Armor Piercing Damage

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Armor Piercing Damage is one of four elemental^[1] damage mods that can be added to weapons, and will deal 50% more damage to all Grineer units without shields active. Additionally, it is one of four damage types that typically ignores armor (including Serrated Blade, Poison, and Physics Impact).  As such, it is the most effective elemental^[1] mod in terms of damage, as only light Infested units have a 0.5 multiplier for this damage type.

^{[1] Elemental damage is used here to mean that the damage is added as additional damage instead of increasing base damage.}

 Innate Armor Pierce Weapons

•  Despair
•  Snipetron
•  Snipetron Vandal
•  Vectis
•  Ceramic Dagger (All attacks except slam)
•  Dark Dagger (All attacks except slam)
•  Fang (All attacks except slam)
•  Fang Prime (All attacks except slam)
•  Heat Dagger (All attacks except slam)

Armor Piercing Mods

Name	Weapon	Polarity		Rank
				0	1	2	3	4	5
Piercing Hit	Rifle		Stat %	10	20	30	40	50	60
			Cost	4	5	6	7	8	9
Accelerated Blast	Shotgun		Stat %	15	30	45	60	-	-
			Cost	6	7	8	9	-	-
Flechette	Shotgun		Stat %	15	30	45	60	75	90
			Cost	4	5	6	7	8	9
No Return	Pistol		Stat %	15	30	45	60	75	90
			Cost	2	3	4	5	6	7
Sundering Strike	Melee		Stat %	15	30	45	60	75	90
			Cost	2	3	4	5	6	7
Rending Strike	Melee		Stat %	15	30	45	60	-	-
			Cost	6	7	8	9	-	-

Notes

• Contrary to some players' beliefs, Armor Piercing damage does not modify the weapon's base damage in any way, such as making part of the damage 'armor ignore'. It in fact is added as additional damage, and ignores the armor of all regular enemies.