Vauban releases an electrically-charged grenade that adheres to any surface. On contact with an enemy, the grenade will deal 15Blast damage. If an enemy approaches the grenade within 7 / 8 / 10 / 12 meters, the grenade will discharge. A single grenade holds a maximum of 5 / 6 / 7 / 10 charges, and each charge inflicts 80 / 100 / 120 / 150Electricity damage. Charges are fired once every 3 seconds. Each grenade has a duration of 40 seconds; when a grenade uses a charge, its duration is paused for 0.75 seconds. The ability can be held for a short time and released, doubling damage and increasing status chance to 100%.
Arc damage and contact damage are affected by Ability Strength, and the contact damage can be increased by body-part multipliers.
The arc damage has a low status chance. An Electricity proc will chain 50% of the initial damage to surrounding enemies in a small area of effect while briefly stunning the initial target.
For more information about the contact damage, see this blog and this follow-up.
Each grenade can deal a total of 400 / 600 / 840 / 1500 damage. Sticking a grenade directly on an enemy can potentially deal that entire amount to the enemy for its duration.
Electricity status effect chains 50% of Tesla's base damage to surrounding enemies in a small area of effect. Shocked enemies will also be briefly stunned.
Number of charges is affected by Ability Duration, while the grenade duration is not.
Because of this, the maximum number of usable charges is capped at 18.
A grenade can only target one enemy at a time, expending a single charge per attack.
Grenades can only attack enemies in line of sight (cannot shoot through walls or corners).
When the ability is charged, damage is doubled and status chance increases to 100%. Both the uncharged 10% status and charged 100% status are unaffected by mods.
Damage is further increased by 25% when a charged Tesla shocks an enemy under various forms of immobilizing crowd control, such as Bastille or Vortex.
Can be used while performing many actions without interrupting them, including reloading.
Can be cast multiple times while active.
Tips & Tricks
Place on allies such as hostages, fellow Warframes, or even sentinels to create a sort of melee protection sphere. Best used on Rhino/Excalibur Warframe with their Rhino Charge/Slash Dash ability.
Placing several Tesla in exactly the same spot will result in the charges being released at nearly the same time, and placing them in a line will result in each firing one at a time as an enemy approaches, dealing more constant damage.
Placing several Tesla on a rotating body allows the Teslas to possibly "orbit" into range of an enemy, and giving them all a chance to fire at said enemy. This effectively increases the range and increases the Tesla group's overall rate of fire.
Works best against Corpus and less effective against other factions, while still acting as a moderate damage tool.
Electrical damage deals normal damage to shields, and only deals extra damage to unshielded MOAs, so it is realistically best for Infested.
Grineer armor will reduce the damage dealt considerably.
Bugs
Even after the Update 23.3 (2018-08-09) rework, the maximum allotted charges per grenade is still capped at 18 charges. Going over this by increasing duration further has no effect.
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Ricochet (also known as Bounce) is a property of Projectiles that allows them to bounce off surfaces for a limited number of types before the projectile lifespan ends.
Mechanic
Some projectiles will continue their trajectory even after colliding with level geometry, enemies, or other objects, though they are limited by the number of times they can do so before disappearing. Ricocheting projectiles will reflect off surfaces at the same angle of incidence (i.e. the angle at which a projectile moves away from a surface equals the angle at which they enter). Ricocheting projectiles will also lose velocity after collisions.
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.
Vauban expends 100energy to throws a modular device in an arcing trajectory toward the aiming reticle. Upon striking an enemy, the device inflicts 15Blast damage with a ?% status chance. Upon contact with a surface, the device erects a Bastille energy containment field that suspends up to 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 enemies into the air within a 5 / 7 / 8 / 10 meter radius. Armored enemies suspended by Bastille permanently lose 2.5% / 5% / 7.5% / 10% of their total Armor points per second, while unarmored enemies are simply held captive; simultaneously, Vauban and allies standing inside the containment field gain an armor bonus up to 1,000 armor points, based on the amount stripped from the suspended armored and unarmored enemies within. Bastille armor bonus lasts indefinitely while inside the field and remains active for 10 seconds once outside.
Bastille still grants Vauban and his allies an armor bonus if the suspended enemies are unarmored. The armor bonus is gained at a reduced rate compared to directly stripping armor from armored enemies.
Bastille armor bonus duration is reset to full when moving into any Bastille containment fields.
Suspended enemies are lifted into the air and completely immobilized, allowing headshots to hit their mark without resistance.
Bastille containment field will continue to capture enemies up to the max target count throughout its duration, in the event captured enemies are killed and new enemies come into range.
After 8 / 10 / 12 / 15 seconds have elapsed, the containment field automatically collapses into a Vortex singularity for 3 seconds. The Vortex constantly Ragdolls and draws in all enemies within the same radius toward the device, inflicting 50Magnetic damage per second with ?% status chance.
