Sacred 2:Poison Nova

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This spell befouls the atmosphere surrounding the caster. With an arcane chant, the Necromancer corrupts the very air we breathe and causes it to erupt in all directions. It is from years of investigation and preparation that the Necromancer can choose a poisonous gas that is toxic to the minions of evil, yet harmless to himself and his companions. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Poison and Bone Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 26-26 Poison Poison Damage Over Time: 4.5/s Radius: 4.5 Meters Duration: 5.0 seconds Regeneration Time: 10.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Contamination - Increases the chance to poison opponents by 30% + 0.1% per level. Blight - Increases the chance for critical hits by 30% + 0.1% per level. Silver Toxin - Increases the base poison damage inflicted by 28 + 24 per level. Effluvium - Increases the radius of Poison Nova by 50%. Gold Virulence - Increases the poison damage over time by 4.2/s + 2.6/s per level. Deadly Strike - Inflicts double damage when opponent health falls below 25%

Poison Nova

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - improves combat art damage, critical chance, allows for modification points.

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

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Magic Staves when the Necromancer is wielding a staff) - will increase the execution speed.

• 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 Poison Nova: Chance for Poisoning.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Note that, like all CA's in the Poison and Bone aspect, casting speed is determined by weapon speed, and can be boosted by weapon lore skills and +% attack speed. Likewise, the casting speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level. Tactics Lore serves as the aspect lore skill in terms of damage boost, critical chance, and modification points.
• Range can be expanded to great effect with silver mod Effluvium and/or Combat Art Range +X% modifier on gear. Effluvium will also increase the range scaling per level, so by max level the radius will be doubled.
• Cursing enemies beforehand with Lower Resist is highly recommended, especially for poison-resistant enemies.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good range and damage, inflicts both flat damage and DOT.
• Good for mobs and crowd control.

Cons

• Not very effective against large powerful single targets (bosses, dragons, etc.).

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