How much have you used Blast since the status rework?

[rhoenix]

As title. Not too many enemies appear vulnerable to Blast damage, but how the status effect works now is actually pretty nice.

[Donitsi]

I have tried it on some Snipers and Status weapons. Status effect is at least giving more visual satisfaction than Negative Accuracy which I doubt even worked against +100 enemies who have excellent accuracy at that level.

I have not experienced enough though. Any weapon recommendations even if not super effective meta stuff?

[Blarker]

I've tried it on a few weapons, and it feels somewhat like, if you dont plan to instantly get 10 stacks of blast then it feels weak, but if you do then it insta pops even extremely tanky enemies. I was doing some testing with my strun prime incarnon, due to the sheer huge amount of status chance it gets, in the simulacrum, and when I procced 10 blast, level 170 grokstad officers would just get instantly deleted, along with everyone around them. And when I didn't proc 10 blast, nothing would happen when I hit them. Felt pretty feast or famine.

...Then I put blast on my occucor, while playing Dante, for the extra status chance and vulnerability, while still applying viral, heat, etc. That certainly worked, and I've been enjoying it a lot. But that weapon setup doesnt work nearly as well on my non-Dante frames, so you might have to get some specific setups to make it work well.

[Donitsi]

I did some testing with Ambassador that has 99% status chance. It had Corrosive and Blast working together and it performed well in Sorties against Corpus. Only Eximus targets ate one or two entire magazines and Effectiveness halted when Enemy Elemental Enhancement mission started. Blast only worked as small CC... why Blast doesn't stagger main target but everybody else around the target?

[Kawalorn]

Tried a Blast + Electric Kuva Nukor to see if it does any cool AoE stuff, and it did not as far as I could tell. It was a clear DPS downgrade compared to good ol' Viral + Heat. And it was against Murmur no less.

I guess Blast requires more intelligent builds than what I'm willing to bother trying.

[BoxxyB]

I was using it on the fang prime DD before the rework and they already shredded with an average 50% armor strip even an 1 hour deep into sp survival. now they just shred just as much without the armor strip. haven't really tried it on any guns though just the 3 or 4 melees I had it on. one of which was a nikana staff zaw and the lacera with an attack speed riven

[Sceles]

I have tested it extensively in simulacrum and it feels much weaker than any viral+dot combination.

[Kameh]

I use it on my tenent mag glaxion, would always be 50%+ of the damage down during the operation using it.

[tv]

the only blast weapon i got is aegrit. magnetic, cold and electric are too good.

[TheMetalCorpser]

I'm sure blast status effect works well with high damage weapons like snipers, AoE, etc. on any faction just haven't tested that myself.

Blast tears apart Infested especially on Steel Path and higher. Though to be fair most tears apart Infested but since it's an AoE damage status effect, which is faster in DPS and activation than Gas, it's pretty handy even with weaker hitting guns on Infested.

Should be said Blast now can allow weapons that are single direction line of fire have a means of AoE damage even if minor. But as others have said outside of Infested, for Grineer you'd still want Viral+Heat/Slash and Corpus folds against Magnetic+Toxin/Heat.

[KIREEK]

Unlike heat, cold or radiation, the 1st proc isn't super effective, so it's a proc that relies on building up more procs, this means it will be most effective on high fire rate, high status % weapons.

The proc is also not like other combined elements, viral, corrosive, gas,.... have a cap of what they can do, meaning excess procs may become wasted and only raw power matters, blast on the other hand keeps reseting back once it reaches 10 procs, so it's use isn't trown to waste on high status weapons

When making multiple element weapons, if other elements trigger to much, it may make blast not shine as much, so blast should be the dominant factor, don't make a 1000 damage corrosive and 600 damage blast weapon, it should be the other way around, you should proc other things on ocasion.

Keep in mind that all elements have a place and time to be used, what de did with gas, blast and other elements is to make sure players don't cling to much to something all the time.

[Calamity]

Blast woulda been way cooler if the stacks and times were lowerd Id even take less damage, but more of the blasty aoe would have been cool.... not just - well sometimes you can see it sometimes they die before anything even happens, or it just does zero damage.

[Douchebag Extraordinaire]

It's pretty good with high status heavy multishot and/or fast fire beam weapons like Strun and Torrid Incarnon but it's still underwhelming against armored enemies. Completely overkill for vanilla starmap and lower SP maps, but great for clearing trash.

Man, when I used to make blast torrid that basically banana peeled enemies, I never imagined it doing this kind of damage.

[Sceles]

Originally posted by KIREEK:

The proc is also not like other combined elements, viral, corrosive, gas,.... have a cap of what they can do, meaning excess procs may become wasted and only raw power matters, blast on the other hand keeps reseting back once it reaches 10 procs, so it's use isn't trown to waste on high status weapons

You are forcing a comparison that makes blast look better than it is by avoiding comparing it to individual elements which usually are supported by combined elements viral, corrosive or magnetic. Blast cannot support other elements in the same way and it's also not as good at dealing damage as heat or electric, which are not capped and also scale from elemental damage.

[C486]

Been running toxin/blast and I've been giggling for a bit.

Can't believe I'm having fun on WF again.

[rhoenix]

I think that's about the same as my findings. Blast is really only good on rapid-fire status-based weapons because of how the status effect stacks work, and not usually the best choice for damage.

But yeah, it is fun, and does work pretty well on weapons with high status and high fire rate/attack speed, even on Steel Path. Much better than it used to be, anyway.