Talk:Shattering Impact/@comment-64.91.3.4-20151018012259

For people still debating the usefulness of this mod:

Consider a melee weapon with a relatively low status chance of 10%. You are fighting an enemy with a billion HP. Obviously corrosive procs are better for lowering his armor the higher his armor stat is, so you want to know when Shattering Impact becomes more useful than applying corrosive procs. For that given status chance, you reduce your enemy's armor by 25% about once every ten hits. For a maxed Shattering Impact to match pace with corrosion in damage reduction, its flat 70 armor reduction (7*10) would have to be equal to 25% of the enemy's armor--so, for Shattering Impact to outdo corrosion in armor reduction, the enemy's armor would have to be a pitiable 280 or lower. At those armor values you don't even need to worry about damage reduction.

Of course, you can apply both at once, but it's still very obvious that against void enemies with hundreds or thousands of armor points, corrosion is better.