All damage types explained (2023) | Warframe

Get yourself up to speed on how each damage and status type works in Warframe.
(Except railjack - they're meaningless. Crew pew pew the fighters, seeker volley go brrrr, big gun the big ships, and boarding uses normal damage types again. There, saved you what would be a five minute section on nothing)
===TIMESTAMPS===
0:00 Intro
0:41 PHYSICAL
1:25 Impact
2:21 Puncture
4:27 Slash
6:03 BASIC ELEMENT
6:50 Heat
8:43 Cold
10:53 Electric
12:12 Toxin
13:18 COMBINATION ELEMENT
14:08 Blast
15:00 Gas
16:39 Radiation
18:41 Magnetic
19:59 Viral
21:10 Corrosive
22:17 MISC OTHERS
22:22 True or Typeless
22:47 Void
23:21 Tau
23:35 Railjack / Empyrean
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[@Nihil122]

I like how you used the warframe that represents the damage type

[@Arbyjar]

Volt mains are _pissed_

[@timeworntraveler3644]

think about how mag players feel @@Arbyjar

[@Arbyjar]

@@timeworntraveler3644 never met a mag main

[@sophieirisviel4100]

which frames where those? (i’m newer to warframe and do not recognize them yet)

[@Benja507]

​@@Arbyjarhi

[@TheGigaByte1010]

Gas has an affect that isn't talked about here that makes some of it's downsides make sense. Gas is the only DOT status affect to linger after death of the target, meaning that if you kill a target with an attack that deals a gas proc that proc will still do damage to other enemies around them for the 6 sec

[@loliSuziloli]

I keep trying using gas with tornadoes , or Amprex with tornadoes is really fun :)

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Prime targets inside of Zephyr clouds. Gas, Gas Gas - queue music -

[@Skellotronix]

I'm sure you know that Gas used to be broken, I wish it still worked the same, basically what Viral+Heat/Slash is now. And thankfully they fixed Corrosive after a strange bug with it.

[@iMrp1]

Department of defense

[@technobabb4233]

The highest praise I can give this guide is that up until now I've just kind of been slapping the same statuses onto every gun, but now I'm actually kind of excited to crack open my upgrades menu and see what terrors I can unleash on the grineer!

[@takezokimura2571]

Puncture procs helps primary weapons that have decent crit values but weighed towards puncture. Incarnon Boltor Prime has no slash, relying on hunter munitions and its crit chance (30%) to do slash procs. So you can use the increased crit chance from puncture procs to boost hunter munitions's odds.

[@RossKyle95]

Incarnon boltor is very slash heavy lol

[@takezokimura2571]

@@RossKyle95 Correct, the incarnon form is slash oriented. The normal mode isn't (stat wise)

[@RossKyle95]

@@takezokimura2571 yeah punc impact

[@adrianrandom3448]

Gas and Blast need help so bad, I still can't believe they actually nerfed gas with the status rework but we got this same Viral as well

[@CrashSable]

Why do they? Two of the top three primary weapons by usage statistics deal primarily Blast damage as do two of the top three melee weapons - Blast is doing fine

[@Psion_Phoenix]

@@CrashSablethe top used weapons may have blast on them, but no one is bringing them for the blast as it’s so bad.

[@sakul7026]

Gas is in a decent spot, as it 10m range at max stacks and ability to linger even after the target has died make it a potent AoE damage type. Blast is dogsh*t. And I believe that's not a bad thing. It okay to have a weak damage type that is present only on weapons which are very strong in other aspects, like Kuva Bramma. High base damage in a massive AoE, and you apply a good status proc? That's just not balanced.

[@CrashSable]

@@Psion_Phoenix It's the biggest number and it's from Blast damage, how can it be bad? A dead enemy is a dead enemy...

[@Cpruett]

See you and Kengineer have it wrong. Blast status effect is enemy death. It's just every once in a while they don't die and get an odd other weaker effect.

[@patty9122]

I’m a simple guy. I see kengineer upload, I watch.

[@uroslepojevic3116]

Consumer

[@captaingunt4208]

Damn straight. I hate technical shit but this channel i could watch all damm day

[@fathergascoigne1457]

What a lame cringe comment

[@Lucaca-vp7po]

​@@uroslepojevic3116If you aren't one then what are you doing here?

[@uroslepojevic3116]

@@Lucaca-vp7po when im not playing warframe i am either boxing,video editing,going to the gym,at school or making my mothers and fathers proud

[@applekiller9914]

Thanks for compiling this info. i just came back to warframe so its nice to see how the "meta" damage types have changed.

