Sacred 2:Tornado

Unleashes a small tornado that moves towards the enemies. This Combat Art is called Whirlwind in the Rune exchange screen. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art Aspect - Elemental Magic Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 21-21 Physical (CM Patch adds Ice damage to the tornado) Attack frequency: 0.8/second (+ 0.02 per CA level) Damage increases + 25 per CA level Range: 30.0 meters Duration: 15.0s + 0.05s per CA level Cooldown + Regeneration Time: 12.3s + 4.9s = 17.9 seconds (Cooldown decreases -0.1% per CA level) Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Storm Force - The tornado deals more damage. (20 + 10 per CA level physical damage) StormZone - Tornado's area of effect increased. (Range +12.5 meters) Silver Unleashed - Tornado deals damage more often. (0.2 + 0.02 per CA level more hits per second) Tempest - Increased duration of the tornado. (5.0s + 0.03s per CA level) Gold Disarm - Chance to disarm the opponent for a few seconds. (20% + 0.01% chance per CA level) Critical - Increased chance for critical hits. (20% + 0.01% per CA level chance)

Tornado without Modifications

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Elemental 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 the secondary damage effects triggered by Tornado: Open Wounds and Freeze (if the CM Patch is installed).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• The tornado generally follows enemies, but slowly. It is best to move the character around it as needed, keeping enemies in its area-of-effect while using other attacks.

• Alternatively, just cast it and forget it, letting it cause mayhem while the Dragon Mage uses other spells.

• The mods Storm Zone, Tempest, and Critical will allow multiple tornados to wreak havoc on large areas.

Combo Recommendations

• Not the best choice for use in a combo given its initially long cooldown.

• One option is making a combo with Maelstrom - Tornado. The Maelstrom will slow enemies down and get them stuck in the Tornado's winds.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Seeks targets
• Wide area of effect
• Long duration
• Ice damage with CM Patch adds versatility and chance to freeze

Cons

• Irregular movements, slow
• Long cooldown

See Also

• Dragon Mage Guides
• Dragon Mage
• Combat Arts
• Skills