Sacred 2:Rallied Souls

The souls of those who have fallen recently will come to life for a brief period once again and fight alongside the Shadow Warrior. However, their undead life dwindles rapidly. Aspect - Astral Lord Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Resurrects enemy corpses as minions that follow the Shadow Warrior Animated Corpses' Lifespan: 30.1 seconds Max. Number per Conjuration: 2 Target Range: 5.7 meters Regeneration Time: 6.4 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Armament - The animated corpses will receive an armor bonus. (adds resistance to all 5 damage types, 7.5% + 5.5% per CA level increase) Dark Realm - Increases the effective range of the conjuration. (50% increase) Silver Vivification - The animated corpses live considerably longer. (50% increase) Demand - Chance to animate an increased number of corpses. (80% increase) Gold Contagion - Adds a chance for the animated corpses to infect their victims, turning them into undead servants. (30% + 0.1% per CA level chance) Furor - Animated corpses inflict more damage. (5% + 5% per CA level increase (?))

Rallied Souls without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Astral Lord Lore - improves combat art casting speed, allows for modification points. Also increases the minions' armor bonus from the Armament mod.

• Astral Lord 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.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Detailed Behaviour

• Despite what you might expect, "Max. Number Of Animated Corpses: #2" does not mean that you can have only 2 rallied souls following you at a time. Rather, it means that you can only raise 2 at a time, regardless of the number of corpses in the immediate area. This means that if you are standing on a pile of 5 corpses, utilizing all of them (if this number is at 2) will require 3 castings.

• As such, and given that the Rallied Souls' lifespans increase very slowly as a function of combat art level, driving down the regeneration time can be quite valuable, especially when many enemies attack at once.

• The target area is really very limited, and is measured from the feet of your character when you cast the spell, so you pretty much need to be standing right on top of the corpses you want to exploit.

• Increasing Rallied Souls only affects duration, number of souls and target range. It will not, in and of itself, increase Rallied Souls damage.

• Rallied Souls can resurrect anything that leaves a corpse when it dies, even friendly animals or NPC's. This interesting to see but they are useless as minions because they rarely fight.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Minions to do the Shadow Warrior's bidding
• Can function as killers or simple meat shields

Cons

• Does not work on Energy type enemies because they leave no corpses
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Stats Chart

No modifications, no skills, naked, all stats between 25 and 35 (i.e. a nearly-new character).

Level	Regen Time (s)	Life Span (s)	Max # Of Corpses	Target Range (m)
1	8.2	30.1	2	5.7
2	11.0	30.2	2	5.7

See Also

• Shadow Warrior
• Shadow Warrior Combat Arts
• Skills
• Shadow Warrior Guides

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