Puncture

Puncture is an attack skill that applies a bleeding debuff to its targets. While bleeding, the target takes damage over time based on how much damage was dealt on the initial hit. The bleeding deals more damage while moving. Puncture works with bows, daggers, claws or swords.

Mechanics

Unlike other sources of bleed, Puncture's bleed ailment lasts 8 seconds and is affected by % increased Skill Effect Duration modifier, including the support gem, or the Temporal Chains curse.

For mechanics of the bleed effect itself, see Bleed.

Gem level progression

Level				Damage Effectiveness	Attack Damage	Exp.	Total Exp.
1	4	0	0	135%	134.74%	0	0
2	6	0	0	136%	136.28%	841	841
3	9	17	0	138%	137.82%	3099	3940
4	12	21	14	140%	139.45%	7433	11373
5	16	26	18	141%	140.99%	22895	34268
6	20	31	22	142%	142.54%	49725	83993
7	24	37	25	144%	144.16%	95714	179707
8	28	42	29	146%	145.71%	169595	349302
9	32	47	33	147%	147.25%	283759	633061
10	36	52	36	149%	148.88%	453996	1087057
11	40	58	40	151%	150.42%	703128	1790185
12	44	63	44	152%	151.96%	1061223	2851408
13	48	68	48	153%	153.59%	2065870	4917278
14	52	74	51	155%	155.14%	2507110	7424388
15	55	78	54	157%	156.68%	2573731	9998119
16	58	82	57	159%	158.31%	7611351	17609470
17	61	86	60	160%	159.85%	13437908	31047378
18	64	90	62	161%	161.39%	25052147	56099525
19	67	94	65	163%	163.02%	43869436	99968961
20	70	98	68	165%	164.56%	242081178	342050139
21	72	100	70	166%	166.11%	N/A	N/A
22	74	N/A	N/A	168%	167.73%	N/A	N/A
23	76	N/A	N/A	170%	169.28%	N/A	N/A
24	78	N/A	N/A	171%	170.82%	N/A	N/A
25	80	N/A	N/A	172%	172.45%	N/A	N/A
26	82	N/A	N/A	174%	173.99%	N/A	N/A
27	84	N/A	N/A	176%	175.53%	N/A	N/A
28	86	N/A	N/A	177%	177.16%	N/A	N/A
29	88	N/A	N/A	179%	178.71%	N/A	N/A
30	90	N/A	N/A	180%	180.25%	N/A	N/A
31	91	N/A	N/A	181%	181.11%	N/A	N/A
32	92	N/A	N/A	182%	181.88%	N/A	N/A
33	93	N/A	N/A	183%	182.65%	N/A	N/A
34	94	N/A	N/A	183%	183.42%	N/A	N/A
35	95	N/A	N/A	184%	184.19%	N/A	N/A
36	96	N/A	N/A	185%	184.96%	N/A	N/A
37	97	N/A	N/A	186%	185.82%	N/A	N/A
38	98	N/A	N/A	187%	186.59%	N/A	N/A
39	99	N/A	N/A	188%	187.36%	N/A	N/A
40	100	N/A	N/A	189%	188.13%	N/A	N/A

Related helmet enchantments

The following helmet enchantments affect Puncture.

Note that helmet enchantments are no longer obtainable since version 3.23.0 and can only be obtained in permanent leagues as already enchanted items from before this patch.

Name		Labyrinth	Stats	Spawn Weighting
Enchantment Puncture Damage 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	25% increased Puncture Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Puncture Damage 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	40% increased Puncture Damage	helmet 100
Enchantment Puncture Duration 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	30% increased Puncture Duration	helmet 100
Enchantment Puncture Duration 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	45% increased Puncture Duration	helmet 100
Enchantment Puncture Maim On Hit Percent Chance 1	66	Merciless Labyrinth	20% Chance for Puncture to Maim on hit	helmet 100
Enchantment Puncture Maim On Hit Percent Chance 2	75	Eternal Labyrinth	30% Chance for Puncture to Maim on hit	helmet 100

Version history

Version	Changes
3.0.0	Puncture's description has been updated. Puncture now applies Bleeding for 8 seconds.
2.0.0	Now grants 1% increased skill effect duration per 1% quality (was 1.5% per 1% quality).
1.3.0	Puncture now bleeds for 10% of hit damage at all levels and 50% of hit damage while moving.
1.2.0	Fixed a bug where Puncture did not benefit from Increased Item Rarity or Increased Item Quantity.
1.0.2	Generic modifiers to damage dealt will now apply to damage over time that your character causes. Damage over time is not spell damage, nor attack damage, so modifiers specific to those types will not apply. Non-specific "increased damage" modifiers will apply to damage over time. Type-specific modifiers will apply as well.
1.0.0d	Fixed a bug where monster deaths from Puncture were not awarded as kills correctly.
0.10.8	Increased damage at high levels and Physical Damage % added to it that increases each level, to match other similar skills. May now be used with Two Handed Swords.
0.10.0	Increases to physical damage taken now apply correctly to physical degeneration (such as damage from Puncture).
0.9.13	Puncture is now scaled to start much stronger with a flatter progression to match other melee skills that scale weapon damage.
0.9.11j	Fixed Puncture's quality bonus so that it now works.
0.9.11	Fixed a bad interaction between on-drink flask effects and Puncture.
0.9.10	Fixed a rare bug that would cause you to take damage from Puncture indefinitely until you left the instance. Fixed a bug where being punctured multiple times would cause incorrect behaviour.
0.9.7b	Removed the 1% pierce chance.
0.9.7	Puncture has been added to the game.