How important is status chance?

[Karam]

How important is status chance?
What's the difference between building a weapon around status chance and building a weapon around pure damage without status chance mods?

[[R] Nerva]

Status chance allows you to take advantage of the procs associated with each damage type.

Corrosive: Each proc permanently strips armor from the enemy. Enough procs will remove it entirely.

Viral: A six-second debuff that reduces enemy max HP by half; if you can kill them in that six-second window, you need only half as much effort to do it.

Magnetic: Same as Viral, but reduces shields to a quarter instead of health to half.

Gas: Produces a cloud that toxin procs (see below) enemies passing through it.

Radiation: Confuses enemies for several seconds, causing them to choose targets indiscriminately and makes them valid targets for friendly fire.

Blast: Ragdolls the victim and enemies near the impact point, forcing a knockdown.

Cold: Slows enemies significantly for several seconds.

Heat: Places a heat-damage DoT on the target, and causes them to panic, flailing around as they burn.

Toxin: Places a toxin-damage DoT on the target. Since it's toxin damage, it bypasses shields.

Electric: Stuns an enemy and may stun additional enemies that wander too close to the victim.

Impact: Staggers the enemy briefly.

Puncture: Reduces the amount of damage that an enemy can do for several seconds.

Slash: Places a slash-damage DoT on the victim that bypasses shields and armor.

[Walrus-Sama]

Status chance is what allows weapons to scale into high levels. Raw damage and Crit start to fall off around lvl 100 and up.

Most useful Status are:
- Corrosive
- Slash
- Viral

[Reaver]

Oh wow awesome list,ive been looking for this info for a while now.
Many Many thanks.

[AnaLoGMunKy]

If you have no status chance, the weapon will still do all the damage you put in to the weapon, but it wont have a chance to proc any of the status effects kindly listed above.

[Karam]

Originally posted by R Nerva:

Status chance allows you to take advantage of the procs associated with each damage type.

Corrosive: Each proc permanently strips armor from the enemy. Enough procs will remove it entirely.

Viral: A six-second debuff that reduces enemy max HP by half; if you can kill them in that six-second window, you need only half as much effort to do it.

Magnetic: Same as Viral, but reduces shields to a quarter instead of health to half.

Gas: Produces a cloud that toxin procs (see below) enemies passing through it.

Radiation: Confuses enemies for several seconds, causing them to choose targets indiscriminately and makes them valid targets for friendly fire.

Blast: Ragdolls the victim and enemies near the impact point, forcing a knockdown.

Cold: Slows enemies significantly for several seconds.

Heat: Places a heat-damage DoT on the target, and causes them to panic, flailing around as they burn.

Toxin: Places a toxin-damage DoT on the target. Since it's toxin damage, it bypasses shields.

Electric: Stuns an enemy and may stun additional enemies that wander too close to the victim.

Impact: Staggers the enemy briefly.

Puncture: Reduces the amount of damage that an enemy can do for several seconds.

Slash: Places a slash-damage DoT on the victim that bypasses shields and armor.

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Status chance is what allows weapons to scale into high levels. Raw damage and Crit start to fall off around lvl 100 and up.

Most useful Status are:
- Corrosive
- Slash
- Viral

Originally posted by AnaLoGMunKy:

If you have no status chance, the weapon will still do all the damage you put in to the weapon, but it wont have a chance to proc any of the status effects kindly listed above.

Thanks for all the info, I have one final question.

If the base status chance of a melee is atleast 20%, is it worth building it around status or raw damage? On that note actually, is it worth building any weapon that is not viable with status?

[Grey Star, The Rival Defender]

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Status chance is what allows weapons to scale into high levels. Raw damage and Crit start to fall off around lvl 100 and up.

Most useful Status are:
- Corrosive
- Slash
- Viral

The only reason status scales farther than crits is because crits have, at best, a 16 something X mutiplier, where as status is for slash 250% and fire / toxin 350%.

[99dSFMu12]

if has 20% you can't reach 100% status without rivens and combo multi mods. While not as effective, paired with condition overload will help your damage

[Walrus-Sama]

Originally posted by Grey Star, the Rival Defender:

Originally posted by Walrus-Sama:

Status chance is what allows weapons to scale into high levels. Raw damage and Crit start to fall off around lvl 100 and up.

Most useful Status are:
- Corrosive
- Slash
- Viral

The only reason status scales farther than crits is because crits have, at best, a 16 something X mutiplier, where as status is for slash 250% and fire / toxin 350%.

No, it's because Status procs do the same thing regardless of level. The ones I highlighted are effective because they make the enemy easier to kill. On high level enemy's, Status should be doing more work than actual damage.

[Cynthetic]

status typically scales the best, corrossive removes 25% of armour whn procced, pure damage will be stronger initally, but status is the tortise, it always wins eventually.