What's the best ammo mod for raw damage output?

Krysae penetrate through armor with bonus and without mitigation, it s shield protection gate it doesnt go through AFAIK

Not really. Do a Harrier test. Try against armored bosses...do one with AP4 ammo ..then do one with with the ap mod on the Harrier with Warp 4. You will notice the Warp 4 eats thru that target faster.

No power usage at all. Just shooting.  take a gold brute or scion cuz its the fastest way to tell the differences cuz no shields/barriers to strip. ext mag, regular ap mod. head-shot/ hit boxes or not...Warp 4 causes the most damage. but then again you can also argue...what gear are you using? what character is this with? Did you build the character for pure weapons damage? Are you using powers that boost weapon damage? and so on....... I am talking in pure raw damage output.....take a harrier with ext mag and regular ap mod..put on Warp 4 and just shoot. Warp 4 causes more damage faster.

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It's funny, but I actually don't really think in terms of damage output when choosing ammo. I mean I do, but mostly as a secondary function of whatever overall thing I'm doing. AP ammo is very common on a lot of my builds just because the gun mods are dedicated to things like melee or power damage.

But yeah, Warp Ammo probably makes most sense. It's responsible for a lot of my Justicar's weapon damage output.

The WA setup does less DPS to shields since it has a 0x multiplier to them just like AP ammo, but has to reload more often and as such sustained DPS suffers.  It is further behind on Atlas shields where the AP setup is getting full damage double hits.

I just said that in the above post. I think the Warp 4 setup is more effective against Collectors and Reapers cuz of the barrier damage and that the AP4 setup is better against Cerberus & Geth cuz of shields.

Meh, not really. AP is going to take down cannibals, marauders, ravagers, brutes, faster, banshees are going to be dependent on if you're hitting multi hits. Collectors yeah probably but multi hits are going to narrow the advantage. I'm hoping this isn't coming off as dickish BC sometimes I do.

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AP and extended barrel wins out on the vast majority of kits. Especially with ramp up weapons. Warp ammo on select biotic characters with HVB barrels.

The exception (on PSN specifically due to a few factors) is a GI / Hurricane with HVB and warp ammo. This has the fastest clear times for UUG matches. I could write a novel on why this is specifically the best build (on PSN) for the GI / Hurricane, but I won't. Suffice to say the x0 vs shields is irrelevant to all but the Atlas, which you save for the end of the wave anyways and is about as threatening as a turtle on it's back.

On PSN, this set up loses shots between frames, and the damage being done to the target doesn't display as fast as you are registering it, so you need to figure out when to stop before all the defense values are gone, and not be wasting the time. Off host this can be tricky, on host much more reliable.

For double hits, you can reliably assume, Atlases, Ravagers and Scions. Occasionally on Phantoms and once in a blue moon on Banshees. For the GI, who cares. Ravagers die almost as fast as you shoot at them, and Banshees and Phantoms have a decent amount of barriers which are rendered so much faster. TTK on those two enemies is faster than with AP ammo. Atlases and Scions do take longer, but again, i save those enemies for last.

In short, GI / Hurricane / HVB / WA is certainly more effective vs Reapers and Collectors, is roughly a wash vs Cerberus and is slightly slower against the Geth.

Well no, extended barrel with AP IV will always be the best set-up for the Harrier, the piercing mod isn't that great for ARs, sure there are a lot of armored targets and barriers on Gold, but if you bring something as OP as the Harrier to Gold you're just as much a scrub as the plebs that use the Reegar.