Sacred 2:Battle Stance

This Combat Art is a (Buff) Increases attack and defense values as well as weapon damage. Aspect - Exalted Warrior Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Attack Value +15.0% Defense Value +15.0% Damage +12.0% Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +45% Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Premonition - Further increase attack value. (12.5% + 2.5% per Combat Art level increase) Aggression - Further increases weapon damage output. (5% + 1% per Combat Art level increase) Silver Drill - Reduces the energy cost of Battle Stance. ( If C is the Combat Art level, 100*(50 + C)/(1050 + C) percent reduced; ~5% at C = 1, ~6% at C = 10, ~9% at C = 50) Flexibility - Chance to evade weapon attacks. (20% + 0.2% per Combat Art level chance) Gold Idol - Extends a portion of the effects to party members. (50% effectiveness to party members, ~8.5m area of effect (estimation)) Retaliation - Small chance to reflect close combat damage. (~20% chance, increases slightly with each Combat Art level)

Battle Stance without Modifications

Skills

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases the damage bonus, allows for modifications to this combat art.
• Exalted Warrior Focus reduces regeneration time for this combat art and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, and just like Tactics Lore, it allows for modification points.
• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.
• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower the regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• Permanent
  
• Crucial for melee fighters.
  
  

Suggested Modification:

• Bronze: Premonition, with the extra attack value a player will hit hit more often, significantly increasing steady damage output (DPS)
  
• Silver: Drill, without this, a player's other Combat Arts may be significantly crippled regarding regeneration time if this Combat Art is raised to high level.
  
• Gold: Idol should be chosen if playing with others, Retaliation if not. The low chance of the retaliation limits it's usefulness, but if a player is not playing with others Idol may be useless
  
  

Note: In the console version, this Buff will create issues with scrolling in the Bonus Overview. The issues disappear when the Buff is deactivated.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Increased overall combat skill
• Permanent

Cons

• Without Drill, the regeneration for all other Combat Arts will be significantly lengthened.

Stats Chart

• Attack value is increased by 25 + 5*Combat Art - Level percent and 37.5 + 7.5*Combat Art - Level percent with Premonition.
• Defense value is increased by 25 + 5*Combat Art - Level percent.
• Weapon damage modifier is increased by 10 + 2*Combat Art - Level percentage points.

Retaliation stats:

CA level	1	2	3	4	5	6	7	8	9	10	11	12	13	14		30	50
Reflect, +%:	20.1	21.2	22.6	23.7	24.8	26	27.1	28.1	29.1	30.1	31.1	32	32.9	33.7		45	55

See Also

• Seraphim
• Combat Arts
• Skills
• Combat Art Modifications

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