Is Rifle Amp really that horrible?

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Title. Most people say that CP is better and I can understand why, but are there any situations where Rifle Amp has even a slight advantage over Corrosive Projection?

[Spook]

Sure. It probably has a slight advantage in situations where enemies do not have armor anyhow, such as the overwhelming majority of Corpus or Infested.

but because of the aura polarity system, these two effects aren't freely interchangable, so people will tend to prefer having the compatibility with Corrosive Projection + Energy Siphon over having compatibility with Rifle Amp.

Growing Power adds some decent potential to V polarity auras, though. but it's a bit annoying to get and I think pricey to buy.

I've seen people suggest sometimes that auras shouldn't have polarities and should instead just give their max capacity amounts by the default, but it seems really unlikely for that to ever be changed.

[robruckus65]

corrosive projection is only good if you ahve a full team running it otherwise with how armor scalign works you are better off not bothering... there are many instances where using rifle amp, dead eye, steel charge, or pistol amp is more beneficial... Ive never really understood why people put such emphasis on armopred units they only become hard to deal with at the lvl120+ mark and even then a good status weapon with corrosive and or a weapon wiht high puncture and radiation damage can tear through most armored units rather quickly... silva and aegis prime built for crit and status with eeping wounds and blood rsha dn crorrsive damage tears through lvl 120 corrupted bombards rather quickly...

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

Corrosive Projection is rather overused since, as above, it's only really useful vs. Grineer (and the Corrupted) thanks to the vast majority of Corpus and Infested not having any armor to reduce in the first place. And yet, you never see anybody using Shield Disruption when it's Corpus time...

Mainly it's just the natural tendency of most people to flock to whatever the meta is at the time. Also, most people who use V-polarity auras often will just use Steel Charge thanks to the four extra mod points it provides when put into a properly-polarized aura slot.

On an unrelated note, when did Speed Holster, Sprint Boost, EMP Aura, and Dead Eye suddenly become 5-rank aura mods? Because I sure didn't rank them to 3/5 intentionally...

[robruckus65]

Totally Innocent Chatbot の投稿を引用：

Corrosive Projection is rather overused since, as above, it's only really useful vs. Grineer (and the Corrupted) thanks to the vast majority of Corpus and Infested not having any armor to reduce in the first place. And yet, you never see anybody using Shield Disruption when it's Corpus time...

Mainly it's just the natural tendency of most people to flock to whatever the meta is at the time. Also, most people who use V-polarity auras often will just use Steel Charge thanks to the four extra mod points it provides when put into a properly-polarized aura slot.

On an unrelated note, when did Speed Holster, Sprint Boost, EMP Aura, and Dead Eye suddenly become 5-rank aura mods? Because I sure didn't rank them to 3/5 intentionally...

I noticed that as well about a month ago I was running my cc mesa in a sniper only sortie and went to put my dead eye on and noticed it wasnt maxed i was so confused...

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So, it's useful against enemies with no/low armor, but isn't used because it's not possible to hotswap it with CP when needed? That makes sense, thanks.

Also, if I owned a warframe twice with different polarities, it would make sense to have one made for Rifle Amp and one for other auras, right? (Except for the fact that it'd take a lot of time.)

[Totally Innocent Chatbot]

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So, it's useful against enemies with no/low armor, but isn't used because it's not possible to hotswap it with CP when needed? That makes sense, thanks.

Also, if I owned a warframe twice with different polarities, it would make sense to have one made for Rifle Amp and one for other auras, right? (Except for the fact that it'd take a lot of time.)

If you were to do that, sure. No point in having two of the same frame if one wasn't set up in a way the other couldn't be (such as having a different polarity in the aura slot). I don't know if many people do that, but if you have the slot, the forma, and the time then nothing's stopping you.