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Warframe: The revamped 'lightweight' Vauban shows insane performance!
Vauban's rework has made him much more powerful. Improvements to Tesla Nervos, quality of life improvements to Mine Layer, and the armor stripping ability of Bastille all greatly enhance his usefulness. While some issues remain, overall Vauban is now a powerful Warframe worth playing.
1. 🚀 Vauban Rework: A Much More Powerful Warframe
- ✅ Vauban has received a big buff.
- ✅ While there are some downsides, overall he is much more powerful.
00:00 - 00:40
1. 🚀 Vauban Rework: A Much More Powerful Warframe
- ✅ Vauban has received a big buff.
- ✅ While there are some downsides, overall he is much more powerful.
00:41 - 01:25
2. ⚙️ Vauban's Passive: Multiplicative Damage Bonus
- ✅ Vauban's passive provides additional damage as before.
- ✅ The description has now been improved to better understand how the multiplicative damage bonus works.
- ✅ Deals 1.25x damage to disabled enemies.
- ✅ Enemies affected by Tesla Nervos also receive a damage buff.
- ✅ The passive is triggered with Tesla Nervos, Tether Coil of Mine Layer, and Prism of Bastille.
01:26 - 03:26
3. ⚡ Tesla Nervos: Ability Enhancements and Improvements
- ✅ Tesla Nervos is Vauban's first ability.
- ✅ Status chance is adjusted according to ability strength.
- ✅ AI has been improved to target enemies that are currently out of range of the ball.
- ✅ Can now target enemies trapped in Bastille.
- ✅ Electrocutes enemies as soon as the ball touches the target.
- ✅ A visual effect trail has been added to make the ball easier to track.
- ⚠️ There is an issue where the ball does not teleport to the player if it is beyond a certain distance.
03:27 - 04:06
4. 💥 Tesla Bank: Enhanced Augment Mod
- ✅ Tesla Bank is an augment mod for Tesla Nervos.
- ✅ A marker now appears above affected enemies in the energy color.
- ✅ Damage dealt to targets attached to Nervos is absorbed into Nervos and released as electrical damage in an 8m radius upon death.
- ✅ The explosion radius is affected by range, and the damage is based on a percentage of the target's total unarmored health.
04:07 - 05:43
5. 💣 Mine Layer: Quality of Life Improvements and New Features
- ✅ Mine Layer is Vauban's second ability.
- ✅ There are now only two mines, combining Tether and Flechette Orb, Vector and Overdrive Pad.
- ✅ Tether pulls enemies, and Flechette Orb targets pulled enemies and surrounding enemies.
- ✅ The new dual mine can be attached to walls and ceilings.
- ✅ Vector Overdrive Pads provide a speed boost to Vauban and allies when stepped on.
- ✅ The speed boost is a 1.25x bonus affected by ability strength.
- ⚠️ Vector Pads can launch players into the sky and glitch companions.
- ✅ Mine Layer works in a tap and hold manner.
05:44 - 07:36
6. 🪢 Mine Layer Mine Types: Tether Coil, Flechette Orb, Vector Pad
- ✅ Tether Coil throws an energy wire to slash and ragdoll enemies, pulling up to 2 enemies within line of sight up to 20m.
- ✅ Flechette Orb has infinite damage scaling potential.
- ✅ Flechette Orb fires high-speed nails that deal puncture scaling damage.
- ✅ Nail damage scales with ability strength, enemy level, Vauban's passive, and Overdrive damage bonus.
- ✅ Vector Pads provide an Overdrive bonus, providing a 1.25x speed boost affected by ability strength.
- ✅ Overdrive grants 25% base multiplicative damage and also applies to Vauban's passive.
| Mine | Effect |
|---|---|
| Tether Coil | Pulls enemies and deals slash damage. |
| Flechette Orb | Fires nails that deal puncture damage. |
| Vector Pad | Provides speed boost and damage buff. |
07:37 - 08:43
7. ☀️ Photon Strike: Changes and Augment Mod
- ✅ Photon Strike is Vauban's third ability.
- ✅ Now applies a forced explosion effect and deals double damage to overguarded enemies.
- ✅ Costs 50 energy per cast.
- ✅ Explosion radius has been increased to 7m.
- ✅ Enemies trapped in Bastille are no longer thrown by Photon Strike.
- ✅ Visual effects for squad members have been reduced.
- ✅ Photon Repeater Augment Mod fires two additional attacks at no cost for the next cast if Photon Strike hits at least 5 enemies.
08:44 - 11:06
8. 🔒 Bastille: Core Ability and Armor Stripping
- ✅ Bastille is Vauban's core ability.
- ✅ Sends out a device that stops enemies within a 10m radius upon contact.
- ✅ There are no longer enemy limits.
- ✅ The number of Bastilles that can be active at one time has been reduced to 4.
- ✅ Bastille strips enemy armor and steals armor within range, providing a buff to the player and allies.
- ✅ Now steals and grants 1,500 armor to the player and allies.
- ✅ Armor is doubled if the enemy is actively stripping armor.
- ✅ The Vortex version applies a magnetic field, and the status chance scales with power strength.
- ✅ If you throw a Vortex first, subsequent Vortexes will be pulled to the first Vortex.
11:07 - 11:42
9. 🛡️ Enduring Bastille: Duration Increase Augment Mod
- ✅ Enduring Bastille is an augment mod for Bastille.
- ✅ The mechanism for pushing enemies away has been removed.
- ✅ Killing enemies in Bastille increases the duration by 2 seconds.
- ✅ The time increase scales with duration, and the total bonus duration is limited to 2x.
- ✅ The duration of Vortex is also increased by up to 70% of the maximum duration.
11:43 - 13:07
10. 🎮 How to Play Vauban: Synergy and Team Composition
- ✅ Vauban is generally a stationary Warframe, but that's not always the case.
- ✅ Thanks to Bastille, which pulls enemies with Vortex.
- ✅ It is recommended to use it with other Warframes that help gather enemies.
- ✅ Tesla Nervos can be used to trigger the passive and stun enemies.
- ✅ Use Mine Layer at your discretion.
- ✅ Photon Strike is for explosions and damage.
- ✅ It is recommended to use Bastille and Vortex together to localize enemies.
- ✅ It is recommended to always keep one Bastille and one Vortex to strip armor, gain 1,500 armor, and crowd control enemies.
13:08 - 14:04
11. ⚠️ Vauban's Problems: Tesla Nervos and Vector Pad
- ⚠️ There is an issue where Tesla Nervos does not teleport to the player if it is too far away.
- ⚠️ Vector Pads can launch players into the sky.
- ✅ You must walk over the pad to be affected by the Vector Pad.
14:05 - 17:32
12. 🛠️ Vauban Builds: Budget, Steel Path, Helminth Setup
- ✅ Budget Build: You can use Adaptation, Tesla Bank, Enduring Bastille, Photon Repeater, etc.
- ✅ Steel Path Build: You can use Overextended, Archon Stretch, Arcane Battery, Arcane Capricious, Arcane Avenger, Arcane Arachne, Arcane Circumspect, etc.
- ✅ Helminth Setup: You can use Bright Bonet, Roar, Eclipse, etc.
17:33 - 18:13
13. ✨ Final Thoughts: Vauban is Much Better!
- ✅ Vauban is much better.
- ✅ I want to try out how Tesla Nervos and Tesla Bank work on other Warframes.
- ✅ I highly recommend trying out Vauban.