Vauban — Vector and Nails
Steel Path build. Minelayer is two tools. Tap Tether-Flechette to nail and hold. Hold Vector-Overdrive to yeet allies (and enemies) down a hallway with a damage buff.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Speedruns, Index, people who like gadgets more than cages
Wrong drop or mechanic?
Why this build?
Steel Path for Speedruns, Index, people who like gadgets more than cages
Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.
- Minelayer got folded into one button with two holds. People skip it. Speedrunners do not.
- Vector's ally weapon damage is a real buff if your group actually steps on the pad.
- If you came for kills, go back to Photon.
Don’t use this for: content this card does not name
Stronger mods, Arcanes, real synergy
You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.
Bring: Movement toys — Vector pad is a launch plate. Bring a shotgun for the Tether pile. This is the niche config.
Alternative if…
- Star Chart only → First Bastille
- This is too much Forma / cost → First Bastille — Star Chart
My test
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Readiness
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- Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
- Forma 0/4 · required — 4 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
- Helminth · optional — Not required
- Arcanes · recommended — 0/1 recommended
- Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint
Investment: 4 Forma · Reactor · 1 shard · 2 specialised mods. Typical farm ~4–6 hours. Trade if a route is vaulted.
Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current
Medium confidence. A solid recommendation with more situational dependencies. Confidence is not verification. Verification is separate: Codex Checked against Update 43.5.
Your next step
Next: Artillery Officer — Optimised
Unlock Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts before this upgrade is honest.
Artillery Officer — OptimisedPlan
Today → next → later
Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.
- NextGet Sprint BoostNightwave / alerts
- After that3–4 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
- LaterAmber · Parkour VelocityHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
- FinalVector and NailsSteel Path · Advanced · 3–4 Forma
Upgrade from here
Artillery Officer — Optimised
Locked behind Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts. Tick those on Progress first.
Open Artillery Officer — OptimisedHelminth & shards
What to put on the body
- 2 Amber · Parkour Velocity — You are already throwing pads. Go faster.Archon locked
Tonight
What is actually up
30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.
30 minutes
Farm Sprint Boost
One named gap. Nightwave / alerts
60 minutes
Sprint Boost, then Forma
Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.
120 minutes
One Archon Hunt
If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.
- Farm Sprint Boost
Nightwave / alerts
Who this is for
Play this build from zero
You want the gadget kit, not the nuke kit.
- Time to a playable copy
- After Range mods. Vector pads work at unranked.
- First mission to practice in
- A Capture. Pad toward extraction.
2 button drills · 11 parts · tick the lists as you go
Before you start
0 of 3 done
Put it on the Warframe
0 of 4 done
Keep this up
Pad loop
Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.
- 1Hold Minelayer (2) to throw a Vector pad where you want to go. Ride it. Allies get speed and weapon damage.
- 2Tap 2 on a pack for Tether-Flechette — they pin, nails fly.
- 3Bastille (4) if the gadget is not enough.
- 4This is not a Steel Path deleter. It is a toybox that still works.
First mission — press these buttons
- 1
Hold 2, throw a pad, ride it
2You launch. Allies who touch it get speed and weapon damage.
You will know it worked when: A glowing pad. A very fast Vauban.
- 2
Tap 2 on a clump
Tether pins, nails fly.
Common mistakes
Expecting Minelayer to replace Bastille on Steel Path
It will not. This is the toy config.
When this feels easy
- 1Parkour shardsYou already threw a pad. Lean in.
Parts checklist
0 of 11 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.
Dependencies
14 dependencies
Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.
- 1●vaubanframe
- 2○Sprint Boostmod
- 3○Cunning Driftmod
- 4○Intensifymod
- 5○Stretchmod
- 6○Overextendedmod
- 7○Primed Continuitymod
- 8○Streamlinemod
- 9○Primed Flowmod
- 10○Rolling Guardmod
- 11○Arcane Consequencearcane
- 12○Amber · Parkour Velocityshard
- 13○Steel Pathunlock
- 14○Archon Hunts (shards optional)unlock
Depends on
What this loadout needs
Required is a gate. Recommended is a ceiling. Optional is a later farm — don’t stall the card for it.
Required
- Sprint Boost
missing · Nightwave / alerts
Cunning Driftmissing · Lua Halls of Ascension
Intensifymissing · Fight Lieutenant Lech Kril
Stretchmissing · Enemy drops
Overextendedmissing · Orokin Vaults
Primed Continuitymissing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer
Streamlinemissing · Enemy drops and early missions
Primed Flowmissing · Baro Ki'Teer
- Rolling Guard
missing · Arbitrations
Recommended
Optional
Strength
~180%
Duration
155%
Range
175%
Range is Tether pull. Strength is Vector's weapon damage buff for allies who ride it.
From the mods
Live power
Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.
- Strength
- 70%
- Duration
- 155%
- Range
- 250%
- Efficiency
- 130%
- Energy
- +275%
- Capacity
- 47 / 67
Weapon HUD
Arsenal numbers
Base × damage mods × crit expectation × fire rate × multishot. No faction, no quantization. Galvanized kill stacks are a slider, not assumed.
- Damage
- 35
- Crit
- 12% × 2.00
- Status
- 26%
- Fire rate
- 9.58
- Multishot
- 1.00
- Avg hit
- 39
- Arsenal DPS
- 376
Toggle common mods
Vauban mods
- AuraSprint BoostNightwave / Invasion
- ExilusCunning DriftLua
- 1IntensifyMercury / Venus
- 2StretchDrops
- 3OverextendedOrokin Vaults
- 4Primed ContinuityBaro
- 5StreamlineDrops
- 6Primed FlowBaro
- 7Rolling GuardArbitrations
| Slot | Mod | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aura | Sprint Boost | Nightwave / Invasion | |
| Exilus | Cunning Drift | Lua | |
| 1 | Intensify | Mercury / Venus | |
| 2 | Stretch | Drops | |
| 3 | Overextended | Orokin Vaults | |
| 4 | Primed Continuity | Baro | |
| 5 | Streamline | Drops | |
| 6 | Primed Flow | Baro | |
| 7 | Rolling Guard | Arbitrations |
Movement toys
Vector pad is a launch plate. Bring a shotgun for the Tether pile. This is the niche config.
Arcanes
Arcane Consequence
Parkour speed after headshots. Pair with Vector pads.
Eidolon / trade
Archon shards
- 1
Amber · Parkour VelocityYou are already throwing pads. Go faster.2 · EDA
| # | Shard | Qty | Source | How |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Amber · Parkour Velocity You are already throwing pads. Go faster. | 2 | EDA |