[@alexishayes9935]

So what I got out if this is there is still very little change to years past. Slash, Heat, Viral/Corrosive is still king against most enemies even if not always ideal, especually when building for status effects.

[@tgnuelakes]

Fun fact: When Adaptation receives Tau damage, HUD will show resist to Void damage.

[@lookalike4805]

Then something's wrong with Your UI because I see the Correct Sentient Icon. 🤔

[@MylesJacobSwie]

Ah yes, a 24 minute about status effects in a game I haven’t played in over a year. Time to binge every upload on this channel

[@Tripleyou]

As this is a comprehensive guide on damage types I feel like some rellevant info was left untouched. For example all of the status effects have dedicated names. Saying Slash Proc instead of it's actual name Bleed is extremely common. It is also extremely common to get the wrong impression on how Virus works. Even after watching this video I can see why. The debuff to health include armored health, and all health types. It just doesn't debuff shields and overguard. Bringing up these details could definitely help people avoid misconceptions. Lastly without going into too much detail I would have expected a brief overview on how damage over time status effects are calculated and that in because they are based on the hit, certain debuffs and boosts as well as headshots work twice in their damage calculation and of course the exceptions to these. Thats pretty comprensive, but granted you went over heat inherit, I feel like it could have been expanded on a bit further. Very nice guide otherwise

[@phamviet7905]

You really have to flex that Broken War drop do you?

[@TheKengineer]

Flex? Would I really select a clip just for the drop?

[@ka-uy8yh]

@@TheKengineer i would ;)

[@iMrp1]

Thought it was easy to get , I got it like on my 2nd try.

[@MerryOtaku]

@@iMrp1 It's not. It really is not.

[@oriondezagrats4228]

It is worth noting that there is at least one mod in the game that adds Viral. Not toxin + cold, but straight up Viral, allowing for toxin/cold base or combo elements to be used alongside it. The Damzav-Vati augment mod for AkBronco Prime, purchasable from Father in the Necralisk on Deimos, adds 240% Viral to the weapon. That is worth two mods adding 120% each, or two 90% mods and a 60% mod. This mod, like Smite Infusion or Venom Dose, adds the combo element _directly_ to the weapon.

[@smilz7470]

I feel like you really need to factor in weapon arcanes because they can make cold, fire, and toxic significantly better and require them. The multi shot bonus and primed cryo rounds or primed chilling grasp can add a lot to cold procs as well as the ability to get the off very fast with the cedo or other guns.

[@Syhyronica]

even electric too

[@CrashSable]

It is worth mentioning there that those arcanes don't require the weapon to apply the status effect. You can build around a Warframe power or separate status applicator to put the procs on for you and still get the benefit of the arcane.

[@lookalike4805]

Those Arcanes are good in Edge Case Scenarios while the Merciless Arcanes are just Good in General... Hence why they weren't Mentioned. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Seriously... They would need to do a whole lot more to make players event Think about Giving Up Viral in Favour for Cold.

[@Syhyronica]

@@lookalike4805 corrosive cold is really good with the arcane.

[@DavidUtau]

​@@lookalike4805me using cold on my gorgon to stack stone proc faster: yes

[@takezokimura2571]

16:45 Friendly reminder that the elite lancer has alloy armor, who is a very common enemy unit.

[@lookalike4805]

I mean... Almost all Grineer Units that use Alloy Armor are very Common. From Butchers to Bombards... I see them all the Time. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

[@MihaiHategan]

Dude what a pleasure it is to see your videos everytime! Keep up the good work! 👌👌

[@lordofminddisorders5185]

Awesome video representation for every damage type! Can't imagine how many time u spent recording all this

[@blackace1295]

Forgot to mention a few things. First, that radiation disables infested aura effects from units like ancients (all types), swarm moas, and eximus units. Since half the danger of infested is their strength in numbers because of these aura's, especially at higher levels, this is a significant thing to omit. Eximus units in general are also highly significant in eximus strongholds and higher level content for their auras. Second, procs of gas and electricity are based on the last damage proc source at all times, meaning if you apply a lot of procs and then get a heavy shot, all the currently applied effects will inherit the damage for the remainder of their duration. I think you mentioned that for electricity but you weren't clear on it. Also elec/gas is the only DoT elemental combination you can have at the same time if you wanted to double down on this strategy in some way. Considering the scope of the video though, and how much there is to the damage system, missing only these 2 things is impressive. A well done video

[@rodrodrodrodrod]

I think “Reduces enemy accuracy” at 3:11 is a mistake. Feel free to correct me if I’m wrong

[@TheKengineer]

Woops, yep! Puncture and Blast have both occupied "terribly useless status proc" in my head so long that mistake slipped by. It reduces enemy DAMAGE as I say, not accuracy as I wrote.

