The psychic, mental manipulator, strongest minion frame - Nyx!
Release date: 2013-01-29
Passive: Nyx gains Thrive in Chaos whenever enemies within Affinity Range are afflicted with Confusion (from Radiation status effect or Mind Control), increasing her primary and secondary weapon Critical Chance by 40% per enemy up to a maximum of 200% from 5 enemies.
Mind Control - Nyx seizes control of a target’s mind, compelling them to fight for the Tenno cause. Controlled enemies have increased Radiation Status Chance. When Nyx shoots them, they also have an increased Damage Multiplier.
Psychic Bolts - Nyx unleashes a volley of psychic bolts that track and strike nearby enemies with telekinetic precision. When enemies are slain, additional bolts scatter to new targets. Striking foes weakens their defenses and transfers a portion to Nyx.
Chaos - Nyx releases a devastating psychic pulse, disorienting enemies in a wide radius and forcing them to turn on each other. Confused foes lash out at random factions.
Absorb - Nyx draws in and contains the damage dealt to her and the damage confused enemies deal to each other then converts it into a devastating radial blast. Following the blast, she enters a brief invulnerable state and gains a Weapon Damage boost proportional to the absorbed damage.
Acquisition: Main blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Component blueprints can be obtained from defeating Phorid on assassination missions that appear during an Infested Invasion.
I don’t really like Mind control, the enemies you would want to use it on most are eximus and they have overguard preventing it from working on them. They’re usually dead as soon as their overguard is broken too.
Psychic Bolts propagating is a nice update, still seems a little weird that it is a timed armor/shield strip. Doesn’t exactly strip overguard, but any amount of overguard transferred to Nyx will block damage from bleeding through when it breaks.
Would be nice if Chaos could proc Radiation on eximus units for Nyx’s passive, and to make it consistent with other warframe’s status based abilities. Not terrible for CC, especially if you know how enemies attack.
Absorb not draining energy for every hit was a needed change, and assimilate is also pretty good too, especially if you use your melee/copter to move around.
I do think the update for Nyx has been good overall, especially the changes to psychic bolts, and the updated assimilate also has the niche uses making it very useful for certain content.
The relics for Nyx Prime are permanently available inside of Railjack.