Corrosive Vs Viral

[Sumire Violets]

Which do you think is the best between the 2?

[Chaos Marine]

Corrosive projection aura is a great mod. I seriously and highly recommend bringing it along to sorties as it makes ones against the Grineer and to a lesser extent, infected. Same technically fits with the Corpus and the shield distruption aura mod.

[Kiteo Hatto]

Corrosive weapons paired with Saryn's viral abilities if solo :)
Viral weps if in a squad with 4 CP auras

[dEAdOnE77]

引用自 Krhymez：

As to your question, Corrosive is good lower level but i feel Viral is better later. Since most people run with Corrosive aura mod. Cutting an enemies health in half very useful.

I agree, and would also says that viral is the ultimate-DMG-Proc becauze it gets even stronger as the enemylvl goes up.

[KIREEK]

warframe wiki > damage 2.0
compare it damage wise, other possible elemental combinations that can be achieved, faction you're fighting, conditions you're fighting (like having enemies with little to no shield), if the mission has any special condition (lot's of oxium ospreys, no machines in a corpus enviroment) and what do the procs do.

Then you can pick which one is better for what YOU want to do.

In other words, neither is better and those who state that corrosive or viral is better without giving any context, they are at the same level of understanding as the OP, meaning no understanding at all.
Elementals are a basic mechanic, you have to learn it by yourself and the wiki or the codex ingame is a nice way to start

[Bad Humour]

both good in their own way and both used in vastly different ways as well. There is no set way on how to use elemental damage types and what to use them on.

I personally go for a combo damage type that fits the weapon and then buff it up as much as possible. So no second single damage type added. Also I dont do multiple builds on my weapons. I just switch to the weapon I modded to kill this particular enemy type. It freshens the gameplay up a bit, as im not using the same weapon all the time. I also always up the status chance as much as possible when using elemental mods makes the elemental damage a lot more effective.

a couple of examples are:

Supra w/ augment: Radiation or blast: since its ridiculous fire rate allows you to spread abnoxious lasers throughout entire rooms, I use cc procs as I use the weapon for its bullet hell. Radiation will allow you to do something like nyx's 3 where all the enemies you shot and havent killed will start killing each other. Great fun too as on sorties it becomes total chaos.

Blast status on the supra is something everyone should once in their life, a supra build with 80% blast status (couldnt get it higher without compromising other crucial elements of the build) and full on fire rate. Make sure carrier is equipped to make this viable. with 40 rounds per minute and each bullet being capable of flinging enemies across rooms you are able to completely incapacitate entire areas with flailing bodies dead and alive.

Another one of my favorite examples is Hikou prime with concealed explosives and viral damage. This is the ultimate room clear combination with halfing enemy health and at the same time blowing them away. Cleared entire lvl 100 sortie exterminates with just this. Although any combo works blast is great too and Corrosive is a great way to disintigrate level 100 bombards.

[Prince-Nyan]

引用自 dEAdOnE77：

引用自 Krhymez：

As to your question, Corrosive is good lower level but i feel Viral is better later. Since most people run with Corrosive aura mod. Cutting an enemies health in half very useful.

I agree, and would also says that viral is the ultimate-DMG-Proc becauze it gets even stronger as the enemylvl goes up.

Even with 5% or even 1% armour, higher levels armoured targets will completly nuturilze your viral damage even if you do proc it multiple times because Vial has 0% multiplier vs armoured targets. It's only viable if you have 100% cp which suprisingly very few people use because -25% of 2000 is 1500 and 1500 armour vs 2000 is about 0.1% less resist. Targets above lvl40 easily have tens of thousands of armour. Because of how pointless it is to use a full team of cp (unless in a raid) it's better to go strait damage and other auras unless you plan to go above 80 Waves/minutes in an endless which means you'll be forced to use meta mods/frames unless everyone goes invis/melee valkyr with focus.