Armor piercing and conversion

Grim Dawn Gameplay Discussion
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Hi,

I would like to how the stat “armor piercing” on some weapons interact with damage conversion. I played a lot of TQ and GD already but never bothered to understand this part of the mechanics, I mostly used spells ^^"

Is it simply a natural damage conversion on weapons, as in if I have a 20% armor piercing weapon and 80% physical to elemental conversion, I won’t do any physical damage with my weapon, and only piercing and elemental damage?

Thanks in advance for any help =)

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Armor pierce is not conversion. It is separate. If you have 100% physical damage converted to acid and 100% armor pierce, your weapon would do 0 pierce damage because conversion occurs before armor pierce. If you want to learn more about conversion there is a section in the game guide which explains it.

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Elemental will convert 80% of the physical damage and armor piercing will convert 20% of whatever physical is left. Meaning there’s gonna be some leftover physical damage.

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Also check out this thread for further info on conversion
http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=52486

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Thanks for your answer, even if i don’t really like it as it takes away a lot of potential for a build I had in mind ^^"

I read the game guide but I did not find information about armor piercing, I must have skipped it =/

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Yeah I’m not sure it is in there either, I meant to look at the guide for conversion. The second link I posted has much more information about piercing and conversion and other complex mechanics.