Nox

Grineer

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Nox
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Toxic to the core, Nox lobs exploding poison goo at enemies. Rupture his helmet to expose his head but beware of the unleashed noxious gasses.
General Information
Faction	Grineer
Tile Set(s)	Grineer Asteroid Grineer Forest Grineer Galleon Grineer Shipyard Orokin Derelict Plains of Eidolon
Type	Ranged
Weapon(s)	Chemical Launcher (similar to the Stug) Sheev (when disarmed)
Abilities	cloud upon death Charge Attack
Statistics
Affinity	500
Overguard	5
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Cloned Flesh	350
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Alloy Armor	250
Dmg. Reduction	45.454545454545%
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Body Multipliers	Head: 2.0x
Base Level	1
Level Scaling
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Selected Level	––
EHP	––
Steel Path EHP	––
Miscellaneous
Codex Scans	3
Voice Actor	Kellen Goff
Introduced	Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)
Drops
Mod Drops	Redirection 0.58%  Guardian 0.58%  Stretch 0.23%  Steel Fiber 0.58%  Toxin Resistance 0.23%  Aviator 0.58% 50  Endo 0.23%
Resource Drops	Region Resource 7.00%
Official Drop Tables
https://www.warframe.com/droptables

CODEX

Toxic to the core, Nox lobs exploding poison goo at enemies. Rupture his helmet to expose his head but beware of the unleashed noxious gasses.

The Nox is a type of Grineer "Chem Strike" unit. They wield a poison-filled heavy gun that shoots blobs of toxic goo which attach themselves to targets before exploding. Bloated and disfigured by the very chemicals they wield in combat, these vicious warriors wear crude, heavily armored suits that both protect them and serve to contain the noxious clouds they emit. Breaking the glass cover protecting their heads both releases this poisonous aura and exposes them to headshots. Beware of their final moments however, as they explode into a lethal cloud upon death.

Behavior

• The Nox wields what is basically a primary version of the Stug. As such, its projectiles have a low range and arc, which causes the Nox to have difficulty targeting his enemies from range.
• To counter its ineffectiveness at range, the Nox can charge forward, causing all in his path to be knocked down as well as allowing him to close the distance for his gun to be more effective. They only do this as a last resort, however, once their glass helmets are destroyed.
• Combined with the ability to emit a constant aura of damage when the helmet is broken, the charge allows the Nox to knock down Tenno, then deal damage directly to their health.

Notes

• The Nox's projectiles stick to the player and inflict a slowing effect, similar to a status effect, though less severe. The goo can be shaken off by rolling.
• The Nox has very high Damage Reduction on his entire body, minus his head. Even when all of his armor is removed, damage is only marginally improved (e.g. Dread, doing 79 damage with full armor, does 240 damage with no armor).
  • Despite his head being exposed when his glass helmet is broken, his armor rating will still apply, making headshots the only significant use for corrosive procs.
  • Damage Reduction includes True damage type, thus making Noxes resistant to otherwise deadly stealth takedowns.
    •  Covert Lethality insta-kill is still applied.
• The Nox would not become alerted when damaged, including stealth melee-attacks and silent ranged weapons.
• As Sentinels are not immune to damage while in Undertow, killing a Nox can prove fatal for them as the toxin will continue to proc and eat away at their health and due to a bug they cannot heal with  Curative Undertow. It goes without saying, but it's also dangerous for the Hydroid who can emerge from the pool and be procced with the toxin as well.

Tips

• Breaking his glass helmet will allow headshots and normal damage, but allows the Nox to emit a constant aura of Toxic damage, similar to a Toxic Ancient but at all times rather than at certain periods.

Trivia

• The name is a shortened version of Noxious, meaning poisonous or very unpleasant.
• The Grineer letters on its shoulders say "Noks" and the letters on its gun say "goo"

Bugs

• All enemies in Update 21.0 (2017-06-29) appear to have strange AI issues, where they will detect and point at foes through walls. This causes the Nox to fire and charge at enemies at the other side of walls or doors, often causing him to simply bump into them.
  • Noxes know location of invisible players and will fire at them when fully alerted.
• A Mind Controlled Nox will still hurt players with his toxic cloud when his helmet is broken.

Patch History

Update 22.10 (2018-01-25)

• Nox enemies will now react when being damaged by a Stealth attack. Before they would remain not alerted after taking some stealthy damage.

Update 22.0 (2017-10-12)

• Cranked down the intensity of Nox’s helmet smash and explosion upon death sound FX.

Update 21.5 (2016-08-16)

• Fixed certain enemies not working properly with Undertow FX (Nox for instance).

Update 21.0 (2017-06-29)

• Introduced

Last update: Hotfix 22.16.3 (2018-03-16)