Nyx — Naked Room
Steel Path build. Psychic Bolts full-strip at 125% Strength and steal armor, shields, and Overguard. Nourish over Mind Control. This is the peak you can run the day Steel Path unlocks — galvanized / arcanes, no Helminth.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Steel Path Star Chart, Circuit, first Archon. Helminth is the next card.
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- 125% Strength is the cheapest full strip in the game. Everyone else is begging for 167–200%.
- Stolen Overguard (up to 7,500) is why she stopped being paper.
- Do not subsume Psychic Bolts. Then you do not have a Nyx.
Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · loadouts that need Helminth
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Status / crit primary — Stripped enemies die to anything. Viral from Nourish plus a crit rifle is greedy and correct.
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 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 3 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
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 Corrosive ProjectionOpen Nightwave
- After that3–4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalNaked Room — Steel PathSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Naked Room — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Naked Room — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 1 Crimson · Strength — More stolen armor and Overguard per bolt.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 Corrosive Projection
One named gap. Open Nightwave
60 minutes
Corrosive Projection, 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 Corrosive Projection
Open Nightwave
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
Steel Path. You want armor gone and a Viral gun.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Nourish is injected over Mind Control.
- First mission to practice in
- Steel Path Grineer. You should see red armor pips disappear in one cast.
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
Strip loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Nourish (1).
- 2Psychic Bolts (2) the clump. Armor and shields vanish. You grow a stolen Overguard puddle.
- 3Shoot. Kills spray two more bolts. The strip walks itself across the tile.
- 4Chaos (3) if something still has a gun pointed at your face. Absorb (4) if you misplayed.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Nourish
11. Viral on the gun, energy on the orbs.
- 2
Bolts the clump
22. Steal Overguard. Shoot.
Common mistakes
Subsuming Bolts for Pillage
You already strip cheaper than Pillage. Keep 2.
When this feels easy
- 1Corrosive ProjectionFull strip at ~103% Strength. Blind Rage can be milder.
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○Corrosive Projectionmod
- 3○Power Driftmod
- 4○Blind Ragemod
- 5○Intensifymod
- 6○Primed Continuitymod
- 7○Stretchmod
- 8○Primed Flowmod
- 9○Equilibriummod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
- 12○Arcane Energizearcane
- 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
- 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
Power Driftmissing · Unlock Lua
Blind Ragemissing · Run Orokin Vaults
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Equilibrium
missing · The New Strange / drops
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Molt Augmentedmissing · Unlock the Zariman
Strength stacks. Stolen Overguard scales. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Arcane Energizemissing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth
Bolts plus Nourish is an energy hobby. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Optional
Crimson · Strengthmissing · Netracells / Archon Hunt / Bird 3
More stolen armor and Overguard per bolt.
Strength
~160–200% (strip is done at 125%; extra Strength is stolen armor/Overguard)
Duration
155%+ so the strip stays on
Range
145% for Chaos if you still press 3
Kills spread two extra bolts. You strip a tile by shooting, not by recasting.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 244%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 145%
- Efficiency
- 45%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 51 / 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
- AuraCorrosive ProjectionFull strip at ~103% Strength instead of 125%. Comfort.Nightwave
- ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
- 1Blind RageOrokin Vaults
- 2IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 3Primed ContinuityBaro Ki'Teer
- 4StretchEnemy drops
- 5Primed FlowBaro / relics
- 6EquilibriumThe New Strange
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Corrosive Projection Full strip at ~103% Strength instead of 125%. Comfort. | Nightwave | |
| Exilus | Power Drift | Vaults / Lua | |
| 1 | Blind Rage | Orokin Vaults | |
| 2 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 3 | Primed Continuity | Baro Ki'Teer | |
| 4 | Stretch | Enemy drops | |
| 5 | Primed Flow | Baro / relics | |
| 6 | Equilibrium | The New Strange | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Status / crit primary
Stripped enemies die to anything. Viral from Nourish plus a crit rifle is greedy and correct.
Arcanes
Molt Augmented
Strength stacks. Stolen Overguard scales. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Zariman
Arcane Energize
Bolts plus Nourish is an energy hobby. Rank 0 is legal. Rank 3 is the Steel Path version.
Eidolon
Archon shards
- 1Crimson · StrengthMore stolen armor and Overguard per bolt.1 · Netracells
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Crimson · Strength More stolen armor and Overguard per bolt. | 1 | Netracells |