Sacred 2:Nova

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With this attack the Sorceress creates a wave of electrical energy radiating from her fingertips, bathing all nearby enemies with its destructive force. This spell is ideal for defeating melee opponents who swarm too closely. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Lightning Spells Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 23-23 Magic Magic Damage Over Time: 5.5/s Radius: 9 meters Duration: 5 seconds (applies to debuffs from bronze mods) Regeneration Time: 14.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Delirium - Decreases opponents' attack speed by 30% + 0.2% per level. Blind - Decreases opponents' attack rating by 30% + 1% per level. Silver Blast - Increases the base magic damage inflicted by 50%. Expansion - Increases the radius of the Nova by 50%. Gold Afterglow - Increases the magic damage over time by 50%. Paralyze - Adds a chance to stun opponents (20% + 0.1% per level).

Nova

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Lightning Spells 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 Weaken (secondary damage effect) triggered by Nova's magic damage.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity

• Stamina will lower regeneration time

Usage Strategies

• Useful for when enemies swarm. Launch it after Frost Nova for a one-two AoE punch.
• Bronze mods apply their debuffs for 5 seconds. This duration slowly scales as Nova levels up, lasting for 15 seconds at max levels. These debuffs stack with each cast, but are subject to diminishing returns, so will never reduce the opponent's attack rating or attack speed to "0".
• With the Expansion mod, the radius of the Nova can be almost tripled at max level. Even without Expansion, Combat Art Range +X% can boost the radius of the nova to be quite large.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good area of effect damage spell
• Can slow down and stun enemies

Cons

• Enemies need to be close to the Sorceress

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