Nyx

• Nyx fully inhabits the mind of an enemy within a range of 20 / 40 / 50 / 60 meters, forcing them to fight for her team over a duration of 15 / 20 / 25 / 30 seconds.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Cast range is affected by Ability Range.
  • Target is initially stunned for a brief duration.
  • Mind-controlled targets are immune to friendly fire, though the friendly damage dealt to them while the ability is active will be accumulated and then dealt to them once the ability ends. Unalerted enemies that are mind-controlled will be susceptible to Stealth Damage Multipliers from melee attacks over the ability's duration.
    • Critical hits are not taken in consideration to this damage.
  • Only one target may be controlled at a time.
  • Mind controlled enemies will not count toward Interception nodes, neither blocking nor contributing to the capture progress.
  • If the target dies before Nyx finishes her casting animation, energy used for Mind Control will be refunded.
• Mind-controlled targets use their abilities to the benefit of the Tenno and to the detriment of their former allies. For example:
  • The mines dropped by Mine Ospreys (including mines placed before the ability was used) will not hurt Nyx and her allies, but will hurt the Osprey's former allies.
  • Security Cameras will ignore everything and never go into the alerted state. Turrets can behave unpredictably (using Mind Control on Turrets will make them fight for Nyx, but only when a camera activates them; in other words, Turrets can deactivate if the camera is destroyed or goes into the unalerted state.)
  • Shield Ospreys will project shields on allies and defense objectives, although it is usually destroyed rather quickly. 200 shields are added to an ally's or objective's maximum shield capacity, and shields will be instantly recharged upon entering the Osprey's range (Shields will regenerate like normal if damaged while already being buffed by the Shield Osprey.)
  • Brood Mothers, Drahk Masters, Hyekka Masters, Fusion MOAs, Seekers, Sniper Crewmen and Techs will spawn units that fight for the Tenno's side until the ability ends.
    • Drahks and Hyekkas spawned by their mind controlled masters will become hostile again if the duration ends, or the master is killed.
  • Mind-controlled Ancients (Excluding Sanguine Ancients which have no passive buffs) will grant their Auras to nearby Tenno:
    • Massive damage resistance, Immunity to knockdown and stagger effects when next to Ancient Healers and Corrupted Ancients.
    • Magnetic damage resistance when next to Ancient Disruptors and possible ability resistance (perhaps Eximus damage or effect reductions).
    • Toxic resistance when next to Toxic Ancients.
• Comba and Scrambus disruption auras will remain active, though their helmets can be shot off to disable the auras even while they are being Mind Controlled.
• While Nullifier Crewmen can be Mind Controlled after their nullification field is disabled, they will dispel themselves upon it regenerating; the Projector Drones should therefore be destroyed.
• Nyx's disarming passive will only trigger after the duration ends, assuming the enemies survive the stored damage.
  • Enemies already disarmed by other abilites will stay disarmed if Mind Controlled afterwards.
• Mind Control will not work on bosses. However, the ability still applies a short duration stun.
  • This is also true for Syndicate hunters and Lynx Turrets.
• Mind Control overrides the effect of Chaos on the selected target but will not be overridden by Chaos.
• Mind-controlled enemies with armor will appear as though they have no armor (yellow health bar is replaced by red health bar). The effect is purely visual, incoming damage is still reduced by armor, as all allied health bars do not reflect whether the unit is armored or not.
• Eximus enemies under Mind Control will focus their attacks on enemies instead. They will still project their damaging special auras (such as a large fire wave) but these will not damage allies over the ability's duration. In particular useful terms, Arctic Eximus will slightly slow down all other enemies in range while also providing protection for itself with it's snow-globe like shield.
  • Eximi will not however grant nearby allies elemental damage or resistance, unlike when they are surrounded by enemies.
• When Mind Control is cast, an energy tether briefly links Nyx to her target as a visual indicator. The mind-controlled target will be marked with the symbol of the Lotus for the ability's duration along with waves of energy flowing over them, colored by your energy color.
• Toggleable since Hotfix 15.5.5. Recasting Mind Control without a target prematurely ends the effect, while recasting on a new target releases the old target.
• Enemies under mind control can be healed by friendly sources, to the benefit or detriment to the team:
  • The Rejuvenation Aura can heal enemies that are currently mind controlled.
  • Blessing will fully heal the mind controlled target.
  • Haven will partially heal the target.
  • Curative Undertow will heal targets on the pool.
• Radiation will prematurely end the ability when it procs on Mind Controlled enemies.
• Rarely, Mind Control will reverse an enemies ability to set off alarms, and if by a rare chance the enemy decides to "activate" already activated alarms, the enemy will actually turn them off (including lifting a complete lockdown into a system wide alert instead). (not sure if this happens anymore as it was already rare before)
• Safeguard can be cast on mind controlled targets.

