Karyst performance ?

[Dark5eiD]

Why does the Karyst perform so well ? i mean the stats are less than impressive when you look at them. i realize its toxin , but the status chance is negligible and same with the crit chance. i only started using this as it was my best choice for daggers to use covert lethality with ash's fatal teleport ( which is sooo much fun by the way ). so i played some missions ranging lvl 40-60 mostly grineer and some corpus / void and i got into situations where i had to melee. i was one to two hitting almost everything and i did not put any thought on the  build on this thing. i mean i can forma this and make it way better, but i cant understand how its slicing through enemies soo easily with little dmg , status and crit chance ? i must be missing something ?

 

my build i was using ( which is literally not good and i know )

pointed wind

fever strike, virulent scourge, focus energy, pressure point, fury, covert lethality, lift strike.

 

So what am i missing Tenno ? why is this doing so well ?

[Cyborg-Rox]

Because Covert Lethality pretty much triples your damage on normal attacks.
Its damage bonus is additive though, so it works best on the quicker daggers with less damage.

[TheStag]

Covert Lethality

If you stealth kill an unaware enemy, it is an instakill.

 

Covert Lethality also gives a +100 damage at max rank. That mod single handedly makes daggers viable.

Edited May 25, 2016 by TheStag

[Dark5eiD]

1 minute ago, Cyborg-Rox said:

Because Covert Lethality pretty much triples your damage on normal attacks.
Its damage bonus is additive though, so it works best on the quicker daggers with less damage.

i thought it only triples if you are undetected ? or maybe the mod is not working correctly atm ?

[Cyborg-Rox]

Just now, Lord_Impaler said:

i thought it only triples if you are undetected ? or maybe the mod is not working correctly atm ?

The mod adds 100+ damage on normal hits, and guarantees kills on stealth finishers. 
You... read the mod description, right?

[Dark5eiD]

7 minutes ago, Cyborg-Rox said:

The mod adds 100+ damage on normal hits, and guarantees kills on stealth finishers. 
You... read the mod description, right?

tbh.. not extensively until now. i basically understood it to be a guarantee finsher when undetected. weird how it adds dmg to basic melee attacks but it is only additive to elemental. i am going to put some forma on this thing , primed reach and a bunch of elemental dmg...

 

Thanks Cyborg-Rox and TheStag

Edited May 25, 2016 by Lord_Impaler

[(XBOX)Twinna25]

You can make it into a nightmare for Grineer, as you can mod it purely for corrosive if you like. Covert lethality also buffs up the damage of it hugely, although it does have the disadvantage of being quite slow hitting for a dagger.