Talk:Simulor/@comment-6540498-20150627071547/@comment-98.89.5.238-20150627203323

With a low status chance, the best elements are going to be Magnetic, Corrosive, Radiation, & Toxin because these types have the highest damage bonus vs. common enemy health types - Magnetic against Shields, Radiation against Alloy, Corrosive against Ferrite, and Toxin is technically best against Shields since it bypasses them entirely, and ALSO has a good bonus vs. Ferrite.

Under no set of circumstances is Viral desirable on a low-status chance weapon. Viral gets bonuses against Grineer/Corpus/Void Health only, but in all of these cases, the enemy is going to have either equal or greater Armor or Shields than they do health, so on raw damage, Viral is almost (not quite, but almost) going to be worse than Magnetic, Corrosive, Radiation, or Toxin. The fact that you can stack Corrosive and Radiation on the same gun, or Magnetic and Toxin on the same gun, makes this doubly true.

So no, cold is useless on a non-status weapon. Fortunately, a large portion of the weapons with a preinstalled D have a high enough status that a Viral proc build is viable (i.e. Vaykor Marelok can easily get 100% status.)

But no, I wouldn't want Viral on a non-status gun in a million years. I really don't understand why every single person mods for Viral. Especially since Viral procs do NOT stack - so if your whole cell brings Viral you lose the advantage of anyone bringing it at all.