Talk:Hunter Munitions/@comment-60.49.108.194-20180102095829/@comment-29423691-20180107213919

It depends on your weapon's status/second and the level of the mission you're going into. If you have a super high corrosive shred weapon like Prisma Grakata (imo the best weapon to use with this mod) you get 220% of base damage guaranteed (status+elemental mods) tacked onto the 28.8% chance of 245% base damage dealt by Slash. Using Viral instead means your weapon damage is always negligible but instead gives you a 28.8% chance of 490% base damage from Slash. On higher levels the amount of HP enemies has scales faster than Corrosive's ability to strip off armor, meaning it has more presence on lv200+ missions, for those into endurance survival runs.

But realistically, if you only do up through sorties like me, viral's going to outdamage corrosive in lower-level content where it hardly matters, and be almost indistinguishable at sortie 3, though viral doesn't have to deal with being useless in corrosive element sorties.