Nova Antimatter Drop- What Exactly Does It Absorbs?

[Shroudb]

So yesterday i was having fun trying to maximize the damage of antimatter drop while minimizing the "charge" time.

 

While using the Hek, i noticed something was off with my damage numbers, so after some testing, it seems antimatter drop only absorbs the physical portion of the damage and none of the elementals:

even with +90% ice damage, +150% piercing damage, +90%fire damage, the damage would stay the same with the same mods removed.

I tested it on lvl 5-7 corpus so as not to have issues with armor and etc, 

afterwards, i used my latron prime to see if this was shotgun related, but again the same results.

 

With the Hek i was doing 2800-3000 damage with only 1 shot on it which adds up correctly from 140(base)*2 (multi 100%) *2.5 (point blank +blaze) *4 (antimatter drop) +130 (average should be 2930)

 

the thing is that sometimes the numbers go crazy. P.e. i tested with my glaive,  and i had hits from 1900damage up to 20k (maybe it hits the globe multiple times?)

 

The other thing i tried to test was criticals, i used a 50% crit chance dread, but for the life of me, i couldn't reliably tell if crits affect the globe.

 

Am i wrong or mssing something here?

Excluding clan weapons, which would be then the optimal weapon (and mod configuration) for antimatter drop nuking? (extra fast charge up + good base damage)

Edited July 25, 2013 by Shroudb

[effinator]

I just throw a few despair shots into it and watch the numbers go over 100k :/

[Shroudb]

I just throw a few despair shots into it and watch the numbers go over 100k :/

 a full clip of despair returns ~10500-12500 damage for me (hornet lvl 7)

doing the math that is 2.2 (barrel)*55(base)*2.6(hornet lvl 7)*4 (antimatter)*10 (clip) +130 = 12710

 

so elemental damage is again not helping.

 

also i cannot see how you can reach 100k unless "a few" is ~60 with max hornet strike 

 

edit: ofc my numbers are without ulti

Edited July 25, 2013 by Shroudb

[MacKillicutty]

Nah use torid if you really wanna see high numbers

[Shroudb]

Nah use torid if you really wanna see high numbers

yeah, but i don't have access to rank 7 weapons, hence why i said no clan weapons

[MacKillicutty]

Torid isnt rank 7 bro

[Shroudb]

Torid isnt rank 7 bro

what do you know... but again, rank isn't the problem, not having a clan is^^