Sacred 2:Battle Stance

This Combat Art is a (Buff) Increases attack and defense values as well as weapon damage. Aspect - Exalted Warrior Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Attack Value +15.0% Defense Value +15.0% Damage +12.0% Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +45% Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Premonition - Further increase attack value. (12.5% + 2.5% per Combat Art level increase) Aggression - Further increases weapon damage output. (5% + 1% per Combat Art level increase) Silver Drill - Reduces the energy cost of Battle Stance. (Relative reduction of the Regeneration Time penalty. ~33.8% reduction at CA level 1, 50% at CA level 50, 60% at CA level 100) Flexibility - Chance to evade weapon attacks. (20% + 0.2% per Combat Art level chance) Gold Idol - Extends a portion of the effects to party members. (50% effectiveness to party members, ~8.5m area of effect (estimation)) Retaliation - Small chance to reflect close combat damage. (~20% chance, increases slightly with each Combat Art level)

Battle Stance without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases the damage bonus, allows for modifications to this combat art.

• Exalted Warrior Focus reduces regeneration time for this combat art and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, and just like Tactics Lore, it allows for modification points.

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

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

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Sword Weapons when the Seraphim is wielding a sword) - will increase the casting speed.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower the regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• Crucial for melee fighters - keep activated at all times.

• Suggested Modification:
  • Bronze: Premonition, with the extra attack value a player will hit hit more often, significantly increasing steady damage output (DPS).
  • Silver: Drill, without this, a player's other Combat Arts may be significantly crippled regarding regeneration time if this Combat Art is raised to high level.
  • Gold: Idol should be chosen if playing with others, Retaliation if not. The low chance of the retaliation limits it's usefulness, but if a player is not playing with others Idol may be useless.

• Note that, like all CA's in the Exalted Warrior 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. Even so, casting speed is probably not very important if Battle Stance is not going to be recast often or cast in battle.

• Note: In the console version, this Buff will create issues with scrolling in the Bonus Overview. The issues disappear when the Buff is deactivated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Increased overall combat skill
• Permanent

Cons

• Without Drill, the regeneration for all other Combat Arts will be significantly lengthened.

Stats Chart

• Attack value is increased by 25 + 5*Combat Art - Level percent and 37.5 + 7.5*Combat Art - Level percent with Premonition.
• Defense value is increased by 25 + 5*Combat Art - Level percent.
• Weapon damage modifier is increased by 10 + 2*Combat Art Level percent and 15 + 3*Combat Art Level percent with Aggression.

Retaliation stats:

CA level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14		30	50
Reflect, +%:	20.1	21.2	22.6	23.7	24.8	26	27.1	28.1	29.1	30.1	31.1	32	32.9	33.7		45	55

See Also

• Seraphim
• Combat Arts
• Skills
• Combat Art Modifications

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