Boltor + Ap Mod

[Darkwave1098]

I currently have a %50 Armor Piercing mod on my boltor, it rips apart bosses and practically all grineer/corpus units. Does it stack/deals more damage couple with the innate %100 AP the weapon already has?

Edited April 15, 2013 by Darkwave1098

[austinrelis]

Yes. I know this because I put 75% AP on my Dual Ether. It does 30 + around 23 damage on a normal grineer. 100 + 75 damage on charge attack, and for some reason, the slide attack is insanely powerful and does around 182.

[Elhazzared]

AP deals more damage even on innate ap weapons. If you read the card properly, it says you give +X% AP damage So say you have +50% that means if you dealt 30 damage with your boltor now you do 45.

 

A common misconception is that the card will transform part of the damage into AP which is wrong. Correct math would be (and let's assume a weapon that has no innate AP like the latron). you have 36 damage, most people would assume that they will now deal (with a 50% ap mod) 18 normal damage + 18 AP damage when in fact they do 36 normal damage +18 AP damage for a total of 54 total damage. the same principle applies to elemental damage, it doesn't converts, it just adds extra damage as that specific type.

Edited April 15, 2013 by Elhazzared