Talk:Saryn (Warframe)/@comment-24563582-20140522215823/@comment-98.234.71.254-20140527024047

It is because Miasma does flat corrosive damage so sure if you are fighting corpus or non ancient infested, yes the pairings you can get from Contagion is nice, but if you are fighting heavily armored targets corrosive is what kills, especially with the cc and the dot effect. Also, using Contagion takes special modding on your melee weapon so you don't screw yourself with say gas on a granieer mission. Contagion is also best for weapons like the dual ichor that do flat toxic damage so you can make even more by mixing the two toxic damage mods with Contagion, but with other melees it does not help nearly as much.

Also you are using the Glaive Prime, try comparing Contagion to Miasma while using a non prime melee (other than the dragon ninkata).