what does peircing do?

[Sean]

I can't really understand what this does when used on creatures.
I can see it's use on other players (shudder), but what about
creatures?

[Sean]

Oh yeah, and please, no body-piercing jokes. :)

[Dark Half]

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[Ken Noone]

Sean <skn...@home.com> wrote in article <35F8A77F...@home.com>...

> I can't really understand what this does when used on creatures.
> I can see it's use on other players (shudder), but what about
> creatures?

It reduces the monster's Armor Class and makes it easier to hit it. For
answers to other questions about how the game works, download Jarulf's
Diablo and Hellfire Guide at:

http://pf.chemeng.lth.se/diablo/
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[Sean]

So baisicly what you're telling me is that except for possibly
the Big NPC's, piercing is pretty much a waste of a suffix. :)

[ME'|'|-|0$]

Monsters have an AC just like you. And each hit with an "of Piercing" item,
the monster's AC is weakened....doing more damage with each successful blow.

Sean wrote in message <35F8A77F...@home.com>...

[DaIai Lama]

>Monsters have an AC just like you. And each hit with an "of Piercing" item,
>the monster's AC is weakened....doing more damage with each successful blow.

That may be the description or what Blizzar dmight have intended, but Piercing,
Bashing etc suffixes do aboslutely nothing in Diablo (maybe they will patch in
1.07) and in Hellfire they take a percentage off the armor class (Bashing takes
75% off IIRC-so a monster with 200AC would get hit as easily as one with 50 AC
if you were wielding an item with the Bashing suffic)

Dalai Lama

[Ken Noone]

Sean <skn...@home.com> wrote in article <35F8B568...@home.com>...

> So baisicly what you're telling me is that except for possibly
> the Big NPC's, piercing is pretty much a waste of a suffix. :)

Yup. Even piercing is a waste in my opinion.

[PHOENIX]

I can't see its use on other players...... it HURTS them! What sadistic
bastard would do that? :)

[Jimmy Nilzohn]

ME'|'|-|0$ skrev i meddelandet ...

>Monsters have an AC just like you. And each hit with an "of Piercing"
item,
>the monster's AC is weakened....doing more damage with each successful
blow.
>

>Sean wrote in message <35F8A77F...@home.com>...
>>I can't really understand what this does when used on creatures.
>>I can see it's use on other players (shudder), but what about
>>creatures?

Piercing / Puncturing / Bashing does NOTHING in regular Diablo.
But in Hellfire, it reduces the monsters' AC , just like you said.

Jimmy Nilzohn
coms...@algonet.se

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