Sacred 2:Werebear

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This skill empowers the Druid with the capacity to assume the form of a savage bear, granting him great strength and fortitude. In his changed form, the Druid enters a trance and fully focuses on the battle. Shock Wave Maul Change Back Aspect - Primal Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Duration 40.0 seconds +0.2s per CA level Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 10.0s + 8.0s = 18.0 seconds From Weapons/Resistance/General tooltips: Hitpoints: 198 Damage: 47-47 Physical Attack value: 40 Defense value: 60 Attack speed: 100.1% Chance for Critical Hits: 15.0% Resistances: 34 (18 Physical, 4 Fire, 4 Ice, 4 Magic, 4 Poison) From Sigma tooltip: Damage: 2.5% + 12.5% per level Armor increases by 7.5% per level Attack and Defense increase by 40% per level Attack Speed and Cast Speed increase by 0.2% per level Damage Mitigation: All types 0.5% + 0.4% per level Max hitpoints: 12.5 + 37.5 per level Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Lycanthropy - Each successful hit now recharges shapeshifting duration by 0.5 seconds. Bristly Fur - Adds a chance to reflect melee damage (20% + 1% per level). Silver Fire Claws - A portion of physical damage is converted to fire (35% + 0.5% per level). Deadly Strike - The Werebear inflicts double damage when enemy health falls below 25%. Gold Hunger - The Werebear's attacks inflict life leech damage (0.1% + 0.1% per level). Ravage - Adds a substantial chance the Werebear's attacks will bypass opponent armor (50% + 0.2% per level).

Werebear

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Primal Magic Lore - increases casting speed but NOT the damage or any of the Werebear's abilities. Allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time

• Tactics Lore, Ancient Magic do not raise the damage - no skills do.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower regeneration time of Werebear (but not the regeneration time of his special CA's)

• Neither Strength nor Intelligence increase his damage

Usage Strategies

• The Werebear has the Concentration skill and can cast buffs (2 maximum) while shapeshifted. This means the Werebear can take advantage of Heart of Wolverine, Cyclone Armor, Dire Wolf, or Grizzly.

• All of the Werebear's innate abilities (and his special CA's) scale with CA level. However, they also scale with character level, meaning a Werebear with only one rune read will be much more powerful when the character is level 50 than when they are level 1. This scaling (partially) makes up for the fact that no attributes or skills increase his power.

• In this form the Druid's normal combat arts are replaced with special new ones, though he can still use his Divine Gift while in Werebear form. Likewise the benefits of the Divine Devotion skill will still take effect even when shapeshifted.

• If building a character around this CA, then the Divine Gift Might is highly recommended as it will make the Werebear into an unstoppable killing machine.

• Needless to say the Werebear cannot ride a Horse or Draconicon. The Druid will automatically dismount to shapeshift and cannot re-mount until changing back.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Maintains power from Easy all the way into Hell difficulty.
• Inflicts heavy damage and can tank most opponents.

Cons

• A player cannot open containers, talk to NPCs or use mounts, merchants, smiths or runemasters while in this form. He also cannot manage his inventory, CA's or combos.
• No skills, equipment, or attributes affect the powers of the Werebear. Only the level of the CA (and higher character level) will increase his power.

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See Also

• The Druid development thread on DarkMatters
• The Druid Shapeshifting Guide