What is neat about Impact is that it has several mods you can use to impart its effects with chances to apply better status effects, such as Internal Bleeding. It’s nothing really outstanding, however. Impact’s debuff effect is decent, and can be used for some good soft crowd-control, by denying enemies opportunities to attack. Even with its reduced damage to flesh, it also isn’t resisted heavily by armor, so its damage output can sometimes be better on a heavily-armored fleshy target than if you were to attempt slashing on them. That said, it benefits from not being particularly bad against any types of armor or protection, while also being spectacular at damaging shields. Impact, between all the different weapons and abilities you can use, is probably the most common damage type of them all, so it’s kind of impossible to avoid it.

Flesh and Cloned Flesh (Grineer and Corpus humanoids only – Infested are exempt from this and will still take full damage from impact.).

Infested Flesh takes extremely high bonus damage (infested corpus crewmembers).

Shields, ironically, are much weaker to impact than proto-shields are!.

Proto-Shields are used by essentially all non-corpus factions when a shield is involved.

Even so, the effectiveness of its status effect keeps it well relevant in most situations regardless.ĭebuff Effect – Inflicts staggering, which prevents targets from attacking for a short duration, and can open up Mercy Kills from your Parazon. Otherwise, biological targets quickly get ripped to shreds by this damage type.Įven with all its bonuses, Slash falls a bit short against the Corpus, due to a combination of its bleed having to get through their shields first, and their variety of robots having no weakness to the type at all. Slash can also be a good option if you have the ability to s*rip armor off of your targets (either by using Corrosive damage, or with special Warframe abilities) – once armors are removed, only one type of health (robotic) has a resistance against the type. Weapons that specialize in both Status Chance and Slashing type are real keepers. It’s precisely because of how its bleed works that makes it a staple for easily dealing damage on the Steel Path, where the armor effects of enemies is multiplied heavily – bleed can entirely bypass this. Slash is a common and highly-effective damage type by my measures – in addition to being on a bunch of melee weapons, most of its drawbacks are quickly canceled out by the traits of its status effect, as the Bleeding it inflicts can heavily damage enemies that theoretically would be resistant to it (mainly Grineer).

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