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Why do mergen skills not pierce?

New mergen here and I am noticing that skills like spreadshot / triple arrow do not pierce as in fly straight through monters to hit the ones behind it. It’s kinda disappointing. They advertise mergen has the AOE archer class but these skills proc only on the first monters the arrows com in contact with and the skill previews they provide is very misleading…

Because they are Missles

He doesn’t mean like pierce damage, he means like how Barrage pierces through enemies.

barrage doesn’t either

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maybe due to ur aoe ratio? and monster’s aoe defe ratio

Spread shot has a fixed [target = 6] limit.
Triple arrow uses AoE mechanic.

Umm… it’s really bad somehow, you need to figure out how do they work (mergen’s skills):

  • Use aoe atttack ratio gear: I recommend magic number (3) or 5.
  • Why (3)?: “piercing” through medium monster to hit other one (piercing through 2 small monsters then). Easy to access: vubble + 1 glad or hair gear or maga bow/ lolo gloves + 2 glad / vubble + event necklace :joy:
  • Why (5)?: “piercing” through XL size - boss-size to hit 2 bosses at once. Cost a little bit more: vubble + 2 glad + 2 hair gear (lolo necklace / maga bow)
    Best performance per price should be: vubble gloves + maga bow. If you use 315 bow (purple or orange for higher base damage), you need to fill 1 aoe attack ratio (maga bow) - like glad bracelet / hair gear / etc.
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remember that it’s only circle 1 class
look at other classes at their 1st circle, they aren’t going to give you all the aoe in one circle.

I’ve got a falconer mergen and without circling mergen skills kind of suck, like a lot. I guess they’re very very dependant on AoE attack ratio to be good, because once circling’s on the air a single homing arrow can oneshot things with 40k HP when all hits crit and it’s amazing. And when without circling it doesn’t kill stuff on oneshot and it also doesn’t hit nearly as many things. So spending on AoE attack ratio might be something you should consider.

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triple arrow is something pretty scary when it’s can piercing through target.

ex if have 3 mob stand at same point
-shot without pierce = 3hit per mob.
-shot with enough AAR or have Falcon’s circling = piercing through all target = 9 hit per mob (because of explode per arrow hit)
-shot with jp+hangman knot = piercing through all target with link = 27 hit per mob