Talk:Dark Sword/@comment-58.9.77.189-20130426022650/@comment-89.169.193.146-20130427142651

Akram-The-Reaper-Panda, you just don't know how armor piercing works then. Charged attacks on most melee weapons IGNORE armor. What does that mean? If they dealt 300% damage with normal attacks on infested - they still will deal 300% on charged attack, unlike armor piercing damage, which decreases on some weaker infested. If your normal attack dealt 50% damage to armored Grineer, charged attack will deal 100% damage. That is the essence of armor ignoring - it doesn't lose any bonus damage, but ignores damage reductions from resistances.

Armor Piercing damage, on the other hand, is just a distinct type of damage, as is Fire damage. It works much like elemental damage, though resistance to armor piercing is much more rare. It DOESN'T ignore armor. It has it's own modifiers of damage when hitting targets. Check "Enemies" page on wikia to see those numbers.

Lastly, Armor Piercing mods DON'T add armor ignoring, they DO add Armor Piercing bonus damage. Which means if you have 10% armor piercing mod and 30/150 damage/charge damage weapon, your attack will deal 30 normal damage PLUS 3 armor piercing damage (working much like fire/cold/electric damage), and charged attack 150 normal damage + 15 armor piercing damage.