It's not just Pure Skill that is worthless, Pierce is worthless too

With the free mastery reset, I decided to do some testing on Pierce to see how it is currently performing. I tested using 5* Storm against RoL WS with full mutant support synergies so I would crit frequently. I tried Pierce at all 3 levels with a few different mastery setups, and pretty much without fail, the following is the bottom line:

Each point in Pierce increases your damage on critical hits by ~1 to 1.1%. So, if you crit for 3000, each point in Pierce is adding just 30 damage.

I don't know about the rest of you, but this seems like a waste of mastery points to me. Much like Pure Skill, the juice is not worth the squeeze.

Comments

BitterSteel

Diminishing returns has ruined way too many masteries

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No_More_Heroes

Nice thanks for the info.

MEKA5

But in the Pierce's description it says: 5% each point. So is this a bug?

MEKA5

MEKA5 wrote: »

But in the Pierce's description it says: 5% each point. So is this a bug?

Ignores 5% of armor I mean.

Vdh2008

It works better against some opponents than others... The higher the armor rating on your opponent, the better pierce will be.

It can't ignore armor if the opponent doesn't have any, similarly, if the opponent has lots of armor (HB, Colossus, etc) you will see it being MORE useful.

Hulk_77

Vdh2008 wrote: »

It works better against some opponents than others... The higher the armor rating on your opponent, the better pierce will be.

It can't ignore armor if the opponent doesn't have any, similarly, if the opponent has lots of armor (HB, Colossus, etc) you will see it being MORE useful.

Doesn't RoL WS have beefed up armor higher than 99.9% of the fights you will encounter?

Cause that's so I tested on...

GroundedWisdom

Hulk_77 wrote: »

Vdh2008 wrote: »

It works better against some opponents than others... The higher the armor rating on your opponent, the better pierce will be.

It can't ignore armor if the opponent doesn't have any, similarly, if the opponent has lots of armor (HB, Colossus, etc) you will see it being MORE useful.

Doesn't RoL WS have beefed up armor higher than 99.9% of the fights you will encounter?

Cause that's so I tested on...

Buster would be a better example.

No_More_Heroes

I got rid of these garbage masteries. Just went back to full cruelty and precision.

Hulk_77

GroundedWisdom wrote: »

Hulk_77 wrote: »

Vdh2008 wrote: »

It works better against some opponents than others... The higher the armor rating on your opponent, the better pierce will be.

It can't ignore armor if the opponent doesn't have any, similarly, if the opponent has lots of armor (HB, Colossus, etc) you will see it being MORE useful.

Doesn't RoL WS have beefed up armor higher than 99.9% of the fights you will encounter?

Cause that's so I tested on...

Buster would be a better example.

I didn't want to test on anyone who gets armor up buffs as that could change the numbers based upon the number of armor ups at any given point in the fight. Likewise, I didn't want to use a champ with fury for the same reason.

I did want class advantage optimal synergies to magnify it as much as possible.

Kronos987654321

Wow didn't even think of this. Surely Kabam will fix this in a timely manner /s.

MMCskippy

I've felt this about Limber and other masteries....

DaMunk

Pierce wasn't that good pre12.0 now it's a waste of 2 points. I'm surprised how many people still use it.

BitterSteel

What about testing it on an unduped Collosus. Because he either has 0 armour ups or 1 armour up. Might be easier

Ponyboy

Diminishing returns. The nail in the coffin to this game imo. It doesn't piggyback any ability or mastery pre12.0. Does not belong in a mobile fighting game. My guess is that it had to do with the whole switch with gears and BS. They left the DR and CR. Which since all this, I've given up on the nerdy **** of "well if I add this, and put this together, it'll give me this team and it'll be fun!"

All the technical stuff is in the hands of Kabam's new system. Which used to be fun to have control over our champs

Jaffacaked

I dropped it down to r1 not too long ago as well

Its_pro456talktalk

No_More_Heroes wrote: »

I got rid of these garbage masteries. Just went back to full cruelty and precision.

Yeah me 2