Sacred 2:Blade Fury

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Using this skill, the Assassin projects several pointed blades from his body, shredding his enemies with a barrage of metal. This is a Spell Damage Based Combat Art. Aspect - Traps Innate Abilities (Lvl 1) Damage: 21-21 Physical Hits twice (number of hits scales slowly with level) Regeneration Time: 4.0 seconds Modifications See also: Sacred 2:Combat Art Modifications Bronze Batter - Significant chance to knockback enemies (50% + 1% per level). Gore - The Assassin deals more damage when injured (80% + 4% per level, max at 25% life). Silver Singe - Blade Fury inflicts additional fire damage (17 + 8.5 per level). Toxin - Blade Fury inflicts additional poison damage (17 + 8.5 per level). Gold Grievous - Increases the chance for critical hits by 25% + 0.5% per level. Bleeding - Increases the chance for open wounds by 35% + 0.2% per level.

Blade Fury

Skills and Attributes

The following skills will affect this combat art:

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

• Traps 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 Blade Fury's damage types (Open Wounds, Burning, Poisoning).

The following attributes will affect this combat art:

• Intelligence will increase its damage and spell intensity.

• Stamina will lower regeneration time.

Usage Strategies

• Bronze mod Batter is more defensive, as it will knock back enemies out of melee range. Note, however, that this will momentarily knock enemies safely out of range of subsequent waves of spikes, slightly decreasing the damage potential. Gore is the more offensive choice, for an Assassin that expects to stay in the thick of battle and take damage.

• Silver mod Singe can give a good synergy with Wake of Inferno, which will reduce enemy fire resistance. Choosing Toxin instead will give Blade Fury a good synergy with Venom, which can boost its poison damage and chance for poisoning.

• Blade Fury gains extra waves of damage spikes as it levels up (6 pulses or more at high levels). They can continue to go off after the Assassin has cast Blade Fury, so he may use other Combat Arts while it is in effect. Eventually it can gain so many waves of spikes, the Assassin will be able to have multiple castings of Blade Fury going simultaneously, seriously compounding the damage.

Pros and Cons

Pros

• Great damage potential

Cons

• Requires being in melee range to damage enemies

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