Nova Warframe: Best Builds and How to Get It

by Resident Author | Oct 14, 2024

In Warframe, each Warframe is a playable character that generally has four abilities and a passive. With a variety of game modes and challenges, having a roster of Warframes built for different roles will be vital to your success.

Today, we cover one of the best frames for Beginners, a frame with tons of utility but limited requirements, and tell you how it works, its best build, and how to get it.

Nova: A Timeless Support

Despite being one of the older Warframes in the game, Nova still sees play among new and veteran players alike due to her incredible flexibility. Nova was recently given a light quality-of-life adjustment in the Koumei & the Five Fates update that streamlined the way her abilities work to make her easier to build for and smoother to play.

Molecular Prime, her fourth ability, is what she is most known for. This expanding ability makes enemies take more damage, and slows them down, scaling with strength. This ability can be hold cast to speed up enemies, instead of slowing them. Being able to manipulate the speed of enemies is utility unique to Nova that will be appreciated in any squad in any game mode.

However, Nova is far from a one trick pony. Her first ability, Null Star, offers up to 90% damage reduction in the form of particles that orbit you, that can seek out and damage enemies. Her third ability Wormhole does exactly what it sounds like, opens a wormhole in front of you that teleports you in the angle of your cast, with a distance based on ability range.

Antimatter Drop is her second ability, summoning a ball of energy that will follow your cursor and absorb damage you deal to it. On recast, the orb will be shot dealing large amounts of damage to enemies in an area. This ability was most impacted by the light rework, taking it from a situational tool to a weapon befitting her kit.