Talk:Vauban/@comment-2401:7400:4001:F111:1:1:181A:4F3B-20191118072801/@comment-7645613-20191119121445

Energy cost is an easy answer. Bastille/vortex requires 100 energy, minelayer only needs 25. The complex answer is Except for Flechette minelayer has always been a gimmick, with the exception of one called Concuss which rad procced enemies in a large area, making him good for Infested and general CC. He is now much worse against Infested due to this loss.

Flechette does not deal too much damage but it fires bullets, easily disarming and keeping Nullifier shields down, and combined with the fact that all his abilities are still semi-nullifier proof he is very good for corpus (they have to touch the balls with their bubbles to disarm them). It also does respectful amounts of damage to low levels, so you can put some in chokepoints to clear off weaker trash while you deal with the bigger enemies yourself.

Also while Overdriver is pretty nice (just bonus damage, i mean why not) it's harder to boost yourself with it and largely i find that it's necessary to boost your damage when fighting the level of enemy Vauban survives on (level 80 or less unless you have good arcanes)

Also do yourself a favor and use Tesla Bank so once you hit a single enemy that it's stuck on, surrounding enemies get obliterated.