Sacred 2:Dragon Strike

Calls a dragon for aerial attacks. A dragon flies over and casts a massive fireball, doing area-of-effect fire damage over time. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art Aspect - Dragon Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 19-19 Fire Dragon Fire Burning Frequency: 1.3/s Opponents Attack Value: -34.2% (improves with CA level) Area of Effect Range: 10 meters Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 3.9s + 8.9s = 12.9 seconds (Cooldown decreases per CA level). Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Heat - Fire burns faster (reduces time between damage pulses) (+0.34 hits per second). Terror - Targets are stunned for a short time. (50% + 0.5% chance per CA level) Silver Heat - Fire burns faster (reduces time between damage pulses) (+0.34 hits per second). Blind - Decreases target's hit value (-16.7% further decrease to opponent's attack value). Gold Fury - Fire burns stronger (increases damage, ~33%). Scatter - Area of effect increased. (+2.5 meters to combat art range).

Dragon Strike Without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Dragon Magic Lore - improves combat art damage (but not the opponent attack penalty), critical chance and casting speed, allows for modification points.

• Dragon 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 Dragon Strike'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

• Useful for inflicting area of effect damage on mobs and large bosses.

• Mod with Heat-Heat-Fury to maximize damage and killing power.

• Mod with Terror-Blind-Scatter to debuff as many enemies as possible.

Combo Recommendations

Should go at the start of any combo, because the dragon takes a moment to fly over and launch the fireball.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• High damage, wide area of effect.
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Cons

• The dragon can get stuck on trees, buildings and the landscape, causing his fireball to miss or to fail to fire.
• Almost useless in underground and indoor areas.

See Also

• Dragon Mage
• Dragon Mage Guides
• Combat Arts
• Skills

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