Talk:Exergis/@comment-83.41.99.171-20190103184615/@comment-77.8.113.235-20190112143607

Its not though. Cold has no benefits for fighting certain faction (like corrosive for grineer/corrupted, gas for corpus etc.). Blast (heat + cold) is absolute trash and only dilutes the proc pool, and viral (cold + toxin) is situational at best.

I mean sure, viral on a high slash weapon like Exergis would be nice....were it not for the low amount of pellets per shot and the single shot magazine. You would have to proc both viral + slash on a single shot to make it work, but because it only shoots three pellets and can proc any of the 5 statuses at random (impact, slash, puncture, rad, viral) you need to get lucky to do that.