Nyx — Civil War
Steel Path build. Chaos is a faction flip. Pacifying Bolts confuse on the strip. The passive turns that crowd into a crit aura.
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Defense, Interception, any objective you want the AI to ignore
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Defense, Interception, any objective you want the AI to ignore
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Chaos is still one of the best 'the AI is the CC' buttons in the game.
- Duration and Range beat Strength on this config. Strip is already cheap.
- Chaos Sphere is how you stop recasting every pack on a moving mission.
Don’t use this for: Capture / short missions · Exterminate speedruns
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Crit guns — Passive: +crit chance per confused enemy in Affinity Range. A crit rifle is the payout.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Bolts
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Bolts — Star Chart
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/3 · required — 3 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 3 Forma · Reactor · 2 shards · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~1–2 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
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Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Naked Room — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Naked Room — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
- After that3 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · DurationHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalCivil WarSteel Path · Advanced · 3 Forma
Upgrade from here
Naked Room — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Naked Room — OptimisedFarm the gap
- Nyx augments — Assimilate · Chaos Sphere · Pacifying Bolts · Mind Freak
Helminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2 Crimson · Duration — Chaos uptime.Archon locked
- 1 Amber · Casting Speed — Recast before the Sphere dies.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Growing Power
One named gap. The Silver Grove quest
60 minutes
Growing Power, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Growing Power
The Silver Grove quest
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You are the Defense DJ. Nobody shoots the pod.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Chaos Sphere is bought.
- First mission to practice in
- Hydron, or any Defense you would have brought a CC frame to.
2 button drills · 12 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 5 done
Keep this up
Riot loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Chaos (3) as the wave spawns. Guns turn inward.
- 2Psychic Bolts (2) the Eximus that ignored the memo.
- 3Shoot glowing weak-ish targets with a crit weapon. Passive is stacking.
- 4Recast Chaos before it falls. A Defense pod with no Chaos is a Defense pod.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Chaos as they spawn
33. Sphere lingers.
- 2
Bolts the Eximus
2Overguard laughs at Chaos until it breaks. Bolts help.
Common mistakes
Letting Chaos drop mid-wave
The pod remembers it has a health bar. Recast early.
When this feels easy
- 1Duration shardsChaos is a duration object. Two Crimson Duration.
Parts checklist
0 of 12 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
15 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●nyxframe
- 2○Growing Powermod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Chaos Sphereaugment
- 5○Narrow Mindedmod
- 6○Primed Continuitymod
- 7○Stretchmod
- 8○Overextendedmod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Streamlinemod
- 11○Molt Efficiencyarcane
- 12○Crimson · Durationshard
- 13○Amber · Casting Speedshard
- 14○Steel Pathunlock
- 15○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
Growing Powermissing · The Silver Grove quest
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
- Chaos Sphere
missing · Arbiters / Cephalon Suda · 25,000
A lingering Chaos ball. New spawns walk into the civil war.
- Narrow Minded
missing · Orokin Vaults
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Overextendedmissing · Orokin Vaults
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Recommended
Optional
Strength
~145% (strip + Chaos durability vs Overguard)
Duration
200%+ so Chaos does not fall in a 20-second Defense wave
Range
200%+ Chaos is a tile
Chaos Sphere (augment) leaves a lingering ball that confuses new arrivals.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 40%
- Duration
- 254%
- Range
- 184%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 48 / 67
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Nyx mods
- AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1Chaos SphereA lingering Chaos ball. New spawns walk into the civil war.Arbiters of Hexis / Cephalon Suda · 25k
- 2Narrow MindedOrokin Vaults
- 3Primed ContinuityBaro
- 4StretchDrops
- 5OverextendedVaults
- 6Primed FlowBaro
- 7StreamlineDrops
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Growing Power | Silver Grove | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Chaos Sphere A lingering Chaos ball. New spawns walk into the civil war. | Arbiters of Hexis / Cephalon Suda · 25k | |
| 2 | Narrow Minded | Orokin Vaults | |
| 3 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 4 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 5 | Overextended | Vaults | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 7 | Streamline | Drops |
Crit guns
Passive: +crit chance per confused enemy in Affinity Range. A crit rifle is the payout.
Arcanes
Molt Efficiency
Duration while shielded. Chaos is a duration object.
Zariman
Archon shards
- 1
Crimson · DurationChaos uptime.2 · Netracells - 2
Amber · Casting SpeedRecast before the Sphere dies.1 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Duration Chaos uptime. | 2 | Netracells | |
| 2 | Amber · Casting Speed Recast before the Sphere dies. | 1 | EDA |