Dissonant Piercing Cry

Dissonant Piercing Cry

40m Range
Immediate
Tactical Skill
Resistance: Cry
Skill Type: Cry
Your shout does light damage to your enemies and can interrupt their actions.
... Light Damage
Interrupts Inductions
Cost: [68 at Level 150] Power
• Cooldown: 10s

General Information

Class: Minstrel

Level: 4

Stance: Dissonance

Trait Interactions

• The trait  Concussive Shout in the Warrior-Skald trait tree increases the critical chance of this skill by 30%.
  
• Specializing in the Warrior-Skald trait tree increases the range of this skill by 5m.
  
• The trait  Discordant Cries in the Warrior-Skald trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 25%.
  
• The trait  Fierce Cries in the Warrior-Skald trait tree increases the critical multiplier of this skill by 20%.
  
• The trait  Improved Coda of Fury in the Warrior-Skald trait tree makes  Coda of Fury have up to a 50% chance to reset the cooldown of this skill. This effect can not occur more than once every 25s.
  
• The trait  Echoes in the Warrior-Skald trait tree makes this skill have a 33% chance to apply Harsh Echoes to the target. This effect can stack up to 3 times.
• The trait  Cacophonous Echoes in the Warrior-Skald trait tree increases the damage of Harsh Echoes by up to 60%.
  
• The set bonus  Piercing Calls in the Warrior-Skald trait tree reduces the resist chance of this skill by 10%.
  
• The set bonus  Haste in the Warrior-Skald trait tree makes Ballads reduce the active cooldown of this skill by 1s.
  
• The trait  Sharing a Story in the Protector of Song trait tree makes Ballads that critically hit reset the cooldown of this skill.

• The trait  Change of Pace! in the Protector of Song trait tree makes this skill have a chance to apply Change of Pace - Attack! to the Minstrel. Further ranks increase the proc chance up to 25%.
  
• Specializing in the Watcher of Resolve trait tree makes this skill apply the Watcher of Resolve effect to the Minstrel upon a critical hit.
  

Tracery Interactions

• Piercing Cry Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 55%.
  
• Target Resist Chance: Cries and Calls reduces the resist chance of this skill by up to 5.5%.
  

Armour Set Interactions

Equipping 6 pieces of the Umbari Armour of the Doom-caller armour set acquired from the Depths of Mâkhda Khorbo Raid makes this skill apply or tier up the Steady Rhythm effect on the Minstrel, up to 5 stacks.

Tactical Information

Dissonant Piercing Cry is the Red Minstrel's most powerful damaging skill, and this skill should be used ad nauseum. Because it is also an immediate skill, it should be used to cancel the animations of almost all other skills. When traited, this skill resets upon Ballad crits, improving the speed of rotation. Red Minstrel's common damage rotation is [Powerful Skill] - Piercing Cry - Minor/Perfect Ballad.