Talk:Tysis/@comment-131.104.244.239-20140118032106/@comment-131.104.244.239-20140122230339

But you don't need to switch weapons to kill. There are 4 options available:

Slap radiation on. Tysis has saved my life so many times thanks to that proc. It makes sure the enemy kills each other and not you.

Melee. Corrosive and viral brings down their health and armor so it's the perfect opportunity to bust out your slash weapon.

Abilities. That's what warframes are for.

Teammates. Surprisingly, they can kill things too.

All of the above result in less ammo spent by you and your teammates. Of course, ammo doesn't matter if you're one of the penta/torid/ogris people but for everyone else, this can help a lot.

And I'm talking about all of these situations in late end game scenarios with level 50+ grineer where most weapons do one or two digit points of damage per shot to them. All of these status procs are effective regardless of enemy level.

Maybe if you think of corrosive as a stackable Terrify/Corrosive Projection and viral as a stackable but weaker Sonar/Molecular Prime/Roar then you start to see how this weapon functions best by making other weapons stronger. Tough enemies die in one or two shots from your penta/ogris/stug rather than pumping a whole magazine of any weapon just to chip away at one single enemy's health. You reach a point where chipping away at the enemy with your 8* formad weapon takes more time and much more ammo than the same weapon unformad working together with an unformad Tysis.