Sacred 2:Radiant Pillar

A pillar of intense, bright light will appear from the heavens and strike down onto the target area. Adaptations include one short burst against a single strong enemy or a devastating area attack against groups of enemies. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Celestial Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage: 11-11 Magic per hit Duration: 10.1 seconds Regeneration Time: 6.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Hypnosis - Attracts opponents to the center of the pillar. (~6.75m area (guess)) Delude - Reduces opponents' attack values within the area of effect. (650 + 10 per CA level, see below) Silver Brightness - Increases the area of effect. (33.3% increase) Conserve - Increases duration of Radiant Pillar. (50% increase) Gold Magnify - Increase damage of Radiant Pillar. (35.7% increase (guess)) Ordeal - Inflicts twice as much damage when the opponent's health has fallen below a threshold value. (Opponent Level for Deathblow; threshold is 25% + 0.?% per CA level of max health)

Radiant Pillar 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 and lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• 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 effect triggered by Radiant Pillar: Weaken.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Damage of Radiant Pillar is affected by Intelligence, so you need to invest in this attribute to make it effective.

• Bronze choices: Hypnosis may be considered useful if followed by Flaring Nova, Archangel's Wrath (explosion mod), BeeEffGee (pierce mod). Otherwise Delude is a very good option especially when combined with Baneful Smite with another attack value reduction mod.

• Silver choices: Duration will come naturally with leveling. It will eventually be longer than you ever need. Therefore taking Brightness seems like a better choice than Conserve.

• Gold choices: Ordeal effect can be easily obtained with items (in Fallen Angel only, this was changed in the Ice & Blood expansion). Straight damage from Magnify is a very good choice.

• The Delude mod uses a particular formula to calculate the attack value reduction: 1-1/(1+(650+10*CA lvl)/1000). For level 1, this gives 1-1/(1+(650+10*1)/1000 = 39.8% reduction, level 10 gives 1-1/(1+(650+10*10)/1000 = 42.9% reduction, level 50 gives 1-1/(1+(650+10*50)/1000 = 53.5% reduction.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Great ability to cause area of effect damage
• Very useful debuff ability on both mobs and bosses
• The only spell in the game after the Ice & Blood expansion that can still trigger Deathblow with the Ordeal. The threshold starts low, but increases with CA level.

Cons

• The cast time of this combat art is a bit slow early on
• It is a stationary spell, if the target moves out of its damage range, its useless

Stats Chart

• Duration is 10 + 0.1*CA-Lvl seconds and 15 + 0.15*CA-Lvl seconds with Conserve.
• It inflicts damage 0.5 + 0.003*CA-Lvl times per second.

See Also

• Seraphim
• Seraphim Guides
• Combat Arts
• Skills
• Area of Effect

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