That tracks.

Hunter Munition was great when Slash proc is king, and Crit builds were also not that strong back then without Slash procs. Status damage and the Status itself have been through a rework and multiple rebalances iirc, so now Heat is the new king due to two factors:
-(Potentially) Infinite stacking
-Heat Inherit mechanic

Although, imo, the gap between Heat and any other status nowadays aren't as wide as pre-rework Slash and pre-rework Status

Originally posted by Simbah:

That tracks.

Hunter Munition was great when Slash proc is king, and Crit builds were also not that strong back then without Slash procs. Status damage and the Status itself have been through a rework and multiple rebalances iirc, so now Heat is the new king due to two factors:
-(Potentially) Infinite stacking
-Heat Inherit mechanic

Although, imo, the gap between Heat and any other status nowadays aren't as wide as pre-rework Slash and pre-rework Status

yea, it seems IPS just took a backseat to elements now.

Hunter munitions isn't worth using on anything but crit AOE weapons now, some slash sources can be decent such as Harmony Afflictions, Glaive Prime (though not as good as literally any other glaive) and Garuda due her number of scalings.

Slash got nerfed twice essentially, enemy hp increased by 2.5x while armor being capped to max DR 90% compared to like 99%+, the true damage that it used to be really good for no so much anymore. IPS never really mattered though, Slash was the only useful one back then and Puncture was just kind of nice for the extra cc, Impact is still worthless.