Piercing Arrow

Piercing Arrow

30m Range
Fast
Ranged Skill
Skill Type: Focus Spender
A Piercing Arrow wounds and dismays your foe, causing subsequent ranged attacks to restore your Morale for a brief time.
... (Ranged) Damage
-30% Target Run Speed
Duration: 20s
... Damage initially.
... Damage every 2.0 seconds for 10 seconds.
On hit:
Target is drained of ... Morale
Attacker gains ... Morale
Duration: 12s
Cost: [1,080 at Level 160] Power
Cost: 2 Focus
• Cooldown: 1m

General Information

Class: Hunter

Trait Tree: Trapper of Foes

Rank Needed: 25 (trait  Piercing Arrow)

Effects

Using this skill applies  Piercing Arrow to the Hunter, and the following effects to the enemy target:

•  Piercing Arrow -- DoT
•  Snaring Trap -- Debuff

Skill Interactions

This skill is classified as a Focus Spender. In addition to generating Focus, the classification is relevant for several traits and traceries.

Capstone Buff Skills:

•  Rapid Fire: when traited, tiers up  Rapid Fire for 20 seconds
•  Burn Hot: increases damage by 30% and power cost by 25% for 20 seconds
•  Horn of Oromë: no effect

Trait Interactions

• 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  Suppressing Stings in the Trapper of Foes trait tree makes  Focus and  Combat Focus make this skill apply Weakness to the enemy target.
• The set bonus  Volley in the Huntsman trait tree makes this skill apply a stack of Volley to the Hunter. This effect stacks up to 3 times, and is consumed by the next ranged Focus Builder skill.
• The trait  Volley in the Huntsman trait tree increases the potency of the Volley effect by up to 20%.
• 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  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 additional Focus if it lands as a critical hit.
• The trait  Barbed Fury in the Huntsman trait tree increases the bleed damage of this skill by up to 25%.
• The trait  In For The Kill in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the bleed damage of this skill by up to 10%.
• The trait  Strong Arm in the Huntsman trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 10%.
• The set bonus  Shoot to Kill in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the damage of this skill by 10%.
• The trait  Critical Eye in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the critical chance of this skill by up to 5%.
• The trait  Impact Arrows in the Huntsman trait tree increases the damage of this skill by up to 5%.
• The trait  Strength in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the damage of this skill by 5%.
• The set bonus  Haemorrhaging Shot in the Bowmaster trait tree increases the critical damage of this skill by 10%.
• The trait  Bow of the Righteous in the Bowmaster trait tree makes  Intent Concentration apply Bow of the Righteous to the Hunter, which temporarily makes this skill restore Power.
• 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.

Tracery Interactions

• Bleed Damage increases the bleed damage of this skill by up to 16.5%.
• Focus Spender Damage increases the damage of this skill by up to 11%.
• Suppressing Stings Weakness Potency increases the potency of Weakness by up to 2.75%.

Armour Set Interactions

Lower-level Armour Sets
Level 150
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%. Equipping both pieces of the Insignia of the Shrouded Hunter jewellery set acquired from the Legacy of Morgoth Instance Cluster increases the bleed damage of this skill by 2%.