Sacred 2:Cleansing Brilliance

This Combat Art is a (Buff) This extremely intense light will illuminate the area, damaging all minions of the dark especially undead and T-Energy creatures. Aspect - Celestial Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Fire damage against T-Energy Creatures +7 Magic damage against Undead +7 Range: 4.2 meters Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +30.0% From Bonus Overview: Light Range +5.7 meters Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Distract - Reduces opponents' attack speed within the area of effect. (20% + 0.2% per Combat Art level decrease) Blind - Reduces opponents' defense values within the area of effect. (65 + 1 per Combat Art level decrease) Silver Purify - Increases damage against undead creatures. (66.7% increase) Cleanse - Increases fire damage against T-mutations. (66.7% increase) Gold Eagerness - Increase damage per second. (50% increase in hits per second => 50% increased damage per second) Illuminate - Increase the area of effect. (26.7% increase)

Cleansing Brilliance without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

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

• Concentration - directly reduces regeneration time for this combat art.

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art.

• Ancient Magic - directly increases the damage and reduces enemies' resistance to the damage of this combat art.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of the secondary damage effects triggered by Cleansing Brilliance: Burning (against T-Mutants) and Weaken (against Undead).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase the damage

• Stamina will lower the regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• Suggested Modifications:
  • Bronze: Blind is a good choice for a melee or ranged weapon user, but useless for a pure caster Seraphim, who should take the more defensive Distract instead.
  • Silver: Either choice is good. T-Mutants appear in almost every region, yet they are still uncommon to find unless the player seeks them out. Undead, on the other hand, swarm across huge swaths of Tyr Lysia, The Swamp, and the Cursed Forest, not to mention many dungeons. Therefore, Purify might be a better choice unless the Seraphim is specifically going after T-Mutants on a regular basis (remember also that many bosses are T-Mutants).
  • Gold: Eagerness might be the better choice, as it will inflict more damage per second, killing enemies quicker. The range is already pretty good to begin with, it increases with CA level and can be further boosted by the combat art range item modifier.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good Buff to go use in Swamps when attempting to gain experience quickly
• Very effective against undead and T-Energy creatures
• Useful to light up dark areas at night or underground in dungeons

Cons

• Only damages two types of enemies, otherwise it just provides light (and a single debuff if one of the Bronze modifications is taken)
• When fighting other enemy types, it might be more beneficial to turn the buff off to remove the regeneration penalty it gives.

Stats Chart

• Hits 0.4 + 0.001*CA Level times per second and 0.6 + 0.002 *CA Level times per second with Eagerness.

See Also

• Seraphim
• Seraphim Guides
• Combat Arts
• Skills

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