Sacred 2:Bone Armor

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This Combat Art is a (Buff) This spell summons a barrier created from the bones of fallen warriors. The armor revolves around the Necromancer, protecting him against damage from close combat attacks. Aspect - Poison and Bone Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Armor: Physical 30 + 15 per level Defense Rating: 10% + 10% per level Chance to Block Close Combat: 30% + 0.8% per level Physical Damage Mitigation: 20% + 0.2% per level Regeneration Time of all Combat Arts: +40.0% The tooltip also displays the player's normal weapon damage value but this buff has no effect on damage. Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Rigid - Increases all of the Necromancer's armor resistances by 20% + 5% per level. Dense - Increases the Necromancer's defense rating by 20% + 5% per level. Silver Hardened - Adds to the Necromancer's base poison armor (10 + 10 per level). Impenetrable - Gives a chance to block ranged attacks (25% + 0.3% chance per level). Gold Repair - Boosts the Necromancer's hitpoint regeneration by 3.5 + 2.5 hp per level. Flexible - Reduces the regeneration penalty of Bone Armor by 20%.

Bone Armor

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Tactics Lore - increases the physical armor bonus and the poison armor bonus from the Hardened modification, improves hitpoint regeneration from the Repair modification, allows for modification points.

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

• Armor Lore - will indirectly increase the physical and poison resistance bonuses by a percentage (after they are added to the player's other sources of armor).

• Concentration - will lower this combat art's regeneration time penalty.

• The appropriate Weapon lore (such as Hafted Weapons when the Necromancer is wielding an axe) - will increase the casting speed.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Stamina will lower regeneration time penalty

Usage Strategies

• This CA is especially useful for a melee Necromancer.
• The Rigid modification improves the armor resistances not only from this buff but from all sources, including gear, gemstones, and the Toughness skill.
• 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.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Several good defensive properties, especially physical damage mitigation which can make a huge difference
• Can lower the regeneration penalty with the gold mod Flexible.

Cons

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