Skill: Piercing Throw

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Skill: Piercing Throw is a Skill in Shadow of the Erdtree.

Description

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Throw armament with a powerful spin, causing it to bore through foes. When using this skill, the armament can be thrown further than normal and also pierce through enemies

Acquisition

• Can be granted to Throwing Blades with the Ash of War: Piercing Throw .
• Innate skill of the Smithscript Dagger weapon.

Effect

The user rears back and builds up power, then throws the weapon with a powerful spin that deals 175% of the weapon's Attack Power. This will also penetrate through enemies.

If performing without the sufficient FP or stat requirements, the throw will only deal 50% of the weapon's Attack Power. The weapon will no longer pierce through enemies.

Notes

• Costs 8 points of FP.
• Costs 15 points of Stamina.
• The throw deals 150% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded enemies.
  • In PvP, the throw deals 187.5% of the weapon's base Stamina damage against guarded players.
• The throw deals 150% of the weapon's base Stance damage.
  • Throwing Blades: The throw deals 3 points of Stance damage.
    • In PvP, the throw deals 405% of the weapon's base Poise damage.
• The throw inflicts 100% of the weapon's Status Effect build-up.
• The throw has a Damage Level value of 2 (Moderate Stagger).
• The Physical damage type is always Pierce.
• Though it goes through all enemies it will not ignore the damage reduction from an enemy that is keeping its guard up if they are guarding in the direction it's flying from.
• Compared to a one-handed charged heavy attack with the Smithscript Dagger, Piercing Throw costs FP, has roughly 50% greater range, and is considerably faster, and also has greater Attack Power (175% vs 150%) but worse Stance damage (3 vs 6).
  • Compared to a one-handed regular heavy attack the disparity in Attack Power is greater (175% vs 120%) while Stance damage is closer (3 vs 4) in exchanged for being more similar in speed.
  • Two-handed charged heavy attacks are harder to compare with, as their total Attack Power is technically higher (175% vs 196%) but divided over two attacks with 98% Attack Power each (meaning they may suffer greater damage reduction from flat defence) and even higher Stance damage (3 vs 6.4).
• Categorized as a Weapon-Throwing Attack.

Boosting

• The Ash-of-War Scarab and Carian Filigreed Crest reduce the FP cost of Skills by 15% and 25% respectively.
• The Spear Talisman boosts the damage of Pierce damage Counter Hits by 15%.
• The Smithing Talisman boosts the damage of Weapon-Throwing Attacks by 10% (5% in PvP).
• The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander boost the damage of Skills by 10% and 15% respectively.
  • The Warrior Jar Shard and the Shard of Alexander cannot be stacked together.
• This skill benefits from repeated-hits boosters like the Thorny Cracked Tear, the Winged Sword Insignia, the Rotten Winged Sword Insignia, and Millicent's Prosthesis.
  • The Winged Sword Insignia and Rotten Winged Sword Insignia cannot be stacked together.

Strategies

• Fairly spammable due to a short casting time.