Talk:Corpus/@comment-24370326-20140110171323/@comment-71.122.114.188-20140209231327

The best damage verse shields is toxin. It bypasses shields and does direct heatlh damage. Flesh enemies take 50% more damage from it, robotic enemies take -25% less damage from it. However, most enemies that have shields, don't have any armor at all (bosses are exceptions as some have both shields and armor). So instead of wasting time doing shield damage, toxin can take them out faster. So bypassing shields and having a poison DOT more than makes up for the -25% damage reduction. Even if you don't think so, the enemies that have the -25% damage reduction verse toxin are some of the least fought enemies (bosses) or have some of the lower health pools (ospreys and MOA's).