Talk:Rakta Cernos/@comment-91.105.41.243-20151014191429/@comment-26544821-20151017021839

Impact damage - 25% less damage to corpus flesh. It's "beast" for shields (not really, more like good, magnetic I would call beast). Corpus Tech, the unit with the biggest hp pool in corpus army has tiny shields and massive hp. He is also one of hard hiters. When he gets lvl 60 in survival, you DON'T want to have -25% less of your base damage to him. The proc might save your life, but you don't want to push them with bow, you want to kill.

Slash damage - it has BONUS 25% to corpus flesh, the proc ignores shield (and armor). It has -25% to robotic but they all have crappy hp anyway. Dread with Magnetic/Toxin is a killing machine for corpus,. Dread also autocrits and has more status chance.

In other words:

up to lvl 30 - everything works, damage is irrelevant

30-60 - critical/high damage puncture or slash status/crit for armored, slash for infested and slash (with toxin) for corpus

60+ - slash with 4x Corrosive projection is only thing that works properly against armored, rest is same

Impact really needs to either lose that -25% flesh or get a proc that does something then just push them back, it's even outclassed there by blast.