Sacred 2:Soul Reaver

This Combat Art is a (Buff) Raises the souls of fallen corpses. These will surround the Inquisitor for a while before they disappear again. Each fresh soul provides an additional boost to the Inquisitor's attack and defense, as well as resetting the souls' lifespan. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Nefarious Netherworld Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Attack Value: +15.0% Defense Value: +15.0% Soul Lifespan: 15.1 seconds Regeneration time of All Combat Arts: +35.0% Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Deathmagic - Souls inflict magic damage to nearby opponents. (10 + 5 per CA level magic damage (+damage modifiers)) Zealot - Increases the lifespan of each reanimated soul. (50% increase) Silver Recreation - Increases the Inquisitor's hitpoint regeneration rate while he is accompanied by souls. (1hp/s + 1hp/s per CA level healed) Source - Decreases the regeneration time of combat arts while the Inquisitor is accompanied by souls. (10% + 0.5% per CA level decrease) Gold Zealot - Increases the lifespan of each reanimated soul. (50% increase) Soul Imbiber - Heals the Inquisitor every time he collects a soul. (10% healed)

Soul Reaver without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Nefarious Netherworld Lore - improves magic damage and critical chance of the "Deathmagic" mod. Improves casting speed and allows for modification points.
• Nefarious Netherworld Focus - reduces regeneration time penalty and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.
• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time penalty.
• Ancient Magic - directly improves magic damage of the "Deathmagic" mod and lowers opponents' resistance to its damage.
• Combat Discipline - will increase the magic damage of the "Deathmagic" mod.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase damage and spell intensity of the "Deathmagic" mod.
• Stamina will lower regeneration time penalty.

Usage Strategies

• Teleporting out of an area will reset the number of souls you have to 0.
• Combat arts that kill large numbers of enemies at once (Clustering Maelstrom) can immediately charge up Soul Reaver to high levels.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• With many souls consumed will provide invincibility
• ...

Cons

• All but useless if no souls are around (bosses etc.)
• Does not work if the enemies don't provide a corpse after death such as anything that explodes for example: energy beings, demonic eyes, seekers, mutated scarabs and some other types.

Stats Chart

Level	Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts	Attack Value	Defense Value	Soul Lifespan
1	+35.0%	+15.0%	+15.0%	15.0s
2	+52.5%	+17.0%	+17.0%	15.2s

See Also

• Inquisitor
• Inquisitor Combat Arts
• Skills
• Inquisitor Guides

Gallery

Casting the Buff

Freshly Cast

Fully Charged with Souls

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