Viral Damage

Viral Damage
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Combined from  Cold and  Toxin damage. Most effective against Grineer clones. Viral status increases health damage taken by up to 325%.

—In-game Description

 Viral Damage is one of the six secondary elemental damage types, composed of  Cold and  Toxin elements. It deals increased damage against  Grineer and  Corpus bodies, but reduced damage to most light  Infested foes, with some heavy units being outright immune.

Status Effect

General

The status effect of  Viral damage is Virus. It amplifies damage to the health of the afflicted target by 100% for 6 seconds. Subsequent procs add 25% increased damage to health up to 325% in total after 10 stacks, with each proc having their own duration. This effect will work even when the health is protected by armor ("yellow health"). Only the shield is not affected.

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Calculating resultant damage if at least one Viral proc is on target. Damage Vulnerability provided by Viral procs are multiplicative with other damage bonuses.

For status effects that apply damage over time (e.g.  Slash,  Toxin,  Heat,  Gas), the damage dealt by the proc throughout its duration is calculated based on whether or not a  Viral proc is active when the DoT tick deals damage. For example, a weapon with 100 damage that applies a  Slash proc, if the target has 1  Viral proc, will deal 200 damage, then 70 damage per second from  Slash's Bleed until the  Viral effect ends, when it will go down to 35 per second. If the target does not have a  Viral proc initially, the Bleed damage will be 35 per second until the target takes a  Viral proc, which will then multiply the DoT accordingly to 70 per second. This means that the multiplier is not applied twice to DoTs, unlike faction damage multipliers.

Enemies afflicted by a  Viral proc are coated in a flowing, leaking miasma of the Energy color of the weapon that inflicted it.

Railjack

 Viral does not have a Railjack space counterpart and is thus not able to proc any status effect nor is it included in calculations for status proc weighting.

Type Effectiveness

Grineer Health	Viral Modifier	Corpus Health	Viral Modifier	Infested Health	Viral Modifier
Cloned Flesh	+75%	Flesh	+50%	Infested	-50%
Ferrite Armor		Shield		Infested Flesh
Alloy Armor		Proto Shield		Fossilized
Machinery	-25%	Robotic		Infested Sinew

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• The following enemies are immune to  Viral status:
  • Ambulas
  • Deimos Carnis
  • Deimos Carnis Rex
  • Deimos Genetrix
  • Deimos Jugulus
  • Deimos Leaping Thrasher
  • Deimos Therid
  • Deimos Saxum
  • Deimos Saxum Rex
  • Demolisher Boiler
  • Demolisher Thrasher
  • Tusk Bolkor
  • Tusk Firbolg
• The following enemies are completely immune to  Viral:
  • Demolisher Charger
  • Demolisher Juggernaut

Viral Sources

Main article: Category:Viral Damage

Weapons

Main article: Category:Viral Damage Weapons

Weapons with Viral damage

Name	Slot	Class	Attack Name	Viral	Majority
Hema	Primary	Rifle	Normal Attack	47	100.00%
Keratinos	Melee	Claws	Normal Attack	33	35.66%
Kompressa	Secondary	Pistol	Explosion	42	100.00%
Pathocyst	Melee	Glaive	Charged Throw	193	33.51%
Phage	Primary	Shotgun	Normal Attack	5	100.00%
Plague Keewar	Melee	Zaw Scythe / Staff	Plague Keewar Strike (Gilded)	70	29.74%
Plague Kripath	Melee	Zaw Rapier / Polearm	Plague Kripath Strike (Gilded)	64	32.86%
Proboscis Cernos	Primary	Bow	Charged Shot Explosion	1003	100.00%
Pulmonars	Melee	Nunchaku	Normal Attack	97	66.55%
Pupacyst	Melee	Polearm	Normal Attack	145	51.06%

 Bubonico
(Alternate Fire)

 Komorex
(2nd Zoom Explosion)

 Rakta Cernos
(Blight Effect)

 Rakta Ballistica
(Blight Effect)

