Sacred 2:Eternal Fire

Ignites an enemy & easily jumps over to nearby enemies (like Viperish Disease, but does fire DoT). This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Dragon Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Fire Damage Over Time: +60 Chance to Ignite: 30.2% Range: 2.0 meters Duration: 8.0 seconds Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 8.0s + 4.4s = 12.4 seconds (Cooldown decreases per CA level). Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Licking Flames - Fire can jump over to enemies that are further away (+0.8 meters +0.01 per CA level). Smoldering - Fire is less strong but lasts longer (damage remains the same but is spread out over a 37.5% longer duration). Silver Hunger - Increased chance to jump over to nearby enemies (+10% chance + 1% per CA level). Panic - Chance that burning enemies will flee. (+30% + 5% per CA level Chance to fear opponents away). Gold Fury - Fire burns stronger (increases damage, 37.5% of base damage). Death Blow - Fire damage against badly wounded enemies is doubled (Opponent level for death blow effect, double damage occurs when target's HP is below 50%).

Eternal Fire without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Dragon Magic Lore - improves casting speed, allows for modification points. No effect on the damage.
• Dragon Magic Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.
• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time.
• Combat Discipline - will lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo. No effect on the damage.
• NOT Ancient Magic or Damage Lore

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase spell intensity but not the damage.
• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Can be used in very early levels to kill on its own. In higher levels it can soften enemies to be more easily killed with a more powerful CA.

• The Licking Flames and Hunger modifications can cause a wildifre that spreads very far very fast. The Community Patch nerfs these values as they can make Eternal Fire bring down multiplayer servers. Viperish Disease was nerfed in much the same way, and for the same reasons (see that page for further explanation).

• The Community Patch also adds flat fire damage that hits the initial target in pulses but does not spread to other enemies. This change was made to allow skills, attributes, and item modifiers to have some effect on Eternal Fire.

Combo Recommendations

Eternal Fire should usually go near the beginning of a combo so that it has time to spread to as many enemies as possible.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Can spread very far very fast.
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Cons

• The only thing that increases the damage is the CA level. No skills or item mods affect the power of Eternal Fire (requires CM Patch 1.60 to fix).
• Very weak increases in power as the level increases.

Notes

• Eternal Fire inflicts a special type of damage (called "Plague Fire" in the game files) that is neither normal Fire damage nor Fire DoT, despite the word "fire" in the CA description. Therefore it is not boosted by +Damage modifiers and is not resisted by Armor.

See Also

• Dragon Mage
• Combat Arts
• Skills
• Dragon Mage Guides

Gallery

Casting 1

Casting 2

Casting Complete

Burning Mob

With "Hunger" and "Licking Flames"