With the recent infested craze I've been itching to pick up an infested primary to run with Nidus, and since I've been meaning to try out some shotgun rivens too, Phage seemed like the correct choice. While status chance isn't as good on beam weapons as it is on many hitscan or projectile weapons, the possibility of both Viral and Corrosive was still an interesting prospect. Easily enough through fire rate and status elementals I got it's chance to 92.4% per second and proceeded to try and test it in the Simulacrum. However it did not proc as often as I expected it to. I repeated it a few times on enemies that took several seconds to kill to check it wasn't just bad luck and it consistently gave me lower rates than a roughly 90% chance each second. I added a bit more status chance and got it to 105.0% status/second to completely rule out bad luck. If my interpretation of it is correct, it should proc at least one time every second. Yet again it failed to meet my expectations, many times going two or three seconds without proccing one status at all.
I went on to test other beam weapons in the same way, while single beam weapons like the Synapse and I believe it consistently procced a status effect at least every second, the other beam shotgun, the Convectrix, on the other hand, suffered from the same symptoms as the Phage.
The fact that on shotguns the status chance means chance of at least one pellet successfully proccing status should not matter here, as a 100% chance, and not merely a number infinitely close to 100% means that AT LEAST ONE pellet (or in this case, beam) has to proc.
In the end I'm clueless and my question is: What does the percentage after Status/Sec mean to beam shotguns like the Phage and the Convectrix?
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With the recent infested craze I've been itching to pick up an infested primary to run with Nidus, and since I've been meaning to try out some shotgun rivens too, Phage seemed like the correct choice. While status chance isn't as good on beam weapons as it is on many hitscan or projectile weapons, the possibility of both Viral and Corrosive was still an interesting prospect. Easily enough through fire rate and status elementals I got it's chance to 92.4% per second and proceeded to try and test it in the Simulacrum. However it did not proc as often as I expected it to. I repeated it a few times on enemies that took several seconds to kill to check it wasn't just bad luck and it consistently gave me lower rates than a roughly 90% chance each second. I added a bit more status chance and got it to 105.0% status/second to completely rule out bad luck. If my interpretation of it is correct, it should proc at least one time every second. Yet again it failed to meet my expectations, many times going two or three seconds without proccing one status at all.
I went on to test other beam weapons in the same way, while single beam weapons like the Synapse and I believe it consistently procced a status effect at least every second, the other beam shotgun, the Convectrix, on the other hand, suffered from the same symptoms as the Phage.
The fact that on shotguns the status chance means chance of at least one pellet successfully proccing status should not matter here, as a 100% chance, and not merely a number infinitely close to 100% means that AT LEAST ONE pellet (or in this case, beam) has to proc.
In the end I'm clueless and my question is: What does the percentage after Status/Sec mean to beam shotguns like the Phage and the Convectrix?
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