Talk:Damage 2.0/Viral Damage/@comment-98.94.18.40-20140121152158/@comment-16584725-20140206130345

Well, his wording is slightly unfortunate. Corrosion and Radiation do not reduce armor but they ignore part of the armor. Say enemy has 1000 armor. Your Corrosive weapon then does damage as if that enemy had only 250 armor. This affects only your weapon unlike Corrosion proc that reduces armor directly.

But this armor ignore is not as awesome as it might seem. Because of non-linearity of armor scaling, damage of Corrosion/Radiation converge to four times the damage of Viral. So after two procs of HP reduction, their damage is practically equal.