Devs: Familiars - piercing attack type?

[Caketime]

If SE expects us to stand there and take AoE to the chin, our problems are far greater than lacking a pierce jug.

[SpankWustler]

It would be nice to have a pet that dealt piercing damage. It could be named Pokey Pete or Pointy Pauline.

If SE expects us to stand there and take AoE to the chin, our problems are far greater than lacking a pierce jug.

I think it's safe to say that the Development Bros expect everyone in the universe to take AoEs on the chin.

There are monsters with 30' AoE attacks so that mages and Rangers get hit with horrible AoE attacks, there is a monster with AoE melee attacks who use Mighty Strikes so that not even Stun can prevent the horrible AoE attacks from raining down, there are monsters who use smaller AoEs back-to-back rather than one big one so that not even Earthen Armor or Sentinel's Scherzo prevent the damage of those AoEs, etc.

There's a real chance that whoever has been developing monsters recently loves Area of Effect attacks so much that he randomly leg sweeps wide swaths of fellow commuters while taking the train to work.