Sacred 2:Ancient Magic

Ancient Magic

Increases damage for non-weapon based Combat Arts and reduces the opponent's spell resistance.

• Damage +X% (refer to table below)

The damage bonus at a given skill level x is given fairly precisely by the following formulas:

• 200*(x+1.5)/(x+100) Pre-Mastery
• 300*(x-32.5)/(x+66) Mastery

The immunity bypass bonus at a given skill level x is given fairly precisely by the following formulas:

• 74.8*(x-33.2)/(x-9.0) Mastery

The bold marked numbers are the smallest upper bounds of this progression, which will never at any skill level be exceeded.

As an example, damage at x=75: 75 is the first mastery level, so we take the mastery formula and we have

300*(75-32.5)/(75+66) = 300*42.5/141 = 90.4

This value compared with the table value below is a good example of the precision the formulas offer.

Skill level	1	10	20	30	40	50	60	70	74	75	80	90	100	110	120	130	140	155	170	185	200
Damage, +%:	4,9	20,8	35,7	48,4	59,2	68,5	76,8	84	86,6	90,4	97,5	110,5	121,9	132,1	141,1	149,1	156,5	166,1	174,6	182,1	188,8
Opponents' Immunities, -%:	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	-	47,4	49,3	52,4	54,9	56,9	58,5	59,8	61	62,4	63,5	64,5	65,3

Click here to see the full table

Mastery

• At Level 75 Ancient Magic reduces opponents' immunities against your Combat Arts (unlocks the "Opponents' Immunities -%" skill bonus).

Properties

• Although it is not clearly documented or displayed, Ancient Magic Mastery's effect seems to cause a percentage decrease in a target's global armor against each of the 5 types of damage. This will allow a character to do increased damage (up to the theoretical maximum allowed by the CA's current level and mods) because there is less armor to decrease the amount of damage.
• For example, a fireball cast against a highly fire resistant monster will do significantly less damage than the CA screen indicates because of the monster's fire armor value. A fireball cast with Ancient Magic Mastery active will decrease the fire armor value of the monster by a percentage before calculating damage, allowing for increased fire damage.
• Characters that do not have access to Ancient Magic will be unable to pierce resistances, and must either increase damage values to compensate or select another damage type.
• Ancient Magic Mastery only affects damage from Combat Arts, not damage from weapons.

Breakpoints

• The bonuses are increased in steps as shown in the Ancient Magic full table.