Hildryn Prime · The kit

Pillage the tile, hover, spend shields

Hildryn is a shield caster with 0 energy. Pillage is the battery and the strip. Aegis Gale is the 2026 nuke. Balefire is an exalted pistol with its own grid. Haven is support or Helminth bait. Flow, Primed Flow, and Energize are dead slots — Redirection is Flow, Streamline is efficiency, Pillage is the orb.

Health

180 → 280

Shields

1280 → 1380

Armor

315 → 315

Energy

0 → 0

Passive

Aegis Gate

Hildryn's shield gate is long — up to 3.5 seconds of invulnerability when shields break. That window is long enough to Pillage the bar back. Energy orbs restore shields instead of energy, because there is no energy. Flow, Primed Flow, and Energize do nothing. Redirection is the pool. Streamline is the efficiency.

Balefire

50 shields to draw · 100 / shot (200 charged)

Draw the Balefire Charger. It is a real exalted secondary — open its own mod screen. Bolts explode, scale with Ability Strength and secondary mods. Overshields stagger. Charge shots cost more. Balefire Surge (augment) refunds shields on hit. Aegis Gale gives it an alt-fire during Storm that scales with your shield pool. Empty grid = toy. Mod it.

Draw / shot: 50 · 100 shields (200 charged)
Type: Exalted secondary
Gale alt-fire: During Aegis Storm, scales with shields

Pillage

150 shields

The kit. A pulse expands then returns. Enemies in line of sight lose a Strength-scaled chunk of current shields or total armor. The steal becomes your shields / overshields. Status wipes on you and allies the pulse touches. Recast to yank it back early. 25% strip at 100% Strength; 100% at 400%; about 328% with Corrosive Projection. Infested have nothing to steal — bring Nourish or just shoot. Does not touch Overguard. Blazing Pillage adds Heat if Haven is on.

Cost: 150 shields (efficiency reduces this)
Full strip: 400% STR · ~328% with CP
Also: Status cleanse

Haven

shield drain while active

Allies get extra shields. Enemies that walk up take Radiation. Drains your shields over time — Pillage pays it. Blazing Pillage needs this on to Heat people. Support configs keep it. Gale and Nourish configs subsume it. Range is how many teammates you actually cover.

Cost: Shield drain
Blazing Pillage: Needs Haven marked on enemies
Helminth: Default dump on Gale / Nourish configs

Aegis Storm

shield drain while hovering

Hover. Enemies float and periodically drop energy orbs — you convert those to shields, teammates get actual energy. Balefire still works; Aegis Gale adds a shield-scaling alt-fire that is the 2026 nuke. Drain is in shields. Pillage mid-Storm. If the bar hits 0 you crash and slam the lifted pack. That can be a feature. Aerodynamic / Aviator help if you live up here.

Cost: Shield drain
Gale: Alt-fire Balefire, damage from shields
Empty bar: Crash slam

The Hildryn loop

Pillage until overshields are fat.

Storm and Gale, or Balefire on foot.

Pillage again before the bar dies.

Never slot Flow.

Augments

Balefire

Balefire Surge

Hits refund shields and deal extra damage.

Vox Solaris (Fortuna) · Sun & Moon rank · 25,000 standing

Pillage

Blazing Pillage

Enemies affected by Haven take Heat and refund extra shields.

Vox Solaris · 25,000

Aegis Storm

Aegis Gale

Balefire gains an alt-fire during Storm. Damage scales with Hildryn's shields.

Vox Solaris · 25,000

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The kitTheKengineer · Jun 2023

Get the most out of HILDRYN in 2023

Shield caster, Pillage strip, Aegis Storm. She still spends shields, not energy.

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