best element againest faction?

[Van]

I tried googling this and people are saying toxic, gas and magnetic, and ive never even seen or heard of those elements in the game. All I have right now is electric, heat and cold mods, and I want to figure out which is better for each faction. Currently, I use eletric againest corpus, heat againest infested and cold againest grineer.

[zvampen]

U can combine them to get other elements.

[DrFeelWorse]

Wiki damage 2.0, as there is a lot of info to gather on the various elements.

There is currently electric, heat, cold, and toxin mods for weapons.

Heat + Cold = Blast
Heat + Electric = Radiation
Heat + Toxin = Gas
Electric + Cold = Magnetic
Toxin + Electic = Corrosive
Cold + Toxin = Viral

I think that's all of them, but I can't think straight at the moment so anyone else feel free to add.

Basically, all of these have viable uses, for different senarios. The Damage 2.0 chart will help you determine what load-out of combo elements help best.

[G_lad]

Gas - heat x poison
Virus to 1/2 the hp - cold poison
Corrosion to remove armour - electric poison
EEEXPLOSIOOOOON - cold fire
Radiation to confuse and stun - electric fire
Magnet to remove shields - electric cold

[sklt]

Viral goes good against all

[Nayroy]

I use radiation and viral on grinner, magnetic and posion for corpus, corrosive and heat for infested and void with no cp, grinner build for void if 4 cp.

[robruckus65]

corrsive is best for most situations at higher level since it lowers enemy armor... but for specifics magnetic is good against shielded enemies liek corpus... gas is good agaisnt infested... corrsoive agaisnt armored enemies... radiation is good against armored enemies and robotic... viral cuts health in half...

[Quackers]

robruckus65님이 먼저 게시:

corrsive is best for most situations at higher level since it lowers enemy armor... but for specifics magnetic is good against shielded enemies liek corpus... gas is good agaisnt infested... corrsoive agaisnt armored enemies... radiation is good against armored enemies and robotic... viral cuts health in half...

IMO Poison is better for corpus because it bypasses shields

[robruckus65]

Quackerﮎ!님이 먼저 게시:

robruckus65님이 먼저 게시:

corrsive is best for most situations at higher level since it lowers enemy armor... but for specifics magnetic is good against shielded enemies liek corpus... gas is good agaisnt infested... corrsoive agaisnt armored enemies... radiation is good against armored enemies and robotic... viral cuts health in half...

IMO Poison is better for corpus because it bypasses shields

if you are going taht route I would personalyl prefer slash procs or a combo of slash adn poison...but magnet is meant to take out shields quickly...

[Alekseius]

blast + corrosive = best combo

[DaLagga]

http://warframe.wikia.com/wiki/Damage_2.0

For the most part, what you want for each faction is:

Corpus - Toxic damage because it completely bypasses shields and will make short work of them.

Grineer - Either Radiation or Corrosive. Radiation is excellent against Bombards and Napalms who are some of the toughest enemies in the game. Corrosive is good for Heavy Gunners and a lot of other units though and you can double up with heat for more damage to fleshy units. Keep in mind that Grineer units scale up in strength far faster than any other faction in the game due to their high armor value and that the corrosive status proc shreds armor.

Infested - Corrosive. Pretty much all of the tougher infested units are weak against corrosive so this is an obvious choice. You could couple it with heat damage depending on what mods you have available if you really wanted some extra damage against the weaker units but it's not necessary.

If you're feeling lazy and don't want to switch damage types each mission, just load up on corrosive and heat damage. Those two are good or at least neutral in most situations so they make for a good one-size-fits-all combo.

Alekseius님이 먼저 게시:

blast + corrosive = best combo

It's not a bad neutral combo, but it does eat up 4 slots (unless the weapon already has a base element) which just isn't optimal for many late game weapon builds.

[Tripleadog]

I like the blast corrosive combo and usally run it but gas is a beast when used correctly, it deals bonus dmg to both (greneer? not sure how to spell that) and infested. its dmg is not good against shields however if you have a decent status chance then it will proc toxin dmg bassed off of your dmg which bypasses shields so its good against most things, but its weak against ancient disruptors and anything near them. while a gas build can be good against all fractions i like running personallly with a weapon that has a good base against corpus such as high impact or magnetic dmg then adding blast and corrosive to it for a good all arounder, you can get more dmg against a spicific fraction if you dont do this but i dont like changing elementals around before missions so this is what i usally run, hope this helps oh and one last thing i almost fogot to mention is that slash procs bypass both shield and armor and the actual dmg is good against flesh like infested so slash with a high status can kill anything, run a galitine build with like 800 slash dmg and the shadow dept mods for crit status and body count and ive kill like i think lv 300 is the highest ive killed with it, theres better weapons but i like it.