Viral Damage

Viral Damage

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.

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 is procced. For example, a weapon with 100 damage that applies a Slash proc, if the target has 1 Viral proc, it will take 200 damage, then 70 damage per second from Bleed, even if the Viral effect ends. But if the target doesn't have a viral proc initially, the Bleed damage will be 35 per second even if the target takes a Viral proc after the initial damage.

Enemies afflicted by a Viral proc are coated in a green substance.

Empyrean

Viral does not have an Empyrean 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

• The following enemies are immune to Viral status:
  • 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 Viral:
  • Demolisher Charger
  • Demolisher Juggernaut

Viral Sources

Weapons

Main article: Category:Viral Damage Weapons

Bubonico
(Alternate Fire)

Hema

Komorex
(2nd Zoom Explosion)

Phage

Proboscis Cernos

Rakta Cernos
(Blight Effect)

Sporothrix (Explosion)

Rakta Ballistica
(Blight Effect)

Keratinos

Pathocyst

Plague Keewar
(Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath
(Zaw Strike)

Pulmonars

Pupacyst

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Mods

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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

• 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

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Patch History

Update 27.2

• 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