Talk:Damage 2.0/Viral Damage/@comment-173.79.193.216-20150202133305/@comment-8256051-20150202134326

The amount of viral damage matters only if you have multiple elements on your weapon.

If your weapon deals 1 viral damage and has 50% status chance, it will always proc viral every time your status chances procs and the enemy's health can be halved every six second if you stop resetting the viral status every time it procs.

But if you have a weapon that deals for instance 1 viral damage, 2 slash damage, 3 impact and 4 puncture (10 total damage per shot) with 50% status chance, only 10% (10% of 50% of your procs means 5% of your shots) will be viral, while 20% will be bleed, 30% will be stagger and 40% will be weaken.