Main article: Mind Freak

Mind Freak is a Warframe Augment Mod for Nyx that makes enemies under the effects of Mind Control deal additional attack damage.

• Mind Control can be used to both neutralize powerful enemies like Heavy Gunners and Techs, and use them as temporary allies.
• Leech Eximus Enemies can make powerful allies as they can both (usually) deal large amounts of damage with their extended survivability, and withstand most damage taken that is returned after the ability expires.
• In Defense missions, casting Mind Control on the last enemy in a wave will buy time for the objective's shields and health to regenerate; this is more useful with improved Ability Duration.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 91.8 seconds.
  • Reduces range to 20.4 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 6.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 12 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases range to 168 meters.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Strength has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Increases cost to 38.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 21.75 seconds.

• Mind-Controlled targets will still complete Interception objectives, and will complete them for the enemy team.
• If a Boiler is Mind Controlled, and receives fatal damage whilst the protection is active, When the ability ends it will spawn a mass of multiple infested spawn pods, possibly crashing clients.
• The shots of Mind-Controlled Tar-Mutalist MOAs will still injure Nyx and her allies.
• If Bursa was Mind Controlled in downed state and then hacked, disabling Mind Control makes it hostile again. Killing Bursa second time doesn't leave a body.

• Nyx launches 3 / 4 / 5 / 6 bolts of telekinetic energy that seek out enemies, each dealing 60 / 120 / 180 / 200 Slash damage with a 10% status chance on impact and ? / ? / ? / 15 Radiation damage with a 50% status chance in an area of effect.
  • All damage is affected by Ability Strength and body-part multipliers.
  • Slash status effect causes a Bleed DoT on the target that inflicts 35% of Psychic Bolt's base damage per tick for a total of 7 ticks over 6 seconds. The Bleed damage bypasses armor and shields.
  • Radiation status effect causes the affected enemy to attack the nearest unit and become targeted by their allies for 12 seconds.
  • Bolts bypass obstacles in the environment.
  • Psychic Bolts will not target enemies behind obstacles in the environment unless Nyx has line of sight, or unless the enemy is aware of Nyx within a short period of time (e.g., an enemy that spots Nyx and runs out of view can still be targeted by Psychic Bolts if the ability is used within a small time frame).
• Targeted enemies will briefly radiate energy as a visual indicator, and an audio cue will be played.
• Psychic Bolts is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.

Main article: Pacifying Bolts

Pacifying Bolts is a Warframe Augment Mod for Nyx that gives Psychic Bolts the ability to temporarily stun enemies.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 12.5 energy.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Reduces initial damage to 80 per bolt and area damage to 6 per bolt.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases initial damage to 824 per bolt and area damage to 61.8 per bolt.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases initial damage to 674 per bolt and area damage to 50.55 per bolt.
  • Increases cost to 77.5 energy.

