Sacred 2:Leap Attack

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Because of his great strength, a trained Barbarian warrior is able to perform great leaps. These jumps are noteworthy, enabling the Barbarian to spring free of dangerous swarms of enemies, and landing with an impact that sends them reeling. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Tactical Warfare Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) A jump from one point to another (does not require a targeted enemy). Causes Area of Effect damage at the point of landing. Total Damage: 24-24 Physical Range (jump distance): 114.2 meters Regeneration Time: 7.4 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Crash - Adds a chance to knockback enemies when the Barbarian lands (55% + 0.5% per level). Shock - Decreases opponents' movement speed at the starting location of the jump by 30% + 0.5% per level. Silver Unaware - Decreases opponents' defense rating by 13% + 1% per level. Shock - Decreases opponents' movement speed at the starting location of the jump by 30% + 0.5% per level. Gold Stomp - Increases the base physical damage inflicted by 25 + 16 per level. Unbound - The Barbarian breaks all rooting effects when he uses Leap Attack.

Leap Attack

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases damage, critical chance, and allows for modification points.

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

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Barbarian is wielding an axe) - will increase the execution speed.

• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.

• Ancient Magic - increases the damage and lowers opponent's resistances to its damage.

• Combat Discipline - will increase its damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of open wounds (secondary damage effect) triggered by Leap Attack's physical damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase the damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Leap Attack is a spell, so it does not use the Barbarian's weapon damage. However it does use weapon attack speed for execution speed, which can be boosted by weapon lore skills. Likewise, the execution speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level.
• The Barbarian does not have to target a specific enemy to cast Leap Attack, which allows him to use it for exploration and escape.
• Using the modifier Combat Art Range +X% on gear will not increase the jump distance, however it will increase the range of the damage nova when the Barbarian lands. The radius of the nova can become quite huge.
• The debuffs from Shock and Unaware mods will last for 8 seconds, the duration slowly increasing to 18 seconds at max level. These debuffs will stack each time opponents are hit by Leap Attack, but with diminishing returns, so they will never reduce enemy speed or defense to "0".

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Very useful for exploration and escape.
• Damage can be boosted by 3 skills (Tactics Lore, Ancient Magic, and Combat Discipline).
• Can soften up mobs for follow-up attacks.

Cons

• Low damage limits killing power on its own.

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