Sacred 2:Blessed Hammer

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Once, legions of the undead laid siege to a small convent of nuns who were the keepers of a sacred relic, the Hammer of Ghrab Thaar. Rather than letting it fall into the hands of evil, the nuns took the Hammer and plunged themselves into the fiery chasm within the convent, releasing a wave of holy light that destroyed the undead legion. Since that time a well-trained Paladin is able to tap the remnants of this released energy, summoning a magical hammer to strike down her adversaries. This is a Hybrid Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Devout Offense Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Total Damage (wielding starting weapon): 44-51 Physical Multiplies all damage types of the equipped weapon Has an innate bonus to attack rating Regeneration Time: 4.5 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Swiftness - Increases the execution speed of Blessed Hammer by 20%. Clout - Increases the damage of Blessed Hammer by 20%. Silver Cleanse - Adds bonus fire damage against T-mutations (20 + 10 per level). Purify - Adds bonus magic damage against Undead creatures (20 + 10 per level). Gold Furnace - Converts a portion of Blessed Hammer's physical damage to fire. Crucible - Converts a portion of Blessed Hammer's physical damage to magic.

Blessed Hammer

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

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

• Any weapon lore applicable to the weapon in use (for example, Sword Lore when the Paladin is wielding a sword), will increase Blessed Hammer's chance to hit by increasing the attack rating. Weapon lore skills won't affect Blessed Hammer in any other way however.

• Speed Lore - will increase its chance to hit indirectly by increasing a player's attack rating.

• Concentration - directly improves regeneration time.

• Combat Discipline - will lower its regeneration time if it is placed in a combo.

• Damage Lore - will improve the chance, duration, and strength of any secondary damage effects triggered by Blessed Hammer.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Strength will increase damage for melee weapons, and chance to hit.

• Dexterity will increase damage for ranged weapons (and some melee weapons), and chance to hit.

• Intelligence will increase damage for magic staves and wands.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

• Willpower will increase damage for Lightsabers.

Usage Strategies

• Blessed Hammer uses weapon damage and carries all weapon effects such as life leech, regeneration per hit, and deadly strike.

• A weapon lore is not really necessary because Blessed Hammer uses casting speed instead of attack speed.

• Player attack rating applies to Blessed Hammer so it can miss. Modifiers like Chance opponents cannot evade attacks and Opponent's chance to evade are useful. Blessed Hammer also has large, scaling attack bonus just like weapon-based combat arts.

• Bronze Mods: Furnace will have a good synergy with the Holy Fire buff.

• Gold Mods: The racial damage bonuses against Undead and T-Mutants apply to bosses and superuniques as well.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• The power of melee weapons but usable at ranged distance.
• No need to take a weapon lore skill.

Cons

• Single-target only.

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