Is viral good for Grineer?

viral +100% damage vs grineer and lowers max health. corrosive +75 vs grineer but reduces armor.
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What status is best for Grineer?

If you're facing off against the Grineer, bring Puncture, Radiation, and Toxin. If you're going against the Infested, then Slash, Corrosive, and Heat are your buddies. If the Corrupted are your enemies, Corrosive and Cold will be most effective.
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What is viral damage good for?

Viral damage is Virus. It amplifies damage to the health of the afflicted target by 100% for 6 seconds. Subsequent procs add 25% increased damage to health up to 325% in total after 10 stacks, with each proc having their own duration. This effect will work even when the health is protected by armor ("yellow health").
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Is viral the best Warframe?

Viral is the best "endgame" damage type. Not because of its damage bonus, but because of the proc, which halves the target's life, so it scales really well. For late late game endless modes, you bring 4x corrosive projection so the targets have no armor. Then everyone spams viral damage.
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Which Warframe does viral damage?

Viral damage is effective against Grineer enemies that have Cloned Flesh as well as the Flesh of Corpus enemies in Warframe. Enemies affected by viral damage will take 100% more damage for a total of six seconds.
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What are Grineer weak to Warframe?

The Grineer, for example, like to use armor and are typically weak against Puncture, Corrosive, Viral or Radiation damage. The Corpus, meanwhile, heavily rely on shields and are susceptible to Magnetic, Impact, Cold, Toxin or Viral damage. Infested are weak against Slash, Heat, Gas, Corrosive or Blast attacks.
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Is viral better than corrosive in Warframe?

At some point raw corrosive damage falls off and you'll need to rely on slash procs, and viral boosts all damage to health, and slash works with it the easiest.
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What is the best element in Warframe?

Heat is considered by many as the best simple element in Warframe. Armor strip and DoT damage make Heat excellent for all factions across all activities.
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Is viral good on infested?

Quick tip :Infested on demios are immune to viral.
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Does viral work on corpus?

Those Slash Status procs will just ignore both shield AND armor, making it ideal for pretty much everything you'll fight against in regards to Corpus. Also Viral is nice for halving any enemy's HP. Don't forget the toughest corpus units.
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Can a virus bypass shields?

Viral damage doesn't bypass shields, which is probably what you meant. Viral as a damage type is chosen specifically when an enemy has no defenses left, as in 4CP in Void and Grineer.
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Is Gas good against Grineer?

Gas damage isn't in a good situation already, because not only does it perform poorly against Corpus and Grineer flesh, but it's the only secondary element that does damage over time from the procs alone.
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Which Warframes are toxic?

  • Gauss.
  • Harrow Prime.
  • Nidus Prime.
  • Protea.
  • Sevagoth.
  • Yareli.
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Is Blast good Warframe?

So, as most of us know already, Blast Damage is one of the worst status effects in the game. "Worst," as in, it does the absolute least amount of stuff. Like, Heat will set enemies on fire (obviously) and will strip some enemy armor. Cold will slow enemies, and with enough procs, will freeze them.
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Is corrosive good for Corpus?

Toxic or viral plus slash or heat is an all around, corrosive is good for grineer, toxin for corpus, and heat plus slash for infested.
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Is radiation good in Warframe?

Radiation damage is effective against Alloy Armor, Robotic, and Infested Sinew, but less effective against Shielded, Infested, and Fossilized. Prism duration is affected by Ability Duration.
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What is the best elemental damage in Warframe?

Viral (Toxin + Cold)

Thus, Viral is one of the best-scaling status effects or secondary elemental damage in the game.
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Does saryn do viral damage?

How Does Spore work? Viral damage with a 100% status chance is dealt within 8 / 10 / 12 / 16 meters, and 2 / 2 / 3 / 3 spores are transmitted to each affected enemy.
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Is corrosive or viral better for steel path?

With many tests you will realise that corrosive will do better with a condition overload "procer" with viral due to viral being powerful for its status rather than its damage. While Corrosive has better damage but doesn't really have a competition to viral in terms of status.
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Does corrosive strip armor?

Corrosive status effect reduces a target's current armor by 26%, with further procs removing 6% for up to 80%. Each proc has a duration and will end on its own.
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What damage does Grineer do?

Grineer: Corrosive against rank-and-file enemies. Radiation against bosses and heavy foes. Puncture remains generally effective. Corpus: Magnetic, Viral, and Impact.
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Can you play Warframe solo?

Warframe can be played either single-player or with other players. You can change this option on the Navigation Screen by selecting the Globe icon in the top-left corner! (Both options require an online connection.) Hopefully this answered your question!
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Is void damage good Warframe?

Currently, Void damage is relatively ineffective against Cloned Flesh and Fossilized enemies which greatly limits the use of Xata's Whisper on Grineer and Infested enemies.
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