Fork - Chain - Pierc ?

If i am using Fork and Chain already, is it then a good ider to add Pierc? or would that kill my fork and chaining?

Thanks

It will probably kill your fork and chaining. Projectiles which pierces will not fork or chain. They will however start forking and chaining if it runs out of number of pierces. Also note that fork has priority over chain, the projectiles will only chain after they have forked.

Those three generally don't stack well with each other. Fork potentially triples the number of hits, you get the initial hit and then two extra hits from the resulting two projectiles. Chain also can triple the hits by chaining twice. However, if you combine the two, you don't get 3 * 3 = 9 hits, instead you get seven hits max per forking projectile. You get an initial hit and then from that initial hit the projectile forks into two, each which gets up to three hits.

Note that this is the best case scenario.

Pierce stacks even worse with fork or chain than they do with each other. Peirce will just flat out add the number of pierces to the potential number of targets hit.

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D1SA3LE wrote:

If i am using Fork and Chain already, is it then a good ider to add Pierc? or would that kill my fork and chaining?

Thanks

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Chain Mechanics
Only one projectile behavior can be applied each time a projectile hits a target. Chain has third priority for projectile behaviors, preceded by pierce and fork, and followed by return.

This means, if your projectiles have, let's say, the ability to pierce two targets, to fork once and to chain 4 times, then a taken projectile would only begin to chain after having pierced two targets and forked (split in two) once.

So any projectile follows the rules:

- Pierce, the projectile will pierce as many targets as it has the hability to pierce
---> Fork, when the projectile has "spent" all his piercing procs, then it will fork the next time they hit a target. Take in mind projectiles can only fork once
-------> Chain, once the projectile has spent it's piercing "charges" and has forked once, then it can begin to chain, if any target is to be hit.

On top of this, skills that have inherent pierce (aka they always pierce like Freezing Pulse) will never chain nor fork; the same applies if you have a 100% piercing chance through skill points and items, they will not be able to fork or chain.