Sacred 2:Wake of Inferno

NOTE: The contents of this page are exclusive content found only by installing the player-made mega-mod Diablo 2 Fallen.

The Assassin riddles the ground around himself with small fire traps that protect him from ice and incinerate any opponents who move too close. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Traps Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 3-3 Fire Area of Effect combat art. Spawns 1 damage point (will appear as a fire crater) per monster on the screen. Duration: 10.0 seconds Fire Resistance (Opponent): -10.1% Mitigation: Cold: 10.1% Range: 7.4 meters Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 15.0s + 12.0s = 27.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Incinerate - Increases the base fire damage of Wake of Inferno by 50%. Scald - Decreases opponents' Attack Speed by 20% + 0.5% per level. Silver Frost Protection - Further increases cold damage mitigation by 20% + 0.1% per level. Churn - Further increases opponents' fire sensitivity by 20% + 0.1% per level. Gold Conservation - The radius of Wake of Inferno will now increase as it levels up. Sustain - The duration of Wake of Inferno will now increase as it levels up by 0.05s per level.

Wake of Inferno

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Traps Lore - improves combat art damage, 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.

• 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 Burning secondary damage effects triggered by Wake of Inferno'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

• Can be useful against very large mobs that are not moving, for example enemies within melee range.

• The effect follows the Assassin around while it lasts.

• The duration is fixed at 10 seconds unless the player takes the Sustain gold mod. Taking this mod will slowly increase the duration, allowing it to catch up to the 15s cooldown at level 100, allowing constant Wake of Inferno if the regen time is kept low. At max level 200, the duration will reach 20s.

• The radius is fixed at a modest 7.4m unless the player takes the Sea of Flames gold mod. Taking this mod will slowly increase the range, effectively tripling it by max level 200. This boost can be combined with Combat Art Range +X% item modifiers, dramatically increasing the radius and killing everything on the screen.

• The reduction to enemy fire resistance actually increases damage sensitivity, working like reverse Damage Mitigation. It will affect all enemies, whether they are fire-immune or whether they have no fire resistance at all.

• Due to its reduction to enemy fire resists, it's useful to cast Wake of Inferno before attacking with CA's like Fire Blast or fire-damage weapons socketed with a Jewel of Flame.

• Wake of Inferno has a mutual exclusivity with the enemy spell Icy Evanescence. If the two spells are cast in an overlapping area, whichever is the higher level will cancel out the other. There are 4 enemies that can use Icy Evanescence:
  • The Fury Broodmother
  • The Ice Lord
  • The Summoner
  • Archbishop Lazarus
• The Assassin can use Wake of Inferno to cancel out the enemy's Icy Evanescence, but beware if Wake of Inferno is too low level -- the enemy will banish the Assassin's spell instead!

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Area of effect damage
• Weakens enemies to other fire attacks
• Protects from cold damage
• Can banish certain enemy spells (if higher level)

Cons

• Low damage early on
• 15s cooldown can't be decreased
• Can be banished by certain enemy spells (if lower level)

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