Sacred 2:Fire Bolt

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The Fire Bolt is among the first cantrips a young Sorceress must learn before travelling out into the known world. Gathering a small amount of elemental energies, the Sorceress hurls darts of pure fire at those who would seek to injure her. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Fire Spells Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage: 46-46 (34 Fire, 12 Physical) Fires one bolt Regeneration Time: 3.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Incinerate - Increases the chance that the hit opponent will burn (59.7% + 0.3% per level). Explosion - Fire Bolt has a good chance to inflict area effect damage on nearby opponents (59.5% + 0.5% per level). Silver Fusillade - Conjures additional fire bolts (number increases with level). Overall damage will be increased by 20% but divided between the bolts. Globe - Fire Bolt increases in power and inflicts more damage (adds 40 + 20 fire damage per level). Gold Fusillade - Conjures additional fire bolts (number increases with level). Overall damage will be increased by 20% but divided between the bolts. Hot Pursuit - Fire bolts will follow their targets.

Fire Bolt

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Fire Spells 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 Burning (secondary damage effect) triggered by Fire Bolt's fire damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• The number of bolts added with the Fusillade modifications scales slowly with CA level. The player can get up to 6 or even 7 fire bolts launching at once.
• Area of effect damage from Explosion mod has a fairly small radius and really only affects enemies tightly grouped together.
• If Fusillade and Hot Pursuit modifications are picked, the additional bolts will often target different monsters, sometimes far away.
• To mod for attacking groups, choose Explosion - Fusillade - Fusillade.
• To mod for maximizing single target damage, choose Incinerate - Globe - Hot Pursuit.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Very versatile skill
• Can be used against single and multiple enemies
• Good damage and area of effect damage (with mod)
• Can get to extremely low casting times (like 0.5s)

Cons

• Bolts can miss if the opponent moves out of the way. Even homing fire bolts can miss if an enemy is behind an obstacle.

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