Offensive Protocol: Pierce

Thrust forward with a spike, piercing the defense of your foe. — In-game description

Offensive Protocol: Pierce

Profession

Engineer (skill list)

Specialization

Amalgam

Slot

Profession mechanic

Type

Morph

Game link

API

76815, 77005, 77015

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Offensive Protocol: Pierce

Thrust forward with a spike, piercing the defense of your foe.

 Damage: 766 (2.88)^?

 Damage: 3 (0.01)^?

₈ Vulnerability (8s): +8% Incoming Damage, +8% Incoming Condition Damage

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 3

 Unblockable

 Range: 170

Volatile Strain. When you evolve, stun nearby enemies.

 Stun: 2 seconds

 Number of Targets: 5

 Radius: 240

 Defiance Break: 400[sic]

— In-game description

Related traits

Explosives

• Shaped Charge — Deal increased strike damage for each stack of vulnerability on your target.

Firearms

• Modified Ammunition — Deal increased strike damage for each condition on a foe.

Inventions

• Soothing Detonation — Heal nearby allies when using a tool belt skill.
• Bunker Down — Create a proximity mine at your target's location and a med kit at your location when you disable an enemy.

Alchemy

• Equal and Opposite Reaction — Gain quickness and stability when you disable an enemy.

Tools

• Optimized Activation — Using tool belt skills grants vigor.
• Static Discharge — Discharge a bolt of lightning whenever you use a tool belt skill.
• Mechanized Deployment — Your tool belt skills gain reduced recharge. Tool belt skills remove conditions. Engage Photon Forge cannot activate this trait.
• Lock On — Striking a stealthed foe triggers Invisible Analysis. Disabling a foe triggers Controlled Analysis. Disables include stun, daze, knockback, pull, knockdown, sink, float, launch, taunt, and fear.
• Kinetic Battery — Gain kinetic charges when you use a tool belt skill. At maximum, charges gain a burst of speed.
• Adrenal Implant — Endurance regeneration is increased. Reduce the recharge of your tool belt skills when you dodge.

Amalgam

• Hardened Chrome — Morph skills and evolving grant protection to yourself.
• Hybrid Vigor — Gain vitality. Gain barrier when you use a morph skill.
• Mercurial Tendencies — Disabling an enemy reduces the cooldown of Evolve.
• Silver Lining — Evolve no longer inherits bonuses from strains. Morph skills grant their strain bonuses.
• Willing Host — Using a morph skill increases your damage for a duration.
• Symbiotic Synergy — Evolve recharges morph skills. Morph skills deal increased strike damage.
• New Genes — Morph skills grants boons to allies. Grant an additional boon based on which morph skill was used.

Version history

For a detailed skill history, see here.

Patch	Changes
December 09, 2025	Reduced the power coefficient from 3.2 to 2.88 in PvE only.
October 28, 2025	Visions of Eternity release: Offensive Protocol: Pierce has been added to the game. Reduced the power coefficient from 4 to 3.2 in PvE only.
August 19, 2025	Offensive Protocol: Pierce was available during the Visions of Eternity elite specialization Beta Event.