Vauban
Vauban builds
Artillery Officer — Endgame
Endgame4–5 FormaEndgameMedium confidenceSteel PathHelminthShards optional

Vauban — Artillery Officer

Endgame build. Photon Repeater plus Photon Strike. Drop the beacon, laser the Bastille pile, double damage on Overguard. This is the 2026 Vauban nuke.

Codex Checked · Compared against current game data for this update. · Update 43.5 · 5 Sept 2026 · PC · Current

endgame / endurance, Overguard Eximus, people who want Vauban to kill not just hold

Wrong drop or mechanic?

Don’t build this yet

First Bastille first

This loadout sits at Endgame. It wants Forma, Helminth, or shards you may not have. Play the Starter until those systems are open — then this page is the upgrade, not the homework.

Open First Bastille

Why this build?

Endgame for endgame / endurance, Overguard Eximus, people who want Vauban to kill not just hold

Health: Not yet — Helminth, Steel Path, or Archon Hunts still closed. Play the Starter.

Play this in Steel Path
  • Photon Strike deals double to Overguard. That is why Vauban still has a nuke job in 2026.
  • Bastille first, laser second. A beacon on an empty tile is a very expensive flashlight.
  • Tesla Nervos is cute. It is not 300% Strength Photon.

Don’t use this for: Star Chart only · new accounts · players without Helminth

Specialised investment for hard content

You don’t need the shards to run the loop. They are a later ceiling, not a gate.

Bring: Beacon, then gun — Photon Strike is the nuke. A primer on the vortex pile still helps. You do not need an exalted.

Alternative if…

Instead: First BastilleInstead: First Bastille — Star ChartInstead: Artillery Officer — Steel PathInstead: Artillery Officer — Optimised

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Readiness

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  • Required mods 0/9 · required — 0/9 named
  • Forma 0/5 · required — 5 on the card. Codex does not track installed Forma.
  • Helminth 0/1 · required — Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)
  • Arcanes · recommended — 0/2 recommended
  • Shards · optional — Optional unless the card says a breakpoint

Investment: 5 Forma · Reactor · Helminth (Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)) · 2 shards · 4 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.

Plan

Today → next → later

Inventory unknown — mark “I own this” on a few mods. Until then this is a plan, not a score of zero.

  1. TodayPlay First BastilleThe Starter is the loadout you can actually take into a mission tonight.
  2. NextGet Growing PowerThe Silver Grove quest
  3. After that4–5 FormaOne slot at a time. Rank 30 after each polarize.
  4. LaterCrimson · StrengthHelminth and shards are the last rungs. They are not the Starter.
  5. FinalArtillery Officer — EndgameEndgame · Endgame · 4–5 Forma

Farm the gap

Helminth & shards

What to put on the body

Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino) over Tesla Nervos (1)

Tesla is the dump slot on nuke Vauban. Nourish is Viral + energy. Roar multiplies Photon Strike. Keep Bastille.

Helminth is locked. Tick it on Progress before you subsume.

  • 3 Tauforged Tauforged Crimson · Strength — Photon numbers and Bastille strip.Archon locked
  • 2 Tauforged Amber · Casting Speed — Beacon tempo. Repeater is fire rate.Archon locked

Tonight

What is actually up

30 minutes, one hour, or two — matched to this loadout, not a dump of the Origin System.

  1. 30 minutes

    Farm Growing Power

    One named gap. The Silver Grove quest

  2. 60 minutes

    Growing Power, then Forma

    Finish the missing named card, then spend a Forma if a polarity is still fighting you.

  3. 120 minutes

    Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)

    If you are logging off after this, stop at the named component. Do not start a second Forma session tired.

Who this is for

Play this build from zero

Steel Path Overguard is laughing at your rifle. You own Photon Repeater.

Time to a playable copy
After Photon Repeater and a Tesla subsume.
First mission to practice in
SP Exterminate with Eximus. You want Overguard bars to vanish.

2 button drills · 14 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

Laser loop

Pocket card. Stick this on a second screen; the long version is the mission below.

  1. 1Bastille (4) the pack so they cannot walk out of the laser.
  2. 2Photon Strike (3) the middle. Repeater recasts into the same beacon.
  3. 3Nourish or Roar (1) on the timer.
  4. 4Hold 4 if stragglers need a vortex instead of a lift.

First mission — press these buttons

  1. 1

    Cage, then beacon

    3

    4 the clump. 3 in the middle. Recast 3 into the same beacon if Repeater is on.

