Sacred 2:Bash

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Summoning up their renowned brute strength a Barbarian can deliver a powerful and painful blow that staggers an enemy from its feet, knocking them back. This is a Weapon Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Berserk Combat Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) A single-target hard hit weapon attack. Total Damage (wielding starting weapon): 49-60 Physical Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon. Has an innate bonus to attack rating. 100% Chance to Knock Back opponents Regeneration Time: 3.4 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Bleeding - Chance to cause an open wound (physical damage over time) (29.7% + 0.3% per level). Accuracy - Adds a chance opponents cannot evade (15% + 0.1% per level). Silver Frailty - Chance to inflict a crushing blow that decreases the target's base hitpoints for a brief period (25% + 0.2% chance per level). Slam - Increases the base physical weapon damage of Bash (4 + 1 per level). Gold Trauma - Chance to cause mortal wounds which decrease the target's base hitpoints and inflict bleeding damage (20% + 0.1% chance per level). Life Leech - Leeches life from opponents when they are hit (3 + 3.5 per level).

Bash

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - indirectly, it increases weapon damage (including the life leech effect of the Life Leech modification) and critical chance, thus making Bash hit harder, and allows modification points.

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

• Any weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Barbarian is wielding an axe) - will indirectly increase this combat art's attack speed, damage and chance to hit, and will allow the equipping of higher level weapons used to execute this combat art.

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

• Combat Discipline - will increase its damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo. This increase in damage is direct; it increases the +xx% that the CA adds to base damage.

• Speed Lore - will increase its chance to hit indirectly by increasing a player's attack rating.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of any secondary damage effects triggered by Bash, based on the damage types on the equipped weapon.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Strength will increase damage for melee weapons, and chance to hit

• Dexterity will increase damage for ranged weapons (and some melee weapons), and chance to hit

• Intelligence will increase damage for for magic staves

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

• Willpower will increase damage for Lightsabers

Usage Strategies

• Keep the CA level either very high and use it as a one hit wonder to kill off champs and on bosses, and utilize from the high Ca lvl and gain high chance for modification effects.
• Or keep it very low and use it as your main attack when other combat arts are regenerating.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• High damage with knock back effect
• Modifications can cause major damage even to bosses and superuniques
• Fast execution animation speed

Cons

• Single-target only

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