Talk:Kraken/@comment-122.111.2.233-20131125184433/@comment-75.70.209.96-20131202002705

I still like the Kraken for Corpus.

Despite the Hotfix making impact neutral vs. robotic I still think it's the best damage type vs. Corpus as Impact still does +50% vs. shields (correct me if I'm wrong on that). Generally speaking I have more issues with shields at higher levels then the amount of health they have once the shields are gone so I tend to build weapons as anti-shields for lvl 40+ Corpus.

By combining Barrel Diffusion/Lethal Torrent along with magnetic damage and +% Corpus damage you can make a weapon that shreds through shields rather quickly. The +% Corpus damage helps for once you destroy their shields.

Another option would be to drop the Magnetic damage and build Radiation damage and Cold damage. You would lose the 25% extra damage that Magnetic damage (it gets +75% whereas Cold gets +50%) gains vs. shields but your overall damage is higher as you have an extra elemental mod slotted and you gain 3x status procs with a crowd control aspect (kockback, slowdown, confusion) rather than a crowd control and damage proc when using Magnetic damage (knockdown & - max shields). Despite the extra elemental mod in this build it's still going to do significantly less damage to shields as the only element that has bonus shield damage (Cold) will not be anywhere near a Magnetic damage build as Magnetic adds the percentages from two seperate mods (so it not only has a greater bonus vs. shields but will also have a higher base damage for that bonus to work off of). The tradeoff is the increased crowd control capability.

The biggest problem for either of these builds is the fact that Kraken needs to be heavily forma'd in order to take full advantage of all those mods.

Kraken is really the only pure anti-Corpus weapon I've built since damage 2.0 launched so I haven't had a chance to see how other heavily modded weapons work in comparison when built purely as anti-Corpus weapons.