Talk:Veldt/@comment-3130226-20180510215132/@comment-198.53.222.181-20180614072815

@Alpha0328 No. It makes me sad to see so many people get this wrong...

The amount of slash proc bleed/finishing damage is always based on a set static 35% of a weapon's total base damage (with mods), plus any crit and headshot modifiers added ontop. (Melee has 2 more modifiers being stealth and combo.)

So having armor does not reduce or even affect the slash proc bleed/finishing damage, because it is essentially calculated as 35% of the damage that the weapon would have hit regardless of if it's against armored, or unarmored targets.

That's why it's quite pointless or counter-intuitive to use corrosive with slash, and why it's incredibly effective to use slash with viral and ignore removing armor altogether.