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# Piercing System

Piercings allow you to **enhance gear with additional stats**.

There are two categories of cards:

* Fire, Water, Wind, Electric, Land Card – Applied to **Shields and Weapons**.
* Volcano, Lightning, Earthquake, Vacuum Card – Applied to **Armor Suits**.

### Card Application

* **Elemental Cards** can be inserted into Shields and Weapons to boost specific stats.
* **Enhancement Cards** can only be inserted into Armor Suits to increase HP, attack, or resistances.
* You can also remove the pierced card. Just go to BoBochan NPC.

### **How to Pierce:**

1. Use **Moonstones** + **Scroll of GProtect** ,
2. Visit **BoboChan** to pierce items or remove pierced cards.
3. Once pierced, **double-click an appropriate card** to apply it to the slot.

**To know more about card effects, click** [**here.**](/new-madrigal-wiki/in-game-guide/upgrading-guide/upgrade-materials-and-scrolls.md#cards)