Sacred 2:Killing Spree

The Shadow Warrior launches himself into a state of battle frenzy, where every successful hit stores additional damage up to a maximum value. The amassed damage is released in one or several mighty discharges. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Malevolent Champion Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage: 29-29 Physical (discharged in an area of effect nova around the Shadow Warrior) Stored damage per hit: 12.5% (gains 0.1% damage per CA level) Duration: 20.1 seconds (gains 0.1 seconds of duration per CA level) Combat Art Range: 4.2 meters Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 60.0s + 2.4s = 62.4 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Control - Additionally increases the Shadow Warrior's attack value. (4.5% + 0.5% per CA level increase per hit) Berserk - The Shadow Warrior's damage output increases when he is injured. (Damage of Enraged Players) (100% + 5% per CA level increase) Silver Burst - A damage bonus is added to the energy discharge. (40% increase) Perseverance - Prolongs the duration of Killing Spree. (50% increase) Gold Sway - Additionally increases the Shadow Warrior's attack speed, casting speed and movement speed. (2.5% increase per hit) Sear - Adds fire damage to the discharge. (34.3% from base physical damage)

Killing Spree without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases the damage of the discharge, allows for modification points.

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

• Ancient Magic - increases the damage of the discharge and reduces opponent's resistances to its damage.

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

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art and lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Shadow Warrior is wielding an axe) - will increase the execution speed.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of the secondary damage effects triggered by Killing Spree's damage burst: Open Wounds and Burn (if the Sear mod is taken).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Often placed in a combo with Rousing Command, this ability makes a very effective addition to a boss killing combo.

• Also a very effective AoE control Combat Art to use when surrounded by hordes of weak enemies

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Can be modded for powerful buffs to attack and speed
• Damage burst can kill weaker enemies on its own

Cons

• No way to reduce cooldown
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Notes

• Control and Sway mods add their bonus with every hit landed against enemies while Killing Spree is active and last until the end of the duration. However, the bonuses are subject to diminishing returns for subsequent hits. For example, with the Sway mod, the first hit landed will increase all speeds by 2.5%, but the next hit will only increase it by 2.3%, the next hit by 2% and so on. So 10 landed hits does not equal 25% increased movement/attack/casting speed.

• Killing Spree is one of only 5 Spell damage-based combat arts in the whole game that can have their damage boosted by Tactics Lore (the others are Belligerent Vault, Dust Devil, Deathly Spears, and T-Energy Shroud).

• This CA is also one of only 3 Shadow Warrior spells that benefits from Ancient Magic. The others are Skeletal Fortification and Belligerent Vault.

• Note that, like all CA's in the Malevolent Champion aspect, casting speed is determined by weapon speed, and can be boosted by weapon lore skills and +% attack speed. Likewise, the casting speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level.

See Also

• Temporary Buffs
• Shadow Warrior
• Shadow Warrior Combat Arts
• Skills
• Shadow Warrior Guides

Gallery

Energy Building Up

Energy Building Up 2

Damage Discharge