I’ve been wanting to try a good Piercing damage build that uses Living Shadows.
There’s not a whole lot of choices. I find Range piercing damage very weak (tried Inquisitor DW build).
I am trying Soldier Cadence. Not impressed so far. AoE potential is so low. Range Cadence VS Forcewave is just no comparison right now but my level is low still.
Am I left with only Shadow’s dual wield build?
Who needs AoE when you kill one mob in 0.2 seconds? 
This is what you are looking for http://www.grimdawn.com/forums/showthread.php?t=77609
How far have you come into the game with the chars btw? Seems like you are just using one mastery.
Also, remember that items is a HUGE part of a build. You can not separate a build from its items
Belgothian is the best pierce set. That’s gonna be either blademaster or infiltrator.
I am still low level. I am more into using Living Shadow and its damage source is Pierce. I see a DW is probably the best choice .
Is it bad to invest in Cunning?
Not that there’s much choice, it’s this or Valdun’s. I wish there were more.
Gotta love it when someone who is obviously new, you guys immediately starts to discuss end-game sets that takes hundreds of hours to get 
@AbbieCat I sent you a PM with a basic setup you could have a look into.
At low level with cadence and deadly momentum you can do loads of damage. With Dual wield ofc.
In act 3 get 3x derp slicers. They don’t need to be godly and they drop wuite a lot. Anything with attack speed. MAx Dual blades too. If you have the low lvl Guile relic it’s also amazing.
Get Asassin mark, harpy, Ghoul, and work your way to nadaan. It will sherd
He never said he was levelling on the first post and the title said best piercing build. Of course we’ll think belgo
Hmmmmmmmmmm.
The best pierce build is piercing forcewave.
<I wish :p>
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Yes he did, and judging from his other posts on the forum I’d say he has played GD for 20 hours.
Since you are new and low level. Finished builds will play very differently to how a person will during the levelling process as damage is much higher on finished build and monsters start melting (so AoE is less of a concern) and on other hand levelling build has less damage and needs more consideration on where AoE is going to come from for xp purposes.
This is what respec is good for; whilst you are levelling supplementing cadence with Rune of hagarrad or horn of gandar or storm spread etc.
If it feels bad it’s only because your skills/build choice are not good, but this is a common experience for a new player. Play around with respec and look for AoE skills for levelling too.
That being said as far as I know pierce one handed ranged doesn’t exist on legendaries? 2 handed ranged pierce tactician can work though.