Veilstalker Nyctra guide: skills, build and team roles
Overview
Veilstalker Nyctra is an Epic Dark Melee Attacker from the Lightseekers Faction in Invokers: Titan Legacy. She picks off weak targets and burns them down fast. Path of Pain Teleports to the lowest-HP enemy and casts Weaken, Bleeding Shadows stacks Bleed, and Void Assassin ticks it instantly and hits harder for every debuff.
Her Bleeds deal a percentage of enemy MAX HP per tick, capped by her ATK, so ATK and Accuracy are the stats that matter. Fully Awakened and before Gear, Nyctra has 909 ATK, 678 DEF and 7,587 HP, with 23 Accuracy and 37 Mana Gen. Those are ordinary numbers for an Epic, so she needs a Tank and a healer once she's in among the enemies.
Only three Invokers Teleport. Path of Pain prefers Supports, so it's a way to reach a healer behind a front line. Weaken increases all damage the target takes, so the Skill she casts most helps the whole team as well as her.
Bleed is the core of her damage, so Bosses that are immune to it or punish it are poor matches for her. She has no healing, Shields or crowd control, and her Weaken and Bleeds need Accuracy to land.
Skills To Prioritize
Void Assassin, her Ultimate, hits one enemy twice and ticks a Bleed instantly with each hit. At Max Level each hit ticks two. It deals more damage for each debuff on the target: 10% per debuff at Level 1, 12% at Level 3, 13% at Level 6, 14% at Level 9 and 15% at Level 10, with the cap rising from +100% to +110% at Level 4, +125% at Level 7 and +150% at Level 10. Its cost falls from 900 Mana to 875 at Level 5, 850 at Level 8 and 800 at Max Level.
Bleeding Shadows hits one enemy twice and casts a Bleed on the first hit. The Bleed is 0.75% of MAX HP per tick at Level 1, 1.25% at Level 4 and 1.5% at Level 6. From Level 8 it casts two Bleeds, lasting six seconds and eight at Max Level. The cap on each tick rises from 200% ATK to 350% at Level 10 and 400% at Max Level. The cooldown falls from 30 seconds to 26 at Level 10 and 25 at Max Level.
Path of Pain Teleports to the enemy with the lowest HP% within 15m, preferring Supports, hits it and casts Weaken. Weaken is 3% for three seconds at Level 1, 5% at Level 6, 7% for five seconds at Level 10, and 8% for six at Max Level, on a ten-second cooldown. It needs Accuracy.
Touch of Despair hits one enemy and extends debuffs on it, one by three seconds at Level 1, up to two by four seconds at Level 6, by six seconds at Level 10, and up to three at Max Level. The cooldown falls from 28 seconds to 24 at Level 10 and 23 at Max Level.
If you want Nyctra to burst a single target, upgrade Void Assassin first, as Level 10 reaches +150% damage and Max Level ticks two Bleeds per hit. If you want her to stack Bleed, upgrade Bleeding Shadows first, as Level 8 casts two Bleeds at once. If you want her to support your team's damage, upgrade Path of Pain first for the bigger, longer Weaken.
Build And Team Support
Build ATK and Accuracy to the maximum. She relies on Bleed, so don't build Crit Rate or Crit DMG, as those rolls do nothing for the part of her damage that matters. Put Accuracy on your Chestplate and Flask and keep stacking it. Mana Gen on your Talisman gets her to Void Assassin sooner, and Skill RECOV on another piece brings back Bleeding Shadows.
For Relic Sets, Attack Relics raise the ATK her Bleed cap scales from, and Accuracy Relics help her Bleeds and Weaken land. Spark Relics add Skill SPD, which makes Bleed tick more often, Mana Relics help her reach Void Assassin, and Fury Relics bring back Bleeding Shadows sooner. Her native Blight and Daze Tolerances already match Ulgorim's Corruptions, so you don't need Tolerance sets there.
Pair her with a Tank and a healer, and with Invokers who cast debuffs on the same target, since each one adds to Void Assassin.
Arena, Bosses And Spires
In Arena, Path of Pain gets her to a Support behind the front line, and Void Assassin finishes it with damage that grows with each debuff. Be wary of enemy Invokers with Immunity or debuff cleansing, as they can wipe out the debuffs her Ultimate depends on.
Against Ulgorim, Nyctra is an excellent pick. Her native Blight and Daze Tolerances match both of his Corruptions, and her Bleeds and Weaken stack on a Boss that can't be controlled. Against Fire Omnissi, her native Daze Tolerance covers one of her Corruptions, and Bleed works where Burn doesn't, since that form is immune to Burn.
Several Bosses punish Bleed. Don't bring her against Althar, because a Bleed on him gives him Invincibility for ten seconds. Earth Omnissi and Koltmos are immune to it, and Sakiel takes half damage from it. Against Hyxxis, each Bleed cast on her shortens Ensacment's cooldown by one second, and Bleeding Shadows casts two at once at Level 8, so plan around it.
Against Sedula, Path of Pain casts Weaken on her every ten seconds, which raises the damage your team deals to her, and Touch of Despair extends the debuffs your team has cast, such as ATK Down. She takes 70% less damage from Bleed, so treat Nyctra's Bleed as a bonus there. Sedula changes Element every day, and Nyctra has Elemental Advantage on the days she is Light.
In the Dark Spire, Path of Pain picks off weak targets in waves. Pair her with Invokers of a similar Rarity: Kryxa the Giantfeller, a Legendary Dark Tank, casts Taunt and Immunity, Khrono the Timewinder, a Legendary Dark Support, speeds up your team's Skills, and Zhine the Spark, an Epic Dark Support, casts Shields and DEF Down.
Awaken
Awakening boosts an Invoker's stats significantly. Bonuses from Relics, Accessories, the Trophy Room, Tactics and Titan leader bonuses apply to base stats and Awakening stats alike, so unlocking the Awakening nodes is critical to maximise Nyctra's potential.
Unlocking each Titan node at Star 2, 4 and 6 adds a second to Titan Invokation, taking the total from 12 seconds to 15.
Review the Awakening guide for more detail.
