Talk:Nova/@comment-58.173.183.157-20180218082255/@comment-162.255.57.251-20180610132915

18 is the max, at least until they add more duration mods. I've tried with every duration mod at the same time. (there are 4)

Personally, I'm not a fan of the capped duration build. 90% Damage Resist is great, but since you'll lose particles and be stuck at lower DR with no way to recast, it's hard to rationalize using those mod slots just to get a little bit more maximum DR. You can use Neutron Star to solve that problem, but that's yet another mod. Also, remember that Nova's DR only applies to health, not shields.

That's 4 mods for duration. You also need 145% Power Strength so you can get that 75% slow, but you can't use the +45pow/-27.5dur mod, so you either have to use 2 more mod slots (granted, one can be Exilus) or take a hit to your efficiency. No matter what, you also can't go above 130% efficiency because you can't use +60eff/-60dur mod, which makes it harder to spam Molecular Prime.

So you might end up with 4 duration mods, Neutron Star, Power Drift, Intensify, and Streamline. That leaves you with one more mod slot, so maybe +440% health to take advantage of all that work we just put into DR.

It's not a bad build, but by sacrificing the focus on DR you can easily get 175% efficiency, Primed Flow, Quick Thinking, and still have room for a quality of life mod - all while having a 10+ second Molecular Prime that costs 25 energy instead of 70. Plus you won't have to micromanage your orbs; just set them and forget them.

Different strokes, of course.