Sacred 2:Inferno

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Using this spell, a Sorceress can reach into the depths of her opponents and cause them to burst into flames, incinerating them and spreading to any opponents standing nearby. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Fire Spells Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 23-23 Fire Fire Damage Over Time: 50 + 25 per level Plague Fire Damage: 160 + 320 per level Inflicts Deadly Strike (double damage) when opponent health is below 50% Duration: 4.0s + 0.1s per level Hits per Second: 2 Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 0.9s + 4.5s = 5.5 seconds (Cooldown decreases per CA level). Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Licking Flames - Fire can spread to enemies that are further away Smoldering - Effects of Inferno last longer (+ 2.0 seconds duration). Silver Fusillade - Conjures additional Infernos (number increases with level). Overall damage will be increased by 20% but divided between the bolts. Globe - Inferno increases in power and inflicts more damage (adds 40 + 20 fire damage per level). Gold Fusillade - Conjures additional Infernos (number increases with level). Overall damage will be increased by 20% but divided between the bolts. Hot Pursuit - Infernos will follow their targets.

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Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Fire Spells 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 Burning (secondary damage effect) triggered by Inferno'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

• The number of bolts added with the Fusillade modifications scales slowly with CA level. The player can get up to 6 or even 7 Infernos launching at once.
• Area of effect damage from Explosion mod has a fairly small radius and really only affects enemies tightly grouped together.
• If Fusillade and Hot Pursuit modifications are picked, the additional bolts will often target different monsters, sometimes far away.
• To mod for attacking groups, choose Explosion - Fusillade - Fusillade.
• To mod for maximizing single target damage, choose Incinerate - Globe - Hot Pursuit.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Very versatile skill
• Can be used against single and multiple enemies
• Good damage and area of effect damage (with mod)
• Can get to extremely low casting times (like 0.5s)

Cons

• Bolts can miss if the opponent moves out of the way. Even homing Infernos can miss if an enemy is behind an obstacle.

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