Penetrate.

Does penetrate work on monster with defence buffs like mdef boost, amor-3 etc. ?

Someone on this board indicated that penetrate ability cuts through power of darkness (POD) defense boosts. I tested this and found that penetrate does not cut through POD. I am not sure if this is a bug or intentional. But, the inability to cut through POD, in my view, makes penetrate a less desirable ability than technician-II or unbending on Flight.

So, unless Haypi fixes how penetrate works against POD, I would not recommend it over tech II or unbending.

Someone on this board indicated that penetrate ability cuts through power of darkness (POD) defense boosts. I tested this and found that penetrate does not cut through POD. I am not sure if this is a bug or intentional. But, the inability to cut through POD, in my view, makes penetrate a less desirable ability than technician-II or unbending on Flight.

So, unless Haypi fixes how penetrate works against POD, I would not recommend it over tech II or unbending.

I was told about Penetrate bypassing PoD as well so I assumed it was correct, though I have never tested it.
Someone in the forum said that this was one of the reasons why Penetrate is a good skill so I just followed this. Sorry if I sent the wrong message! I do remember posting once about this being true, though I didn't test it.

Thanks for the info, Kanger!
I am glad I didn't change my Flights' and Vertedeaths' skills to this.

Also, a support staff in the Bugs section stated that it is not supposed to work with PoD.

Lol grr lex. Wasted so many runes getting everything but penetrate on my 2nd verta

Penetrate only cancel defensive talent, while POD is not a talent.

penetrate also cancel ressurect...
so if a monster has a ressurect tallent it wont ressurect if u use a monster with a penetrate tallent..
penetrate also work against an invalidate neon. when u use cunning
alao work on unbending when u use cunning

My bad!! haha.. I think I am the original person who made the mistake of saying penetrate cut through POD.. Wrong abt that, just Verte with penetrate/cunning did so much dmg thought it cancelled POD.

Penetrate cancels : Unbending, Invalidate, Pure, Detonate, Resurrect, Thorn1, Thorn2, Evade. --All tested

Lets POD cut through Invalidate, Cunning cut through invalidate/unbending/pure. Scythe that's supposed to detonate or resurrect will do no extra damage and will not come back to life. Thorn1/2 will do absolutely no return damage. Ambush works on evade.

10 runes later still no pentrate. Although the last 7 were all nightmare

My bad!! haha.. I think I am the original person who made the mistake of saying penetrate cut through POD.. Wrong abt that, just Verte with penetrate/cunning did so much dmg thought it cancelled POD.

Penetrate cancels : Unbending, Invalidate, Pure, Detonate, Resurrect, Thorn1, Thorn2, Evade. --All tested

Lets POD cut through Invalidate, Cunning cut through invalidate/unbending/pure. Scythe that's supposed to detonate or resurrect will do no extra damage and will not come back to life. Thorn1/2 will do absolutely no return damage. Ambush works on evade.

Thanks, tuyet!

I want to change to Penetrate now but I'm not too keen on letting go of Hypno Jynx until I know I'll get Penetrate. It seems that Penetrate's benefits will be encountered more as the process rate for Hypno Jynx is almost laughable for me.

Hypno jinx never works for me as well! I even have exhaust on my hypno jinx and they never get hypnotized...

I bred/runes talents for skelly about 10x @ S class without seeing nightmare. I got 3x penetrate, 1x pressure, 2x hypnosis jinx, 4x paranormal barrier. On the way to S class I think ALL of the skelly I saw was paranormal barrier.

Edit : oops, and 1x matk force 3 s skelly . Lvling that right how