"Piercing" on its own means an attack can go through units.
For example, Kongou (from Samurai) has a piercing effect and has an attack range of 3 panels forward in a straight line.
Having a piercing effect means the attack will hit the units behind the first unit that gets hit.
You can also notice that Spear Users have a normal attack with a 2 panel range, and attacking a unit with another unit behind them will consequently hit the latter as well.
To provide contrast, notice how missile units or "gun users" have attacks that can target a unit behind another unit, but if you choose to attack them, the unit in front gets damaged instead, this is due to the lack of a "piercing" effect.
"Pierce" while standalone refers to an attack type from spear users and abilities.
Pierce with an added prefix-like term such as "Defense Pierce, Magic Attack Res Pierce, Spr Pierce" means that a certain amount from the quantitative value of any of these stats is cut or reduced before the damage is calculated.
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Spear attack
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It's where people put holes in themselves just to 'look good' (or think they do).
Oh wait, you mean in WOTV? It's damage from spears = pierce, guns/bows = missle, magic spells = magic, bladed weapons/axes = slash.
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