Sacred 2:Icy Evanescence

Causes ice damage and decreases opponents’ ice resistance within a certain radius. Allied players receive a bonus to fire resistance. If the combat art Fiery Ember is active within range, the spell with the higher level will cancel the weaker one. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Source Warden Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage 3-3 Ice (Spawns 1 damage point (will appear as a cluster of ice spikes) per monster on the screen). Duration: 10.0 seconds (increases 0.1s per CA level) Ice Resistance (Opponent): -10.1% Mitigation: Fire: 10.1% Range: 15.0 meters Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 15.0s + 8.0s = 23.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Icy Needles - Increases ice damage within range. (50% increase) Freeze - Slows down opponent's movement speed. (20% + 0.5% per CA level decrease) Silver Fire protection - Reduces fire damage even more. (20% + 0.1% per CA level damage mitigation) Deep frost - Further decreases opponents' resistance against ice damage. (20% + 0.1% per CA level decrease) Gold Conservation - Decreases the regeneration time. (50% + 0.5% per CA level decrease, does not affect Cooldown time) Note: This is called Energy Efficiency in the console version. Sustain - Increases the duration of Icy Evanescence. (5.0 seconds + 0.1 seconds per CA level, a 50% increase)

Icy Evanescence without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

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

• Concentration - directly reduces regeneration time for this combat art.

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

• Ancient Magic - directly increases the damage and reduces enemies' resistance to the damage of this combat art (skill is only available to Temple Guardian with CM Patch).

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of Freeze (secondary damage effect) triggered by Icy Evanescence's ice damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• A player may gather as large a mob as possible, casting Icy Evanescence while being attacked. If done successfully, each monster will be damaged by several of the damage points/crystal clusters, resulting in significantly increased damage, as well as effecting a chance to freeze monsters (slowing effect)

• Due to its reduction to enemy ice resists, it's useful to cast Icy Evanescence before attacking with CA's like Amplifying Discharge (modded for ice damage) or ice-damage weapons socketed with ice crystals.

• Icy Evanescence has a wide radius that can be increased even further with +combat art range item modifiers, killing everything on the screen.

• Great against Dragons - protects against their fire breath and weakens them even further to ice (which they are already weak against)

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Can be useful against very large mobs that are not moving, for example enemies within melee range
• The effect follows the Temple Guardian around while it lasts
• Ice resist reduction can be useful when paired up with an ice High Elf
• Damage mitigation protects against fire spells and melee attacks

Cons

• Very low initial damage
• Very low damage increase per level
• 15 second cooldown is fixed (not modified by Concentration, Source Warden Focus or Stamina) in addition to the regeneration time

See Also

• Temple Guardian
• Temple Guardian Guides
• Temple Guardian Combat Arts
• Skills

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