Sacred 2:Stun

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An experienced Barbarian can learn to strike an opponent in areas that promote the maximum effect. By putting enough strength behind an attack, he can create a zone of force so powerful it leaves opponents dazed and unable to strike back or flee. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Tactical Warfare Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) An Area of Effect spell. Damage: 19-19 Physical 100% Chance to Stun Radius: 2.2 meters Duration: 5 seconds Regeneration Time: 5.9 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Gash - Increases the chance for open wounds by 29.7% + 0.4% per level. Clobber - Increases the damage of Stun by 10 + 10 per level. Silver Burst - Increases the radius of Stun by 50%. Shockwave - Inflicts additional physical damage over time (1.1/s + 1.1/s per level). Gold Smash - Adds a chance to land a crushing blow that decreases the opponent's hitpoints by 20% for 10s (20% + 0.2% chance per level). Coldcock - Inflicts Deadly Strike (double damage) when opponent health falls below 25%.

Stun

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases damage, critical chance, and allows for modification points.

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

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Barbarian is wielding an axe) - will increase the execution speed.

• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time.

• Ancient Magic - increases the damage and lowers opponent's resistances to its damage.

• Combat Discipline - will increase its damage and reduce its regeneration time if this Combat Art is placed within a combo.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of open wounds (secondary damage effect) triggered by Stun's physical damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase the damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Stun is a spell, so it does not use the Barbarian's weapon damage. However it does use weapon attack speed for execution speed, which can be boosted by weapon lore skills. Likewise, the execution speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level.
• The Barbarian does not have to target a specific enemy to cast Stun. However, he must move into melee range of the target location to use it. He cannot cast it long-range.
• Opponents are stunned for 3 seconds. After being stunned, opponents have a 4.5 second immunity to stun. This prevents stun-lock exploits.
• Range can be increased by Combat Art Range +X% on gear. In addition, the Burst mod alone will triple the radius by max level 200.
• The item modifier "Opponent Level for Deadly Strike" (deathblow) does not normally work on spells, however by taking the gold mod Coldcock this item modifier will apply to Stun, raising the threshold at which double damage is triggered.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• 100% chance to stun.

Cons

• Low damage limits killing power on its own.

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