Talk:Arca Plasmor/@comment-50.86.50.83-20170908065211/@comment-79.171.137.20-20170911091959

to the long essay above me:

you are half right, and half wrong on the crit vs. status.

Atterax is a crit + status weapon, it is used to apply bleed crits on the enemy. If you want a 100% crit weapon, take the Guandao, it has higher crit chance and base damage than the Atterax.

Also, the Lecta is a bad weapon. What do you want with base electric damage? Strip the enemy armor with corrosive procs? That takes ages with melee attack speed - it is doable with grakata/akstiletto prime which can proc multiple times/seconds or status shotguns due to multiple pellet/shot.

If you talk about status melee, it means slash procs (maybe viral as well). Other status effects are just increasing the damage output with contidion overload.

So the real comparison is between the guandao and the Lesion. Both weapons kill anything under lvl150 in 1-2 hits. The Guandao deals more damage with a 2-3 combo counter. It is still viable against lvl250 armored enemies, because it has such insane damage, but the Lesion starts to kill faster at that level - but both are 100% usable.

Above lvl250 the Guandao starts to struggle because of the armor mitigation, and the Lesion starts lacking damage (viral procs help a lot though) so you need both crit and status (like the Atterax, which is the best weapon in the game). Even if you have 4CP, the enemy HP starts scaling so insanely that you need viral procs to kill them (or maiming strike, lol).

If the enemy damage scales to the point that they can 1HK you, that doesn't mean that they will kill you because you either CC them, or just go invisible - so the killing part is the more important.

Arca plasmor does have at least one good use: apply 3 status effects on a crowd in melee range, and then slide attack with a long reach condition overload melee weapon.