Talk:Damage 2.0/Viral Damage/@comment-83.141.165.122-20131206154026

Apparently viral reduces the MAX HP of the target by 50%.

Which mean it will lose 50% of it's actual HP too, because you can't have more HP than your MAX HP. And which also means you won't see squat because 50% actual HP on a 50% MAX HP health bar means the red bar still appears to be full. But even if you don't "see" it on screen, it does halve the damage you will have to do in order to kill your target after the proc.

Also, the 6 seconds timer is here to prevent abuse, so you can't get the boss health to 1/2 -> 1/4 -> 1/8 -> 1/16 -> 1/32, etc. In other terms, so you can't bypass some hypothetic massive bullet sponge with an ice modded embolist clip.