The Best Vastilok Armor Strip Build in Warframe

The Vastilok is an interesting weapon in Warframe, capable of turning some of the toughest enemies in the game into a pushover, thanks to its fast armor stripping with the right build. Here’s how to build it.

How To Get the Vastilok

To get the Vastilok, you’ll have to be lucky enough for Baro Ki’Teer, the unusual stranger from beyond the Void, to have it in stock during one of his occasional visits to the game. At the time of writing, you may just be in luck, as Baro will have the Vastilok in stock until he leaves the Larunda Relay on Sunday, August 11. You can buy the weapon from him for 550 Ducats and 325,000 Credits.

How To Build the Vastilok

You want the Vastilok for one reason, and that is armor stripping. There are better weapons to build straight-up damage (Redeemer Prime) or Heavy Attacks (Stropha), but the Vastilok is what you want to strip armor almost instantly.

The Vastilok armor strip build itself is very easy to put together. You want a mod called Shattering Impact, which has the effect of reducing enemy armor by 6 when you do Impact damage. Now, things get interesting due to a number of factors:

• Shattering Impact reduces BASE armor, not scaled armor per level. So, you don’t need to fret that high-level enemies have thousands of armor, as this strips away before all the scaling math is done.
• You just need to do Impact damage, not Impact procs. Don’t worry about the Status chance.
• The damage reduction is per pellet, and the Vastilok has a built-in multishot of 9, so you will do 54 Armor Strip if you land them all. For reference, an Acolyte has a base armor value of 50.
• Finally, this armor strip is permanent. You don’t need to reapply it after it’s done.
• Run the High Noon mod for the quickest ranged attack animation.

You can get the Shattering Impact mod from Drekar Butcher enemies that spawn on the Grineer Sealab tileset.

After that, all you need to do is build attack speed, as this is all about short and sharp animations that will drive pellets into enemies nice and fast. Mods like Fury or Primed Fury, Quickening, or Gladiator Vice will all do the job nicely. I really don’t see the point of trying to squeeze on damage to this, as you should be taking up at least half your slots with the Shattering Impact and speed mods. That just doesn’t leave much space for adequate damage mods.

Once you strip the armor and the enemy health bar turns red, switch to your primary or secondary weapon to take them apart.

Warframe is available to play on PC, PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, and mobile.