How many CP do you put into Piercing on your stamblade?

Bam_Bam

Is there any sort of voodoo number, the same way 56 is considered almost holy, in the other trees?

I have 4000ish into piercing - is it worth going up to 4700-4800 or is it only worth going to 5k otherwise the sky will fall?

RighteousBacon

Man I have like 2300 in it XD

Maybe I’m doing something wrong

CatchMeTrolling

My stam builds usually have around 3k something via cp. Stamblades already run SA which gives them good amount of armor piercing. 4K/5k seems like overkill outside of a gank build.

Casul

Typically I do 73 on everything. I believe that is something like 4720, this let’s me use the 5280 from major fracture to get a solid 10k penetration. Not to mention any from lover and sharpened.

Reefo

2

the 2nd point of piercing is equal to the 47th point of mighty
the 8th point of piercing is equal to the 48th point of mighty

given that a big chunk will go into master-at-arms and everywhere else

its not viable investing into piercing.
sorry its just maths

Sparr0w

23, use a mace.

baronzilch

Try and run ~10k+ penetration on any build for Cyrodiil. That's self-buffed (fracture/breach). So the amount you put into CP is going to vary with gear and slotted skills. If you aren't sacrificing anything major, the more the merrier.

Most specs should be able to slot their own Major Fracture or Breach. Can be sometimes tough on certain builds. The destro breach is kinda lame to waste a slot on - but I see it used a lot.

Light Armor has a major pene bonus and Spinner's/Spriggan's are both good sets and not too hard to farm/buy.

If you DW use a mace off-hand for 10% (daggers really aren't worth it except for extreme crit builds as there is too much impen/CR out there). Also destro staves give 10%. Base your 10% on 30k armour minus your numerical pene. Low armour targets are going to be reduced to basically zero anyway so don't get hung up on a sliding scale, just figure out what you are going to take off the troll tanks.

Not sure 1 piece Kragh is worth it - but, it's an option - and I wouldn't give up an axe for a second mace. I think Crusher enchant is giving up way too much dps for that amount of pene, but, might work for an off-hand weapon or back bar debuff.

It's not hard to get there. The current heavy meta has slowed a bit, but, there is still plenty of armour out there to chew through (there is also Fortified Brass, transmutes pairing something like Pariah with LA/MA and a werewolf resurgence). Pene also now helps against mag shields too.

Edit- Oops I was replying to the wrong penetration thread. Lol. Shouldn't make posts in the wee hours. =/

Vapirko

Reefo wrote: »

2

the 2nd point of piercing is equal to the 47th point of mighty
the 8th point of piercing is equal to the 48th point of mighty

given that a big chunk will go into master-at-arms and everywhere else

its not viable investing into piercing.
sorry its just maths

How can this be true?

Sparr0w

Vapirko wrote: »

Reefo wrote: »

2

the 2nd point of piercing is equal to the 47th point of mighty
the 8th point of piercing is equal to the 48th point of mighty

given that a big chunk will go into master-at-arms and everywhere else

its not viable investing into piercing.
sorry its just maths

How can this be true?

I... I... don't know...

Given 47 & 48 both round down to 10% i'm... lost

SodanTok

Vapirko wrote: »

Reefo wrote: »

2

the 2nd point of piercing is equal to the 47th point of mighty
the 8th point of piercing is equal to the 48th point of mighty

given that a big chunk will go into master-at-arms and everywhere else

its not viable investing into piercing.
sorry its just maths

How can this be true?

it cant be, because same value of penetration equals different damage boost vs 10k resistance than it does to 30k resistance where some % of mighty is always the same. But thats just a ... better math

Reefo

so penetration beats % damage boosts?