Penetrating Spells (skill)

Penetrating Spells is a Tier 1 skill from the Wizard's Arcane skill tree, lowering opponent resistances.

Background

Diablo III Skill [e]
Penetrating Spells (skill) Passive, 1 ranks
Used by:	Wizard
Skill Description:
Reduces the resistance of your targets to your spells by a percentage. Targets with negative resistance take additional damage from spells.
Skill Details:
Type:	Indirect damage boost
Quantity:	None
Effect:	Self
School:	Arcane
Resource cost:	None
Cast time:	None
Duration:	None
Cooldown:	None
Synergies:	All spells affected by resistances.
Requires:	N/A
Prereq of:	N/A

Studies for a Wizard, in how to find weaknesses in opponents.

Skill Design

Another of the highly-useful passive skills possessed by the Wizard. Sort of a full time Lower Resistance aura, that seems to work with all types of magic.

Skill Rank Table

• Rank 1: Reduces resistance by 8%.

Synergies

• All spells affected by resistances.

Skill Rune Effects

• None known.

Development

Penetrating Spells was first shown at BlizzCon 2008 when the Wizard was unveiled. It's still assumed to be available as of 6 July 2009.