[@will.y.5281]

300 hours in and still genuinely need these videos to understand this whole game

[@lookalike4805]

The game changes every 6 Months so that's normal 👍

[@YOURteacher_100]

@@lookalike48056 months 😆 Ah you poor child, try weeks

[@just4universe219]

Good refresh and I learned a few things I didn't know before

[@MilkBloodTM]

the topic of friendly fire you brought up in the section for radiation reminds me of a sortie run I did with revenant where the level had radiation hazard and I accidentally killed half my team just clearing the level

[@pingsong6223]

You forgot to mention for gas that the cloud lingers after the target enemy dies for the remaining duration of the status. Also it is one of 2 elements that can land a headshot to increase it's damage. Gas isn't that good but I still use it for some of my weapons. I like seeing enemies running into the cloud and dying like someone caught a whiff of a fart.

[@0BLACKESTFUN0]

additional to radiation where it is usefull is to get rid of enemys that buff their teammates by confusing them and then they dont buff anymore their allies.

[@lookalike4805]

Used to be Extremely Good.... Until they Added Overguard. 😐

[@miel307]

​@@lookalike4805ahh overguard, one of the biggest nerf towards CC builds. RIP radial disarming Loki....

[@lookalike4805]

I should probably just Give Up on Warframe at this Point. DE never learns and probably Never will.

[@hazeltree7738]

@@lookalike4805 "DE never learns" Apart from Any tweaks or changes made recently that benefit the game The fact that Duviri fulfilled the "We need more difficult warframe content" demand without just uber-scaling values, and gave you a reason to try frames and weapons other than the ones you usually play More recent frames like Kullervo, Styanax, etc being very fun to play Giving _Warframes_ overshield too (Which, you know, makes you immune to CC as well which is extremely nice) Updating the focus trees to make them more interesting Adding more decrees to Duviri, after people saying "Duviri needs more decrees to be properly interesting" Adding content to the undercroft and removing some things people found annoying So yes, if we just ignore every good thing they've done recently, DE does indeed never listen (Just to be clear, I agree overshield stopping CC is stupid. I think overshield should be damage-resistant but _countered_ by CC, to make it more useful. I just however find it stupid when people go "DE never listens" when they _clearly do_ even if they make stupid decisions)

[@Wooskii1]

As always, great video. So I learned to keep modding my weapons the same way. I still need to look farther into heat, slash, and electric cause I still have questions

[@joeybobbson2622]

I just got recommended your Viral vs Corrosive vid, and then i see this lmao

[@marvinmetellus7919]

I already know all the changes but I'm just happy you uploaded

[@JoshSweetvale]

Subscribed. Mostly for the Kengineer gimmick, 'cuz there's multiple people making impeccably knowledgeable content.

[@Somnull]

Cant believe the entire restaurant is about to learn about damage types

[@pcdeltalink036]

I’m a little surprised that you didn’t mention kuva/tenet weapons spawned with combination elements being able to have 3 elements on them with proper modding. My Kuva Nukor I just got was spawned with magnetic and then I put viral and heat on it with mods.

[@LemonPoppyMuffin]

New upload let's goo

[@Thaylien]

I love the effort you put into these. There is one thing I’m not too sure of, though… is it wise to put out definitive guides so close to TennoCon? They could announce a massive change to one, or a new damage type, or how combining elements works. Hoping things don’t immediately change ^^

[@TheKengineer]

If things change, I make a new video. It is always the risk of these guides that changes can, and do, happen.

[@Thaylien]

@@TheKengineerFair enough, m'man, I'm not judging. Just interested to see if the timing works or not ^^

[@fursda]

Everytime you say "let's solve a practical problem" i think something like "Loid would be proud of this man" XD

[@chilli2801]

I find the kengineer and tactical potato to have the best voices to listen to at the gym

[@Xzeihoranth]

I did not know about the proc replacement of Gas. That is bizarre.

[@lookalike4805]

It seems like Alot of People Didn't... They Still think it works on The Corpus (It doesn't). 👀

[@OrphansAttic]

Advocating for Piercing Roar: spammable team damage bonus, damage reduction, aoe knockdown and now, a potential team crit chance buff.

