Sacred 2:Cascading Shroud

The High Elf becomes wisp-like in substance. Her fogged appearance makes her a difficult target for weapons, but increases her vulnerability to fire. Aspect - Mystic Stormite Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Chance to Evade Attacks: +6.0%. Increases per Combat Art level. Damage Mitigation: Physical +30.2%. Increases per Combat Art level. Sensitivity: Fire +50% (fixed, can be countered by taking the "Steam" mod). Duration: 20.1 seconds. Increases per Combat Art level Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 60.0s + 1.0s = 61.0 seconds. Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Faint - Reduces the probability of being struck by weapons. (4% + 0.2% per CA level chance to evade) Mist - Additionally reduces physical damage. (20% + 0.2% per CA level damage mitigation) Silver Intangible - Chance to fully resist root effects. (49.5% + 0.5% per CA level Block chance: Root) Inconspicuous - Reduces the chance to be detected by opponents. (10% + 5% per CA level reduced chance) Gold Steam - Reduces the vulnerability to fire effects. (10% + 0.4% per CA level damage mitigation) Facileness - Increases run speed while Cascading Shroud is active. (20% + 0.2% per CA level increase)

Cascading Shroud without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Mystic Stormite Lore - improves casting speed and allows for modification points.

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

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time

• Combat Discipline - will lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• It's a wonderful skill to keep up at all times. Severely reduces the physical damage the High Elf receives and can be modded to avoid detection by monsters, thus walking around them and picking them off at will. However, one should exercise serious caution against monsters and bosses with fire-based attack, as it will inflict additional damage because of the penalty that is coming with Cascading Shroud.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Great physical damage mitigation
• Flexible - can be modded for evasion or further reduction of physical damage
• Makes you hard to detect by monsters with the silver modification "inconspicuous", HE becomes fully invisible on 18 CA level
• Can be used for a speed boost or to run away from a difficult situation with the proper mod

Cons

• One should exercise extreme caution around monsters and bosses with fire-based attack
• It has a limited duration and no way to reduce the lengthy cooldown.

Stats Chart

• Chance to Evade Attacks is 6 + 0.3*CA Level percent and 8 + 0.5*CA Level with Faint.
• Physical damage mitigation is 30 + 0.2*CA Level percent and 50 + 0.4*CA Level with Mist. Cascading Shroud with Mist will provide complete physical damage immunity by CA level 125.
• Sensitivity to fire is 50% and 50-(10 + 0.4*CA Level) with Steam. Steam completely negates the fire damage vulnerability at CA Level 100 and any further CA Levels will actually increase Fire damage mitigation.
• Duration is 20 + 0.1*CA Level seconds.

See Also

• Temporary Buff
• High Elf
• High Elf Combat Arts
• Skills
• High Elf Guides

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