Pierce Damage | Elden Ring Wiki

STR pierce damage-only is pretty scary in PvE. (weird thing to brag about but ok dude) Dual Pickaxes, Zwei + Claymore R2's, Fallingstar Beast Jaw... multiplying already good damage by 45% w/ spear talisman. And the windows are so generous you often don't even have to trade. Literally the only enemies in the game you won't deal good damage to factoring in counter-hits are miners and Borealis the frost dragon.

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Ironically still good in pve against enemies resistant to it simply because those enemies have counter thrust frames too.

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1.07 pvp be like: oops all thrusting weapons!

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counter damage is so generous in this game. practically every hit benefits from it

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You get such an inherent advantage in PvP by using thrust weapons its not even funny. Should be nerfed across the board.

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most overtuned damage type, right up there with lightning. figures that they're both tied pretty heavily to dex.

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Along with bleed this ruins PvP.

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Are whips pierce? I’m thinking of using the urumi specifically and I’m wondering if the spear talisman might be worth picking up.

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There isn't a pierce/thrusting damage talisman in the whole game?

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"Is Pierce Damage good against anything?"

Yes. It's good against players. Every time you enter an animation, you take 30% more pierce damage (Check the negation stat when you're naked. It'll be -30.00). Hitting someone during this this status is known as a 'counter hit' (as opposed to the unrelated 'guard counter') and the Spear Talisman boosts that damage by another 12-13%. This is a stupendous damage increase (more than lord of blood's exhultation) & makes trading with pierce damage weapons impossible unless you're running something even more overtuned (bleed, extremely defensive bow/whip builds).

Combined with the fact that pierce damage weapons also usually have the best movesets (only long thrusting attacks can reliably land hits on a player with half-decent reaction speed), the rest of the weapon pool is largely dead. The exception being when they have a useful weapon art, of course, but that essentially means they only have one move to make in every fight.

Halberds, Spears, Rapiers, & Crouch-poking UGSs. Melee move-set diversity is in a real sad place right now.

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Pickaxe still missing on the list

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The phrasing "pierces enemy armor" is a very misleading way to say "does pierce type damage"

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Maybe some info about counter damage on this page and the spear talisman?

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Add a Lucerne to the list. It does a thrust damage with run-r1 and backstep-r1.

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Is pierce damage particularly good against anything?

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Pierce seems to the the black sheep here; as I haven't noticed it to have any usefulness against scaly or armoured enemies like in the last games. It used to be in Demons's Souls that the scaly miner enemies were only vulnerable to Thrust/Pierce, but this time around there seem to be no enemies especially weak to it. It's not especially BAD against armoured enemies, but it's not particularly GOOD against them either, and rather than being "good against enemies with scales" that's what Strike exists to do this time around. Real shame that pokey weapons have no real advantage aside from speed this time around.

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Pickaxe not on the list

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wish from included the counterhit thump...

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Poke poke poke backhop

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Any idea if this does counter damage like in DS3? Or is it replaced by counter attacks?

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