Elements On Finishers

[ThistleZ]

Can elemental status effects proc on finishers? More specifically, can a weapon with viral do a finisher and cut the targets max health then apply damage per usual or will it always just do the finisher damage?

Edited March 7, 2016 by ThistleZ

[RagingGrizzly]

I think they can.

Finisher damage ignores all shielding and armor. If your weapons have enough damage mods, procing stuff isn't going to matter when they're getting one-shot.

[ThePredicament]

They definitely can proc during a finisher.

Although, not fully sure about Viral since most things are dead anyway but most likely it will apply both damage and Viral. Proccing Gas during a finisher will kill most things around whatever's being finished off.

[Rydian]

1 - Finishers don't deal elemental damage.

2 - Finisher attacks are actually hitting shields before health right now.

Prompt-based finisher attacks hit shields first.

Edited March 7, 2016 by Rydian
Wording, whoops.

[ThistleZ]

Okay, so to make sure I have this correct, finishers can proc the status effect but currently don't bypass shields.

 

I ask because I found out Inaros having undying+rage+dessication is great for survivability but at about the 30 minute mark in tower missions it starts taking multiple finishers to kill enemies so I am trying to mitigate that, hopefully with viral to cut the opponents hp.

I do know about the stealth kill dagger mod but sometimes you want something collar looking than a dagger...

[WhiteMarker]

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Finisher

'Finishing damage does not produce any kind of status effect.'

[ThistleZ]

Well poop... daggers it is. I read the wiki like 5 times and never noticed that, sorry about that. Thanks for setting me straight though!