Sacred 2:Fire Blast

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This combat art gives an Assassin the ability to manufacture and throw a small incendiary device. This ordinance explodes on impact, damaging any foe that treads within its small blast radius. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Traps Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 37-37 Fire Chance for burning: 54.5% + 0.5% per level Seeks targets Duration: 15 seconds Regeneration Time: 8.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Intensity - Increases the chance to cause a critical hit by 14% + 2% per level. Combust - Increases the chance for burning by 24.5% + 0.5% per level. Silver Splash - Adds a chance to damage nearby opponents (60% + 0.5% per level). Helpless - Briefly reduces the target's attributes by 10% + 0.2% per level. Gold Blaze - Causes additional fire damage over time (40 + 20 per level). Disable - Fire Blast deactivates enemy buffs.

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Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Traps 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 the Burning secondary damage effects triggered by Fire Blast'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

• Fire Blasts are a bit like living traps. They spawn (roughly) where you target and then seek out nearby enemies to damage.

• The duration never increases but the regeneration time can be brought quite low with Concentration, Traps Focus, Stamina, and other sources of Regeneration Time -X%. This can allow for several traps active at once, compounding the damage significantly.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good damage
• High chance for secondary effect
• Seeks targets
• Can have multiple active at once

Cons

• Doesn't always spawn exactly where you target

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