Sacred 2:Holy Bolt

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The Paladin can learn to summon bolts formed of pure, righteous energies. These projectiles are vessels of pure life, bane to the Undead and Demons. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Devout Offense Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 16-16 Magic Magic Damage to Undead and Demons: 235 + 227.5 per level Banishes Undead: 100% Chance Regeneration Time: 2.7 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Blast - Increases the chance for critical hits by 20% + 0.1% per level. Redeem - Holy Bolt uses enemy life to restore hitpoints for the Paladin (5 + 5 per level Life leeched per hit). Silver Chastise - Increases the chance that the magic damage will weaken the target (49.7% + 0.3% per level). Purge - Adds extra fire damage against T-Mutations (185 + 167.5 per level). Gold Lambent - Adds lingering magic damage over time (49 + 24.5 per level). Augment - Holy Bolt splits into 3 projectiles. Overall damage will be increased by 60% but split between the 3 bolts.

Holy Bolt

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

• Devout Offense Lore - improves combat art damage (including life leech damage from Redeem modifcation), 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.

• 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 Holy Bolt: Weaken.

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• The racial damage bonuses against Undead, Demons, and T-Mutants apply to bosses and superuniques as well, rendering many of them much less intimidating.

• Holy Bolt can be frustrating to use due to its low damage against other enemies like Humans and Wild Animals, but it can be developed to have decent damage against any enemy.

• Augment splits Holy Bolt into 3 bolts. They still retain their homing property, but they may or may not seek the same enemy (often they like to split up and seek different enemies).

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Devastatingly high damage against Undead and Demons (and T-Mutants if Purge mod is taken)
• You only have to kill Undead once - they won't rise again (includes bosses and superuniques)
• Holy Bolts seek targets

Cons

• Low damage to most enemy types
• Slow moving projectile

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