Impact damage: Bad or Terrible?

[The Ghost Pyro From Outerspace!!]

So for a while I was having some trouble with corpus, I had a lot of slashing and puncture weapons and their shields were giving me a hard time. So I looked it up and found out impact beats sheilds. Well long story short I built some impact heavy weapons, but then later realized once I got through the shields impact was garbage against normal flesh. Am I wrong in assuming just putting magnetic on slashing weapons is superior to taking an impact weapon? Because I've been doing that and having a much better time of it. I'm still sort of new, and I don't know everything. I know impact's elemntal proc is probably the best of the physical damage types, but it just doesn't seem like a good damage type overall. I'm about ready to throw my Magistar out.

[Hitof Maiyachev]

For corpus u have to mix electricity and frost dommage so u will one shot there shield

[fun time hippie]

the mods combinations i use are blast and corrosive. blast helps take down the sheild and corrosive does extra damage once the sheilds done. plus the blast has a chance to knockdown instead of just stun. also i use this combination on pratically everything and it works well for me and i solo everything

[Sergeant Scryed]

Just run magnetic, it drops their shield so fast, the rest of the damage can be whatever you want , but I usually run in my generic overall build radiation viral its so funny watching radiation proccing and watching a heavy turn on his allies.

[Donitsi]

İlk olarak fun time hippie tarafından gönderildi:

the mods combinations i use are blast and corrosive. blast helps take down the sheild and corrosive does extra damage once the sheilds done. plus the blast has a chance to knockdown instead of just stun. also i use this combination on pratically everything and it works well for me and i solo everything

Corossive does no extra damage against Corpus. It works best on infested and armored Grineer units.

I recommend magnetic damage with high slash for best efficiency against Corpus.

[Lord AcrobaticTurtle]

toxin hits past shields I am pretty sure, so you could take weapons with toxin on them. This is just an alternative I am not suggesting the best way to do it

[Fendelphi]

Impact+Electricity or Impact+Cold with a high status weapon allow for a lot of CC and deals good damage to shields and robotic enemies(all those Moas, Ospreys and Drones).

Toxic bypasses standard shields, damaging health directly(and deals extra damage to corpus flesh). It does not bypass proto shields, but deals extra damage to it.
This can be effective if you have a slash or puncture weapon, since you will kill most enemies before their shields are even down. Or better yet, a pure toxic weapon.

Magnetic is very effective vs shields, but doesnt do much aside from that.

[[Evil Inc.]Drakkon]

Magnetic and Toxin if you can fit them both if not, Personally I find a pure toxin build more effective. Cut out the shield entirely. A toxin build on a soma or a Boltor Prime? It's like mowing the lawn.

[Serverus]

1. Don't utilize damage-specific loadouts. Always round-out your loadouts. For example: I use the Paris Prime for Puncture damage, AkMagnus for Impact damage, and Dragon Nikana for Slash damage. That way i have a weapon for any and all enemy types.

2. Impact is useful against shields. No surprise there. A good example of this is when i fight Vor in T4 Void missions. My AkMagnus are capable of taking all his shields down in seconds due to the amount of Impact damage they do. Ofc, since Vor is also an armored enemy, Impact won't help me there. Same goes for "flesh" enemies like Infested. If Impact was designed to be effective against all other enemy types, then that'd be plain overpowered. So what did you expect? Did you think you could kill anything and everything with Impact-heavy loadouts?

If you want a good alternative, use Toxic damage on a Slash or Puncture weapon. If they suffer Toxic damage, it goes right through their shields whilst maintaining the usefulness of having a Puncture or Slash weapon.

[Rapxtor]

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İlk olarak fun time hippie tarafından gönderildi:

the mods combinations i use are blast and corrosive. blast helps take down the sheild and corrosive does extra damage once the sheilds done. plus the blast has a chance to knockdown instead of just stun. also i use this combination on pratically everything and it works well for me and i solo everything

Corossive does no extra damage against Corpus. It works best on infested and armored Grineer units.

I recommend magnetic damage with high slash for best efficiency against Corpus.

The way toxic works in warframe, corrosive is viable against any faction, is a all around damage that doesnt force you to change betwen enemys, in fact a corrosive build work such was magnetic if we are talking about the same mods, both builds maxed or not maxed.