Sacred 2:Vengeance

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When a Paladin undertakes a crusade to banish evil, she is permitted to call upon the just souls of past crusades. Thus summoned, the spirits of the honorably vanquished manifest themselves and lend their energies to the weapons of the Paladin. A powerful weapon attack with extra fire, ice and lightning (magic) damage added. This is a Weapon Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Sublime Combat Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) A single-target hard hit weapon attack. Total Damage (wielding starting weapon): 49-55 (34-40 Physical, 5 Magic, 5 Fire, 5 Ice) Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon. Has an innate bonus to attack rating. Regeneration Time: 3.6 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Aim - Increases the chance to land critical hits by 29.8% + 0.2% per level. Bleeding - Increases the chance for open wounds (physical damage over time) by 60%. Silver Precision - Adds a chance opponents cannot evade Vengeance (30% + 0.2% per level). Battering - Adds a chance to bypass enemy armor, dealing full damage (20% + 0.5% per level). Gold Incision - Chance to inflict a crushing blow that will decrease the target's base hitpoints for a brief period (25% + 0.5% per level). Deadly Strike - Inflicts double damage when the opponent's health has fallen below 25%.

Vengeance

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

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

• Any weapon lore (such as Sword Weapons when the Paladin is wielding a sword) - 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 Vengeance, based on the damage types on the equipped weapon.

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

• Keep the CA level either very high and use it as a one hit wonder to kill off champs and on bosses, and utilize from the high CA lvl and gain high chance for modification effects.
• Or keep it very low and use it as your main attack when other combat arts are regenerating.
• Works great with Conviction, which lowers enemy resistance to elemental damage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• High damage with various elemental damage types built in
• Modifications can cause major damage even to bosses and superuniques

Cons

• Single-target only

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