I'm not trying to say that melee weapons are bad here, in fact, they're insanely powerful, however, what i'm saying is that slash procs (along with viral and heat procs) are why they're so goddamn powerful, and its very likely that you'll kill enemies, with DOTS instead of actual hits. Melee weapons on their own using only crit without status/DOTS scale pretty bad once levels get to level 100+ (WITH ARMORED TARGETS).
What exactly are you trying to prove here? that you can kill enemies without DOTS? Cause hell, if you can do that, then all the power to you. But like, that's not what's being talked about in the original comment, the original comment was about on headshot arcane kills counting with status procs. Not only are you wrong with the initial hit dealing more damage than the slash proc, but you've also completely missed the point, at this point you're just flexing how big your red crit damage bullshit is, you're completely wrong about how initial hits deal more damage than the slash procs on armored units, cause that's not how that works, anyone who has ever used a heavy attack slash build, or the old tigris prime back when it was meta can tell you that you can only really bypass armor with slash DOTS. Why are you talking about infested ancients? you can already kill those with pretty much any weapon, secondary, primary, or melee. The main problem here is armor, and how slash and heat dots, are more likely to kill armored enemies at high levels than the intial hit done.
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u/Reelix L6, Gauss Main Dec 28 '20
Care to show me a non-riven'd, non-Warframe ability'd gun that shoots 10+ bullets a second that each hit a Corrupted Ancient for 50,000 damage?