[@infernalmonster4901]

These videos are pretty easy for even a dufous like me to follow and they helped me clean up my builds

[@holonholon1141]

Magnetic does have some nice broad applications. I don't think it's worth modding for directly, but weapons with innate Mag do open up Mag/Viral/Heat and Mag/Corrosive/Heat which give you universal coverage. Now that Corrupted are a relevant faction (due to Circuit and Void farms), being able to have Mag for free is very nice. In addition you can use a single set-and-forget mod config that will always Just Work outside of endurance runs. As for notable weapons with easy access to Mag, Gammacor and all Lich/Tenet weapons give you access to this, with several being able to stack statuses extremely quickly. Tenet Cycron is my favourite for this.

[@ari-mariberry]

magnetic isn't really used for its properties - it's mostly to give nukor or cycron another element to proc. anything that uses shields are often weak enough to not warrant the use of mag procs

[@TenebrisTemporis]

Honestly there really shouldnt be a cap on puncture crit bonus. If you're going to be shooting at an enemy long enough to get a ton of puncture stacks on them, you deserve some orange or red crits

[@Doradanis1]

I was so excited about puncure and cold new extra effects.... Only to see they are subpar at best. And, apparently, NOT an alternative for the bleed/viral meta that goes on. I feel that DE should really either rethink or buff up the other elements, to allow more flexibility in builds. So we can break off from using hunters mun xD

[@drantino]

2 things 1:gas lingers after a enemys death, allows the status to still attack enemys even if you kill a weak one first 2:not nessesarly unique as a general damage type video, but almost all combine drift exclusive enemys are immune to viral procs

[@BZUltimix]

I don't normally use Bubonico, but when I do I remember that I have a config with both Corrosive & Viral. I love my "kitchen gun~" :3

[@7upinthenite]

mine is "weekold bread" :p

[@senecahs74]

I was a little confused watching the video after reading the wiki, which says you get a 50% crit damage bonus that’s additive after mods. If that’s the case then wouldn’t a weapon with 2X crit damage end up with a 3X crit damage multiplier after all cold procs applied? Great video though! I always love seeing Warframe mechanics explained more in your videos 😊👍

[@TheKengineer]

The wiki references the in game description but it isn't correct. For example on testing with a weapon using a 7.7x critical multiplier (unmodded 2.2x), it dealt 9085 damage on a normal yellow crit and 9675 damage on a yellow crit with 9 cold stacks. If you divide 9085 by 7.7, then multiply by (7.7+0.5) you get 9675. If it were a modded multiplier then the damage should have hit 10383, or if it multipled the crit damage after all mods then it'd be 13628.

[@senecahs74]

@@TheKengineer Ok that’s a bit disappointing. I was really hoping that cold damage would be a great damage type for creating monster crit numbers. Thank you for responding so quick! Keep up the great work!

[@lookalike4805]

Your question doesn't make Sense because in order to Go From 2X to 3X then you would Have to Apply the Afformentioned 50% on The 2X Multiplicatively to Wind up with 3X. This also means you're not applying the Bonus After Mods because the Mods also Work that exact same Way.

[@senecahs74]

That’s what I was trying to say

[@Grandsheba]

I love your vids, they help me get more depth in my builds. However, i cant help but noticed you dont mention somethings like the major benefit of having radiation for certain frames like Revenant, xaku, titania, nyx, Qorvex and any other similar type frame. They gain 550% bonus damage to all their attacks and with viral maxed out as well they gain an additional 325 for a total of 875% bonus damage dealt to targets which is multiplicative. This can be tested with xaku or Revenant easily and using the basmu with radiation to see the scaling in damage. Admittedly this can become significantly OP but the set up time often balances it out...mostly.

[@noahedenborg4221]

yeah ebcause thats not what radiatio does that 550 is for the enemys dmg not urs

[@Grandsheba]

@noahedenborg4221 lol, you didn't read anything i said and clearly dont understand. You can use the 550% damage buff to your advantage for your abilities with the frames i mentioned because those change the alliance flags or the abilities used cause the enemies to damage each other based on your damage. For example: Revenant can turn enemies into thralls, they are now on your side. Proc them with radiation, which means you're attacking allies, which means you deal 550% extra damage to them. For titania or Qorvex a very similar thing happens but instead your priming the enemy as a bomb and then apply radiation stacks, those stacks cause your bomb todo more damage becasue the enemy is exploding on each other which gain the bonus from radiation. So, again..yes it can work for you if you meet these requirements. You can also use some weapons to gain the bonuse of radiation but its such a small benefit that it doesnt matter. Weapons like the Orvius, because it turns enemies into puppets. Forcing them to damage each other, thus benefiting from the 550% bonuse at max stacks of radiation. But to be even more clear, you can benefit from any stack of radiation under these conditions up to the 550%. I hope that clears these facts up for you and you learned a new mechanic to have fun with.

