Sacred 2:Riding

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Riding

Grants the ability to ride better horses and reduces regeneration penalty while mounted (for all mounts). Additionally, special abilities may be unlocked.

• Mount Combat Arts +X% (refer to table below)

• Maximum Horse level +Y

Skill level	1	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	74	75	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	155	170	185	200
Combat Art, +%:	12,3	52,2	89,5	121	148,1	171,6	192,1	210,1	216,8	226	244	276,3	304,8	330,2	352,7	373	391,2	425,7	436,8	455,6	472,2
Run Speed, +%:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	15	16,2	18,4	20,3	22	23,5	24,8	26	27,7	29,1	30,3	31,4

Click here to see the full table

Mastery

• Increases Run Speed while mounted (unlocks Run Speed skill bonus). This is the only bonus that will make mounts move faster.

Properties

• This skill will unlock horse attributes that require Riding skill, like "Block chance (Riding)".

• Reduces the regeneration penalty for mounting, which is displayed on the mount as "Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts +X%" (a horse with +30% regen penalty, will have only +5% penalty at higher Riding skill). This bonus is diminishing, so you get less benefit at higher levels (don't expect to hit 0% penalty). You can see a full table example of this effect here, for a mount that gives 30% regen penalty.

• Increases the base damage of Rear Up and Charge horse Combat Arts by the "Mount Combat Arts +X%" percentage. If the horse is doing 100 damage while charging, Riding level 1 will increase that damage to 112.

• Does not affect regeneration of Combat Arts

• Does not affect the Cooldown of horse Combat Arts

• Does not affect non-horse Combat Art damage

• There is almost no visually noticeable increase in Run Speed after attaining Riding level 75 (30% won't make you move much faster than the initial 15%). The speed bonus is adding up however, and it doesn't seem to be affected by diminishing returns.

Breakpoints

• Maximum Horse Level is increased by 1 or 2 at first skill level (depending on character level) starting at character level value, and by 1 for every skill point after that. It is capped at 252.

• The Combat Art and Speed bonuses are increased in steps as shown in the Riding full table.

The Combat Art bonus at a given skill level x is given fairly precisely by the following formulas:

• 500*(x+1.5)/(x+100) Pre-Mastery
• 750*(x-32.5)/(x+66) Mastery

The Run Speed bonus at a given skill level x is given fairly precisely by the following formulas:

• 50*(x-32.5)/(x+66) Mastery

The bold marked numbers are the smallest upper bounds of this progression, which will never at any skill level be exceeded.

As an example, combat art bonus at x=75: 75 is the first mastery level, so we take the mastery formula and we have

750*(75-32.5)/(75+66) = 750*42.5/141 = 226.06

This value compared with the table value is a good example of the precision the formulas offer.