Solo Nex Difficulties

[yuyuhakush13]

I'm working on learning solo Nex, but having difficulty with the shadow phase.  My problem is that I can't keep Nex out of melee distance about half of the time, which is really eating through my food from the damage from the "embrace darkness" ability of hers.  Any advice on this issue would be greatly appreciated.  It was because I was using ranged armour.  

 

Also, I haven't nailed down a set-up yet.  I have all three nex sets, dual virtus, dual drygores, and dual ascension to work with, plus all of the PoP armour.  Seismic wand + virtus book is also a possibilty, with an upgrade to seismic singularity in the future, and t90 gear can be upgraded to.  Which would be the easiest set-up to learn with and what would be most effective once I do get everything nailed down?

 

 

EDIT:  Is it worth getting and using the amulet of zealots?  I did a bit of poking around and am curious if that is worth using.

[Wkw]

Few things here

 

I actually prefer to range nex, rather than mage or melee. Melee, obviously, is necessary if you don't have seismics for blood phase.

 

Nex will melee you based on your armor, yes, but you can range in a range plate/legs if you have melee boots gloves and helmet on.

 

I use, sirenic body and legs, with malevolent helmet, razorback gauntlets, and torva boots. She won't run into melee on shadow with this. I switch to malevolent plate and legs for blood phase, and back to range afterwards