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Status Effects (Procs)
Proc weighting and key status effects.
Status chance determines how likely a hit is to apply a status effect (proc). Each damage type has its own unique proc.
Final Status Chance = Base Status × (1 + Status Mod% / 100) + Flat Status Bonuses
Proc Weighting
When a status procs, which damage type's effect triggers is weighted by the damage distribution. If your weapon deals 60% Slash, 20% Heat, 20% Viral — Slash procs are 3× more likely than Heat or Viral procs.
Key Status Effects for New Players
| Slash (Bleed) | True damage over time, ignores armor and shields — the late-game king. |
| Viral | Each stack amplifies health damage: +100% at 1 stack, up to +325% at 10 stacks. |
| Corrosive | Permanently strips 26% of current armor per stack. |
| Heat | DoT + strips up to 50% armor, refreshes with new procs. |
| Toxin | DoT that bypasses shields. |
| Magnetic | Useful against Corpus shields. |
✦ Tenno Tip
For general-purpose modding, Viral + Slash procs is the meta. Viral amplifies health damage, and Slash bleeds bypass all defenses. Even if your weapon doesn't naturally have high Slash, Slash-weighting mods or Hunter Munitions (which gives Crit hits a 30% chance to proc Slash) can make any crit weapon viable.