• Nyx causes enemies within 15 / 20 / 22 / 25 meters to perceive their allies as Tenno for 10 / 15 / 20 / 25 seconds. Affected enemies will indiscriminately attack whoever is closest for the duration.
  • Duration is affected by Ability Duration.
  • Radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Initially stuns enemies for a brief duration.
• Affected enemies are given raised threat levels.
• Will only stun Bosses and has no other effect on them.
• Shield Ospreys will stop projecting shields and simply close up and fly around until the effect is over, and unaffected Shield Ospreys will not shield affected enemies.
• Ancient Healers will still emit healing pulses but will not heal anything but themselves.
• The auras of Eximus units will negatively impact everyone within range, ally or enemy, for the duration of the ability (for example, the aura of the Arctic Eximus will slow down anyone in range).
• An illusion of Nyx wielding a Braton (or a Braton Prime in the case of Nyx Prime) is visible on affected units, reflecting how enemies perceive each other.
  • The illusion will use whatever Alternate Helmet Nyx has equipped, if any.
  • If Chaos is cast upon a ceiling-mounted Turret or Security Camera, the illusion will be upside-down.
• Unlike Mind Control, enemies affected by Chaos will target Tenno if they are too close, and their attacks can still harm the team. Likewise, cameras and drones will still be able to detect players with normal detection behaviors.
• Chaos can be ended prematurely by killing all affected enemies.
• Can be recast while active; however, enemies affected by Chaos cannot be stunned by additional casts and does not refresh the duration of Chaos on affected units.

Main article: Chaos Sphere

Chaos Sphere is a Warframe Augment Mod for Nyx that allows Chaos to create a circular radius that affects enemies entering within its range for a fraction of its duration.

• This ability will help you a LOT against large numbers of enemies, especially in the Orokin tilesets.
• Chaos halts the damage mitigation supplied by Ancient Healers and Corrupted Ancients, allowing the Tenno to dispatch of groups protected by those units without having to deal with the Ancients first.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration increases duration to 76.5 seconds.
  • Reduces range to 8.5 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces cost to 18.75 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 10 seconds.
• Maximized Ability Range increases range to 70 meters.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Strength has no positive effects on this ability.
  • Increases cost to 116.25 energy.
  • Reduces duration to 18.13 seconds.

• If cast near an Infested Tumor, Nyx's projection will be substantially larger than it should be.
• Swarm-Mutalist MOAs swarm will still aid infested even whilst chaos is active (Possibly intended)

• Nyx enters a meditative state that allows her to absorb incoming damage and become completely immune to all forms of crowd control. A passive damage threshold is created that increases by 160 / 170 / 180 / 200 every second (e.g., an Absorb lasting 10 seconds will inflict a minimum of 2000 damage at max rank). This threshold has a minimum damage potential of 800 / 900 / 1000 / 1500. If the total amount of absorbed damage is greater than the damage threshold when Nyx leaves her meditative state, all absorbed damage is inflicted as Magnetic damage to every enemy in a 5 / 7 / 8 / 10 meter explosion of psychic energy. Otherwise, the damage threshold is inflicted as Magnetic damage over the same area.
  • Minimum damage and passive damage gain are affected by Ability Strength but absorbed damage is not.
  • Only 10% of all incoming Magnetic damage can be absorbed.
  • Explosion damage bypasses obstacles in the environment and diminishes with distance. Affected enemies suffer a Knockdown.
  • Magnetic damage is effective against Shielded and Proto Shields, but less effective against Alloy Armor.
  • Magnetic status effect reduces a target's current and maximum shields by 75% for 4 seconds.
  • Explosion radius is affected by Ability Range.
• Absorb drains 7 / 6 / 5 / 4 energy per second, and will remain active so long as Nyx has energy. An additional 8 energy is drained for every 1000 damage that's absorbed. Absorb will end if Nyx runs out of energy, or if deactivated by pressing the ability key again (default 4 ).
  • Activation energy cost and drain cost from damage are affected by Ability Efficiency, and the channeling energy cost is affected by Ability Efficiency and Ability Duration.
  • Energy Siphon is deactivated while Absorb is being channeled.
• Nyx is immune to all effects by enemies. This does not include the energy drain from Energy Leech Eximus, which can still constantly drain energy as they are near.
• Casting Absorb in the air will cause Nyx to stay suspended until the skill is deactivated.
  • Absorb will stop any movement achieved prior to casting the skill when used in the air.
  • Even after deactivation, no momentum will carry over. Instead, you will drop straight down.
  • This does reset the directional melee, however, and it may be used again to regain some momentum. Used in this manner, Nyx is able to "fly" across tiles so long as she has energy to cast Absorb.
• After not receiving damage for a short amount of time, the damage counter resets. This will not reset Absorb's total accumulated damage, however.
• Nyx's threat level is raised while Absorb is active.
• Shields are allowed to recharge freely while in the absorb state, whether Nyx is being attacked or not.
• If cast while falling off a ledge, Nyx will return from her original location and release Absorb immediately.

