Nicia, Hound of the Abyss

With a rage utterly unfettered by the constraints of humanity, Nicia has bound herself the infernal cause. A peerless killer, she stalks the battlefield, unleashing death and misery in her wake.

Basic Info

Abilities

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• Template:Run & Gun

Weapons

Death Song
File:Gun icon.jpg		RNG			ROF			AOE			POW
		12			1			3			13
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Blade (x2)
File:Sword icon.jpg		RNG				POW				P+S
		0.5				3				8
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Theme Forces

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Thoughts on Nicia2

Nicia2 in a Nutshell

Nicia is a ranged combat solo who hunts down and executes enemy models with a vengeance. Her primary role is to provide a powerful ranged weapon that collects and distributes the Souls of her fallen foes. She is extremely difficult to pin down with her array of movement and defensive abilities, and if the enemy does manage to corner her, they're gonna taste her blades!

Combos & Synergies

• Tormentor - This is usually what Nicia ends up as in Dark Legacy. Run her 14" turn one, and turn her into another Tormentor.
• In Hearts of Darkness you cannot summon anyway (sans Regna, who summons for free anyway), thus you get to actually play her and enjoy some synergies.
  • Crosse2, Infernal Gate, Orin2 - All of them are soul collectors, who will love being given another soul by her gun. Other faction specific non-warcaster soul collectors also exist, such as Hand of Silence, Sanctifiers and Alexia2.
• Hermit of Hengehold - -2 ARM on enemies make her gun effectively POW 15.
• Greylord Adjunct, Rhoven, Scharde Dirge Seers - Guidance on a Ranged combat solo is always a good idea.
• Eilish1, Eilish2, Koldun Lord, The Withershadow Combine - Puppet Master combined with Luck means you shot is nigh guaranteed to land. The Koldun Lord also has an ARM debuff.

Drawbacks & Downsides

• as with all high def low arm solos wandering AOEs and basically anything that hits her will likely kill her

Tricks & Tips

• With her impressive list of mobility abilities, she can very easily find her way into places your opponent will not like a horror to be summoned.

Other

Trivia

• Released with the Faction release (2019.06)
• Prior to release, PP hid the identity of Nicia2 from players. Her concept art was "unfortunatley not complete in time for CID" and she was called a completely different name (Kezia Brand, the Screaming Night). She was revealed via a "Wanted Poster" placed on Facebook in the week just before the Faction was released.