Sacred 2:Tangled Vine

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A root sprouts from the ground, holding opponents in one place while damaging them.

Aspect

Regeneration Time: 6.0s
Damage: 9-9
Attacks: 0.8/s (0.8 shots every second, not to be confused with 1 shot every 0.8 seconds)
Duration: 5.0s

See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications

Bronze

Tendrils - Increases the damage of the strangling roots. (50% increased physical damage)
Sprawl - Increased duration of Tangled Vine. (40% increase)

Silver

Singe - Roots inflict additional fire damage. (50% from base physical damage, but damage type fire)
Impair - Reduces the rooted opponents attack speed. (20% + 0.5% per CA level)

Gold

Encroach - Increases the range of Tangled Vine. (400% + 2% per CA level increased area of effect)
Intent - Increased chance to land critical hits. (15% chance)

The following skills and attributes will affect this combat art:

Intelligence will raise its damage
Stamina will decrease its regeneration
Nature Weaver Focus will decrease its regeneration
Nature Weaver Lore will raise its damage
Concentration will decrease its regeneration
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.

Acute Mind will increase this Combat Art's damage significantly and reduces the Regeneration Time.
Causes vines to erupt from the ground and encircle a single enemy. This enemy is not able to move for the duration of the vines. Melee enemies who are out of attack range do nothing. Enemies with ranged attacks or spells may or may not continue attacking.
The Encroach Gold mod causes the area of effect of the Combat Art to expand, allowing for multiple enemies to be trapped in the vines. Early on, this is typically 3-4 enemies at once, depending on their proximity to one another.
The size of the vines varies noticeably, as the same visual effect of vines is scaled depending on the size of the enemy. Rats and other tiny creatures are surrounded by tiny tendrils, and dragons are surrounded by thick vines.

Pros

Extremely effective at disabling bosses
The Encroach modification can be used to turn this Combat Art into an Area of Effect attack
Acute Mind will seriously increase the damage on this Combat Art and make it effective for quickly killing bosses
Does decent starting damage

Cons