[@noahedenborg4221]

@@Grandsheba u pepega

[@Grandsheba]

@noahedenborg4221 That's one way to point out that you're ignorant. If you dont know the mechanics, it's fine, but resulting to childish insults just proves how ignorant you actually are.

[@halveleven]

What a banger video

[@MsTatakai]

a good blast buff could be, having heat effect or cold effect and no cap on accuracy on max stacks (making stormtroopers on shooting)

[@Truck_Kun_Driver]

D.E nerfing Gas status will always be sad to me. It uses to gives us a TOXIN cloud, which is much better.

[@user-hl3kh7wq7n]

Back in the day when player get radiation effect friendly fire is enabled and that make this effect much fun to deal with especially when AoE weapon begins to grow larger in numbers.

[@stephencarroll8258]

I think Gara is a good role model for puncture damage but isn't a good rep for the accuracy reduction aspect as her passive regularly can blind enemies in new rooms as you move throughout the tile.

[@BespinGuard1]

The puncture change was needed but i think itd make more sense if the enemy became more vulnerable to all damage types by a percentage, stacking with things like sevagoths abilities and Mprime OR If it reduced the rating of enemy armor that would also make sense, like hitting an enemy with shattering impact Cold procs should also have a similar property but specifically making enemies more vulnerable to puncture, impact, and every element and combo but heat and viral idk that just makes sense to me they should probably make enemy armor be as crazy as it was before though so its not too busted

[@G1ingy]

Ugh why did they change Blast damage's status effect? Blast used to be THE most fun elemental damage to play with, especially when combined with the Sonicor or Jat Kittag.

[@annunakitty]

idk if anyone has mentioned, but the Slash status doesn't deal True damage, it has its own separate damage type that is similar to True damage but is something else. The wiki refers to it as Cinematic damage because of how it's referred in the game code, but it doesn't have an official name other than being associated with the Bleed status. The key difference between True and Cinematic damage is that True damage bypasses shields and Bleed procs do not.

[@noahedenborg4221]

its a part of true dmg lol

[@annunakitty]

No. They are separate damage types in the game code. The damage that Bleed procs do used to be known as Finishing damage, but it's now referred as Cinematic to differentiate it from Finisher attacks which do True damage. As I said, the key difference is that True damage from Finishers and Warframe abilities ignores shields and Cinematic damage from Bleed procs do not.

[@derpmorederp1417]

Imagine my irritation after using some more forma to get cold corrosive on Cinta, my favorite weapon, only to discover it's inherent fire on perfect shot had become blast damage.

[@Jay-xq1dc]

As always superb video, but I really wish it has a summary to wrap up.

[@merlintheageless]

Unfortunately, due to Warframe's complexities, inconsistencies, and oddities, plus the fact that there are many other moving parts when it comes to dealing damage, a TL;DW isn't really viable.

[@Jay-xq1dc]

@@merlintheageless I've played the game for years, I fully mastered all gear and got 50k plat as F2P, after buying a ton of cosmetics, and I disagree. It's possible but you will loose minor details. He even had a minor TLDW some place in the video to shortly summary for some damage types. I.e. TLDW : Blast crap, viral, slash and heat generally best option for most content, if struggle against enemy X use damage type Y. if he spent some few minutes adding some few more details to what I wrote then it would be a good TLDW. If I recall he had TLDW in his previous video about damage types. But there could be tons of reasons why he did not want it in this, it will make people skip ahead potentially loosing ad money.

[@tylerwarwick7975]

I was a little worried that my go to status combo wassome kind of noob garbage but after watching this it turns out going viral and heat isn't the worst combo.

[@glacier4286]

I still think blast status should give you what you'd expect: AoE explosions on the weapon hitting a surface.

[@jkl9984]

Rad sorties and Saryn goes so friggin well together! Never had i killed off so many players. XD

[@goshdarnchicken]

As of whisper in the walls, Radiation can be applied to weapons through a single mod, but it's only a 60% increase.

[@sp4rklsz]

Coolkid in shambles

[@lazysheep9678]

GOATed

[@terivenverien1849]

I really need an in depth video on what elements to bring to what faction

[@lynlawson3862]

Corrosive rad for murmur, corrosive viral for grineer, magnetic toxin for corpus

[@AgeOldCure]

Did they remove the virals' effect of halving enemy health for the duration of the status effect? I am a returning player, and a lot has changed XD Oh, and is the armor reduction from corrosive status no longer permanent?