Hold down the ability key (default 4 ) without any containment fields active to throw a new device set to Vortex mode. Hold down the ability key to collapse all active Bastille containment fields into Vortexes. Both methods of manually creating Vortexes resets the new and existing devices to last for 10 / 12 / 13 / 15 seconds.
If Bastille fields are in range of each other, manually collapsing them into vortexes causes them to converge on the location of the first active Bastille, based on the order of creation. Enemies and pickups captured by the vortexes will be dragged along toward the new destination.
Vortex also draws in Pickups within its radius for convenient collection.
Ability Synergy:
Enemies suspended by Bastille or pulled by Vortex passively receive 25% increased damage from Vauban's weapons and abilities.
Minelayer's Tether Coil and Vector Pad can bring enemies into range of Bastille. Enemies tied to Tether Coils are released into Bastille's containment field for suspension, freeing the coils to seek new targets.
Coils are not freed if enemies tied to Tether Coil are pulled into Bastille's vortex mode, however.
Photon Strike's targeting beacon is attracted to Bastille's vortex mode, causing the beacon to home in on the device with the laser striking all enemies within range.
Can be used while performing many actions without interrupting them, including reloading.
Can be cast multiple times while active.
If cast while in midair, the casting animation changes with Vauban hovering briefly in the air as he throws the device.
Bastille is a one-handed action. As such, it can be used while performing various maneuvers and actions without interruption.
Repelling Bastille is a Warframe Augment Mod for Vauban's Bastille that repels new enemies when it reaches the maximum amount of enemies it can contain, and increases Vortex's duration for every additional Vortex thrown into it.
When used in narrow hallways or choke-points, enemies that are held up in the field block the path of others behind, negating the enemy limit and blocking all the enemies from advancing.
Bastille spawns from a ball that Vauban throws in an arc, so it can be deployed where aimed.
Bugs
If Vauban is playing as client, Photon Strike's beacon will not be attracted to Bastille's vortex even when thrown into its suction range.
Vortex will slow down allied specters such as the Corrupted Lancer specter.
Vauban releases a device that creates a powerful attractive force, lasting 6 / 8 / 10 / 12 seconds. On touching an enemy, the device will deal 15Blast damage. Every enemy within 6 meters of the device will be violently drawn to it and dealt 50Magnetic damage per second (across 4 damage ticks per second). When the device activates, the initial damage tick is multiplied by 200%.
Damage per second and contact damage are affected by Ability Strength, and the contact damage can be increased by body-part multipliers.
Each tick of damage has a moderate status chance. Enemies affected by the status effect will have their shields reduced by 75% for 4 seconds.
Enemies are ragdolled as they're pulled in, and the damage decreases with distance.
Some enemies will simply be knocked down repeatedly, as they will get up while in vortex only to be knocked down again. In rare cases, enemies can use abilities or fire their weapon in the brief moment they are getting up.
While the initial damage tick is multiplied by 200%, this damage tick does not take benefit from Vauban's passive if used solely.
For example, a rank-3 Vortex with 100% Ability Strength will deal 50 / 4 × 2 = 25Magnetic damage as the initial damage tick.
The damage ticks after the initial one do take benefit from the passive.
Vortex will not take priority over Bastille; Enemies currently held up in Bastille's field will be pulled towards the vortex, but will not leave Bastille or be ragdolled.
Corpses will be attracted, leaving only the loot that was drawn into the nexus.
Enemies that remain within Vortex's nexus for an extended period of time may implode, yielding no loot or affinity.
Can be used while performing many actions without interrupting them, including reloading.
Can be cast multiple times while active.
Tips & Tricks
Can be used to collect resource and ammo drops to where the Vortex is placed.
Vortex appears from a ball that Vauban throws. You can aim at where he throws it at.
Many enemies sucked into the center of the Vortex are considered to be in a prone position if attacked in melee, resulting in a ground finisher. Multiple enemies can be hit or killed by a single ground finisher to the center of the Vortex.
Due to enemies often being very close to each other, Electric procs are very effective, as they will create large chains of damage. In some cases, Teslas can be thrown down to allow procs that kill enemies quicker than either power on it's own.
Bugs
Initial activation will tug players for a fraction of a second, and players near vortex's AoE will have a decrease in slide attack boost speed.
Sometimes pulls players in for the full duration.
Jump kicking into Vortex will cause the player to rise exponentially.
If cast near downed allies can interfere with the bleedout timer. Trying to revive them can interrupt the revival and freeze the timer/percentage leaving the downed player stuck at 0% but no timer. Trying to revive the player while Vortex is active will simply keep interrupting the animation.
Ability Strength may affect the value of each damage tick. However, the rate at which ticks occur will adjust accordingly in order to maintain Vortex's damage per second. (Probably because of low fps)
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Duration:5 / 6 / 7 / 10 (charges)
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