Sacred 2:Augmenting Guidon

A stationary banner which increases defense and attack values for every party member within its range. Aspect - Malevolent Champion Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Provides a temporary buff to the Shadow Warrior and all allied units within the area of effect. Attack Value: +25 Defense Value: +50 Duration: 15.1 seconds Combat Art Range: 6.8 meters Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 20.0s + 1.9s = 21.9 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Elite - Increases attack and defense values by 50%. (50% increase) Ensign - Expands the area of effect. (50% increase) (6.8m->10.2m) Silver Healing - Heals party members within area of effect. (8hp/s + 2hp/s per CA level hitpoint regeneration) Tutor - Grants more experience from opponents within area of effect. (10% + 0.2% per CA level increase in experience per kill) Gold Fear - Reduces attack values of all opponents within area of effect. (130 + 1 per CA level decrease in opponent's attack value) Leadership - Increases attack speed and cast speed of allied units within area of effect. (10% + 0.2% per CA level increase)

Augmenting Guidon without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases the hitpoint regeneration of the "Healing" modification, and allows for modification points. Has no other effect on Augmenting Guidon.

• Malevolent Champion Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, and just like Tactics Lore, it allows for modification points.

• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.

• Combat Discipline - will lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Shadow Warrior is wielding an axe) - will increase the execution speed.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Use as often as possible, whether fighting mobs or bosses.

• Can debuff foes with the Fear modification.

• Combined with properly modded Rousing Command and Reflective Emanation, this CA can boost the powers of the player's party and/or summons tremendously.

• Note that, like all CA's in the Malevolent Champion aspect, casting speed is determined by weapon speed, and can be boosted by weapon lore skills and +% attack speed. Likewise, the casting speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Useful in both multiplayer and single player.
• Boosts the Shadow's Warrior's powers and those of his summons.

Cons

• No way to decrease the Cooldown.
• Without taking the Ensign modification, must stay very close to the flag to benefit from its effects.
• Tutor has no effect if the player is equipped with experience per kill items or using mentor potions.

Notes

• This CA will boost the stats of the caster even if they are playing solo.

See Also

• Shadow Warrior
• Shadow Warrior Combat Arts
• Skills
• Shadow Warrior Guides

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