Piercing Arrow

Archery weapon skill
Skill Level:	40 (Rangers only)
Description:	Ignores enemy's defense. Amount ignored varies with TP.
Equipment:	Aligned with snow equipment (Snow Gorget & Snow Belt).
	Aligned with light equipment (Light Gorget & Light Belt).
Notes:

• The amount of defense ignored is 0% with 100TP, 35% with 200TP and 50% with 300TP.
• Typically does less damage than Flaming Arrow.

Properties

Element:	None
Modifiers:	STR:20%; AGI:50%
Damage Multipliers by TP:

1000 TP	2000 TP	3000 TP
1.00	1.00	1.00

Skillchain Properties

Induration (A) Level 3 Skillchains Level 2 Skillchains Induration → Reverberation = Fragmentation Level 1 Skillchains Induration → Impaction = Impaction Reverberation → Induration = Induration Induration → Compression = Compression

Transfixion (B) Level 3 Skillchains Level 2 Skillchains Transfixion → Scission = Distortion Level 1 Skillchains Transfixion → Reverberation = Reverberation Transfixion → Compression = Compression Compression → Transfixion = Transfixion

Levels

• Piercing Arrow is only natively available to Rangers. While other jobs can obtain the required 40 Archery skill, they must use Ranger as their support job in order to gain access to Piercing Arrow.
• Archery skill level 40 is obtainable by the following jobs at these corresponding levels:

Job	Rating	Level
Ranger	A-	13
Samurai	C+	14
Thief	C-	14
Warrior	D	15
Red Mage	D	15
Ninja	E	16