Best Vinquibus Ranged & Melee Builds in Warframe

The Vinquibus is the first rifle/bayonet combo weapon in Warframe that occupies 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 stretch of the imagination, the Vinquibus is fun to use, and it can hold its own against Steel Path enemies fairly well too.

In this guide, we'll be covering 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.

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How to Get the Vinquibus in Warframe

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

How to Get Vinquibus Stance Mod (Harrowing Spire)

Warframe Harrowing Spire Stance Mod Drop — Warframe Vinquibus Stance Mod Drop

Much like the Vinquibus itself, the Harrowing Spire stance mod for this melee weapon archetype can potentially drop during Descendia runs. Finishing an Infernum or breaking containers within these missions have a chance of giving you a copy of Harrowing Spire (or a chance at getting components for Uriel).

This stance is great for knocking enemies into the air; its heavy attack and both of its standing and running block combos have guaranteed knockback procs. Also, any combo move that fires the rifle part of the weapon counts the inflicted damage as melee damage.

Vinquibus 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 hit a headshot, Vinquibus will gain +250% Melee Damage for its next two melee attacks, stacking up to 16 attacks.
Vinquibus Ferocity (Melee): Scoring a melee kill with Vinquibus grants the weapon 100% Rifle Ammo Efficiency for its next four shots, stacking up to 16 shots.

These two passives make the Vinquibus a strong, self-sustaining weapon. Its rifle mode feeds off its bayonet mode and vice versa, which means you'll want to constantly flow 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 on both Primary and Melee mod slots for the Vinquibus.

Best Warframe Vinquibus Builds

The Vinquibus has decent stats across the board, sporting a generous 40% base crit chance with a middling 20% status chance on both rifle and melee forms. Naturally, it works better with crit builds, though you can get away with Condition Overload setups with it too.

Best Vinquibus Rifle Builds

Acuity Build

Galvanized Scope

Bladed Rounds

Primary Acuity

Semi-Rifle Cannonade

Critical Delay

Vital Sense

2x 60/60 Elemental Status Mods

Primary Deadhead

Multishot Build

Galvanized Scope

Galvanized Chamber

Galvanized Aptitude

Vital Sense

Shred

3x 60/60 Elemental/Status mods

Primary Merciless

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

Warframe Vinquibus Rifle Multishot build hit

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

If you're a newer Warframe player who doesn't have access to these mods just yet, use the following:

Serration
Point Strike/Argon Scope
Vital Sense
Split Chamber
Shred
Elemental mods of choice

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

Best Vinquibus Melee Builds

Crit Build

Condition Overload

Galvanized Elementalist

Galvanized Steel

Berserker Fury/Primed Fury

Blood Rush

Organ Shatter

2x 60/60 Elemental mods

Melee Afflictions/Exposure

Tennokai mod (optional)

Duplicate Build

Galvanized Steel

Galvanized Elementalist

Condition Overload

Primed Fury/Berserker Fury

Weeping Wounds

2x 60/60 Elemental mods

Melee Duplicate

Tennokai mod (optional)

The Vinquibus' 40% base crit chance makes it a good weapon for crit-heavy builds, such as the one above. It'll work best on melee-centric frames like Kullervo and valkyr, though it'll be decent with everyone else, including Uriel. We have two Arcane options for this build:

Melee Afflictions takes advantage VInquibus' innate knockback procs, letting it 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 anyone who spams abilities like Uriel and Volt.

You can still do status-focused builds with Vinquibus, but it won't apply status effects as quickly as some other weapons in the game. Melee Duplicate solves the latter by leveraging Vinquibus' high crit chance to strike enemies twice whenever the weapon inflicts a regular critical hit (represented by yellow damage numbers). Hitting twice with one strike means you have a chance to inflict 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 because of the weapon's low status chance, but once you get those procs rolling, everything in the room will get zapped to death.

Now, if you don't have the Galvanized mods yet, just 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.

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