    You will know it worked when: A targeting beacon, then a column of light. Overguard should chunk twice.

  2. 2

    Do not laser an empty tile

    If they walked out, Bastille again.

Common mistakes

  • Helminthing Bastille

    Then you are a slow Ember with a beacon. Keep 4.

When this feels easy

  1. 1Casting speed shardsRepeater is fire rate.
  2. 2Molt AugmentedStrength for both strip and laser.

Parts checklist

0 of 14 owned. Tap How on anything you still need.

Dependencies

19 dependencies

Frame → mods → unlocks. Tick Collection and Progress. This is a decision graph, not a wiki tree.

  1. 1●vaubanframe
  2. 2○Growing Powermod
  3. 3○Power Driftmod
  4. 4○Photon Repeateraugment
  5. 5○Blind Ragemod
  6. 6○Umbral Intensifymod
  7. 7○Stretchmod
  8. 8○Primed Continuitymod
  9. 9○Primed Flowmod
  10. 10○Rolling Guardmod
  11. 11○Molt Augmentedarcane
  12. 12○Arcane Energizearcane
  13. 13○Crimson · Strengthshard
  14. 14○Amber · Casting Speedshard
  15. 15○Nourishhelminth
  16. 16○Roar (Rhino)helminth
  17. 17○Helminth · Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino)unlock
  18. 18○Steel Pathunlock
  19. 19○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

  • Growing Power

    missing · The Silver Grove quest

  • Power Drift

    missing · Unlock Lua

  • Photon Repeater

    missing · Perrin Sequence / Steel Meridian · 25,000 standing

    Recast Photon Strike on an existing beacon for extra strikes. The nuke augment.

  • Blind Rage

    missing · Run Orokin Vaults

  • Umbral Intensify

    missing · Finish The Sacrifice

  • Stretch

    missing · Enemy drops

  • Primed Continuity

    missing · Wait for Baro Ki'Teer

  • Primed Flow

    missing · Baro Ki'Teer

  • Rolling Guard

    missing · Arbitrations

  • Nourish

    missing · Helminth

    Tesla is the dump slot on nuke Vauban. Nourish is Viral + energy. Roar multiplies Photon Strike. Keep Bastille.

  • Roar (Rhino)

    missing · Own Rhino

    Tesla is the dump slot on nuke Vauban. Nourish is Viral + energy. Roar multiplies Photon Strike. Keep Bastille.

Recommended

  • Molt Augmented

    missing · Unlock the Zariman

    Strength stacks. Photon and strip both scale.

  • Arcane Energize

    missing · Buy 20–40 Platinum worth

    Repeater is an energy hobby.

Optional

Watch it played

YouTube for this loadout

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You can have a BLAST with Vauban!

Bastille, Photon Strike, Tesla Nervos. The engineer traps.

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Helminth

Subsume Nourish (Grendel) or Roar (Rhino) over Tesla Nervos (1)

Tesla is the dump slot on nuke Vauban. Nourish is Viral + energy. Roar multiplies Photon Strike. Keep Bastille.

Strength

~250–300%

Duration

155%

Range

145–175%

Strength is Photon damage and Bastille strip. Repeater lets you recast 3 into the same beacon for extra hits.

From the mods

Live power

Additive from max-rank Codex mods. Efficiency clamped 15–175%. Umbral set is +11% Strength per extra piece.

Strength
258%
Duration
155%
Range
145%
Efficiency
45%
Energy
+275%
Capacity
51 / 67

1 Umbral piece

Open slots

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

  • AuraGrowing PowerSilver Grove
  • ExilusPower DriftVaults / Lua
  • 1Photon RepeaterRecast Photon Strike on an existing beacon for extra strikes. The nuke augment.Perrin Sequence / Steel Meridian · 25k
  • 2Blind RageOrokin Vaults
  • 3Umbral IntensifyThe Sacrifice
  • 4StretchDrops
  • 5Primed ContinuityBaro
  • 6Primed FlowBaro
  • 7Rolling GuardArbitrations

Beacon, then gun

Photon Strike is the nuke. A primer on the vortex pile still helps. You do not need an exalted.

Arcanes

Molt Augmented

Strength stacks. Photon and strip both scale.

Zariman

Arcane Energize

Repeater is an energy hobby.

Eidolon / trade

Archon shards

  • 1Tauforged Crimson · StrengthPhoton numbers and Bastille strip.3 Tauforged · Netracells
  • 2Tauforged Amber · Casting SpeedBeacon tempo. Repeater is fire rate.2 · EDA
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