Sacred:Spider Arrow

The Wood Elf fires an arrow with a cocoon full of spiders attached. When the arrow hits its target, the cocoon bursts and the spiders attack all nearby opponents with poisonous bites. After a while the spiders will dissolve.

Usage Strategies

A bit of background first.

When Spider Arrow hits, it summons several tiny spiders (number dependant on CA level) that jump on to the target and/or any nearby monsters & start biting them. As the spiders do the damage, none of the mods on your character (Life Leach, +Magic Find, +damage, etc) have any effect. The spiders do very low damage individually, though they do attack quite quickly & if you combine this CA with Multi Shot (good for # of spiders, very, very bad for lag in MP) you can get vaguely reasonable damage in total. The spiders level is capped to your level, so there's not much point in having this CA more than ~1/5 your level. After the initial target is killed, the spiders drop to the ground & will attack a nearby monster, though they don't live for long if they're not attacking. You can kill dragons with this (& MS), as the dragon will try to back away to be able to hit the spiders, but rarely gets far enough to be able to hit them, so it slowly dies will backing away from the spiders.

Useage:

Cast Multi Shot, fire at monster, wait for monster to die. If you're after a single monster, get in close to get the maximum number of SA to hit it, if you're attacking a mob, you can fire from further away & hit several members of the mob to distract them & split the mob up.

While Life Leach doesn't work, the monsters hit by SA will immediately re-target from you to the spiders, so it's a fairly "safe" CA to use, unless you grab several mobs.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• The damage this Combat Art inflicts is not resisted by any monster in the game.

Cons

• To be filled in.

Stats Chart

Wood Elf Combat Arts