Damage types are awfully confusing

[KoboldMKB]

So, I know how slash, impact, and puncture damage works. Slash is good for fleshy targets like infestation, impact is good against shields, puncture is good against armor.

But what I don't understand is how the elemental damage types work. Can someone explain to me which elemental damage types are good for what task?

[Cash4Cookies]

the wiki is the best for information about that

 

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Damage_2.0

[AlphaSierraMike]

There's a table for each of the damage type's effectiveness on Warframe wikia.

It's really messy to type the entire thing out here.

[NativeKiller]

Pure Toxin is good for directly damaging health when your opponent has shields.

 

Pure Heat is good for cleansing the infested faction.

 

Pure Cold is good for damaging shields.

 

Pure Electricity is good for damaging robotic enemies.

 

Radiation(Heat + Electricity) can make enemies fight among themselves.

 

Corrosive(Toxin + Electricity) can permanently reduce the enemy's current armor by 25% per status effect,

the debuff from the status effect can be stacked multiple times.

It also has an excellent damage multiplier against the toughest enemies, and is generally considered to be the best elemental combo.

 

Viral(Toxin + Cold) can reduce enemy health by half for a few seconds.

 

Magnetic(Cold + Electricity) can reduce enemy shields by 75% for a few seconds.

 

...It's roughly something like this. :3

 

I personally almost always stick with a "Corrosive + Cold" build since it's strong against both armor and shields.

It is pretty much the best general build if you ask me. 

 

I only switch to a "Pure Toxin" build when I play a Sortie mission with the "Enhanced Shields" condition.

Edited December 22, 2016 by NativeKiller

[ashrah]

corrosive-grineers

corpus-magnetic+toxin

infested.corrosive+fire-or blast......now we have case wen all 4  player have corrosive projection viral+fire is best...for alloy targets like napalm.bombards  radiation doing best dmg....for void  u wish corrosive+cold    i hope this will help u

Edited December 22, 2016 by ashrah

[Trichouette]

You don't understand damage types ?

Come on, there are only 14 different kind of damage, it's not that complicated.

(that was irony, the damage system of this game is stupidly complicated)

You could use this for the status effect, for the rest... good luck

Spoiler

 

[Ghost_1302]

Damage types are never properly explained in game.

Edited December 22, 2016 by Ghost_1302

[Bizzaro21]

long story short,

corrosive for armor, radiation for alloy armor only, magnetic for shields, blast+corrosive for fossilized HP (i.e anceints) viral/heat for cloned flesh (i.e grineer HP) electricity for machinery (i.e MOAs, osperies, that kinda shiz)

full thing is on wiki like others said

~Bizzaro21 Was Here

[rytisrytis]

Also:

Radiation makes enemies fight each other

Corrosive strips armor

Viral cuts enemy hp in half

Magnetic strips shields

Gas does aoe

Blast knocks enemies on their butt

electricity stuns

fire stuns

cold freezes

Toxic dot dmg

I hope i did not miss anything.

Edited December 22, 2016 by rytisrytis

[Lycrius]

While I agree that this is not explained in the new player experience there is the "damage" codex entry which outlines the damage types well and even tells you about enemy resistances and weaknesses urging you to pick up a codex scanner to find what they are.

[Zhoyzu]

Yes, i agree. times were better before dmg 2.0

[KoboldMKB]

Thanks a lot guys, it helped out a lot. I think I'll be able to dish out more punishment now that I know this stuff.