Piercing

The Piercing bonus was a feature of Oldos, which has been completely replaced by Novos. This bonus, along with any tool that granted it, no long does anything.

Effects

Piercing "helps ignore enemies' Hardening in Net combat".

Sources

Tool	Piercing	Notes
Blackthorn	2
Defender Orb	?	Only if you are running one or more programs that include Midgard internal code
Formatting Strike	2	Only following Fractal Expansion
Rapid Testing	2
Trigger Signal	1?	Only after Time Bomb or Inject Code, but only the former bypasses hardness anyway

Notes

The Midgard Protector's "laser-like light" attack is piercing when it follows the "A light races around Midgard Protector probing for weaknesses" tool.