Viral Damage

Viral Damage

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

—In-game Description

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, with some heavy units being outright immune.

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. 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. , , , ), the damage dealt by the proc throughout its duration is calculated based on whether or not a proc is active when the DoT tick deals damage. For example, a weapon with 100 damage that applies a proc, if the target has 1 proc, will deal 200 damage, then 70 damage per second from Bleed until the effect ends, when it will go down to 35 per second. If the target does not have a proc initially, the Bleed damage will be 35 per second until the target takes a 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 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

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

Viral Sources

Main article: Category:Viral Damage

Weapons

Main article: Category:Viral Damage Weapons

• Primary
• Secondary
• Melee

 Bubonico
(Alternate Fire)

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 Hema

 Komorex
(2nd Zoom Explosion)

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 Phage

 Proboscis Cernos

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 Rakta Cernos
(Blight Effect)

 Sporothrix (Explosion)

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 Rakta Ballistica
(Blight Effect)

 Keratinos

 Pathocyst

Plague Keewar
(Zaw Strike)

Plague Kripath
(Zaw Strike)

 Pulmonars

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 Pupacyst

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Mods

 Damzav-Vati

 Eroding Blight

 Gleaming Blight

 Stockpiled Blight

 Toxic Blight

 Viral Quills

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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

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 , , 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