Sacred 2:Firestorm

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Wielding this ability, the Druid projects waves of molten earth that spread outward and burn a wide swath of destruction through his foes. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Primal Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Does 100% Fire Damage (12-12). Fire Damage Over Time: 7.0/s over 5.0 seconds Regeneration Time: 13.6 seconds Right clicking near Druid creates a wider wave of fire Right clicking far from the Druid creates a narrow wave of fire Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Scorch - Increases the base fire damage inflicted by 32 + 16 per level. Ignite - Increases the spread speed of the Firestorm by 25% + 0.1% per level. Silver Spell Flow - Decreases the regeneration time of Firestorm by 33.3%. Conflagration - Increases fire damage over time by 2.5/s + 1.25/s per level. Gold Fright - Adds a chance that opponents will flee in fear (30% + 0.5% per level). Ambition - Increases the Chance for critical hits by 15% + 0.1% per Combat Art level.

Firestorm

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Primal Magic Lore - improves combat art damage, critical chance and casting speed, allows for modification points.

• Primal Magic Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time

• Ancient Magic - directly improves combat art damage and lowers opponents' resistance to its damage

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art and lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of Burning (secondary damage effect) triggered by Firestorm's fire damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• This aspect's most effective spell against mobs. Herd together as large group in as open an area as possible and cast.

• Right-clicking close to the character will result in a wider angle of the firestorm (~90°) but lower damage on initial hit. Right-clicking farther away from the character will result in a firestorm of a smaller angle that will do more damage on initial hit.

• As the damage over time is larger than the initial damage, a way to quickly kill mobs can be to cast and move on, letting the DOT finish them off. This can be a very fast way to gain experience. The disadvantage of this method is that you leave behind treasure when the mobs die.

• Can be used in association with items with Combat Art Range +X% modifiers (such as Nlovae's mystery and Glacial Defender) to increase combat art range significantly.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• The wave hits all enemies in its scope, passing through opponents, instead of being blocked by them.
• Enemies catch Fire 100% of the time, players will thus always deal Damage Over Time.
• Damage over time hits from this Combat Art can incur Chance for critical hits.
• Ambition mod increases Chance for critical hits on both initial hit and Damage over Time (DoT) hits.
• The flat fire damage portion of Firestorm can trigger the Burning secondary effect, which will cause extra fire DoT on top of the built-in DoT.

Cons

• Comparatively long regeneration time unless Spell Flow mod is taken.
• Obstacles (signs, trees, rocks, etc.) cannot be passed through. The blocked segment of the wave will be extinguished.
• Cannot pass over water (i.e. ponds, ocean, swamp, etc.).

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