Nyx gets inside people's heads. Chaos makes them fight each other, Mind Control turns a heavy into a bodyguard, Absorb soaks damage and gives it back in one go.
Can you buy Nyx for platinum
In short, yes, Nyx costs 225 platinum in the Market and arrives fully built with a free slot.
- Price. 225 platinum for a built Nyx with a slot for it.
- Mastery. It ticks the same whether the frame was bought or built, so buying saves time, not rank.
There is a second route people forget about. A full Nyx Prime set on warframe.market goes for around 59 platinum as of 29 August 2026, which is 3.8 times cheaper than the 225 the shop wants for the regular version. The difference is what you get: 225 buys a finished frame with a slot, while a market set is blueprints that you still have to build and feed with resources. Platinum but no time, use the shop. Time but little platinum, buy the Prime set, which is the stronger frame anyway.
Is there a Nyx Prime
Yes, Nyx Prime exists and is available right now. Parts drop from Void relics the usual way: farm relics, crack them in a fissure, collect four blueprints. Trading works too, built parts sell for platinum.
The Prime recipe is its own thing and noticeably heavier: it eats 1 000 Salvage instead of 500. Components cost 15,000 credits and 12 hours each, the final build costs 25,000 and sits for 72 h. The regular version takes exactly as long for its final build. Do not toss the spare parts, Baro Ki'Teer takes them for ducats, prices are in the table.
| Blueprint | Relics it drops from | Ducats | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Main blueprint | Lith B4 Relic, Lith S2 Relic, Neo V1 Relic, Neo V9 Relic | 15 | Nyx Prime Neuroptics x1, Nyx Prime Chassis x1, Nyx Prime Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
| Chassis | Axi S8 Relic, Neo N1 Relic, Neo R1 Relic | 65 | Gallium x3, Nano Spores x1 000, Rubedo x400 |
| Neuroptics | Meso N1 Relic, Meso N11 Relic, Meso N6 Relic | 100 | Alloy Plate x150, Neural Sensors x2, Salvage x1 000, Rubedo x750 |
| Systems | Axi S3 Relic, Lith C7 Relic, Neo S2 Relic | 45 | Control Module x3, Orokin Cell x1, Ferrite x1 000, Circuits x500 |
Where the blueprints come from
The main blueprint is in the Market. Components drop from Phorid, and Phorid only shows up in assassination nodes during an Infested invasion. So the farm depends on what the star chart happens to be doing right now: no invasion, no Phorid. The Circuit after The Duviri Paradox collects the blueprints without that dependency.
What it is built from
The Foundry wants four runs: three components first, the final assembly after. Components run in the Foundry at the same time, so from the first click to a finished frame it is roughly 84 h: twelve for the parts and 72 for the Warframe itself.
| Blueprint | Credits | Time | Resources per build |
|---|---|---|---|
| Chassis | 15 000 | 12 h | Morphics x1, Ferrite x1 000, Rubedo x300 |
| Neuroptics | 15 000 | 12 h | Alloy Plate x150, Neural Sensors x1, Polymer Bundle x150, Rubedo x500 |
| Systems | 15 000 | 12 h | Control Module x1, Morphics x1, Salvage x500, Plastids x220 |
| Nyx | 25 000 | 72 h | Nyx Neuroptics x1, Nyx Chassis x1, Nyx Systems x1, Orokin Cell x1 |
Where to farm the resources
Nyx has no real resource bottleneck: everything on the list piles up while you play. The only item worth a deliberate trip is Morphics, and you need 2. Mercury and Earth. Apollodorus on Mercury is a short survival that keeps handing them out.
| Resource | Where it drops |
|---|---|
| Orokin Cell | Ceres, Saturn, and Deimos |
| Morphics | Mercury, Mars, Phobos, Europa, and Pluto |
| Ferrite | Mercury, Earth, Lua, Neptune, and the Void |
| Rubedo | Earth, Lua, Phobos, Europa, Pluto, Sedna, and the Void |
| Alloy Plate | Venus, Phobos, Ceres, Jupiter, Pluto, and Sedna |
| Neural Sensors | Jupiter |
| Polymer Bundle | Mercury, Venus, and Uranus |
| Control Module | Europa, Neptune, and the Void |
| Salvage | Mars, Jupiter, and Sedna |
| Plastids | Phobos, Saturn, Uranus, Pluto, and Eris |
Is Nyx worth building
Nyx takes control: Mind Control turns the strongest enemy into a bodyguard and Chaos makes a room fight itself.
The numbers look like this: no mastery rank requirement, roughly 84 hours from the first foundry press to a finished frame, and 70 000 credits across all the builds together. A finished Prime set on the market runs about 59 platinum.
Old, quiet, and still the cheapest crowd control in the game for a new player.
Every other frame is broken down the same way, the full list lives in the guide to all Warframes.
Sources
Recipes and build times: the official Digital Extremes export, ExportRecipes_en. Resource locations: item descriptions from ExportResources_en. Blueprint drops and relic contents: the official Warframe drop tables. Acquisition and Prime vault status were checked against the Nyx page on the Warframe wiki. Data as of 28.08.2026. Prime set prices: the open warframe.market API, snapshot taken on 29 August 2026, using the median of live sell orders.
