The psychic mind manipulator is here, it’s time to discuss our femme Excalibur - Nyx!
Release date: 2013-01-29
Passive: Enemies are 20% less accurate when targeting Nyx (except while Absorb is active).
Mind Control - Nyx invades the psyche of a target, confusing enemies and making them fight for the Tenno cause.
Psychic Bolts - Nyx launches a cluster of force bolts at enemies, using telekinesis to adjust flight paths and seek nearby targets.
Chaos - With a powerful psychic blast, Nyx causes mass hysteria on the battlefield by confusing all enemies to attack random factions.
Absorb - Nyx absorbs all incoming damage and channels that collected energy into an explosive radial discharge. Nyx’s Weapon damage is buffed based on incoming absorbed damage when the Ability ends.
Acquisition: Blueprint purchasable from the market, components drop from Phorid on assassination missions that appear during an Infested Invasion.
Nyx has become my Archon killing Queen. I use any other frame for the first two missions, switch to Nyx for the boss fight with Laetum and Phenmor and Praedos in hand. I frontload the two guns with headshots to build up the incarnon meter, and operator/drifter sling my way through a map. Once at the archon, I go into Absorb (with Assimilate), activate any one of the incarnon guns, and go to town.
I don’t die. I am not useless and because I’ve been doing this since the beginning of the New War, I have the pathing down for my operator/drifter sling dashing. It’s just efficient for me.
