Talk:Nyx (Warframe)/@comment-76.250.72.96-20150421064839/@comment-90.34.210.154-20150424120448

You've got to know that under chaos, the affected enemy will fire on the closest target, so it's important that you do not wait until they are glued to the pod. If the enemy still fires at the pod, your timing is off. If you continue spamming chaos every 8s approx., they never get close to the pod... even unaffected enemies will be stopped because they will target the others due to their raised threat levels.

Complete that with a judicious use of mind control to create secondary chaos: target the most armored unit in a group and everyone around it will turn against it, locking that group for a good 10s.

If somehow something get through, you can use pacifying bolts to stun it while you dispatch it, or while you refresh chaos (Remember that the bolts target the enemies in your field of vision).

Absorb can be used to knock down in a pinch, to replenish your shields, to absorb incoming rockets, or to draw fire from your mates (very useful but you must be very careful when leaving that state, and time it with chaos if you dont want to get downed, and don't use it when there are still energy leeches or nulls). You can use it to dispatch the numerous small stuff but it will not work well with the big units, especially if you gimped on power strength (80% is best imho) to increase range (235% for best effect :-) ) and efficiency.

Enemy radar is very useful to maximize the impact of absorb, or to decide whether to use chaos, mind control or p. bolts.

It's important to understand that nyx is *CC*, you do not want close and personal with the enemy, so equip a good long range weapon and concentrate on locking the enemy down while picking them off from afar.

Prioritize the targets correctly: energy leech/parasitic (you're a caster you need energy to work, remember their leech range is 15m so put space between you and them) > nulls (do not let them come close) > ancients/scorpions/drahk masters (they can drag you into the crowd or stagger you from afar) > every other big units > small stuff

Just like any other caster, it is important to use a high flux and quick thinking, to be able to absorb the occasional stray bullet or rocket....

That's all I can think of for now, and it works quite well usually.