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Nyx Prime

The Unbreakable Bubble

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Permanent Assimilate immortality with a banked-damage nuke and a strip

Immortal caster, banked nuke, armour and shield strip, mind-control buffSteel PathSteel Path enduranceLevel cap
Nyx Prime
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CONFIGURATION

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MOD CAPACITY

72 / 742 remaining

Rank 30 · Orokin Reactor · 60 base + 14 aura capacity

AURA 1naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR5
EXILUSzenurik polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
Molt EfficiencyMolt Efficiency
Arcane ConsequenceArcane Consequence
1UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR3
2UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR3
3UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR3
4madurai polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
5UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR5
6UNPOLARIZED
Unpolarized slotR5
7naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10
8naramon polarityPOLARIZED
Polarized slotR10

ABILITIES

Nyx Prime

PASSIVE Nyx gains +40% Critical Chance on Primary and Secondary weapons per Confused enemy within Affinity Range, up to +200%.

1

Mind Control

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 the controlled enemy, a percentage of that damage is transferred to the target.

2

Psychic Bolts

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.

3

Chaos

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.

4

Absorb

Absorb

Nyx draws in and contains damage dealt to her and damage confused enemies deal to each other, then converts it into a devastating radial blast. Following the blast, she gains brief invulnerability and a Weapon Damage bonus proportional to absorbed damage.

CEPHALON FIELD GUIDE

How to play this build.

Tenno. Assimilate is a bubble you carry. Inside it Nyx and her sentinel cannot be hurt, it scales to level cap, and it lasts over six minutes. It costs mobility, but you can roll, and dropping the bubble after banking enough damage nukes 50m and hands you a 400% damage buff. Psychic Bolts strip armour and shields and steal overguard. Mind Control turns a heavy into a damage multiplier.

How it works

Assimilate's drain is set by a Duration-Efficiency pairing: at this build's 155% Duration you need about 175% Efficiency (Streamline plus Seismic Bond, or Streamline plus Fleeting Expertise) to hit the drain floor and hold it indefinitely.

Exiting after absorbing 64,000 damage gives 6s of i-frames, a 400% additive damage buff for ~12s, and a nuke up to 50m.

Psychic Bolts full-strip at 125% Strength, 103% with Corrosive Projection.

Playstyle

1.

Tap 4 to enter Assimilate for total immortality.

Exit after banking damage to nuke and to move normally with the buff.

2.

Tap 1 on an enemy for Mind Control, then damage it fast to buff its damage.

3.

Tap 2 for Psychic Bolts to strip, steal overguard and spread on kill.

4.

Tap 3 (Chaos) for crowd control if defending an objective.

Duration, Efficiency, Range, Strength

Duration and Efficiency are paired to the drain floor .

Range only matters for Chaos, and even Assimilate's nuke radius scales with banked damage.

Strength only for the Psychic Bolts strip threshold and Mind Freak.

The mods

Assimilate is the whole build.

Streamline plus the Duration mods hit the drain floor.

Primed Flow, Equilibrium are the energy base.

Stretch is Chaos range.

Pacifying Bolts, Mind Freak are optional augments.

Corrosive Projection lowers the strip threshold to 103%.

Flexible slots

Streamline drops if you run Seismic Bond.

Amar's Hatred for strength and a heavy-attack teleport for mobility in Assimilate.

The exilus is open (Preparation for an instant mission-start Assimilate).

Helminth

Pick one.

Subsume over Chaos (3) unless you need objective crowd control.

- Nourish for a damage and energy buff that also buffs the Mind Control ally.

- Roar for a damage buff that double-dips status and buffs the Mind Control target.

- Xata's Whisper for raw weapon damage and headshots.

- Pillage for a radial strip.

Arcanes

Molt Efficiency for Mind Control uptime, Arcane Consequence for parkour.

Arcane Agility or a weapon arcane as swaps.

Focus

Any.

A robotic companion (sentinel, Hound, Moa) is immortal in Assimilate; equip Seismic Bond for the Efficiency threshold.

Weapon synergy

Nyx's passive gives up to 200% additive crit chance to primaries and secondaries.

For Mind Control buffing, a multiplicative Galvanized Shot secondary (Ballistica Incarnon, Prisma Angstrum Incarnon, Kuva Seer, Epitaph) plus a primer can reach 20,000% to 40,000%.

Secondary Irradiate off Chaos's radiation.

Staying alive

Assimilate is total immortality while active; exiting gives a 6s i-frame bridge and overguard from Psychic Bolts.

It effectively does not fail while 4 is up.

Energy

The Duration-Efficiency floor plus Equilibrium.

A non-issue once tuned.

Where it struggles

Mobility is the cost: you roll everywhere or use a teleport melee.

Damage is entirely on the weapon or the banked nuke.

Bosses.

Variants

A Nourish Nyx build.

A Roar Nyx build.

Strengths and weaknesses

Strong: unconditional immortality that scales to level cap, a strip, a banked nuke, one forma, beginner-proof.

Weak: slow, weapon- carried, boss damage on the gun.

Who runs this

Players who want to simply not die, ever, and are fine trading speed for it.