Using this skill allows you to draw on your proficiency with piercing weapons. Piercing weapons are any weapons that you can stab and pierce with, such as knives, swords, spears, hira-shuriken, darts, and arrows. Any weapon that can have a piercing attack can be used with this skill. This skill provides the following:

• Increases damage of weapon by 2
• Increases attack value of skills used with weapon by 2
• Decreases difficulty of skills used with weapon by 2
• 10% of damage dealt ignores armor
• Causes 1d4 bleed damage per round to unarmored targets

This skill cannot be used with Basic Piercing Proficiency