What is the point of Plague Infusion On Melee Weapons?

[BowUser]

@kuro

• • Infection
  • Enemies affected by the plague status effect will take additional damage when they are infected.
  • The target will also have reduced healing.

I mean the point of it is to do more damage, no?
Admittedly I haven’t messed with it yet, still trying to cap off my Icebreaker build and missing a rune but point being is it not functioning as noted in the patch notes?

It’s a payoff condition instead of a just damage, seems like it could be cool to play around.

@QuthLue

I understrand so far espacially with the enchantment it decreases enemies stagger resistance way more than other infusions aspecially when applied with rune attacks

Figure that’s because of the increased damage done on hits because of the condition or ?