So, when it comes to this, “resistant” only means a reduction in initial damage numbers, what ends up making a status “good” is the effect it has on the enemy after the fact, corrosive will reduce the armor of any unit it effects per stack, under normal circumstances, a max stack of corrosive procs(10) will reduce the enemy armor by I think 80 or 90 percent, check wiki for exact numbers, but this amount is really good for at least beginning of steelpath
With some special archonshards, you can increase the max stacks of corrosive, meaning once you hit 13 stacks, the enemy has no armor, couple that with viral (increase damage to health) and you’ll be doing a ginormous amount of damage in comparison to their original defense. This does not discount the other effects, please read up on them, they are almost all useful (I currently enjoy blast on my melees with the arcane, melee influence) and the goal of DE is that all status’ will be useful in the game
If you can utilize the effects of status, it doesn’t matter what you use (kind of) but beginners most likely won’t be able to and could still use paying attention to the resistances of enemies, and that’s why the missions now show what best elements to use.
Ive said it once, new hive god just dropped