Question about armour break

[BENJY]

im playing mercenary and wondered if armour piercing rounds increases physical damage per armour broken on boss or if it needs to be completely broken to apply the extra damage

[Nautical Debautical]

Hey there!

Reducing their armour by any amount will increase the physical damage they take.
Fully breaking it is usually worth while in my experience however.

Also you can keep their armour fully broken indefinitely, so long as you occasionally hit them with an armour break skill before the debuff wears off!

[BENJY]

oh i wasnt aware of that last part, thanks

i want to avoid using high velocity rounds then because that will break the whole phase

[Nautical Debautical]

You're welcome! It's helped me a lot as well.
The high velocity round IS a nice burst of damage, but I think you're right. I'm not expert, but I think the enemy just always having no armour leads to better damage than 1 large burst every so often. Though I'm sure you could totally make a one shot high velocity build or some shiz.

[Wutever]

Originally posted by BENJY:

oh i wasnt aware of that last part, thanks

i want to avoid using high velocity rounds then because that will break the whole phase

What you want to do is use Corrosion support on either Gas or any other skill that poisons. Then cash in with High Velocity. Most things are easy to armor break.