Talk:Elytron/@comment-187.64.72.153-20150709135939/@comment-91.154.129.201-20150711101223

Thumber, like all offensive abilities of Elytron is blast damage. That means, lower damage vs ferrite armoured targets (I think that means pretty much all Grineer archwing enemies). In addition it is treated like normal damage, that means being diluted by target's armour (basically higher level target takes less damage, while having more hitpoints). Furthermore, since they are area of effect explosions inside the thumber, the damage gets lower the further away the target is from the explosion. But, if you have the energy, you can stack multiple thumbers on top of each other, so it compensates but only for a bit.