Talk:Elemental damage

I still don't get some things, I heard explosive has a chance to instant-kill and corrosive adds bonus damage on previous hits and can spread. Can other elemental types spread? I think we need a list of which elements to use against which foes, including pvp duals.I heal if you shut it 20:17, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

This is the first I've heard that explosive damage can kill instantly, but I can confirm that corrosive damage spreads and is cumulative like that.--66.18.55.226 20:20, November 5, 2009 (UTC)

= Other "damage" articles = There's an article named "Shock" which basically talks about shock damage. Either we should create one page for each element and link to them from this page, or bring back the Shock's page content to this one and do a redirect here. What do you people think? I'm also thinking of doing an article named "Damage" about the specifics of how damage is applied and calculated, and I wonder how it would relate to this one. Link to it? Make this article a subsection? --QuantumOmega 18:49, November 7, 2009 (UTC)
 * I think all elemental types should direct here, and we need to explain these more. I still don't get what explosive damage does exactly. I mean it says it is AOE but it is no more AOE than corrosive, in fact it doesn't even seem to have any AOE properties. Does all its damage at once... why do my explosive weapons do so little damage then? WTF I don't get it.I heal if you shut it 00:10, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

chance to happen
I have noticed that independent of the multiplier for an element the weapon text will note if the effect happens more often. I have had x1 weapons with "high chance to incinerate", "higher chance", or even "very high chance". We might want to put some examples of this somewhere. --Slyrat 19:17, November 17, 2009 (UTC)

I suggest people check out this thread: http://gbxforums.gearboxsoftware.com/showthread.php?t=86431 Instant karma is doing excelent job trying to figure out how on earth the elemental damage works.Puupertti Ruma 21:30, November 18, 2009 (UTC)