Talk:Dera Vandal/@comment-66.41.131.128-20160215040626/@comment-7645613-20160223144230

Against a heavily armored enemy, status is better than damage in most cases unless you are getting extremely high base damage or if you are using corrosive projection. This is easily shown by using a soma prime and prisma grakata with the same build and using corrosive damage against a level 100 enemy. Not counting the reload the grakata always beats the soma prime. Against an enemy without armor, The soma prime often wins.

the choice is up to you. In the dera vandal's case, modding for equal base damage+status is the best option over raw damage as it sees more use on higher levels due to this.