Archer Major Id Suggestion

Hi all,

I heard that there's a lack of Major ID suggestions in this section so I thought I'd give a hand!

Let's get straight to the point. My suggestion for a Major ID is as follows:

Piercing: Single arrows can pierce through mobs.​

To elaborate, only 'melee' arrows would be able to pierce through mobs. The ID can be balanced in several ways - limiting the number of mobs an arrow can pierce through, or reducing the damage (linearly or exponentially) each time the arrow pierces through a mob (also effectively limiting the number of piercings). Powder Specials would only apply to the first mob hit.

At the moment I don't have any specific bows in mind that I'd like to have Piercing. However, I see two main use cases:
1. Heavy melee.

It seems pretty fun to line yourself up with mobs in such a way that you hit as many as possible with 1 piercing arrow.

2. Spellsteal.
Multiple mobs hit + super slow attack speed = profit. Given a large group of mobs, this may prove to be pretty overpowered, so perhaps a spellsteal bow with Piercing should not have Powder Special access. Granted, frequent Quakes would also be quite strong...

Please leave any feedback below, thanks for reading.

Edit:

 

Seems great!
Add a poll.

What items would have it?

 

every arrow only contributes to powder special charging once, this fixes frequent quakes etc

the large group thing is pretty situational, don't think it needs a nerf. archer melee already has small aoe and clearly it's not being abused to high heaven, piercing just happens to increase that aoe

it's best to see the major id on weapons, don't want a repeat of nighthawk. sadly it doesn't fit the lore of any mythics


edit: added a quote

 

Thanks!

That'd be a good solution, I'll add it to the main post if you don't mind

 

Cough cough Divzer exists cough cough

 

dont really see anything relating to piercing imo but to each their own