Sacred 2:Detrimental magic effects

The Detrimental magic effects primarily include the five Secondary Damage Effects. They also include effects like Root(confirmed) and Deep/Deadly/Serious Open Wounds(unconfirmed).

• Chance for Burn +X% - Fire Damage over time. Duration is 5 seconds.

• Chance for Freeze +X% - Chance to freeze is a 25% slow down of movement and Attack Speed.

• Chance for Poison +X% - Poison Damage over time. Duration is 5 seconds.

• Chance for Weaken +X% - Weaken will reduce Attributes by 20%.

• Chance to Inflict Open Wounds +X% - Physical Damage over time. Duration is 5 seconds.

Detrimental Magic Effects have a chance to occure when an enemy is hit by a weapon or Combat Art and inflict a percent of the damage that caused an effect over time of 5 seconds (the actual value for effect duration is about 490 frames, which could have been interpreted as 4.9 seconds, but the game applies damage once a second; so in practice the effect deals damage over five seconds in five pulses - the first four deal full damage and the fifth one deals 10% less). If such effect was caused by a Critical Hit then the damage inflicted by that effect also increases by 20%. If Detrimental effect was caused by a hit with failed Spell Resistance/Spell Intensity check, this effect's damage is likewise decreased by 30%. Several Detrimental effects stack, so an enemy can be suffering from several effects at the same time. However, only one effect would be displayed. If the defender's Spell Resistance exceeds Spell Intensity of the attacker (a player's character would need 2400+ of resistancce against the enemies of level 200+), the damage dealt by detrimental magic effects would be noticeably reduced. It works only against CAs that deal flat damage and have a chance for detrimental effects. If an attack inflicts such effect (for example, Burn effect from a Dragon's fireball or Poison from Kobold Shaman's projectiles) then the duration of effect on highly resistant character would be reduced to 1 second and the damage dealt by the one remaining pulse would be divided by 6. Therefore the detrimental effect deals only 4% of its original damage.

Availability of Detrimental magic effects -X% as Item Modifier

The "-X%" refers to the amount of time rooted as well as the damage/duration of the various elemental Secondary Damage Effects.

This modifier is available on the following unique items as a yellow modifier (that requires no skill):

• Wall of Flames

This modifier is available on the following unique jewelry as a yellow modifier (that requires no skill):

• Wings of Death

This modifier is available on the following Set Items as a yellow modifier (that requires no skill):

• Pyx's Power
• Torik's Oath
• Mavv's Vow
• Helmet of Insanity
• Spaulders of Responsibility
• Torik's Protection
• Mavv's Pad

See Also

• Damage
• Damage Types