Talk:Sobek/@comment-76.104.11.173-20170712023621/@comment-1679878-20170828212212

No. Mod for straight damage (although Shattering Justice is still nice to have for a second AoE burst).

With Acid Shells you want to be getting kills in as few shots as possible, at as high a level as possible, because in 'target rich environments' that is where most of your damage is coming from, rather than status procs (and the AoE can't cause status or benefit from crits anyway).

Picking the right frame to synergize with Acid Shells goes a long way towards making this weapon scale well. For example:


 * Frost can completely strip armor with Avalanche, but it only lasts while enemies are frozen, so causeing a 15m AoE blast from one kill will let you take advantage of this in the short time available, when Avalanche is maxed for strength (100% armor reduction at 299%) range and efficiency.


 * Hydroid's Tempest Barrage with its augment can also completely strip armor, although it may take some practice to get in the habit of casting it while moving, in order to weaken targets before you start shooting (slap on Zenurik and Energy Siphon, and you can spam Barrage all day).


 * Nova's Molecular Prime doesn't strip armor, but it makes everything take more damage, and explode when it dies, which means more of the targets hit by Acid Shells will die, and then explode doing more damage.