Is Sundering Strike useful?

[(PSN)CaptainIMalik]

I'm not sure if it's a good mod. 

[ashrah]

its not good mod... any element mod will give u more dmg...

[bluepheonix13]

It really has only one use: Elemental Enhancement Sortie and a Puncture heavy melee weapon if you don't have Auger Strike.

[polarity]

If you're still at a lowish level, its not bad on Fang against Grineer (puncture beats their armor).  Basically, +Impact/Puncture/Slash mods are only worth using on weapons that have a very high proportion of their base damage in the same type, and until you're using the high level combination of slash with high status chance (which bypasses the huge amount of armor on enemies past level ~100, with bleeding), they are only useful against their respectively weak factions (Grineer>puncture, Corpus>impact, Infested>slash).

Really it depends on what other mods you have.  If you have a complete set of 4 different elemental mods for a weapon type (fire, electric, cold, toxin), to make any of the combinations (radiation, corrosive, magnetic, blast), they are generally stronger, provided you've picked the right combination for the faction.  You have config A/B/C on weapons so that you can tailor your damage types, and switch before missions.

Setting these up and swapping to the correct damage type for the faction, can regularly see you doing 80% of the damage, when compared to players at the same level (and sometimes even much higher) who haven't picked the correct damage types.

Edited November 27, 2016 by polarity