Talk:Mutalist Cernos/@comment-71.3.107.33-20160618190553/@comment-71.3.107.33-20160623201435

From my testing, Gas doesn't seem particularly effective on Mutalist Cernos, at least, not in comparison to Viral, which I suppose is to be expected--when you're slicing effective health in half, it becomes pretty hard to top that with a mere few added proc ticks. This, even when you consider damage resistances comparatively between Gas and Viral--sure, Gas might gain 75%/50% on Infested/Infested Flesh, but that's still not gonna come anywhere near the resulting output of slicing 5k health to 2.5k on the first proc.

All that said, I've found that Punch-Through is actually not desirable on the MutaCern under most circumstances. In Spy missions it can be useful (letting you punch a gas cloud through a narrow corner to hit troublesome Corpus cameras, for example) but unless you're facing a cluster of enemies and aiming specifically for more than one in a line (enough to bypass your Punch-Through value) you end up leaving gas clouds on the back wall and wasting 90% of the purpose of bringing Mutalist Cernos in the first place.

Next on the testing block: how effective is a Mutalist Cernos in the hands of a Specter? I know they have absurd bow accuracy with their Stalker-based AI, but with the reliance on mods to get the most out of MutaCern's clouds, does that perhaps hinder its use? We'll see...