Acid Shells unreliable?

[Ketec]

Recently built sobek again + 5 forma.
Obtained the Acid Shells for its potential in high level gameplay.


Yet it feels extremely random. 450 base damage + 45% max HP as corrosive 15m range should be quite heavy damage.

Lets take some sortie grineer, lvl 60 ~30k hp.   Rounded up that's around 15k corrosive damage (and +bonus against armor from corrosive). Yet often enemies next to the target are unaffected.
Is it not 15m aoe then?

Edited August 6, 2016 by Ketec

[Dreadnaught75]

Try this with nova, the results are very satisfying, also you may have misspelled sobek (not soma)

[Strawberries]

I seem to recall when acid shells first came out someone noticing it proc's as a cone instead of a circle aoe on the target, i could be completely wrong but for some reason that's what I'm remembering.

[.EQ.]

15 minutes ago, Ketec said:

Lets take some sortie grineer, lvl 60 ~30k hp.   Rounded up that's around 15k corrosive damage (and +bonus against armor from corrosive). Yet often enemies next to the target are unaffected.
Is it not 15m aoe then?

Acording to wiki:

Quote

• The blast seems to not be radial as advertised, but instead damages targets on either side and in front of the target killed.

 

[PAX_NL]

Acid shells sometimes works unreliably when your not the host, for instance in high ping situations.

I use the acid shells sobek a lot of the time and from what I've seen the AoE corrosive proc is radial but seems to get blocked by some if not all terrain: floors, stairs, pillars and crates and such.

 

Edit: found this on the wiki page for acid shells:

• The blast seems to not be radial as advertised, but instead damages targets on either side and in front of the target killed.

Edited August 6, 2016 by PAX_NL

[motorfirebox]

From the wiki:

Quote

The blast seems to not be radial as advertised, but instead damages targets on either side and in front of the target killed.

 

[Ketec]

Even that does not seem to be the case. Just did sortie 2 - very dense groups of grineer,  Stun them - and end up killing every one of them 1 by 1.
Ones next to them or behind didn't get hit.