[@mrwatermelontheexotic3448]

I cant wait for DE to rework more dmg types,puncture and cold were great,giving them some extra relevancy but honestly they really gotta push more (looking at you,BLAST),it would really help give a more interesting meta than just viral (x) with the casual armor strip shenanigans with maybe gas or electric

[@simonsoupshark8009]

blast and mag really need a buff

[@Raso719]

I feel like a lot of the the issues with bullet sponge enemies and weapon viability still mostly comes down the status procs of moat damage types and how useful they are.

[@yoda8569]

Moat amp

[@Raso719]

@@yoda8569 most damage

[@yoda8569]

@@Raso719 moat amp.

[@cptjohnpricesoap]

Kengineer you mentioned it so now you gotta. Please help me understand railjack damage and the optimal setup, I'm tired of my RJ teammates leaving when they see my ship 😅

[@YOURteacher_100]

Need I point out he literally has a railjack vid lol

[@lookalike4805]

Railjack Damage is very Simple to Understand. Zetki Reactor MK III + Seeker Volley Spam = Win. Thats it... Do that and you win Railjack. 👀

[@SkyEcho751]

I dealt with a Rad-Sortie mission and it was the WORST. Got mercy killed more than once, and the defense target get getting knocked down, likely due to friendly fire.

[@cucobuco706]

Try getting a magnetic progenitor kuva nukor mod it for corrosive and heat then use Nourish you will have: Radiation (for high level grineer alloy armor) Magnetic (x3,25 dmg to shields) Corrosive (armor strip) Heat (for armor strip and DOT) Viral (x3,25 dmg overall) all on one weapon that chains between multiple targets I also recommend using Galvanized Diffusion and Secondary Encumber if for some reason having all the best status types in the game is not enough. Hope this helped someone

[@Ambyli]

Don't forget the nukor's hidden status effect, Microwave! Gotta enlarge and take charge.

[@noahedenborg4221]

viral dmg boost is 4.25 times its 325%

[@bozzy8842]

If you group enemies using a ragdoll effect and then proc electric, it will chain to each body part of each enemy caught in cc

[@yoda8569]

Moat amp

[@noahedenborg4221]

No it will count each body part as an enemy

[@abluecherry7937]

I never see anyone talk about the weird statuses such as Microwave.

[@SamanthaLaurier]

Gas and Radiation are my favorite types aesthetically, because War Crimes

[@DivingHawker]

Honestly, if enemies could suffer fall damage from ragdolling, I'd be all for blast ragdoll with more blast procs applying a stronger force. I would love to launch enemies like the old Jat Kittag used to do, or like the Sampotes does

[@marer125]

According to the wiki,bleed deals "DT_cinematic" and not true dmg(DT_health_drain)

[@OrphansAttic]

In the simalicrum, I noticed that reflected damage from cold Elemental Ward would sometimes yellow crit; wasn't sure if the crit damage bonus was applied.

[@noahedenborg4221]

huh weird u or the enemy didnt have anything that would cause crits would they?

[@OrphansAttic]

@noahedenborg4221 not sure; just your standard heavy gunners as far as I know... maybe their weapons apply puncture?

[@noahedenborg4221]

@@OrphansAttic but what would have to be on themselves and not u

[@ethankincaid6838]

You said there's no way to mod for true damage so do the galvanized status mods not inflict true damage as part of their effect? Is this different from the "absolute" damage listed?

[@noahedenborg4221]

True dmg doesn't have a status effect Reminder dmg type and status effect are diffrent

[@gewahrenk]

@TheKengineer do you know if wukong's twin used the normal/charged/perfect shot with the nataruk?

[@noahedenborg4221]

honestly i might go test it

[@ChristopherSadlowski]

Your mention of Tau damage makes me think Tau is going to be the big reveal at TennoCon this year. That's my guess, but I'm not putting money on it. I'm probably going to be wrong and eating these words in a few days.

[@dogma32]

Tau damage is the damage type all Sentients deal. They have dealt this damage type ever since they released. I dont think one mention of Tau damage causes the release of that system to be any more likely.

[@bozzy8842]

Roar augment is good for pun spreading

[@takezokimura2571]

Correct me if I'm wrong, but viral procs won't give damage bonus as long as the enemy has shields.

[@Theshocker0045]

yes and no, viral boosts health damage, not shield damage. If you prime with viral against a corpus, and use a weapon with toxic damage, it'll get bonus damage from viral while bypassing the corpus shields

[@Cloakdasasin0]

A player with the Radiation effect can also easily destroy a defense or mobile defense objective, this happens (mostly with AoE weapons) a fair bit in radiation hazzard sorties.

