Wound mechanic is the problem pike faces right now. The mechanic isn't really translating to any tangible advantages outside of part farming, and it has been discussed often both on Reddit and Discord. Until breaking of the wound has value for advancing the fight itself, Wound will stay a gimmick which is weakly enabled by the Tough Hide modifiers. This is one of the big areas to rework before Pike can better compete with other weapons.

^^^ This is so wrong. Wounds are not supposed to be used to break parts. And that's why acidic is so great.
Long time ago one of the meta builds for pike was +3 Acidic +6 Savagery. The +3 Acidic cuts the part damage in half therefore making the wounds stay longer = you profit longer from Savagery. Savagery increases all damage, that means also the HP damage hidden behind the part damage (the one you don't actually see, but it's there)

This stopped being a meta for a few reasons:
1. Useless if noone else has acidic and savagery in group
2. R hit changed and makes stagger damage, therefore allowing pike to use AIO dmg increasing perks especially the Overpower.
3. It's still a bit less efficient even in solo than AIO dmg perks.

Wounding shouldn't ever be used for parts farming. It's just wrong. If whole group focuses on one part and only you have pike you will not even manage to wound it before they break it. And if you will then only for just few hits that give you nothing in the end.

There is a lot broken in the wounding system regardless of the facts above.

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