Sacred 2:Gust of Wind

A strong gust of wind that can damage, stun or knock back enemies. This Combat Art is called Flurry in the Rune exchange screen. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art Aspect - Elemental Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 90 + 45 per CA level Physical Knocks back any enemy hit by the gust Blow range 5.7 + 2 meters per CA level Max angle: 180 Regeneration Time: 4.9 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Stun - Chance to stun enemies. (33.4% + 0.2% per CA level) Poison Mist - Light poisoning. (Poison damage over time: 40 + 20 per CA level) Silver Radius - Increased radius of Gust of Wind. (+60 degree angle) Squall - Gust of Wind spreads faster. (25%) Gold Impact - Increased damage from rebound. (adds 30 + 15 per CA level physical damage) Poison Mist - Light poisoning. (Poison damage over time: 40 + 20 per CA level)

Gust of Wind Without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

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

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time.

• Ancient Magic - directly improves combat art damage and lowers opponents' resistance to its damage.

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art and lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of open wounds (secondary damage effect) triggered by Gust of Wind's physical damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Damage aside, this is an excellent CA for keeping enemies away from the Dragon Mage. After knocking back enemies with Gust of Wind, he can slam a Magic Barrier between himself and them, keeping opponents at a distance while picking them off with damaging spells.

• Use this Combat Art to either toss back a group of enemies (if you point somewhere close to your Mage), or to give one enemy a powerful blow (pointing further away from the character), effectively impaling it if aimed well.

• The Dragon Mage can impale multiple enemies with a single cast of Gust of Wind by moving closely along the edge of a group immediately after casting. The beam can then impale up to at least six enemies, thus allowing to one-shot small groups. Note that this may be a lag exploit.

Combo Recommendations

• Great at the end of a combo after one or two combat arts that do heavy damage over time, such as Energy Blaze, Eternal Fire, or a modded Mind Strike. Enemies will be knocked back by the gust, and before they can run back to the Dragon Mage, the damage over time will have depleted their health.

• Keep in mind that for some area-of-effect combat arts (Dragon Strike, Destroyers), the gust may actually push the enemies out of harm's way. So it should probably not go in a combo following one of those CA's.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• 100% knockback chance
• Can control the angle and radius (wide sweep or focused blast)

Cons

• If put late in a combo, it might not auto-target the desired enemy (firing in the wrong direction, or at some distant foe rather than a close one).
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See Also

• Dragon Mage
• Dragon Mage Guides
• Combat Arts
• Skills

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