Sacred 2:Edaphic Lances

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Spears break out of the ground and damage everyone who touches them.

Aspect

See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications

Bronze

Thorns - Adds more thorns to Edaphic Lances. (33.3% increase from base value)
Density - Decreases distance between thorns, thus causing more damage to nearby opponents. (+100 (??))

Silver

Thorns - Adds more thorns to Edaphic Lances. (33.3% increase from base value)
Stings - Each thorn inflicts more damage. (41.7% increased physical damage)

Gold

Barbs - Successful hits have an increased chance to inflict bleeding wounds. (25% + 0.2% per CA level chance)
Singe - Thorns inflict additional fire damage. (33.3% from base damage, damage type fire)

The following skills 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 reduce Regeneration Time.
Edaphic Lances launches a stream of thorns projecting from the ground. They launch in a straight and narrow line in the direction of casting.
This CA has a "wind-up" before it can affect monsters, although +cast speed% modifiers will help to decrease it.
Edaphic Lances works most effectively against large, slow opponents who will be hit by many thorns at once. It is less effective against small opponents who are likely to only contact a single thorn. At high CA levels this becomes less of a problem, as the damage increases significantly.
The "Density" Bronze Mod is not especially useful, as it's primarily the damage of the thorns that determines its effectiveness. Also, this CA naturally decreases the density of the thorns with additional runes read.

Pros

At high CA levels, can do very high damage to large monsters (bosses, dragons).
Acute Mind Combat Art can be used to significantly increase the damage on this attack.

Cons

Difficult to hit more than a few targets at once unless they are lined up, due to the linear nature of the Combat Art.
Is not very effective early in a character's life, due to low starting damage.