Sacred 2:Arctic Blast

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Aided by the will of the North Winds, the Druid conjures up a chilling torrent of frost that incapacitates all caught within the frozen blast. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art Aspect - Elemental Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 18-18 Ice Enemies hit by Arctic Blast are pushed back Blow range 5.7 meters Max angle: 90 degrees Regeneration Time: 5.2 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Stun - Chance to stun enemies. (33.4% + 0.2% per CA level) Frostbite - Adds ice damage over time (20 + 20 per level). Duration 2 seconds. Silver Range - Increases the radius of Arctic Blast by 30 degrees. Impact - Increases base ice damage by 10 + 7.5 per level. Gold Squall - Arctic Blast spreads faster. (25%) Frostbite - Adds ice damage over time (20 + 20 per level). Duration 2 seconds.

Arctic Blast

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Elemental Magic 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 Freeze (secondary damage effect) triggered by Arctic Blast's ice damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Damage aside, this is an excellent CA for keeping enemies away from the Druid.

• Use this Combat Art to either toss back a group of enemies (if you point somewhere close to your character ), or to give one enemy a powerful blow (pointing further away from the character), effectively impaling it with a "shotgun" effect if aimed well.

• Frostbite - Impact - Frostbite is a good modification setup for boss-killing, while Stun - Range - Squall is more effective for crowd control.

• Keep in mind that for some area-of-effect combat arts (Hurricane), the blast may actually push the enemies out of harm's way. So it should probably not go in a combo following one of those CA's.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• 100% knockback chance (not true knockback, but rather a "push" effect that can't be resisted).
• Can control the angle and radius (wide sweep or focused blast)

Cons

• If put late in a combo, it might not auto-target the desired enemy (firing in the wrong direction, or at some distant foe rather than a close one).

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