Talk:Enemy Vulnerabilities/@comment-96.253.100.31-20131007194539

From what I've come to understand weapon damage is very simple. Base Damage + Elemental Damages. So if you increase your Base Damage, You increase all of your elemental Damages. If you have, lets say the Soma.. With 10 base damage increased by serration, 100%, to 20 base damage.

Soma 20 base Damage.

Then you add an AP mod, which is considered True/Pure Damage. Lets say.. 50% AP.

Soma 20 Base Damage + AP Mod (50%) = 30 damage.

The way 'armor and resistances' work isn't actually mitigating anything. It's a backwards system where you deal less damage, your target doesn't reduce the damage done to it.

Here is a link to the official page.

https://forums.warframe.com/index.php?/topic/66572-guide-mods-and-supercharging/

So techinically adding any elemental mod will increase your damage to everything. Some mobs take more damage from this or that. But the two BASE MODS for ALL WEAPONS are Base Damage + Armor Piercing. Because they add true damage against all mobs. Grineer just happen to take double damage from AP.

This is the Math for those lazy many.

"As their main use is to deal damage, I will focus on that. Let's say your weapon deals 10 damage.

We now add a weapon damage mod ( Serration, Point Blank ). This adds 75% damage.

10 + (10 * 0,75) = 17,5

Now we add fire or electrical damage and armor pierce. Both add 75% damage based on the new 17,5 damage.

Depending on the opponent, one of them is very effective:

Electrical for corpus, fire for infested , armor pierce for grineer. This type will deal doubled damage.

17,5 + (17,5 * 0,75) + (17,5 * 0,75 * 2 ) = 56,875

Now we can also add 10% freeze damage so which also has a slow effect.

56,875 + (17,5 * 0,1) = 58,625

(“,” are used for numbers below 1, so 0,1 = 1/10. There are no numbers above 1000 here. That's how things roll in Germany.)

We have successfully increased our damage from 10 to 58,625 (that is almost 6 times the normal damage) If you shoot weak spots, the damage will be almost doubled."

As Provided by ===Denvert via Warframe Forums. Thank youDenvert. This bit of info completely changed how I play the game and improved it overall a ton.===