Talk:Valkyr (Warframe)/@comment-184.98.230.156-20140911025317/@comment-184.98.230.156-20140924222715

The earlier comment posted was stating that Hysteria hit weaker than normal melee, not that normal melee was more viable/practical.

Pretty sure most multi-forma Valkyr players refrain from Hysteria builds and cater more towards a Steel Fiber build. (Hysteria makes Valkyr's high armor stat a bypassed stat...max efficiency or duration builds are pretty much perma-Hysteria, not needing durability mods.)

The image provided in the original post was from the 14.6 update and that image shows that the Base damage increased with Hysteria Fusion. (Previously Hysteria base damage was static at 300 only being strengthened by Power Strength affecting the base melee weapon multiplier in addition to pressure point, spoiled strike, and steel charge.)

With Hysteria having a random 300%damage bonus on attacks and while in Hysteria both Hysteria and the actual melee weapon can Crit additively, as you mentioned when these crits-stack they hit big. BUT people still claim that those big Hysteria numbers are smaller than normal melee damage numbers because of the elemental damage....I do not see numbers that big with normal melee unless receiving 400% Stealth/Unalerted bonus, but even then when Hysteria recievws that same 400% bonus on top of all Crits stacking---I see Hysteria still hitting for a larger number.