Viral Damage

Viral Damage

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

—In-game Description

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

Last updated: Sat, 21 Aug 2021 19:05:56 +0000 (UTC) by User:Cephalon Scientia

Status Effect

General

The status effect of 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.

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

Railjack

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

• The following enemies are immune to 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 Viral Damage 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	Viral Damage Viral	Viral%
Hema Hema	Primary	Rifle	47	100%
Kompressa Kompressa	Secondary	Pistol	42	100%
Pathocyst Pathocyst	Melee	Glaive	1572	100%
Phage Phage	Primary	Shotgun	5	100%
Proboscis Cernos Proboscis Cernos	Primary	Bow	1003	100%
Pupacyst Pupacyst	Melee	Polearm	145	51.06%

Bubonico Bubonico
(Alternate Fire)

Komorex Komorex
(2nd Zoom Explosion)

Rakta Cernos Rakta Cernos
(Blight Effect)

Rakta Ballistica Rakta Ballistica
(Blight Effect)

Plague Keewar
(Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath
(Zaw Strike)

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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 Viral Damage Viral damage to enemies in range. Foes afflicted by spores are more susceptible to the mist.	Strength:110 / 125 / 135 / 150 (Viral Damage Viral damage)
			Duration:6 s
			Range:10 / 12 / 16 / 20 m
			Misc:100% (Viral Damage 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 Viral damage per second, with 100% 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 Toxin Damage Toxin procs on enemies, and follow up with Miasma to deal quadruple damage and a guaranteed Viral Damage Viral Status Effect proc to half enemies' health, so 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 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 Heat Damage Heat, Electricity Damage Electricity, or Gas Damage Gas damage over time effects.

Media

An enemy affected by viral procs

Viral visuals on a melee weapon

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