Piercing damage

Piercing damage is the type of physical damage inflicted by most bows and spears, as well as many daggers and pets and several axes and hammers.

Equipment that protects against piercing damage

• Armor
  • Bonelace Insignia
  • Infiltrator's Insignia
• Inscriptions
  • Focus item / Shield Inscriptions
    • "Through Thick and Thin"

Skills that inflict piercing damage

• Enchantment spells
  • Veil of Thorns
• Skills
  • Devourer Bite
  • Ear Bite (The description says that the damage dealt is piercing, however it seems to be armor ignoring.)
  • Junundu Bite
  • Junundu Strike
  • Raven Talons
  • Siege Devourer Swipe
• Spells
  • Animate Bone Fiend (the Bone Fiend's attacks inflicts piercing damage)
  • Ebon Vanguard Sniper Support
• Traps
  • Barbed Trap
  • Piercing Trap
  • Spike Trap (Elite)
  • Tripwire
  • Viper's Nest

Monsters specifically resistant to piercing damage

• Leviathan
  • Leviathan Claws
  • Leviathan Eyes
  • Leviathan Mouths
• Skeleton
  • Skeletal Ether Breakers
  • Skeletal Impalers
  • Skeletal Hounds
  • Skeleton Bowmasters
  • Skeleton Illusionists
  • Skeleton Mesmers
  • Skeleton Monks
  • Skeleton Priests
  • Skeleton Rangers
  • Skeleton Sorcerers
  • Skeleton Wizards
• Zombie
  • Rotting Dragons
  • Rotscale
• Elementals
  • Avalanches
• Yetis
  • Yetis (ranger)
• Plants
  • Undergrowths

Monsters specifically vulnerable to piercing damage

• Blessed Griffons
• Hydra (Crystal Desert)

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