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• Nyx expends 25 energy to fully inhabit the mind of a single enemy within a range of 20 / 40 / 50 / 60 meters, stunning it for 3 seconds then forcing it to fight for the Tenno faction for 15 / ? / ? / 60 seconds. While controlled, the affected target is enveloped within a psychic barrier that renders it completely Invulnerable to damage and Status Effects from allied and enemy factions, gains increased Threat Level, and its attacks gain 750% initial bonus damage and 100%  Radiation status chance. For the next 4 seconds after activation, any damage dealt by Nyx onto the controlled target is absorbed and converted into a percentage damage bonus for the target, lasting for the ability's remaining duration. Only 1 enemy can be controlled at a time; release the target early by pressing the ability key again (default 1 ).
  • Damage bonus conversion rate is given by: ${\displaystyle {\sqrt {0.06\%\times {\text{Damage}}}}}$
    • Enemy armor is ignored, as well as the target's damage type modifiers.
    • Damage from physical and elemental damage mods is not taken into account.
    • Base damage (e.g.,  Serration), faction damage (e.g.,  Bane of Grineer), and multishot (e.g.,  Split Chamber) mods are taken into account.
    • Critical Hits are taken into account.
    • Enemy weakspots are taken into account, including the critical multiplier weakspot bonus.
    • Damaging procs (e.g.,  Slash,  Heat, and  Toxin) applied to the target before casting Mind Control will contribute to the damage conversion.
    • The damage bonus from  Viral and  Magnetic are not taken into account.
    • Unalerted enemies that are Mind Controlled will be susceptible to Stealth Damage Multipliers from melee attacks over the ability's duration.
    • Damage bonus is additive to the innate 750% damage bonus.
      • For example, dealing 10,000 damage to a target would result in a total damage bonus of 750% + (0.06% × 10,000)^0.5 = 994.949%
  • The mind-controlled target is immune to damage from all sources, but is still susceptible to negative Status Effects. During Mind Control, all damage dealt by Nyx and her allies on the target will be stored and inflicted in full once the ability ends. Damage dealt by enemies on the target is only nullified and not stored.
  • While a target is mind controlled, an enemy profile icon appears above Nyx's ability icons on the HUD, with a displayed damage bonus and a circular gauge indicating the remaining duration.
  • The mind-controlled enemy will not hinder mission progress (e.g. block Interception nodes, stall Defense waves, etc.)
  • If the target dies before Nyx finishes her casting animation, energy used for Mind Control will be refunded.
• Mind-controlled targets are aggressive and will prioritize enemies attacked by Nyx.
• Mind-controlled targets will teleport within a radius of 10 meters around Nyx if they wander beyond 60 meters away from her.
• Mind-controlled targets use their abilities to the benefit of the Tenno and to the detriment of their former allies. For example:
  • The mines dropped by  Mine Ospreys (including mines placed before the ability was used) will not hurt Nyx and her allies, but will hurt the Osprey's former allies.
  • Security Cameras will ignore everything and never go into the alerted state. Turrets can behave unpredictably (using Mind Control on Turrets will make them fight for Nyx, but only when a camera activates them; in other words, Turrets can deactivate if the camera is destroyed or goes into the unalerted state.)
  •  Shield Ospreys will project shields on allies and defense objectives.
  • Enemies that spawn additional units, such as  Brood Mothers,  Drahk Masters, and  Fusion MOAs, will spawn units that fight for the Tenno's side until the ability ends.
  •  Ancient Healers will periodically heal Tenno.
  •  Ancient Protectors and  orrupted Ancients, will redirect 90% of received damage and all status effects from Nyx and her allies to the themselves instead granting Overguard.
• Any active Comba and Scrambus disruption auras will remain active, though subsequent auras will not affect Nyx or her allies.
  • Fog Comba and Scrambus disruption auras will not remove mind-control from its target but will prevent the use of the ability until the disruption wears off.
• While  Nullifier Crewmen can be Mind Controlled after their nullification field is disabled, they will dispel the ability upon regenerating the field; the Projector Drones should therefore be destroyed.
• Mind Control will not work on bosses, except for Captain Vor (though not his Corrupted variant). However, the ability still applies a short duration stun.
  • This is also true for Syndicate hunters and Lynx Turrets.
  • Some mini bosses like Acolytes can be affected, though with significantly decreased duration and due to their innate DR stored damage dealt when it ends will be reduced.
• Mind Control overrides the effect of  Chaos on the selected target but will not be overridden by Chaos.
• Eximus enemies under Mind Control will syill use their abilities. Energy Leech Eximus are altered to provide Energy regeneration when hitting an enemy with their ability.
• When Mind Control is cast, an energy tether briefly links Nyx to her target as a visual indicator. The mind-controlled target will be marked with symbols of the Lotus for the ability's duration along with waves of energy flowing over them, affected by Nyx's chosen energy colors.
• Enemies under mind control can be healed by friendly sources, to the benefit or detriment to the team:
  • The  Rejuvenation Aura can heal enemies that are currently mind controlled.
  •  Blessing will fully heal the mind controlled target.
  •  Rift Haven will partially heal the target.
•  Safeguard can be cast on mind controlled targets.
• Mind Controlled enemies can hack disabled Bursas.
• Rarely, Mind Control will reverse an enemies ability to set off alarms, and if by a rare chance the enemy decides to "activate" already activated alarms, the enemy will actually turn them off (including lifting a complete lockdown into a system wide alert instead). (not sure if this happens anymore as it was already rare before)
• Ability Synergy:
  • Nyx passively gains 40% Critical Chance to her primary and secondary weapons when her  Confused Mind Controlled target is within Affinity Range, up to a maximum of 200% from 5 enemies.
  • Damage dealt to enemies from the Mind Control target contributes to  Absorb's damage.
  • Radiation procs from  Chaos will not be overridden by mind control, offering an additional 550% damage increase separate from Mind Control's damage absorption.
• Subsuming Nyx to the Helminth will offer Mind Control and its augments to be used by other Warframes.