Pierce Damage | Elden Ring Wiki

just use sbj with tb aow for max pierce damage

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Very good boss fight, but it might not seem like it at first. The arena is too small and if you get pushed into a corner and he does one of the mobility combos you are 100% dead because you will not be able to see ****. Keep trying tarnished.

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Does someone know if the "counter attack" mechanic from pierce damage is active against stance broken enemies?
Like, broke their stance, hit him, does the bonus damage happen?

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Dual Pickaxe cragblade at +25 made consort radahn my *****, let me explain, 1st it's a great hammer meaning it does insane poise, 2nd it has pierce which consort radahn is weak to, and 3rd jump attacks on it do so much damage




Stack golden vow, crag blade, any elemental tear you want + stamina tear and that's the recipe for victory

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here cause of consort radahn

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Honestly, I feel like a conspiracy theorist when it comes to Fromsoft's recent love of thrusting attack for pierce damage. Light Greatsword's first light attack, Great katanas roll attack, backstep attack and 2nd R1 attack (also the Rakshasa's heavy being a thrust), the backhand blades have pierce on their running heavy, 2 of the 3 new greatswords have the claymore heavy, the ancient meteoric ore sword has the zweihander heavy with a piercing ash of war, THE PATA?? Like do they just know that it's a better form of physical attack than any other? Is it on purpose? I'm losin' it, man. Get me my DS2 hopium that they make counter damage a thing for all weapons in the next game they make.

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who else saw consort radahn is slightly weaker to pierce and is in the pits of desperation

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Is it just me or is every boss somehow significantly weaker to this than the other damage types?

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Do bosses take counter damage as well?

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Pretty good damage type. Not much is weak to it, but not much resists it either, and most of the ones that do are the "please use strike damage" guys.

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I swear to god I god Mandela'd because I am certain it was always called "thrusting damage" in Elden Ring

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Highest pierce damage AR (w/out buffs): 99 str, 99 dex, Quality Rusted Anchor

Alternatively: 99 str, 99 dex, Quality Trolls Golden Sword (r2 only)

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I’m rocking serpent hunter rn, great weapon

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Counter damage is real. Imagine a needle is coming to you and if you move towards it it'll deal more damage and hurts more while going further in your body

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I dont really see why counter-damage is a mechanic. Not that i have any real life experience, but getting stabbed while doing something wouldn't hurt more than if i weren't doing anything. And if you become weaker while doing something in elden ring, why doesn't that logic apply to all damage types?

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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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