Talk:Damage/Viral Damage/@comment-1348475-20160425103707

After some extensive testing with my heavily upgraded LexP (R9 Hornet Strike, fully upgraded Bore, No Return, Lethal Torrent, Stunning Speed, and Barrel Diffusion. Plus two dual stat mods to create corrosive and viral procs), I've found that Viral isn't really as worthless as people make it up to be, in the face of corrosion.

In my experience, Viral tends to be the most useful on weapons that have high burst damage (I.E: Weapons that can reliably kill in 6 seconds). Even against LV90-100+ enemies in sorties, I could reliably drop them within 3-5 shots once they've been infected.

This is versus corrosion, where even with the armor reduction procs, I've found myself still emptying entire magazines to just drop 1 heavy unit. Although I've had better luck with a corrison-focused weapon with my VectisP, if only because I use a Lex for general combat and a Vectis for surgical removal.