Talk:Arca Plasmor/@comment-50.86.50.83-20170908065211/@comment-93.65.217.223-20170908160725

Depends on the endgame. For most people it is level 100. Floods, Sorties, even the joke that are the raids. In this case - status is virtually worthless. Unless you are simming a Lato grade trash on a level 100 Bombard Eximus, most competent weapons can blow things in 1-3 shots or 1-3 seconds. As the OP says - crit does that. One shot, one nuke. Status requires the effect to apply, crit-proc or stack, like magnetize-slash/burn-corrosive, which takes time and ammo. Lord knows, you aren't killing an artificial 140 bombards without status even with all the crits in the world. But most people play the game, not simulacrum.

0-50 - raw damage matters most, no armor or health or value of crits, just stack stuff that does a proper damage type.

50-100 - crit. When the damage is maxed, but the enemies get yet fatter, you push the damage higher via expensive crit builds.

100+ - when health\shields and armor reach broken heights, yes, you need armor-ignoring Slash(I still have the lovely Acrid, it used to be so meta), armor negating corrosive, CC, magnetic to strip shields and viral to cut health. Yes, the quickness of application of this stuff starts to influence the speed of killing the most.

But until then - status is a bluff. As FINNER said, both exist on most weapons, but a 5% crit weapon is not crit weapon, unless you are a melee tryhard. While 5% status can always be buffed by double stat mods and its procs can count. As such, an no-crit high status would simply not work out outside of Cuntdition Overload, and even then it's a futile effort

But a crit-capable weapon scales, and always has status to occasionally proc. After all, most status procs don't stack. Practically, 100% crit is otherworldly better than 100% status, just look at Atterax vs Lecta.

Most games develop this way - the crit meta. It's only good that Warfarm has status gameplay, but it's too niche to really take advantage of it.

"You either oneshot something or it oneshots you" - not a great concept to build PROCS around.

Alas, the simulacrum elite will probably start defecating bricks. Yeah... times were good without simulacrum. Without crit meta and the incessant statuses. Back, when Warframe abilities mattered, Toxin was meta and that was it. Somehow people went over 100 even back then.

But why bother? You have Mesa, Mirage, Octavia(the most powerful warframe in the entire game) and even Nidus. Why even bother with weapon damage at all...

Not like you can't hit 130+(3000+ cryotic) on Hieracon with a nerfed Nyx and just get bored enough to quit.

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