Piercing is identical to the Amazon Skill Pierce (or a part of Throwing Mastery); it gives a projectile the chance to pass through a target and continue on to hit a second target for full damage. Bonuses to Piercing stack additively with the Amazon's Pierce Skill. Numerous unique missile weapons have Piercing as a property and you can find additional piercing on the other items as well.
Some skills like Bone Spear or Lightning always pierce through enemies they hit.
Diablo II[]
Items which add the Piercing characteristic[]
- Stormstrike, unique Short Battle Bow: 25%
- Razortail, unique Sharkskin Belt: 33%
- Gut Siphon, unique Demon Crossbow: 33%
- Wisdom, helm runeword: 33%
- Doomslinger, unique Repeating Crossbow: 35%
- Vidala's Rig, set: 50%
- Ichorsting, unique Crossbow: 50%
- Warshrike, unique Winged Knife: 50%
- Kuko Shakaku, unique Cedar Bow: 50%
- Demon Machine, unique Chu-Ko-Nu: 66%
- Buriza-Do Kyanon, unique Ballista: 100%
Diablo III[]
In Diablo III, many attacks have the piercing characteristic. This allows a single missile or beam to hit all enemies in line (or even in any other trajectory) instead of the first one that happens to be in its path. Most attacks pierce through enemies, regardless of their size and number, but often fail to penetrate solid walls and Waller affix barriers. A piercing attack usually does not diminish in power as it passes through multiple targets.
Diablo III piercing skills[]
Barbarian[]
- Ancient Spear
- Bash (Pulverize rune, wave)
- Frenzy (Sidearm rune, axe)
- Seismic Slam
- Whirlwind (Dust Devils rune, tornadoes)
Crusader[]
- Fist of the Heavens (sparks)
- Blessed Shield (Piercing Shield rune)
- Blessed Hammer
- Phalanx
- Heaven's Fury (Fires of Heaven rune)
Demon Hunter[]
- Hungering Arrow
- Elemental Arrow
- Evasive Fire
- Chakram
- Impale (Overpenetration rune)
- Rapid Fire (High Velocity rune)
- Sentry (Impaling Bolt rune)
- Multishot
- Vengeance (side guns)
Monk[]
- Deadly Reach
- Epiphany (Inner Fire rune)
- Lashing Tail Kick (Spinning Flame Kick rune)
Necromancer[]
- Army of the Dead (Frozen Army rune)
- Bone Spear
Witch Doctor[]
- Plague of Toads (Piercing Toads rune)
- Firebats
- Zombie Charger
Wizard[]
- Magic Missile (Conflagrate rune)
- Shock Pulse (Living Lightning rune)
- Electrocute (Lightning Blast rune)
- Arcane Orb (Scorch and Frozen Orb runes)
- Arcane Torrent (Static Discharge rune)
- Energy Twister
- Disintegrate
- Disintegration Wave
Diablo III Items that add / modify Piercing characteristic[]
- Dagger of Darts
- Light of Grace
- Buriza-Do Kyanon
- Gyana Na Kashu (only its own fireball)
- The Ninth Cirri Satchel
- Red Soul Shard (fireballs)
- Stalgard's Decimator (only its own axe)
- Valla's Bequest