Viral Damage

Viral Damage

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

—In-game Description

Damage/Viral Damage Viral Damage is one of the six secondary elemental damage types, composed of Damage/Cold Damage Cold and Damage/Toxin Damage 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 Damage/Viral Damage 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.

For status effects that apply damage over time (e.g. Damage/Slash Damage Slash, Damage/Toxin Damage Toxin, Damage/Heat Damage Heat, Damage/Gas Damage Gas), the damage dealt by the proc throughout its duration is calculated based on whether or not a Damage/Viral Damage Viral proc is active when the DoT tick deals damage. For example, a weapon with 100 damage that applies a Damage/Slash Damage Slash proc, if the target has 1 Damage/Viral Damage Viral proc, will deal 200 damage, then 70 damage per second from Bleed until the Damage/Viral Damage Viral effect ends, when it will go down to 35 per second. If the target does not have a Damage/Viral Damage Viral proc initially, the Bleed damage will be 35 per second until the target takes a Damage/Viral Damage 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 Damage/Viral Damage Viral proc are coated in a flowing, leaking miasma of the Energy color of the weapon that inflicted it.

Railjack

Damage/Viral Damage 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	Damage/Viral Damage Viral Modifier	Corpus Health	Damage/Viral Damage Viral Modifier	Infested Health	Damage/Viral Damage Viral Modifier
Damage/Cloned FleshCloned Flesh	+75%	Damage/FleshFlesh	+50%	Damage/InfestedInfested	-50%
Damage/Ferrite ArmorFerrite Armor		Damage/ShieldShield		Damage/Infested FleshInfested Flesh
Damage/Alloy ArmorAlloy Armor		Damage/Proto ShieldProto Shield		Damage/FossilizedFossilized
Damage/MachineryMachinery	-25%	Damage/RoboticRobotic		Damage/Infested SinewInfested Sinew

• The following enemies are immune to Damage/Viral Damage 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
• The following enemies are completely immune to Damage/Viral Damage Viral:
  • Demolisher Charger
  • Demolisher Juggernaut

Viral Sources

Main article: Category:Viral Damage

Weapons

Main article: Category:Viral Damage Weapons

Bubonico Bubonico
(Alternate Fire)

Hema Hema

Komorex Komorex
(2nd Zoom Explosion)

Phage Phage

Proboscis Cernos Proboscis Cernos

Rakta Cernos Rakta Cernos
(Blight Effect)

Sporothrix Sporothrix (Explosion)

Rakta Ballistica Rakta Ballistica
(Blight Effect)

Keratinos Keratinos

Pathocyst Pathocyst

Plague Keewar
(Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath
(Zaw Strike)

Pulmonars Pulmonars

Pupacyst Pupacyst

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Mods

Damzav-Vati Damzav-Vati

Eroding Blight Eroding Blight

Gleaming Blight Gleaming Blight

Stockpiled Blight Stockpiled Blight

Toxic Blight Toxic Blight

Viral Quills Viral Quills

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Abilities

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

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 Damage/Viral Damage Viral damage per second, with 100% Damage/Viral Damage 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 Natural Talent or Speed Drift 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 Spores, and spored enemies that die while sickened by Miasma will spread spores.

Tips & Tricks

• Use Spores Spores first to start shredding armor (if any), then attack with Toxic Lash Toxic Lash to inflict Damage/Toxin Damage Toxin procs on enemies, and follow up with Miasma to deal quadruple damage and a guaranteed Damage/Viral Damage Viral Status Effect proc to half enemies' health, so Damage/Toxin Damage Toxin damage can eat their health up quicker.
• When using Miasma 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 Damage/Viral Damage Viral uppercut with Furax 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 Damage/Heat Damage Heat, Damage/Electricity Damage Electricity, or Damage/Gas Damage Gas damage over time effects.

Media

• An enemy affected by viral procs
• Viral visuals on a melee weapon

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Patch History

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