Need Help: Elemental Damage, Do They Cancel Each Other?

[XSniperwolfX]

Elemental Damage, do they cancel each other?

 

I have been playing this game for 4 months now and still haven't figured this out. Some people tell me they cancel each other, but when I add one of each elemental mod to my rifle, the damage overall shows up really high.

 

Example: Poison, Fire, Electricity and Fire. Two of them always joins up, turning into Corrosive and Blast (both).

 

Should I remove 2 elemental damages? I am currently using Split Chamber (max), 4 elemental mods (max), and Serration.

 

(plus other stuff). 

 

My Latron Prime is a one hit kill, unless they are elites from wave 20+ or so. 

Edited April 14, 2014 by D0vahkiinm

[dikki]

This will explain it to you pretty well: http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Damage_2.0

[Aure7]

they never cancel out, some elements are simply ineffective against certain enemies. And when there are more than 1 element, they join to create combined elements. The number for combined damage is a sum of 2 elemental damage mods that created it.