Piercing Damage

Analysis

Piercing damage is one of the three types of physical damage. This damage usually corresponds to a thrusting, a stabbing, or a firing animation.

Horizon Changes

It has been confirmed by Kipling that the damage bonus piercing weak mobs receive has been reduced to 12.5% on Horizon.

Weapon Types

The following weapon types and their physical weaponskills deal piercing damage.

• Polearms - Weapons such as the Harpoon, Couse, and Thalassocrat.
• Daggers - Weapons such as the Bronze Knife, Mercurial Kris, and Mandau.
• Ranged - Ammunition such as the Holy Bolt and Demon Arrow, as well as throwing weapons such as the Shuriken.

• • Additionally, Rapier type swords such as the Joyeuse and Fleuret deal piercing damage from their melee attacks. However, their physical weaponskills produce slashing damage.

Pets and Pet Abilities

• Carbuncle - Poison Nails
• Fenrir - Crescent Fang
• Automatons equipped with the Sharpshot Frame deal piercing damage physical attacks.

Exceptions

• Bourdonasse - Melee attacks deal blunt damage.
  • Physical weaponskills performed using the Bourdonasse will still deal piercing damage.

• Chiroptera Dagger - Melee attacks deal slashing damage.
  • Physical weaponskills performed using the Chiroptera Dagger will still deal piercing damage.

Mob Family Damage Relation

Weak to Piercing

• Bats
• Bees
• Birds
• Colibri
• Flies
• Greater Birds
• Imps
• Ladybugs
• Mandragora
• Triple Bats

Strong to Piercing

• Corses
• Elementals
• Flans - In spiked form.
• Ghosts
• Mimics
• Skeletons
• Slimes

Immune to Piercing

• Inhumer - Appears on the 3rd floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Grave Digger - Appears on the 3rd floor of Southeast Apollyon
• Jailer of Temperance - Immune to piercing damage when it is closed up or when its rings are out.

Special Notes

• When used on Undead type mobs, the White Magic spell Banish reduces the damage resistance for melee attacks.
• The Warrior merit job ability Tomahawk will temporarily reduce all forms of damage resistance that a mob possesses.