Plague Keewar
(Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath
(Zaw Strike)

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Mods

 Damzav-Vati

 Eroding Blight

 Gleaming Blight

 Stockpiled Blight

 Toxic Blight

 Viral Quills

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Abilities

	ENERGY: 75 KEY 4	Miasma Releases a poisonous miasma that deals  Viral damage to enemies in range. Foes afflicted by spores are more susceptible to the mist.	Strength:110 / 125 / 135 / 150 ( Viral damage)
			Duration:6 s
			Range:10 / 12 / 16 / 20 m
			Misc:100% ( Viral status chance) 4.0x (Spores damage multiplier)

• Info
• Tips & Tricks
• Bugs

Info

• Saryn pollutes the environment with a viral mist, briefly stunning enemies within 10 / 12 / 16 / 20 meters and sickening them for 6 seconds, dealing 110 / 125 / 135 / 150  Viral damage per second, with 100%  Viral status chance on cast.
  • Damage is affected by Ability Strength.
    • Damage bypasses obstacles in the environment and does not diminish with distance.
  • Sickness duration is affected by Ability Duration, while the stun duration is not.
  • Radius is affected by Ability Range.
  • Cast animation of ~1.5 seconds is affected by  Natural Talent or  Speed Drift.
    • Saryn is immune to crowd control during the cast animation.
• Miasma cannot stun enemies again if they are still being affected by a previous cast, but will refresh the sickness' duration.
• Casting Miasma can be done while sliding and in mid-air, but will interrupt any other action and will force Saryn in place for the entire animation.
  • Cannot be used while on a zipline.
• Ability Synergy: Miasma deals 400% damage to enemies affected by  Spores, and spored enemies that die while sickened by Miasma will spread spores.

Tips & Tricks

Use  Spores first to start shredding armor (if any), then attack with  Toxic Lash to inflict  Toxin procs on enemies, and follow up with Miasma to deal quadruple damage and a guaranteed  Viral Status Effect proc to half enemies' health, so  Toxin damage can eat their health up quicker.

When using  Miasma, be careful to not get knocked down during the cast animation, as once up again, Saryn will automatically repeat the cast animation, during this repeat animation she will take damage as normal, leaving you extremely vulnerable.

Miasma will not interrupt aim glide. Left/right directional input will be stopped, but the aim glide itself will continue straight as normal.

Bugs

Casting Miasma immediately after casting either Spores or Toxic Lash will cause Miasma's casting animation to bug, causing the player to be able to move while casting and rapidly cast Miasma.

Being knocked down during the casting animation causes Saryn to repeat the animation upon standing up.

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Enemies

Powerfist can perform  Viral uppercut with  Furax

The destruction of Infested Gas Hives

Amalgam Heqet armed with a Komorex

Trivia

• The status effect of Viral damage can mitigate the reduction of damage to Infested foes after a proc is applied, making it effective especially in combination with  Heat,  Electricity, or  Gas damage over time effects.

Media

An enemy affected by viral procs

Viral visuals on a melee weapon

Patch History

Update 31.6 (2022-06-09)

• Fixed Overguard counting as Health and taking damage from Viral Status Effect.
  • Overguard situates itself in a new category of “protection”. It differs from Shields, Armor, and Health. That said, Viral Status Effects affecting Overguard was unintentional and has been changed to not only fit the original design for Viral damage, but also Overguard.
    • We originally mentioned in the Eximus Reborn Dev Workshop that the only Status Effect that would work on Eximus while Overguard is present is Cold Status Effects (up to 4 stacks!).

Update 27.2 (2020-03-05)

• New Status Effect entirely: enhanced Damage! First Viral Status Effect deals 100% additional Health damage, subsequent Viral Status add +25% for a total of 325% (capped).
  • Note: Before Viral would halve a target’s health pool and simply refresh the duration. Now it deals 2x Damage to Health, and can scale up to 4.5x Damage on repeat Status Effects.

See Also

• Blight