Damage/Viral Damage

Viral Damage

Damage is one of the six secondary elemental damage types, composed of and elements. It deals increased damage against and bodies, but reduced damage to most light foes.

Status Effect

General

The status effect of 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.

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

Empyrean

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

Health	Modifier	Health	Modifier	Health	Modifier
Cloned Flesh	+75%	Flesh	+50%	Infested	–50%
Ferrite Armor		Shield		Infested Flesh
Alloy Armor		Proto Shield		Fossilized
Machinery	–25%	Robotic		Sinew

Viral Sources

Weapons

Main article: Category:Viral Damage Weapons

• Primary
• Secondary
• Melee

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 Hema

 Komorex (2nd Zoom Explosion)

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 Phage

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 Rakta Cernos (Blight Effect)

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 Rakta Ballistica (Blight Effect)

 Pathocyst

Plague Keewar (Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath (Zaw Strike)

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 Pupacyst

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Mods

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Abilities

	4 75	Miasma Releases a poisonous miasma that deals Viral damage to enemies in range. Foes afflicted by spores are more susceptible to the mist. Introduced in Update 7.0 (2013-03-18)	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 expends 75 energy to 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.
  • Cast animation of ~1.5 seconds is affected by Casting Speed.
    • 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.
• Ability Synergy: Miasma deals 400% damage to enemies affected by  Spores, and Spored enemies that die while sickened by Miasma will spread Spores.
• 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.

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 increase damage dealt to 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 uppercut with  Furax

The destruction of Infested Gas Hives

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 , , or 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