Pierce Support

Pierce is a support gem that grants piercing to projectiles created by skills linked to this gem.

Skill Functions and Interactions

Some projectiles, such as those from Freezing PulseFreezing PulseSpell, Projectile, Cold
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (5-21) Mana
Cast Time: 0.65 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 6.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 330%
Projectile Speed: 1800An icy projectile which has a chance to freeze enemies it passes through. The projectile fades quickly, reducing damage and freezing chance until it dissipates.Deals (8-1458) to (12-2188) Cold Damage
Projectiles Pierce all Targets
Projectiles continuously lose Damage, up to 50% less Damage by the time they dissipate
Projectiles have 25% chance to Freeze, which is lost over the first quarter of their flight

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(2-40)% increased Projectile SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. and Holy Flame TotemHoly Flame TotemTotem, Spell, Projectile, Fire, Channelling, Physical
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (11-39) Mana
Cast Time: 0.25 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 5.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 35%
Projectile Speed: 750Requires Level 4Summons a totem that channels to fire a stream of flame at nearby enemies, and creates an area of consecrated ground around the totem.Deals (2-153) to (5-230) Physical Damage
Projectiles Pierce all Targets
Totem lasts 8 seconds
Fires 3 Projectiles
Summons a Totem which uses this Skill
50% of Physical Damage Converted to Fire Damage
Consecrated Ground grants Immunity to Curses to you and Allies

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
(2-40)% increased Projectile SpeedPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket., already have infinite Pierces, so increased pierces will have no effect. These projectiles will benefit from the more damage multiplier from this support gem (as well as the increased projectile damage from a quality gem). Ice SpearIce SpearCritical, Spell, Projectile, Cold
Level: (1-20)
Cost: (8-23) Mana
Cast Time: 0.70 sec
Critical Strike Chance: 7.00%
Effectiveness of Added Damage: 130%
Projectile Speed: 1000Requires Level 12Launches shards of ice in rapid succession. After travelling a short distance they change to a second form, which moves much faster and pierces through enemies.Deals (22-568) to (33-852) Cold Damage
Fires 2 Projectiles
Second form has 600% increased Critical Strike Chance
Second form has +(30-49)% to Critical Strike Multiplier
Second form has 300% more Projectile Speed

Additional Effects From 1-20% Quality:
Second form has +(2-40)% to Critical Strike MultiplierPlace into an item socket of the right colour to gain this skill. Right click to remove from a socket. also has infinite Pierces in its initial form, but once armed, it loses the pierce effect - this gem will give the projectile's second form target piercing.

The Pierce from this support gem is additive with other Pierces modifiers from other sources such as the Piercing Shots notable passive.

Gem level progression

Level			more Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	4	0	N/A	0	0
2	6	15	1%	841	841
3	9	19	2%	3099	3940
4	12	24	3%	7433	11373
5	16	30	4%	22895	34268
6	20	36	5%	49725	83993
7	24	42	6%	95714	179707
8	28	48	7%	169595	349302
9	32	54	8%	283759	633061
10	36	60	9%	453996	1087057
11	40	66	10%	703128	1790185
12	44	72	11%	1061223	2851408
13	48	78	12%	2065870	4917278
14	52	84	13%	2507110	7424388
15	55	88	14%	2573731	9998119
16	58	93	15%	7611351	17609470
17	61	97	16%	13437908	31047378
18	64	102	17%	25052147	56099525
19	67	106	18%	43869436	99968961
20	70	111	19%	242081178	342050139
21	72	114	20%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	21%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	22%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	23%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	24%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	25%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	26%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	27%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	28%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	29%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	29%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	30%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	30%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	31%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	31%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	32%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	32%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	33%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	33%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	34%	N/A	N/A

Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Pierce Support now provides +2 Pierces at level 1, up to +4 Pierces at level 20. Mana multiplier return to 110%.
2.4.0	Mana multiplier has been increased from 110% to 130%. Damage at high levels only has been reduced. Its damage at level 20 has been reduced from 29% to 19%.
2.2.0	Now grants 10% more damage at gem level 1, up to 29% at gem level 20. Grants 50% chance to pierce at all gem levels.
2.1.0	Base increased pierce chance starts 10% higher. It now grants 0.5% increased projectile damage per 1% quality (was 0.75% pierce chance per 1% quality).
0.9.6	Slightly increased the mana cost multiplier.
0.8.4	Added new support gem: Pierce