Talk:Damage 2.0/Viral Damage/@comment-24370326-20140207184618/@comment-73.176.89.6-20140529222700

Viral is good for Grineer (Radiation/Viral is probably better, as Radiation does way more damage aganst what I find to be among the most dangerous enemies in the entire game, high level Napalms and especially Bombards, and they kill my damn sentinel almost instantly), but I'd go with Corrosive/Blast against Infested and Magnetic/Toxin versus Corpus. Perhaps you're talking about the procs? I'd agree that Viral procs are still pretty awesome even though they currently don't appear to stack. That is still a MASSIVE chunk of health if we're talking really high level enemies.

Of just the procs (ignoring elemental damage), I consider Magnetic, Blast, Viral, and Corrosive to be the best and most useful status effects.

Also, regarding the comment towards the top of this set of replies, use Corrosive with Cold rather than Magnetic in the Void. You will take off the shields easy with Magnetic, but after the shield is gone Magnetic elemental damage sucks against the stronger part, the armor. Magnetic gets a 50% PENALTY against Alloy, whereas Cold gets a 25% BONUS in addition to also doing very decent damage to shields. If you really want Magnetic procs for extra help with shields, use a Magnetic damage loadout for Carrier's Sweeper with some fire rate mods (Spazz and Accelerated Blast). The Impact damage plus Magnetic damage and occasional procs should provide plenty of extra shield stripping without compromising your primary's damage.