Sacred 2:Raging Nimbus

A raging blizzard sweeps across the target area damaging opponents with lightning and additionally slowing them down considerably. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Mystic Stormite Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Area of Effect spell with 73% Physical and 27% Ice Damage. Percent of Ice damage increases per Combat Art level. Total Damage: 11-11 (8-8 Physical, 3-3 Ice) Blizzard Duration: 6.0 seconds. Duration is fixed. Opponent's Movement Speed: -23.0%. Movement Penalty will increase per Combat Art level Regeneration Time: 9.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Hurricane - Increases lightning frequency. (50% increase in hit speed) Wrath - Ice damage of lightning is increased. (71.4% increase in Ice damage) Silver Momentum - Further decreases movement speed of opponent caught in blizzard. (19.8% + 0.2% per CA level further decrease) Roar - Reduces the attack value of affected opponents. (500 + 20 per CA level, see below) Gold Cyclone - Increases the duration of the blizzard (50% increase) Extended Nimbus - Increases the radius of the blizzard. (+25%)

Raging Nimbus without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Mystic Stormite 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 the secondary damage effects triggered by Raging Nimbus: Open Wounds and Freeze.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• A standard AoE that can be modded either for damage or for mass debuffing of monster attack values.

• The Roar mod uses a particular formula to calculate the attack value reduction: 1-1/(1+(500+20*CA lvl)/1000). For level 1, this gives 1-1/(1+(500+20*1)/1000) = 34.2% reduction, level 10 gives 1-1/(1+(500+20*10)/1000) = 41.2% reduction, level 50 gives 1-1/(1+(500+20*50)/1000) = 60% reduction.

• Increase its range with +combat art range item modifiers.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good damage and debuffs to mobs of enemies
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Cons

• Doesn't move around
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See Also

• High Elf
• High Elf Combat Arts
• Skills
• High Elf Guides

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