[@BitterSweetsss]

Unlucky, right before cold changes. Can you clarify in a pinned comment if cold is more valuable cause im pretty sure the crit dmg is now percentage rather than flat additive dmg.

[@TheKengineer]

Do you have a source on that change? I'll include it if so but that's the first I've heard of it.

[@noahedenborg4221]

Iirc it simply adds 0.5 crit dmg after mods

[@knicklichtjedi]

@@TheKengineer tl;dr works as written in the patch notes. It is not a multiplicative source. Patch Notes 33.6, tested in 33.6.9 "Increased the Critical Damage taken by an enemy by 10% on initial Status Effect Subsequent Stacks increase this debuff by 5%, up to a maximum of 50%. This is additive after mods, not before." Testing in-game, Opticor Vandal, just crit chance, base damage, and 60/60 toxin: Expected values (no crit, crit, crit modded, crit Riven). Crit dmg: 2.6x unmodded, 7.3x modded, 9.9x Riven-ed. Baseline calculated: 135, 351, 985.5, 1336.5 Baseline recorded: 135, 351, 986, 1338 Added in cold procs: 135, 420, 1053, 1406 Cold additive after mods: 135, 418.5, 1053, 1404 Cold additive before mods: 135, 418.5, 1171.8, 1590.3 Cold multiplicative: 135, 526.5, 1474.2, 2000.7 The only data set that matches the recorded data is flat added after mods.

[@AngelYt-xs6yy]

My build against factions Corpus fulmin Mesa pistols slash grineer and infested (need to rework it for puncture) Slash sword gunsen primes

[@theblastzone3037]

Ahhhhh yes if you want to be the ultimate Lavos main than you must have have a scholarly understanding of Warframe’s Element system

[@CrashSable]

I think it's much more helpful to teach the difference between the damage types and the status effects separately. Always talking about them together is what has led to the "slash is the ONLY damage type" crowd. Considering how many ways there are to force slash procs, a puncture weapon that forces slash procs is going to be WAY more effective than a pure slash weapon for dealing with armour (assuming you're not stripping the armour) As for Railjack. There is at least one consideration... DON'T USE THE VORT! I don't care that the weapon comparison table puts it at the top. EVERY ship you face in a Railjack mission has Alloy Armor, giving the Vort a 50% multiplicative damage REDUCTION to it's damage, putting every other Railjack weapon above it in terms of DPS

[@lookalike4805]

I disagree... The Slash Only Crowd are just Ignorant. It's Much easier to understand the Difference between a Damage Type and It's Status Effect if you Talk about Them Side by Side. As long as the person is actually Paying Attention then it's Good.... If they're not listening then it doesn't Matter.... They're not gonna Get it either way.

[@CrashSable]

@@lookalike4805 I don't agree. It's much easier to understand them when you talk about them separately because you are only ever going to care about one or the other, not both. Grouping them together complicates the issue and makes it harder TO listen. There are 13 damage types that there are mods for and each of them has a status effect Your argument is incredibly ignorant - "if you didn't get the all of the information about 26 different subjects in one go, then you must not have been listening"

[@lookalike4805]

Why would one care only about one or the other Instead Of Both ? 🤔

[@CrashSable]

because you're either trying to kill the enemy by matching the damage type they're weak to or you're applying status procs - you can't do both of those with the same weapon. Granted, you might be trying to kill WITH status (i.e. Heat), but that's still an attempt to apply status, not to match the damage type (because picking a different damage type means you're not applying the Heat proc anymore). Maybe you're using a status applicator for Condition Overload effects, but that's the same argument again - those are two different purposes from two different builds on two different weapons. You're making two separate considerations, not both together on the same build.

[@kinsan89]

17:38 "no such forgiveness is guaranteed from players" It's true! 2 years later and I still haven't let my clan leader forget about the day he nuked the entire team AND the final Mobile Defense point in a sortie mission lol

[@ninjab33z]

I mean, *technically* you can mod for true damage with mods that increase finisher damage. Granted, there aren't many though.

[@vincentproud6589]

So against Corpus demo units since some are big shield bois and other are armour chonks, one weapon would be effective against all?

[@noahedenborg4221]

U can also use defense/armor strip then use the dmg type effective to the unarmored health

[@xornedge8204]

Why do you have Teshin on your footage? Was that pre-New War?

