Best Vinquibus Ranged & Melee builds in Warframe

Vinquibus is the first rifle/bayonet combo weapon Warframe which occupy both the player's primary and melee weapon slots. It has a few tricks up its sleeves, and while it's not the best weapon in the game by any means, the Vinquibus is fun to use, and it can hold its own against Steel Path enemies as well.

In this guide, we'll cover all the important things you need to know about this weapon, including some of the best Vinquibus builds in Warframe as well as how to get it, where to find its stance mod, and how its dual passives work.

How to get Vinquibus in Warframe

You can get the resources and components you need to build the Vinquibus by playing the Descendia quest, which you can access through the Dark Refractory after completing The Old Peace quest. Alternatively, you can go to Roathe in Sanctum Anatomicas La Cathedrale and buy Vinquibus parts from him using Maphica, which you also get during the Descendia races. Vinquibus components drop after completing 21st Infernum.

How to get Vinquibus Stance Mod (Harrowing Spire)

Much like the Vinquibus itself, The Harrowing Spire stance mod for this melee weapon archetype could potentially drop during Descendia runs. Finishing an Infernum or smashing containers within these missions has a chance to give you a copy of the Harrowing Spire (or a chance to get components for Uriel).

This stance is great for hitting enemies in the air; its heavy attack and both its standing and running block combo have guaranteed knockback procs. Additionally, any combo move that fires the rifle portion of the weapon counts the damage dealt as melee damage.

Vinquibu's passive effects

As a combo weapon, the Vinquibus occupies both your melee and primary weapon slots. Thankfully, the weapon comes with two passives:

• Vinquibus Precision (primary): Whenever you land a headshot, Vinquibus will take +250% melee damage for its next two melee attacks, up to 16 attacks.
• Vinquibus Ferocity (Melee): Scoring a melee kill with the Vinquibus gives the weapon 100% rifle ammo efficiency for its next four shots, up to 16 shots.

These two passives make Vinquibus a strong, self-sustaining weapon. Its rifle mode feeds off its bayonet mode and vice versa, meaning you'll want to constantly be fluid between shooting and stabbing with this weapon if you want to get the most out of it.

Any polarization, Exilus unlock, and lens installation are reflected in both the Primary and Melee mod slots for Vinquibus.

Best Warframe Vinquibus Build

Vinquibus has decent stats across the board, has a generous 40% base crit chance with between 20% status chance on both rifle and melee forms. Of course it works better with crit builds, although you can get away with Condition Overload settings with that too.

Best Vinquibus Rifle Build

The Acuity build goes all in on Vinquibus' nature as a precision weapon. This is a head-clicker setup that deals tons of damage against weak points, but it can be a bit difficult to take full advantage of unless you're using a frame with good crowd control like Oraxia or Frost. You'll constantly hit high level reds with this build thanks to Critical Delay (without affecting your rate of fire thanks to Semi-Rifle Cannonade), but you absolutely need to hit the weak spots to take advantage of Primary Acuity.

In the meantime, have The Multishot Build is designed for convenience. It won't hit as hard as the Acuity build, but it still gets the job done even without having to headshot all the time. Just spam your shots at your targets and watch them fall.

If you are newer Warframe players who do not have access to these mods yet, use the following:

• Serration

• Point Strike/Argon Scope

• Vital Sense

• Split chamber

• Shred

• Selectable elemental mods

This is basically a budget version of the Multishot build, and it will be enough to get you through the Star Chart.

Best Vinquibus Melee build

Vinquibu's 40% base hit chance makes it a good weapon for chalk heavy buildslike the one above. It will work best on melee-centric frames like Kullervo and valkyries, although it will do well with all others, including Uriel. We have two obscure options for this construction:

• Melee ailments takes advantage of VINquibus's innate knockback processes and allows it to add more status effect stacks on enemies that are already suffering from them.
• Melee exposure adds corrosive damage to your base damage when you cast an ability. Works best with caster Warframes or someone spamming abilities like Uriel and Volt.

You can still do status-focused builds with the Vinquibus, but it won't apply status effects as quickly as some other weapons in the game. Melee Duplicate solves the latter by taking advantage of Vinquibu's high-crit chance to hit enemies twice whenever the weapon deals a regular critical hit (represented by yellow damage numbers). Hitting twice with one punch means you have a chance to deal two status effects instead of just one.

Of course, you can also use Melee Influence on Vinquibus. Just take the Melee Duplicate Build and replace the elemental mod and Arcane slots with Electricity and Melee Influence respectively. The ramp up will be a bit slow due to the weapon's low status chance, but once you get those processes rolling, everything in the room will be dead.

Now, if you don't have the galvanized mods yet, only use mods that increase your crit rate or base attack damage like Pressure Point and True Steel. Just keep in mind that you won't be able to scale well in Steel Path without galvanized mods.