation speeds will be a godlike support ability for your team and if you really need a nuke, you have AMD to setup (which is currently the strongest ability in the game, and NOT because of your Warframe mods! Even an Unranked Nova can pull off a 200k+ Rank 3 AMD EASILY with high leveled weapons)