Sacred 2:Poison Nova

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This spell befouls the atmosphere surrounding the caster. With an arcane chant, the Necromancer corrupts the very air we breathe and causes it to erupt in all directions. It is from years of investigation and preparation that the Necromancer can choose a poisonous gas that is toxic to the minions of evil, yet harmless to himself and his companions. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Poison and Bone Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 23-23 Poison Poison Damage Over Time: 52 + 36 per level Range: 10 Meters Duration: 10.0 seconds Regeneration Time: 6.6 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Expand - Increases Poison Nova's radius by 3.5 meters. Laggard - Slows enemy movement speed by 35% + 1% per level. Silver Virulence - Increases the poison damage over time (42 + 26 per level). Poison Cloud - Sends out an additional pulse. Overall damage is increased by 30% but split between the pulses. Gold Toxin - Increases the base poison damage of Poison Nova (28 + 14 per level). Poison Cloud - Sends out an additional pulse. Overall damage is increased by 30% but split between the pulses.

Poison Nova

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - improves combat art damage, critical chance, allows for modification points.

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

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Magic Staves when the Necromancer is wielding a staff) - will increase the execution speed.

• 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 Poison Nova: Chance for Poisoning.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Note that, like all CA's in the Poison and Bone aspect, casting speed is determined by weapon speed, and can be boosted by weapon lore skills and +% attack speed. Likewise, the casting speed will be penalized by wielding a weapon with too high a level. Tactics Lore serves as the aspect lore skill in terms of damage boost, critical chance, and modification points.
• Range can be expanded to great effect with bronze mod Expand and/or Combat Art Range +X% modifier on gear.
• One benefit to taking the Poison Cloud modifications is that each pulse has its own chance to apply status effects, like chance for poison, critical hits, etc. The movement speed reduction from the Laggard bronze mod stacks so each additional pulse would slow enemies even more.
• Cursing enemies beforehand with Lower Resist is highly recommended, especially for poison-resistant enemies.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Good range and damage, inflicts both flat damage and DOT.
• Good for mobs and crowd control.

Cons

• Not very effective against large powerful single targets (bosses, dragons, etc.).

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