Piercing Cry

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
Removes up to 1 Corruption effect from the target.
Apply to target on Critical and Devastating Critical:
5s Stun
Cost: [68 at Level 150] Power
• Cooldown: 10s

General Information

Class: Minstrel

Level: 4

Stance: Melody

Effects

This skill applies  Stunned for 5 seconds to the enemy on a critical or devastating hit.

Using this skill interrupts the induction of the targeted enemy. See Interrupt Skills for a list of all skills that interrupt inductions.

Using this skill removes 1 Corruption effect from the enemy target. See Corruption Removal Skills for a list of all skills that remove Corruptions.

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

Piercing Cry skill is used together with Hero's Strike to remove a lot of corruption effects in a short time. It can be used by Damage and Healing Minstrels. This skill does not deal as much damage as Dissonant Piercing Cry nor does it cancel animations as efficiently.