Sacred 2:Malicious Totem

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Summons a totem that will fire small poisonous arrows. Shrunken heads may increase damage. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Cabalistic Voodoo Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage: 13-13 (8-8 Physical, 5-5 Poison) Duration: 20.0s Firing Frequency: 0.7/s (0.7 shots every second, not to be confused with 1 shot every 0.7 seconds.) Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 15.0s + 4.2s = 19.2s Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Anxiety - Chance that hit opponents will run away. (20% + 0.2% per CA level chance to fear opponents away) Solid - Increased duration of Malicious Totem. (25% + 0.25% per CA level increase) Silver Pointed - Arrows inflict more damage. (73.8% increased physical damage / 44.3% increased overall damage) Venomous - Increases poison damage on arrows. (75% increased poison damage / 30% increased overall damage) Gold Expert - Reduces the cooldown of Malicious Totem. (100% + 1% per CA level decrease, cuts the cooldown approximately in half (down to 7.4s)) Rapid Fire - Increases the totem's firing rate. (43% on CA level 1, 50% on CA level 50, 55.6% on CA level 100, ... linear increase)

Malicious Totem without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Cabalistic Voodoo 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 the secondary damage effects triggered by Malicious Totem: Open Wounds and Poisoning.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Acute Mind will increase this Combat Art's damage to incredible levels and reduce the Regeneration Time (does not effect Cooldown Time).

• Typically anywhere from 2 to 3 totems can be constantly maintained, creating a rapid fire area of effect attack.

• More totems can be kept going on screen if the Solid Bronze mod and the Expert Gold mod are taken, as it increases duration and decreases cooldown for the Combat Art.

• The silver mod can be debatable, due to monster resistances to physical damage in the higher difficulty levels (Niob, etc.). Here Venomous would most likely be the better option, even though Pointed gives more overall damage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Being a spell damage based Combat Art, it can take advantage of the Acute Mind boost to intelligence and therefore damage
• Good attack for a lazy player's build as the totem auto-targets enemies within range
• Has a relatively short cooldown, which can eventually be lessened with the correct mods

Cons

• Hard to have more than 3 totems going at once
• Rate of fire of a single totem is only medium speed
• Player cannot choose which enemies they attack due to the auto-target nature of the Combat Art

See Also

• Dryad
• Dryad Guides
• Dryad Combat Arts
• Skills

Gallery

Summoning the Totem

3 Totems With "Solid" and "Expert"

Malicious Totem