Corrosive Projection: Still Useful?

[Vanadium]

Kind of tired of slotting Energy Siphon on everything that has a dash aura slot since Med Team Energy Restores make it (sort of, not completely) redundant.

 

So how does corrosive projection work with Damage 2.0 (now that it's been 2 months without a tweak to resistances)?

 

Does it only work on Grineer?

 

Is the lone 30% effective or is it only useful with the full 120% (100%)?

[xlraistlx]

Corrosive projection is great. Much better than rifle amp.

[Casardis]

Well it will also work on Corrupted, since Heavy Gunners and Lancers will have armor. It seems 30% will still be very useful against the higher leveled Grineer/Corrupted.

[Darzk]

Works only on Grineer and Grineer-type Corrupted, but is VERY useful.

 

Something like +30% damage from a single one, around level 50, and scales even higher as you go to higher levels or have teammates bring them too/

[ScienceFerret]

I remember reading that having over 100% armor reduction doesn't have an effect.

[Shaydewalker]

I've tested it and can confirm that a full squad with this will be able to cut through gunners like nobody's business, and also be able to use a more generalized build.

[NitroMidgets]

I hadn't used it in a while but it is very effective. The reduction in armor with some enemies is well worth applying it. Unless you have a build that requires energy syphon it is a go to aura mod.

[taiiat]

Corrosive Projection does a pretty good job. 

 

30% less Armor alone makes a huge difference.

 

since Armor is the only way our Enemies make themselves survive even slightly.

(Armor being like 5x as good as Flesh and Shields)

[Arblarg]

Considering its already a - aura, you can fit it on all your energy siphon using frames. I would say to only use it against endless grineer survival though. Theres no reason any party ever needs to have 4 energy siphons, 2 siphons and 2 corrosive projections would be more than enough. Especially when it comes to endless survival, you will likely have a nekros who can decrease their armor even further with terrify.

 

Its worth it, but obviously not in every mission or faction.

[Darzk]

Its worth it, but obviously not in every mission or faction.

 

Disagree. Even at like level 15-20 its a good 18-22% damage increase. That works for all weapons. And abilities.

[Arblarg]

Disagree. Even at like level 15-20 its a good 18-22% damage increase. That works for all weapons. And abilities.

Doesn't work well on corpus and obviously not infested, since they don't have armor.

[Darzk]

NSS. I was disagreeing to 'not every faction'; should always use for Grineer. But I do agree that its not as important at lower levels, where stuff dies easy, but its utterly critical at high levels.

[Noble_Cactus]

Considering its already a - aura, you can fit it on all your energy siphon using frames. I would say to only use it against endless grineer survival though. Theres no reason any party ever needs to have 4 energy siphons, 2 siphons and 2 corrosive projections would be more than enough. Especially when it comes to endless survival, you will likely have a nekros who can decrease their armor even further with terrify.

 

Its worth it, but obviously not in every mission or faction.

 

Most Nekros players build solely towards optimizing Desecrate. If they include other abilities, it's usually not Terrify, because it makes enemies really annoying to kill. The armor redux isn't all that great either. It's unreliable, too, because Nekros can only recast once it's over or everything afflicted by it is dead.

 

I agree with the rest of your post though. Heck, even 1 ES/3CPs works fine if you want a balance between armor redux and reliable energy flow. A good Trinity with EV and 4 CPs is probably also fine for the complete armor nullification.

Edited May 20, 2014 by Noble_Cactus

[Vanadium]

Cool, thanks Tenno.