Sacred 2:Ancient Bark

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This Combat Art is a (Buff) While active, Ancient Bark substantially increases the armor value and reduces resistance to fire. This buff also adds a permanent light healing effect. Aspect - Nature Weaver Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Defense Value: +20.0% (+10% per CA level) Hitpoint Regeneration: +3.0/s (+1.5 per CA level) Total Armor Resistance bonus: 42 (25 + 10 per CA level Physical, 17 + 7 per CA level Poison) Sensitivity: Fire +20% Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +40% Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Rugged - Increases all armor values. (20% + 5% per CA level increase) Slippery - Increases defense values. (20% + 5% per CA level increase) Silver Divert - Chance to deflect close combat damage to the attacker. (20% + 2% per CA level chance) Repel - Additional chance to evade weapon attacks. (20% + 0.2% per CA level chance) Gold Invigorate - Improved healing. (+1.5/s + 1.5 per CA level increase to hitpoint regeneration effect) Effortless - Ancient Bark costs less energy. (20% + 0.2% per CA level decrease to regeneration penalty)

Ancient Bark without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Nature Weaver Lore - improves the hitpoint regeneration effect and the physical and poison resistances, improves casting speed, allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - directly improves the regeneration time penalty

• Armor Lore - will indirectly increase the physical and poison resistance bonuses by a percentage (after they are added to the player's other sources of armor).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower the regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• The Rugged bronze modification enhances all existing armor values significantly. Combined with Armor Lore and healing from Ancient Bark and other sources, the Dryad can absorb significant amounts of damage.

• Depending on the build of the character, the Divert (reflect melee) silver modification can be extremely powerful as game difficulty increases. Not only does it negate a large percentage of incoming melee damage, in harder difficulties the reflect melee effect will reflect thousands of damage per incoming attack. Any character that is frequently in melee range will benefit greatly from this effect.

• The amount of healing increases greatly if the character spends a large amount of points on Nature Weaver Lore combined with the Invigorate gold modification, to the point where it can dwarf the healing provided by Constitution Mastery, depending on how skill points have been spent. Combined with Goldenglade Touch and Infusion, the Dryad will heal so fast she can become invincible.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Substantial upgrade to armor, bonus healing and reflect damage if the correct upgrade is chosen.
• Raises defense value
• Strong defensive buff for the Dryad
• Decreases the dependence on Constitution Mastery for in-combat healing

Cons

• The fire damage vulnerability can take players by surprise, especially if set ablaze.
• Being a buff, it adds a regeneration penalty.

Stats Chart

Note: HP Regen values are based on the gold modification thus +3/level. Without the modification they work out to +3 per 2 levels. A few of the values of Reflect melee post level 10 are approximated, I only had +even values for the CA and thus split the difference between levels. Note: Values in Evasion are separated by a slash to distinguish between the +evasion in Σ and the evasion listed under your left-click attack. The first value is Σ and the second is the actual in game value when no evasion gear is equipped.

Level	+%Def (Base)	+HP Regen (Gold)	+Phys Res	+Poi Res	+% Armour	+%Def(Bronze)	+Reflect	+%Evasion
1	20	6	25	17	25	25	20.1
2	30	9	35	24	30	30	21.2
3	40	12	45	31	35	35	22.6
4	50	15	55	38	40	40	23.7
5	60	18	65	45	45	45	24.8
6	70	21	75	52	50	50	26
7	80	24	85	59	55	55	27.1
8	90	27	95	66	60	60	28.1
9	100	30	105	73	65	65	29.1
10	110	33	115	80	70	70	30.1
11	120	36	125	87	75	75	31.1
12	130	39	135	94	80	80	32
13	140	42	145	101	85	85	32.9
14	150	45	155	108	90	90	33.7
15	160	48	165	115	95	95	34.7	23 / 18.6
16	170	51	175	122	100	100	35.5	23.2 / 18.8
17	180	54	185	129	105	105	36.2	23.3 / 18.9
18	190	57	195	136	110	110	37	23.5 / 19.1
19	200	60	205	143	115	115	37.9	23.7 / 19.2
20	210	63	215	150	120	120		24 / 19.3
21	220	66	225	157	125	125		24.2 / 19.5
22	230	69	235	164	130	130	40	24.3 / 19.6
23	240	72	245	171	135	135		24.5 / 19.7
24	250	75	255	178	140	140		24.7 / 19.8
25	260	78	265	185	145	145
26	270	81	275	192	150	150
27	290	84	285	199	155	155		25.3 / 20.2
28	261	87	295	206	160	160
29	271	90	305	213	165	165
30	291	93	315	220	170	170
31	262	96	325	227	175	175

See Also

• Dryad
• Dryad Guides
• Dryad Combat Arts
• Skills

Gallery

NOTE: Ancient Bark's visual appearance has been changed over the times with the introduction of a different skin by the CM Patch. This change was introduced in CM Patch 1.20 and brought the dark purple shade appearance that can be seen in the photos below.