Elemental Damage+Weapon Weakness

[Brimir]

Lets take Fang as an example.

 

Fang deals 50% less base damage against Light Infested.

 

Now lets say that we put a Fire mod on our Fang: this damage gets trippled (or somesuch) against Infested.

 

Does the inherent weakness of Fang mean that the Fire damage also gets reduced by 50%?

[Definitegj]

No

[Endrance]

Lets take Fang as an example.

 

Fang deals 50% less base damage against Light Infested.

 

Now lets say that we put a Fire mod on our Fang: this damage gets trippled (or somesuch) against Infested.

 

Does the inherent weakness of Fang mean that the Fire damage also gets reduced by 50%?

Elemental Damage is calculated on base weapon damage, never from increased/decreased damage.

 

In other words, you deal extra damage to grineer, but you deal less damage to infested.

 

Having a 90% armor piercing mod and 90% fire damage will deal the exact same number to each kind of enemy (in terms of calculation)

 

 

PS: If you make your molten impact above 50%, you literally removed Fang weakness

[W4RM4CHIN3]

They removed damage resistance. It was done after Volt revamp, since  his electricity dealt 50% less damage against infested. Instead now it becomes + damage but doesn't multiply.

[http404error]

As stated above, elemental calculations always use the base damage first, then afterward resistances and weaknesses are applied. Let's run the numbers here, though. Let's say we have a level 4 Pressure Point that grants 100% base damage and a level 3 Molten Impact that grants 60% Fire Damage

 

15 base (armor piercing) + 100% = 30 base (ap)

 

30 * 60% = 18 elemental (fire)

 

Therefore the total damage output is 30 Armor Piercing and 18 Fire. When striking a light infested unit, the Armor Piercing component will be reduced by 50% to 15, and the Fire will be doubled to 36, but also reduced by armor, so that if you hit a level 26 Charger (about 100 armor), that fire damage is reduced to 24, whereas the 15 Armor Piercing remains untouched for a total of 39 damage per hit.

 

Note on previous post: They said they removed all elemental resistances, yet light infested remain 50% resistant to Armor Piercing damage. Indeed their electrical resist is gone though.