Sacred 2:Armageddon

NOTE: The contents of this page are exclusive content found only by installing the player-made mega-mod Diablo 2 Fallen.

This terrible force of nature's vengeance rains down flaming stones around the Druid who cast it, pummelling any opponents foolish enough to be caught in its fury. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Primal Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 49-49 (Approx. 55% Physical and 45% Fire) Chance for splash damage: 25% Meteor Count: 52 Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 4.9s + 7.9s = 12.8 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Skull Smash - Adds a Chance to stun opponents (30% + 0.3% per level). Burning Rain - Increases the base fire damage of each meteor by 26.9 + 15.6 per level. Silver Wake - Increases the chance to cause area splash damage to nearby opponents by 25%. Smoldering Boulder - Increases the base physical damage of each meteor by 33.9 + 11.3 per level. Gold Devastation - Increases the chance for critical hits by 20.0% + 0.1% per level. Pyromancer - Decreases the cooldown gradually as Armageddon levels up.

Armageddon

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Primal Magic Lore - improves combat art damage, critical chance and casting speed, allows for modification points.

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

• 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 Burning (secondary damage effect) triggered by Armageddon's fire damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• An effective use of Armageddon would be to use it in conjunction with an immobilizing Combat Art like Poison Creeper. This can potentially allow the Druid to forgo the stunning mod and choose more fire damage.
• Choosing both damage mods gives the additional benefit that each meteor will do more damage. As not all the meteors will hit small size (normal) mobs, the more damage each meteor does the better if you plan to use it to kill normal mobs in addition to bosses.
• In order to improve the chance to hit target (non-boss) enemy the Druid should target the ground in front of the approaching enemy. Timing is key and if timed well the enemy will run into the stream of meteors as they land.
• Slow-moving enemies, such as zombies, can be targeted directly. The circle will show centered on where you first click, but the meteors will fall on where the enemy currently stands when they begin to first fall.
• Items with bonuses to Combat Art Range will increase the area of effect. This may be counterproductive for attempting to hit smaller targets however, as the meteors will have larger empty spaces between where they hit.
• Wake mod will boost the chance that enemies will still take splash damage even if they aren't directly hit by the meteors.
• Pyromancer mod will allow a constant barrage of meteors to be cast at high levels. Although the cooldown naturally decreases with level, Pyromancer will triple the speed it decreases, resulting in a negligible cooldown of 0.5s or less at high levels.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Multi-hit attack that can damage multiple enemies, or hit a big one and finish him off in one spell.
• Very good against large enemies like bosses (most meteors hit).
• One of the most powerful CAs in the game in terms of raw damage if modded for fire damage, physical damage and critical chance

Cons

• Long recharge time.
• Randomness of meteors it hard to use on moving enemies that don't stay near the Druid.
• Possible bug: after a certain point the number meteors displayed in the tooltip stops increasing and ends up much smaller (ex. Meteor Count of #19 at CA level 130). Will investigate to see if there is an upper limit to meteors.

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