Penetrating Shot

Penetrating Shot

30m Range
Fast
Ranged Skill
Skill Type: Focus Spender
A damaging shot that pierces enemy mitigations.
... (Ranged) Damage
-3% Physical Mitigation
-3% Tactical Mitigation
Duration: 10s
Cost: [135 at Level 150] Power
Cost: 3 Focus
• Cooldown: 0.5s

General Information

Class: Hunter

Level: 1

Effects

Using this skill applies  Penetrating Shot to the enemy target.

See Mitigation Reduction Skills for a list of all skills that reduce enemy mitigations.

Skill Interactions

Using the skill  Rapid Fire removes the Focus cost of this skill for 10 seconds.

Using the skill  Burn Hot temporarily increases the damage of this skill by 30%, but increases the power cost by 25%.

Using the skill  Horn of Oromë increases the range of this skill by 10m for 15 seconds.

Trait Interactions

• The set bonus  Strong Draw in the Bowmaster trait tree reduces the Focus cost of this skill by 1.
• The trait  Volley in the Huntsman trait tree makes this skill apply a stack of Volley to the Hunter. This effect stacks up to 3 times. Further ranks increase the potency of the effect by up to 10%.
• The set bonus  Intensified Fire in the Huntsman trait tree makes this skill apply or tier up Rapid Fire on the Hunter, up to 10 stacks, for 20 seconds after using  Rapid Fire.
• The set bonus  Archer's Mark in the Trapper of Foes trait tree makes this skill have a 50% chance to apply or tier up Archer's Mark on the enemy target, up to 3 times.
• The set bonus  Marksman in the Bowmaster trait tree makes this skill reduce the active cooldown of  Upshot and  Heart Seeker by 1 second each if it lands as a critical hit, and 2 seconds if it lands as a devastating hit.
• The trait  Deadly Precision in the Bowmaster trait tree makes this skill generate 1 Focus if it lands as a critical hit.
• The trait  True Shot in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 25%.
• The trait  Strong Arm in the Huntsman trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
• The trait  Impact Arrows in the Huntsman trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 5%.
• Specializing in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the damage of this skill by 10% and increases the range by 10m.
• Specializing in the Huntsman trait tree reduces the range of this skill by 5m.

Armour Set Interactions

Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shagâni Hawks jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth Instance Cluster increases the damage of this skill by 5%, and makes this skill apply Bleeding Puncture to the enemy target if Barbed Arrow is already applied on them.

Fire and Light Oils

If you have used a fire or light oil, Improved Penetrating Shot is changed to one of the following skills.

Imp. Penetrating Shot: Burn Through 30m Range Fast Ranged Skill A damaging shot that pierces enemy mitigations. Arrows inflict Fire damage. ... Fire (Ranged) Damage -3% Physical Mitigation -3% Tactical Mitigation Duration: 10s Cost: [336 at Level 150] Power Cost: 3 Focus Apply to target on Critical and Devastating Critical: ... Fire Damage initially. ... Fire Damage every 2.0 seconds for 6 seconds. Cooldown: 1s

Imp. Penetrating Shot: Pierce the Darkness 30m Range Fast Ranged Skill A damaging shot that pierces enemy mitigations. Arrows inflict Light damage. ... Light (Ranged) Damage -3% Physical Mitigation -3% Tactical Mitigation Duration: 10s Cost: [336 at Level 150] Power Cost: 3 Focus Apply to target on Critical and Devastating Critical: +10% Miss Chance Duration: 8s Cooldown: 1s