Sacred 2:Damage Lore

Damage Lore

Increases the chance to trigger secondary effects (burn, freeze, weaken, poison) of the respective damage types.

• Chance for Secondary Effect +X%

Damage Lore Mastery

Increases the chance to trigger secondary effects (burn, freeze, weaken, poison) of the respective damage types, while also increasing their effectiveness and their damage.

• Chance for Secondary Effect +X%
• Additional Damage/Duration of Secondary Effects +X%

Increases the chance to trigger non-physical Secondary Effects (burn, freeze, weaken, poison) of the respective damage types.

NOTE: Wounds are exempt from the usual rules of other secondary damage effects and Damage Lore has not effect on them. There is no base chance to inflict them with normal physical damage and have to be obtained through other means (CA mods, or items).

Chance for Secondary Effect +X%

• Stacks additively with all other sources of Chance for Effect +X% (burn, freeze, weaken, poison).

Additional Damage/Duration of Secondary Effects +X%

• Requires skill mastery.
• It appears to affect only burn and poison. It does not affect freeze and weaken at all. It also does not affect spell DOT.
• It only increases the damage of said secondary effects. It does not increase the duration.
• The percentage in the tooltip is calculated incorrectly. The actual percentage is 100 points lower. For example, at skill level 75 the tooltip states +235.6%, but the total damage of the secondary effects is increased by only +135.6%.

How to calculate the values for a given skill level

See this page: Damage Lore - formulas and tables

Tooltip values

Skill level	1	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	74	75	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	155	170	185	200
Chance of Effect, +%:	1,3	6,1	10,6	14,5	17,7	20,6	23	25,2	26	27,1	29,2	33	36,5	39,5	42,2	44,7	46,9	49,7	52,4	54,5	56,5
Damage/Duration, +%:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	235,6	246,3	265,7	282,8	298,1	311,6	323,7	334,7	349,3	362,1	373,3	383,2

Click here to see the full table

Notes

• Multiple different (not similar) effects can be triggered on a single hit, but only the "first" will get a graphical effect. Using certain Combat Arts character can trigger multiple different Secondary Damage Effects per hit.

• A monster can be affected by multiple different effects simultaneously, until their duration runs out.

• Damage Lore increases the chance for the burning (fire), poisoning (poison), weaken (magic) & freeze (ice) effects regardless of the source (normal hits with weapons, weapon-based Combat Arts or non-weapon-based combat arts).

• The mastery bonus will not affect damage over time effects that are stated in an ingame Combat Art tooltip (Damage over Time, caused by Spell Damage Based Combat Arts - eg, Blazing Tempest). However, it is possible for a monster to be affected by two different types of DoTs: one from the Spell Damage Based Combat Art and one due to the monster being burned.

Success of Damage Lore via Weapon Damage Based Combat Arts

There are 5 Damage Types.

Each of the four non-physical weapon-based damage types has a chance to trigger a secondary damage effect. Chance to cause Wounds has no innate chance of being caused and has to be gained either through CA mods or items.

Damage Lore will enhance all secondary damage effects that are triggered from a melee or ranged weapon as long as the combat art being used belongs to the class of weapon damage based combat arts. For example, a player who is wielding a sword forged with a lava chunk in it, which provides burn as a secondary damage effect cannot expect burn to trigger when using the Cobalt Strike Combat Art.

Damage Lore's effect on Spell Damage Based Combat Arts

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Damage Lore will only enhance via the following:

Character Class	Combat Art	Modification Name
Dragon Mage	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
Dryad	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
High Elf	Ancestral Fireball	No modification needed, Greek Fire or Inferno modification from Incandescent Skin will increase the likelihood of inflicting burning on the target
	Blazing Tempest	No modification needed, Inferno modification from Incandescent Skin will increase the likelihood of inflicting burning on the target
	Incendiary Shower	No modification needed, Inferno modification from Incandescent Skin will increase the likelihood of inflicting burning on the target
	Incandescent Skin	Inferno ( Will make all spells in Arrant Pyromancer Aspect to be more likely to set the target on fire, thus giving rise to a DoT that can be affected by Damage Lore)
Inquisitor	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
Seraphim	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
Shadow Warrior	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
	Unknown	Unknown
Temple Guardian	Deathly Spears	Singe or Occult
	T-Energy Shroud	Derogate
	Amplifying Discharge	Ice Bullets
	Furious Emblazer	No modification needed
	Jolting Touch	No modification needed
	Archimedes Beam	No modification needed
	Propelled Levitation	No modification needed
	Source Warden	Damage Lore Mastery will enhance all of this Aspect's Combat Arts

Combat Arts that have Damage over Time effects "built in" that will not benefit from Damage Lore

• Blazing Tempest
• Frost Flare
• Cobalt Strike
• Energy Blaze
• Eternal Fire (not really, but nothing affects EF)
• Viperish Disease (not really, but nothing affects VD)
• Levin Array

Combat Art mods that give a Damage over Time effect (modifications in parentheses):

• Blazing Tempest (Conflagration)
• Frost Flare (Frost)
• Gust of Wind (Poison Mist)
• Clustering Maelstrom (Gash)
• Dislodged Spirit (Torture)
• Eruptive Desecration (Plague)
• Baneful Smite (Electrocute)

See Also

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• Skills
• Combat Arts
• Items
• Item Modifiers
• Player Contributed Guides