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What is piercing damage?
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I think is when you use sharp weapons to abuse surface area and penetrate enemies armor and/or bodies.
Because the energy is focused in smaller places, their bodies/armor can't protect just as well
Because the energy is focused in smaller places, their bodies/armor can't protect just as well
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I see, things like humans being cutted by paper is something like that?
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Yeah, I think there is more to it, but it stems to how thin something is.
Like, if your body had a durability of 20 joules per square centimeter and you took a punch of 100 joules, it should destroy you right? But the punch's size makes the energy spread to 10 square centimeters, aka each cm^2 receives only 10 joules, so your durability tanks it.
But, if a paper hits you on 1 millimeter squared, and causes 1 joule, it will cut because if 1 cm^2 tanks 20 joules, 1 mm^2 would only tank 0.02 joules.
This is all only on real life though, in fiction they tend to either be normal damage, durability negation because plot or strong dudes have dense skin.
Whoever, we tend to considered stuff with piercing damage as an AP advantage over comparable opponents, as long as they are treated as such.
Like, if your body had a durability of 20 joules per square centimeter and you took a punch of 100 joules, it should destroy you right? But the punch's size makes the energy spread to 10 square centimeters, aka each cm^2 receives only 10 joules, so your durability tanks it.
But, if a paper hits you on 1 millimeter squared, and causes 1 joule, it will cut because if 1 cm^2 tanks 20 joules, 1 mm^2 would only tank 0.02 joules.
This is all only on real life though, in fiction they tend to either be normal damage, durability negation because plot or strong dudes have dense skin.
Whoever, we tend to considered stuff with piercing damage as an AP advantage over comparable opponents, as long as they are treated as such.
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Thanks, this is indeed interesting
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This also works for bullets in particular, as they can usually hurt even characters up to tier High 8-C because of their properties.
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I believe they abuse less surface area than blades but make up by the enormous joules via KE, so they are a great example.
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Basically, when perform a physical attack, that one attack carries x amount of strength, disptributed through the surface of the attack. In case of bladed or piercing weapons, the surface is pretty small (compared to fist's and club's for example), increasing the pressure of the attack, and since most material hardness if measured in pressure units (like UTS), it means it could end up piercing or cutting the material.
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