Main article: Assimilate

Assimilate is a Warframe Augment Mod for Nyx that allows her to move and attack while channeling Absorb and prevents friendly fire from being absorbed, at the cost of shrinking Absorb's effective radius by 50%.

• Both the player and his/her allies can contribute to the damage absorbed, dramatically increasing damage output.
  • Explosive weapons (ex: Penta and Ogris) contribute a high amount of damage incredibly quickly. Using these weapons will also drain your energy at a high rate.
• It is not advisable to use this skill with the sentinel Shade. Shade will cloak Nyx during the Absorb period most of the time, whether the enemy is crowded around Nyx or not. As such, no damage will be absorbed as the enemy cannot see Nyx. During solo, the skill works fine still, as there are no teammates to draw enemy attention away.
• Using this ability while on an Ice Trap in the void will greatly reduce energy drained.
• If playing solo, this ability is a good candidate to combine Maximized Ability Efficiency and Maximized Ability Strength. When combined, the ability will:
  • Cost 12.5 energy to activate, 7 energy per second to channel, and 4 energy will be drained for every 1000 damage absorbed.
  • Deal 4260 damage to targets within 10 meters.
  • Ragdoll all enemies, throwing them backwards. (minus exceptions listed above)
• Alternatively, a solo player can utilize self-damage from weapons such as Penta, Stug or Castanas to quickly and dramatically increase Absorb's damage without relying on the passive damage gain.
• Some user functions are still available even after Absorb is cast (thought it's not clear if this is intended functionality):
  • Weapon detonation can still be triggered, enabling Nyx to self-inflict absorb-able damage (ex: Penta).
  • If knocked down or downed while casting, Nyx will be able to move and attack during the duration of the ability.
    • This enables Nyx to self-inflict absorb-able damage (ex: Ogris).
• Allies that stand inside the absorb bubble are shielded from incoming ranged damage to some degree.
  • This can be a useful way to assist resurrecting an ally in a party of 3 or more.
• During this ability, Nyx will be in mid-air suspension, instantly stopping her fall speed. This can be an advantage in correcting improper fall timing or while performing coordinated Maneuvers.
  • If Absorb ends in mid-air, in can often perform headshots on nearby enemies.

Maximization is a form of specialization: mods may be blended to result in values that vary between the top-end limits listed here. Click any maximized link to learn how to build it.

• Maximized Ability Duration reduces channeling cost to 1.31 energy per second.
  • Reduces range to 3.4 meters.
• Maximized Ability Efficiency reduces activation cost to 6.25 energy, channeling cost to 1 energy per second, and drain cost to 2 energy per 1000 damage.
  • Has no negative effects on this ability.
• Maximized Ability Range increases range to 28 meters.
  • Reduces minimum damage to 600 and passive damage gain to 80 per second.
• Maximized Ability Strength increases minimum damage to 6180 and passive damage gain to 824 per second.
  • Without Energy Conversion and Growing Power, increases minimum damage to 5055 and passive damage gain to 674 per second.
  • Increases activation cost to 38.75 energy, channeling cost to 8.55 energy per second, and drain cost to 12.4 energy per 1000 damage.