Piercing Shot

This article is about the thief harpoon gun skill. For the unimplemented warrior rifle skill of the same name, see Piercing Shot (warrior).

Bleed multiple foes in a line with a piercing shot. — In-game description

Piercing Shot

Profession

Thief (skill list)

Weapon

Harpoon gun

Game link

API

13072

This skill is only available underwater and has no land replacement.

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Piercing Shot

Bleed multiple foes in a line with a piercing shot.

 Damage: 202 (0.55)^?

 Bleeding (4s): 88 Damage

 Number of Targets: 5

 Combo Finisher: Physical Projectile (20% chance)

 Range: 1,200

— In-game description

Related traits

Deadly Arts

• Exposed Weakness — Deal increased strike damage to your target for each unique condition on them.

Critical Strikes

• Deadly Aim — Your pistol and harpoon gun attacks now pierce and have increased strike damage.

Trickery

• Deadly Ambush — Stealing also applies bleeding. Bleeding you inflict deals more damage.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
May 08, 2018	The damage of this skill has been increased by 120%.
December 14, 2012	This skill is no longer able to fire at enemies behind the player.
November 15, 2012	Fixed an error in this skill's damage tooltip. This skill is now a small projectile combo finisher.
August 28, 2012	Game release: Piercing Shot has been added to the game.