Pierce Casters

Grim Dawn Ideas and Feedback
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I recently made a thread Gildor’s Pulverizer’s skill mod being weaker than any other 2h Grenado related skill mod

Pierce as a damage type is something that is found in melee only and besides Forcewave I don’t recall any Pierce Caster abilities. With recent support some minimal damage in grenado can be utilized to make a sub-optimal pierce caster

I feel Pierce could use more caster support. No idea why we didn’t get any skill mod to support Pierce Phantasmal Blades. But if you don’t want to support it, it’s fine there’s another shotgun skill with Pierce Caster potential - Stun Jacks

Stun Jacks can receive a skill mod that converts all the Physical damage on it to Pierce damage
This doesn’t need to be a separate mod and can very well be added to Gildor’s Pulverizer (no it won’t make the weapon broken, I tested it myself. Pierce Stun Jacks + Pierce Grenado even with this boost isn’t likely to compete against other SJ/Grenado builds)

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In addition to Phantasmal Blades and Grenado which you mentioned…

Ring of Steel
Blade Spirit
Horn of Gandarr
Any skill with a weapon damage component and Physical damage + 100% Armor Piercing
Dual Bladetwister Signets + Mythical Pack of Treacherous Means + Lightning skills

Unless you’re referring to “cast speed” casters?

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Have you tried pierce PhB? You run out of energy in about 5 seconds, the itemization just isn’t there, better to go spirit based. PhB being a weak build in the first place also hurts the pierce PhB.

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Item with 100% vitality to pierce for PB sounds like a great idea.

What? I have to guess you never played a proper PB build because it’s anything but weak.

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Pierce PB is in awkward sport, since with transmuter most of the pierce damage gets converted to vitality. But without it you could apply pierce only every few seconds. Crate tried to force pierce+bleeding meme, but it never took off.

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  1. RoS is decent for Pierce
  2. BS well it’s sometimes BS
  3. Horn of Gandarr is a debuff skill
  4. Only Forcewave fits the bill
    CT and Phantasmal Blades won’t work here
  5. I already use this for Pierce Stun Jacks
    The other possible way to use this is with Pierce Winter King’s Might but that’s basically just Pierce Forcewave imo

And yes I am referring to CS Casters

Well to be fair Pierce PB is pretty weak. But any other form of PB isn’t