Sacred 2:Fissure

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Sending his plea to the very core of the earth, the Druid rends the earth's very crust, tearing open volcanic vents beneath the feet of his adversaries, charring them to the bone. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Primal Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 20-20 (Approx. 70% Fire and 30% Physical) Fire Burning Frequency: 1.0/s Chance for Burning: 50% Duration: 10 seconds Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 5.0s + 8.3s = 13.3 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Magma - Increases the chance for burning by 25%. Severe - Increases the chance for critical hits by 9.9% + 0.1% per level. Silver Lava - Adds more fire damage (16.9 + 7.6 per level). Ether - Adds magic damage (16.9 + 7.6 per level). Gold Fury - Damage is doubled against enemies whose health is below 50% (Deathblow effect). Heat - Decreases enemies' fire resistance by 10% + 0.1% per level.

Fissure

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Primal 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 Burning (secondary damage effect) triggered by Fissure's fire damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Fissure has a very high innate Chance for Burn, the duration and damage of which is amplified greatly by Damage Lore.
• Modifying with Magma - Lava - Heat will maximize the burning powers of this spell.
• The Heat modification can soften up enemies for further attacks and spells inflicting fire damage.
• Can typically have 2 castings (4 volcanic vents) active simultaneously.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good area of effect spell with good range. Enemies do not have to be directly on top of the vents to be damaged by them.

Cons

• Takes time for each casting to inflict its full damage payload.
• No way to decrease the cooldown or increase the duration.

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