Sacred 2:Corpse Explosion

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Every corpse created as a result of a violent death carries with it the anguish of its final moments. With this spell the Necromancer is able to call upon those energies and focus them into a single violent force. This force then expels itself from the carcass with such power that it causes a dramatic explosion. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Poison and Bone Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 49-49 Physical 2.8 meter radius + 0.4m per level Regeneration Time: 3.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Greed - Adds a chance to receive additional items from the corpse (29.8% + 0.2% chance per level). Restore - The soul of a corpse will heal the Necromancer (9.9% + 0.1% total hitpoints healed per level). Silver Apocalypse - Adds fire damage to the explosions (45 + 27.5 per level). Violence - Adds a chance to stun opponents (30% + 0.3 % chance per level). Gold Danger Zone - Increases the damage range of the explosions by 50%. Plague - Adds poison damage over time to the explosions (5.2/s + 2.6/s per level).

Corpse Explosion

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - improves combat art damage, critical chance, allows for modification points.

• Poison and Bone Focus - reduces regeneration time and allows for higher level combat art without penalty, allows for modification points.

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Magic Staves when the Necromancer is wielding a staff) - will increase the execution speed.

• 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 the secondary damage effects triggered by Corpse Explosion.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Note that, like all CA's in the Poison and Bone aspect, casting speed is determined by weapon speed, and can be boosted by weapon lore skills and +% attack speed. Likewise, the casting speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level. Tactics Lore serves as the aspect lore skill in terms of damage boost, critical chance, and modification points.
• Range can be expanded to great effect with silver mod Danger Zone and/or Combat Art Range +X% modifier on gear.
• Apocalypse and Plague mods are recommended for maximizing raw damage.
• Cursing enemies beforehand with Lower Resist and/or Decrepify is highly recommended.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good scaling range and damage.
• Low regeneration time.

Cons

• Requires corpses.

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