Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170106022445

SpiritedDreaming wrote:

I am completely and utterly confused at how that even works. Mostly the part of a hammer, with a completely flat surface presumely, causing Piercing damage. Even though it's Piercing nothing because it's a flat surface, so it simply cannot Penetrate.
 * Active ability: Tier One: User can change the type of damage their melee attack will do, such as hitting something with a blade edge and doing blunt force trauma instead of cutting, or hitting someone with a hammer and doing piercing damage instead of blunt.

Besides, I'm pretty sure "Cutting" and "Piercing" are on the same line. Piercing can be seen as cutting through. And such is the case with bullets, though some are better than others in that regard (though they all cut if they just graze you, obviously).

"Piercing weapons" like spears and arrows simply happen to cut through effectively linearly, unlike swords and axes, which can also do it horizontally with effectiveness.

As for the Dust interaction: If the ability is to change X type of attack to Y type, why restrict the Dust interaction to inversions?