Sacred 2:Blade Shield

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This Combat Art is a (Buff) This contrivance releases several small razors and uses magnetic forces to set them spinning about the Assassin, inflicting grievous wounds on any foe who approaches him too closely. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Traps Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 9-9 Physical Physical Resistance Bonus: 25 + 15 per level Defense Rating: 50 + 50 per level Chance for Open Wounds: 32.5% + 0.2% per level Damage Frequency: 1.0/s Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +40% Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Stab - Increases the base physical damage of Blade Shield by 50%. Weapon Block - Adds physical damage mitigation to the shield (20%). Silver Parry - Adds a chance to block ranged weapon damage (30% + 1% per level). Trauma - Adds a chance to stun opponents (50% + 0.1% per level). Gold Stab - Increases the base physical damage of Blade Shield by 50%. Avenge - Adds a chance to reflect melee damage (35% + 0.4% per level).

Blade Shield

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Traps Lore - improves combat art damage, resistance bonus, critical chance and casting speed, allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time penalty.

• Ancient Magic - directly improves combat art damage and lowers opponents' resistance to its damage.

• Combat Discipline - will increase the damage of this combat art.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of the Open Wounds secondary damage effect triggered by Blade Shield's physical damage.

• Armor Lore - will indirectly increase the physical resistance bonus by a percentage (after it is added to the player's other sources of armor).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• The offensive mod choices would be Stab - Trauma - Stab. This would be best for a close combat Assassin.

• The defensive path would be Weapon Block - Parry - Avenge. This would be best for maximizing survivability.

• The Chance to Stun opponents from Trauma will reach 70% at max level.

• The Chance for Open Wounds will reach 75% at max level.

• Damage Mitigation from Weapon Block is fixed at 20% but can still stack with Toughness, Cloak of Shadows, and other sources of Damage Mitigation with the possibility for 100% physical immunity.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Has both offensive and defensive uses.

Cons

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