Sacred 2:Shiver Armor

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This Combat Art is a (Buff) This icy shield both protects the Sorceress and deals an icy blast to any attackers, numbing them with cold, searing pain. Those seeking to engage the Sorceress shall soon feel the icy bite of their folly. Aspect - Cold Spells Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 6-6 Cold Resistance Bonus: 40 + 15 per level Cold armor Defense Rating: 45% + 7.5% per level Radius: 2 meters Hits per second: 0.5 (i.e., hits once every 2 seconds) Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +35.0% Regeneration Time: Aspect Cold Spells -29.5% (this almost entirely offsets the above penalty) Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Freeze - Slows movement speed of opponents in melee range by 19.8% + 0.2% per level (duration is 6 seconds). Frozen Armor - Adds a chance to reflect ranged weapon damage back to the attacker (30% + 0.7% per level). Silver Cold Mastery - Increases opponents' sensitivity to cold damage by 20% + 0.5% per level (duration is 6 seconds). Rime Armor - Further increases the Sorceress's base cold armor by 25 + 15 per level. Gold Expertise - Decreases the regeneration penalty of Shiver Armor by 25%. Chilling Armor - Additionally increases all inflicted cold damage by 50% + 2% per level.

Shiver Armor

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Cold Spells Lore - improves the damage and critical chance of the ice damage, directly improves the cold armor resistance bonus, increases casting speed, allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time penalty

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

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of Freeze (secondary damage effect) triggered by Shiver Armor's cold damage.

• Armor Lore - will indirectly increase the cold resistance bonus by a percentage (after it is added to the player's other sources of armor).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• This is a premium buff for an Ice Sorceress. It protects from cold damage and adds a percent to defense rating, in addition to causing low level cold damage to all surrounding enemies.
• Bronze and Silver mods: the offensive choices are Freeze and Cold Mastery which will debuff enemies. These debuffs last for 6 seconds, so with Shiver Armor hitting once every 2 seconds, these debuffs can stack up to three times.
• Cold Mastery works like reverse damage mitigation, increasing enemy sensitivity to all cold damage. It can pierce cold immunities and affects even enemies without any cold resistance.
• Bronze and Silver mods: the defensive choices are Frozen Armor and Rime Armor.
• Gold mod: Expertise is the mod of choice for Sorceress who are specializing in other aspects, because it will reduce the regeneration penalty. Cold Sorceresses may find this mod redundant because this buff already has a negligible impact on Cold Spells regeneration times. They may prefer Chilling Armor instead which will boost all inflicted cold damage from all spells and weapons.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Virtually no penalty to the Cold Spells aspect.
• Has both offensive and defensive effects.

Cons

• Penalizes regeneration of other aspects.

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