Sacred 2:Psychic Hammer

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By utilizing his intense mental prowess, an Assassin creates a powerful force of mental energies and directs it towards a hostile creature, blasting it backwards. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Shadow Disciplines Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 49-49 Physical Pushes enemies back, damaging other enemies they die Opponent's Total Speed: -33.5% (duration 10 seconds) Opponent Health for Deadly Strike (double damage): 22.0% Regeneration Time: 3.6 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Lash Out - Increases the push distance of Psychic Hammer by 50%. Trauma - Inflicts additional physical damage over time (2.0/s + 2.0/s per level). Silver Relay - Widens the effective angle of Psychic Hammer by 40 degrees (allowing an area-of-effect). Vehemence - Increases the base physical damage inflicted by 48 + 26 per level. Gold Weaken - Decreases the opponent's attributes by 20% + 1% per level (10 seconds). Fumble - Knocks the weapon from the target's hands for a short period (10 seconds).

Psychic Hammer

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Shadow Disciplines 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 Psychic Hammer's physical damage: Open Wounds.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Useful for clumps of enemies or enemies lined up behind one another. Psychic Hammer pushes enemies into each other, causing more damage.

• The debuff to speed and opponent's attributes (from Weaken mod) will stack with each cast, but are subject to diminishing returns, so will never reduce the values to "0".

• Deadly Strike (deathblow) does not normally apply to spells, but Psychic Hammer has this modifier as a base property, so items with the modifier "Opponent Level for Deadly Strike" will apply and raise the threshold at which double damage is triggered.

• Fumble disarming mod only affects enemies that use weapons. By losing their weapon, disarmed enemies also lose the benefit of any weapon skills they have. So disarmed enemies usually have not only lower damage but also slower attack speed and lower attack rating.

• The duration of the slowing effect and the debuffs from the gold mods is fixed at 10 seconds.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Useful against both single targets and mobs
• Slowing effect is very useful for crowd control and escapes

Cons

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