Nyx is one of my main frames because of how flexible and complete she is. If I'm doing Incursions or a lich hunt, Nyx is my easy lazy pick.

Psychic Bolts is unique amongst fullstrip abilities because it's one-handed, so you can stay mobile on linear mission types, and Pacifying Bolts provides a very long stun on non-combat mission types like Captures. It also has extremely low power requirements which can be met with shards alone, so I have my Nyx built just for Range and Duration, and one of my Arcanes goes towards Arcane Consequence so I can get through linear missions faster.

CC is useful if an objective defense comes up, since nuke frames can't always keep up. And unlike Loki, she brings a native fullstrip at the cost of very slightly less taunt power.

Absorb is in a weird place as I think it's optional now that helminth exists. Chaos (+/- Chaos Sphere) and Condemn handles all my survivability needs. I only use it on my lich hunting loadout in case I get an early lich.

Mind Control is my only huge disappointment. Overguard kind of spoiled the fun of stealing eximus abilities for yourself, especiall Heat and Energy Leech eximus. I barely use Mind Control anymore, although it does have nice non-eximus targets still.

I would also love to see the (now broken?) Psychic Bolts function of removing infested auras expand to removing all Eximus abilities and doing so through Overguard.

Nyx, like Caliban, improves exponentially when you replace the weird and out of place ability with a better one, be Gloom, Xata's Whisper, Condemn(for shield tanking) or Nourish.

For Nyx its her 4, Caliban his 1.

Caliban's persistent aoe shield/armor stripping field is insane in the right conditions(E.G. Interception, Defense, Mobile Defense.)l

Nyx gets insane with a magnetic weapon and a Jade Eximus. Take out the overguard, mind control, congrats, you have a pet jade light.

This really sounds like you don’t play Nyx ever, or at least not in the last couple of years.

With her 2 augment, she stuns everyone in front of her, and stunned enemies then DIE.

I recall that Nyx’s low usage shot up considerable when Steel Path became available—and that’s because all the things she does are not needed in the normal star chart, but they REALLY are when you’re starting the Path.

Does she need to have strong weapons? Sure. But so what? Plenty of frames without exalteds need strong weapons.

Also the real thing she needs with her 4 augment is either Rift Strike on the Twin Basolk, or the Nira (Amar? I can’t remember) mods that lets her teleport to any enemy she heavy attacks. An invincible armor stripper who teleports all over the map heavy attacking? Such fun.

And Gauss! I guess pop culture has decided that there is Only One Speedster.

Would have been funnier if he acted like someone pumped up on Meth.