Sacred 2:Grim Ward

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Summoning the ancient powers known to his people, a Barbarian This skill allows the Barbarian to fashion a totem out of the carcass of his slain enemies. The crippling damage caused by the resulting talisman serves as a grave warning to all foes. With additional training the warrior can increase the potency of the ward. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - War Cries Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage: 4-4 Physical Causes enemies to flee in fear Deactivates enemy buffs Firing Frequency: 1.0/s Duration: 15.1s Projectiles: #3 (3 simultaneous shots per firing) Projectiles seek and pierce through targets (cannot miss) Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 20.0s + 1.9s = 21.9s Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Hamstring - Hits slows down opponent movement speed by 30% + 0.2% per level. Power - Doubles the damage of Grim Ward. Silver Dire - Increases the chance for critical hits by 9.9% + 0.1% per level. Kindle - Increases the enemy's vulnerability to fire damage by 10% + 0.2% per level. Gold Perforate - Increases the chance to cause open wounds by 20% + 0.2% per level. Expose - Increases the enemy's vulnerability to ice damage by 10% + 0.2% per level.

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Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• War Cries Lore - increases damage, critical chance, and allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.

• Ancient Magic - increases the damage and lowers opponent's resistances to its damage.

• Combat Discipline - will increase its damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo.

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

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase the damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Grim Ward is intentionally designed with minuscule token damage. The projectiles mainly serve to inflict the various debuffs on enemies.
• The simultaneous shots along with the seeking and piercing behavior ensures that several enemies can be hit with each firing.
• The fear effect reapplies with each hit, meaning the enemy is often caught helplessly running back and forth, first one direction, then the other.
• Enemies like to immediately re-cast their buffs if they are stripped. Each hit of Grim Ward will debuff them yet again, which can catch enemies in a loop of trying to recast their buff.
• To maximize the damage take the modifications Power - Dire - Perforate. Using Grim Ward for killing requires these modifications plus investment in War Cries Lore, Ancient Magic, Combat Discipline, and lots of Damage +X% gear.
• To maximize the debuffing effects take the modifications Hamstring - Kindle - Expose.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Renders most enemies fairly helpless unless they are immune to fear.
• Strips enemy buffs
• Reapplies its effects with every shot

Cons

• Extremely low damage make it very hard to actually kill enemies with it

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