I now understand why people hate the Nihil fight

[ultimitloozer]

On 2023-08-05 at 3:03 PM, Els236 said:

The "spawn platform" can and will be destroyed, meaning you respawn floating in mid-air (you can also die on the spawn platform)

This must be a bug. You are actually on a platform when you respawn. Frequently Nihil will launch a shard while you are still on it. It will land on the platform & you can retrieve it from there even though you can't see the platform you are standing on. It needs to be quick though - before the platform despawns. Multiple times the shard was in the air already as I respawned and I was able to pick it up, throw it, and get off of the platform before it despawned. (The platform still changes colors before it despawns.)

Once you hit stages 2 & 3 when he starts teleporting all over the place, you just need to move in the opposite direction. If you are on a platform across the playing field when he arrives, he will almost always launch another shard at you. No sword swings to avoid at all. Though in stage 3 he will sometimes teleport multiple times without attacking between them.

On 2023-08-05 at 3:03 PM, Els236 said:

If you lose more than 1/3rd of the platforms, you might as well just quit and restart, because 99% of the time, the shards go flying off into the Void and the mission basically becomes impossible (or at least impossibly lengthy) to complete.

Not really. When I finally completed this one, there were only 5 small platforms left. I was primarily hopping between 3 of them trying to get enough distance for him to throw shards. His last 2 bits of health took about 2 minutes because of the near-constant teleporting he was doing before throwing shards.

Now that I have the Vitrica, I will not be playing this one again. There are faster and easier ways to get rivens.

[Zakalwe]

I didn't find it hard. First try I died as I took a little too long to figure it out, second time I aced it easily.

I really disliked it, personally. It felt a bit clunky, not satsifying. I appreciate they tried something new, but the mechanic of baiting him to throw, picking it up and throwing back was just not that fun for me.

[xcrimsonlegendx]

I've never understood why people hate it.

You see the huge telegraphed sword swings, dodge them. You see him fire a crystal, dodge it. Oh it landed on the ground, pick it up. Okay what do I do with this, throw it back. Repeat. Even if he wipes you out and breaks some platforms you learn quickly to keep moving around the arena. The fight isn't that complicated, I guess by Warframe standards it's one of the more complex fights but its still not that hard to figure out.