Sacred 2:Dragon Flight

NOTE: The contents of this page are exclusive content found only by installing the player-made mega-mod Diablo 2 Fallen.

After years of disciplined physical conditioning, an Assassin can develop the ability to move faster than the eye can follow in one quick burst. Using this skill, he lunges at his target and delivers a devastating blow. Passive Chance Opponents Cannot Evade when in the active slot This is a Weapon Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Martial Arts Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Weapon hit that instantly teleports to the target enemy Damage (wielding starting weapon): 31-45 Physical Chance to stun: 90% Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon: 20% + 10% per level Has an innate bonus to attack rating: 40 + 30 per level Regeneration Time: 5.5 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Dragon Talon - Increases the chance for open wounds by 19.7% + 0.3% per level. Smack - Knocks the weapon from the target's hands for 6 seconds. Silver Dragon Claw - Increases the weapon damage inflicted by 20% + 0.1% per level. Momentum - Adds a chance to also hit opponents next to the target (60% + 0.2% per level). Gold Dragon Tail - Inflicts Deadly Strike (double damage) when opponent health falls below 25%. Rend - Decreases the opponent's physical armor for 6 seconds by 50% + 1% per level.

Dragon Flight

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - indirectly, it increases weapon damage and critical chance, thus making Dragon Flight hit harder, and allows modification points.

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

• Any weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Assassin is wielding an axe) - will indirectly increase this combat art's attack speed, damage and chance to hit, and will allow the equipping of higher level weapons used to execute this combat art.

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

• Combat Discipline - will increase its damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo. This increase in damage is direct; it increases the +xx% that the CA adds to base damage.

• Speed Lore - will increase its chance to hit indirectly by increasing a player's attack rating.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of any secondary damage effects triggered by Dragon Flight, based on the damage types on the equipped weapon (Open Wounds, etc.).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Strength will increase damage for melee weapons, and chance to hit

• Dexterity will increase damage for ranged weapons (and some melee weapons), and chance to hit

• Intelligence will increase damage for for magic staves

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

• Willpower will increase damage for Lightsabers

Usage Strategies

• Using CTRL+Click will allow the Assassin to use Dragon Flight without needing to target an enemy (target the ground instead). This is useful just for getting around, jumping over rivers, up hills, etc.

• Smack disarming mod only affects enemies that use weapons. By losing their weapon, disarmed enemies also lose the benefit of any weapon skills they have. So disarmed enemies usually have not only lower damage but also slower attack speed and lower attack rating.

• Rend debuff to opponent physical armor will stack with each hit, but delivers diminishing returns so it will never reduce armor to "0".

• The duration of the debuffs from Smack and Rend slowly increases as Dragon Flight levels up. By max level the debuffs will last 12 seconds.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Instant hit
• Good damage
• Useful for exploration and escape

Cons

• Assassin can get stuck sometimes if Dragon Flight is placed first in a combo (bug)
• Doesn't seem to cause any damage when mounted in the Mobiculum (bug)

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