[@TheKengineer]

I use Creator Mode which hides a number of story-linked changes including modified transmissions from Teshin, Lotus, and Ordis.

[@emirozdil9897]

I need ask a question. If i am building a heat weapon like ignis wraight then what is the best side element. Viral or corrosive against armored units. Viral makes my dots 3.25x more damage corrosive gives 80 armor pen for heat but heat also has 50 armor pen. İ couldnt decide.

[@TheKengineer]

Currently I would recommend viral (with a corrosive secondary for acolytes if you're on steel path), however that might change next month.

[@emirozdil9897]

@@TheKengineer Thank you for information

[@TheKengineer]

​@@emirozdil9897New Archon shards are inbound which may change up builds. We don't have any info to say for certain right now

[@Benzinilinguine]

Honestly my favorite is heat. Brainless to stack quickly, amazing on bosses that have invincibility phases because you can apply it during most of their invincibility stages. When they become vulnerable again, they die instantly with 500+ stacks, even on steel path.

[@chancemyers4603]

Doesn’t heat stack infinitely

[@jameskupfner]

Yes @benzinilinguine it does. I think that they mean that by the end of the invincibility period, the existing heat procs had stacked up to 500+ 😅

[@AmalgamJiena]

I somehow never knew puncture had an effect on crit chance. It’s a pretty neat bonus that most status weapons will have. A 1 in 4 chance to crit at the worst when at max stacks.

[@AmalgamJiena]

I didn’t know about cold’s either. As non existent it may be, it’s another damage buff for hybrid beast epitaph

[@eyywannn8601]

9:10 Does cold affect the duration of other procs? Seem to remember it extending them then.

[@noahedenborg4221]

nope

[@_XMB_]

Ill never forget the one time i got rad proc'd and did a finisher attack on my buddy and jammed an ivara arrow into the back of his neck

[@nonexpertjunior980]

so what is direct damage i’ve been searching for an answer can’t find

[@felipearango4257]

6:45 how did a Braton Prime reach 5x crit multiplier without mods? I know Incarnons are a thing, but mine does not reach that sort of number.

[@TheKengineer]

That's due to the Prelude of Might perk on Evolution 4 Incarnon upgrade.

[@felipearango4257]

After going back and checking, I indeed missed Prelude, however, it does not feature the 5x in the arsenal, even when

[@TheKengineer]

@@felipearango4257Yes, the arsenal is quite buggy when it comes to Incarnon stats

[@KamuiOmega]

Oof, I initially actually thought that the Cold crit damage effect made all critical hits get an independent multiplier of x1.1 to x1.5 damage, not the paltry thing it actually is. Bit of a disappointment there.

[@BitterSweetsss]

Actually I'm pretty sure it works that way now... this video was uploaded 3 days before that patch hit and also keep in mind it takes time to make a video like this. Prob at least a week would be helpful if he made a pinned comment or response though to at least tell them that cold is more valuable now

[@scragjr6536]

may i rectify on slash : slash status does not give true damage , true damage can go trough shields as well if i am not mistaken

[@lookalike4805]

In the Case of Trinity's Energy Vampire then Yes (I think.)... That's True.... In the Case of Finishers then No... True Damage doesn't Bypass Shields. You need to Remember that Warframe is Inconsistent. 🤔

[@brettregan9212]

Wait, I thought void damage has benefits against sentients? I know this used to be a thing but maybe it got removed because there's so many more instances that you're fighting sentients now and Xaku would be uniquely overpowered? Lol

[@Douggy112]

Nobody gonna talk about that 🔥avatar themed operator??

[@chriskings8507]

What happens if you infuse ice wave in to Lavos for his 2ed can you still use it to infuse?? Because it still an ice power??

[@TheKengineer]

No. Any subsumed ability will neither let you use the infused element from that slot nor receive infused element buffs. This applies to ALL subsumed abilities on Lavos, regardless of if they have a related damage type.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

What is this overguard you keep talking about? Did they rename overshields or something??

[@TheKengineer]

No, Overguard is the additional barrier to damage mostly found on Eximus units, and available to players through abilities from Kullervo, Frost, Rhino, and Styanax (Iron Skin was changed to provide Overguard, but otherwise functions the same). It provides total status immunity to players, and non-status crowd control to enemies, until those hitpoints run out. Overshields are still just shields above your maximum value.

[@OtakuJuanma2]

@@TheKengineer Oh right the white bar... wait what do you mean Frost applies it?!!

[@motivateddad]

@@OtakuJuanma2 Frost Ult has an Augment that gives Overguard depending on the amount of enemies hit.