Pierce jewel vs true shot jewel

[Riger82]

I have an open tier 3 slot in my eyepatch. But I can't find any info on how much the pierce jewel adds to dragon piercer. I know the true shot adds 10%, but it's hard to compare when I can't see the numbers.
As a side note. Is there a jewel that lowers the cast time of dragon piercer?

[Voodoo]

Dragon piercer cast time is set in stone.

pierce up was 10% if i remember right though i have no idea if its additive or multiplicative.

you generally should strive to put in both, i even have ready dragonpiercer build if you want.

[Stationary Traveller]

They both add 10% to piercing ammo, so if you stack piercing shots and special ammo boost lv2 you can get a total of 30% dmg boost.

[Riger82]

Thank you very much. I went ahead and chose the cera coilbender so I could put all three of them in.
Seems a little stupid that a tier 3 gem is the same increase as a lower tier, though.

[Voodoo]

because it doesnt only apply to dragonpiercer.

[Riger82]

Originally posted by Voodoo:

because it doesnt only apply to dragonpiercer.

Neither of them do.
Pierce, the tier 3, increases dragon piercer and piercing ammo.
Special ammo, the tier 1, is for dragon piercer and bowgun special ammos.
It still seems stupid that both the tier 3 and tier 1 have the same increase.

[Voodoo]

Originally posted by Riger:

Originally posted by Voodoo:

because it doesnt only apply to dragonpiercer.

Neither of them do.
Pierce, the tier 3, increases dragon piercer and piercing ammo.
Special ammo, the tier 1, is for dragon piercer and bowgun special ammos.
It still seems stupid that both the tier 3 and tier 1 have the same increase.

Yeah, but for bowguns they dont stack due to affecting different attacks like for bow so it makes sense.

[Riger82]

No... It really doesn't. It's a bit difficult to compare the damage of two completely different ammo types in this case.
After all, some bowguns do pierce much better than others.

Looked up what ammo is specifically powered up by the tier 1 gem, and it's the hard hitting wyvern type attacks. The B button ammo. That makes even LESS sense now to have the tier 1 gem be set up that way. Especially since that makes it better for the broad variety of bowguns over only piercing ammo which not all bowguns can use.

[DarkFenix]

It makes perfect sense. Pierce boosts an ordinary ammo type, its uptime in terms of increasing your damage is basically 100% on relevant builds, therefore it has high usage requirements. Special ammo boost only affects niche attacks you'll seldom be using, so it has a low barrier to entry.

[Lu2]

Originally posted by Moonmadness:

They both add 10% to piercing ammo, so if you stack piercing shots and special ammo boost lv2 you can get a total of 30% dmg boost.

thx for info. iam thinking about this ranged set up