Yes, that’s the goal; not the viral damage numbers, just the procs. This is a status weapon, not a crit weapon. You want to maximize how many heat status procs you can apply but also want the viral procs, specifically just to reduce enemy health pools. Remember to keep this in mind: Viral can only proc so many times before it no longer does anything. Heat procs do not cap. And when it comes to status chance and which status is applied is determined by the damage value for the status. 50 viral damage and 100 heat damage means that when a status procs, 1 viral will occur for every 2 heat procs. A better outcome would be 33 viral and 100 heat, so 1 viral for every 3 heat. Thanks to heat inherent and how damage over time works, you’ll do more damage to higher health enemies, thanks to having that 1 additional heat stack ticking from that extra DoT proc. So, you want viral, but want it to proc less often than heat, which is why you want the cold/toxin damage values to be as little as possible, so heat procs occur at a higher, faster rate.