The original engineering themed frame is here, the creator of bouncy castles (RIP bounce pad) himself - Booben!
Release date: 2013-05-17
Passive: Vauban inflicts 25% extra damage with his weapons and abilities against enemies that are incapacitated and unable to move.
Tesla Nervos - Deploy a roller drone that attaches itself to enemies and delivers bursts of arcing electricity to anything in the immediate area.
Minelayer - Cycle through four deployable mines: Tether Coil, Flechette Orb, Vector Pad and Overdriver.
Photon Strike - Drop a targeting beacon that calls in a devastating laser artillery strike.
Bastille - Erect a containment field to capture enemies and suspended them in stasis, stripping their armor. Hold to collapse all Bastilles into a single damaging vortex.
Acquisition: Vauban’s main blueprint can be purchased from the Market. Vauban’s component blueprints can be bought from the Nightwave Offerings.
My entire Vauban experience is before his rework, back in ye old days of Bounce Pad and Bastille/Vortex being separate abilities. I used him a decent amount back then for his amazing grouping capabilities. Vortex really sucked, in a good way! I don’t really see much of train man nowadays though, both Mag and Zephyr kinda do the grouping thing better than him now. And Photon Strike, while being awesome visually, it completely useless compared to Flechette Orb which is kinda sad.
Spectrosiphon Vauban really gets work done on the starchart. Give em the succ, spike, and spectro for a self-sustaining energy economy. Haven’t rolled with him on SP, as I like Zephyr a bit better.
Don’t have much insight into the French Lieutenant’s Warframe, though I recognize he’s very strong on any mission where running about like mad is not the goal.
I do wish vector pads didn’t work on Tenno.
On those rare occasions I use him, I pair him with the Kuva Chakkhurrr, since enemies in Bastille are just hanging around waiting for their headshot, and ones in Vortex like a nice little AoE.
