Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20161230201819/@comment-25936766-20170106023451

SpiritedDreaming wrote: It's called aura. As in, a spike in aura covers the edge of the weapon, making it do piercing damage instead of blunt damage. ....So in other words, it covers the weapon in a "solid" Aura, which takes a specific shape so the weapon will cause a kind of damage it wouldn't normally be able to cause?

Because that's....pretty different from what you said. But also makes more sense, definitely.

Just wondering, was that the Activation Cue you forgot to add?

And cutting and piercing are very different things; cuts are specifically skin level, long and drawn across the skin, doing damage over a spread out area. Piercing is specifically penetrating the body to do more damage to a single point. Hacking is also a different thing, which is what axes do. In the end, it's just 2 degrees of separation. You can cut deeper than just the skin, pretty much any sword worth something can do so with a slash. Hack and Cut are synonyms, according to Oxford Dictionary, along with Chop.

Piercing only differs by being linear, focused, and forward instead of horizontal, spread over a wide area, generally in an arc.