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I cannot help on the bargainer tree aspect - except to say it sounds like a good idea to me; but I dont have the experience to know I am playing a Dragon Mage and I play single aspect Mentalism with polearms with life leech or leech life Mentalism has Mind Blaze which is a placeable Area of Effect attack and it's my main killer; it also has a buff and a debuff, which I tend not to use much I make sure my defense and armor rating are good (dexterity and blacksmith arts etc) and I am pretty hardy - no deaths so far Of course I am only at level 35 in silver so my experience thus far may not apply to higher levels and difficulties I dont have a dedicated shopper or any shared equipment - everything is self found; I have Enhanced Perception and Bargaining to help me get better equipment There is a guide in the Dragon Mage section that goes into single aspect Mentalism. The finding there was that Mentalism is powerful and viable. The author took Alchemy for defense but found it was unnecessary Hope that is some use good luck

hey Gogo I still get the issue with moving between pages in threads Very occasionally it works - but mostly not However I discovered a simple work around which I'll share in case someone else has this issue after choosing to change page when it freezes on the loading screen refresh and there it is Simple Thanks for replying and morale support and all you do for the Sacred community

hey Gogo I am still having issues using the forums since you changed them to the new design The same issue of not being able to move from page to page within a thread Could it be because I am using Windows 7? Has anyone else reported this issue very frustrating for me; all I get is an infinite loading screen

Well, shortly after I tested the forum and replied to you I came back to Dark Matters and hey presto! it works now I'm now able to navigate the threads, so hopefully whatever it was is resolved and I wont have any further issues I'm back playing Sacred 2 (Dragon Mage) and I enjoy reading the in-depth analyses you and others have written over the years helps me make my skills choices etc Thanks

Hi Gogo No I am still unable to use the forum threads with my PC or phone I can only load the first page of any thread My phone and my PC internet are with different service providers I have gone to a few other forums I use to check that I can use them and I can in all cases So I only have this issue with Dark Matters Very odd - has no one else reported this issue? I will ask a friend to try on their PC & phone and get back to you

I cleared the cache and tried darkmatters.org and still the same issue I can move between threads, but not between pages within a thread So I can only view the first page of any thread I tried Internet Explorer on PC; and I tried 2 browsers with my phone (Chrome & the Samsung browser) I get the same result in all cases - infinite loading screen I cannot go past the first page of a thread on PC or phone in any browser I have

Hi Gogo I'm using Chrome on Windows 7 64bit

Hi I am having problems reading threads because I cannot get any pages after the first page of a thread to load When I want to read the second page I just an infinite loading prompt So I can only see the first page of any thread

I decided to reinstall and start playing Sacred 2 again after a long break I always play Dragon Mage for some reason and I am pleased to see that the Dragon Mage can now take Blacksmithing I think I notice a different spell effect for Energy Blaze; not the casting effect, the after effect on NPCs affected by the spell But not sure about that Thank you to all who have participated in creating the Community Patch and the new 1.60 update

@ Flix I always had a lot of slowdowns and stuttering in towns on my previous rigs; but no crashes. The slowdowns bothered me enough to put the game aside repeatedly with the intention to wait until I had a rig that could run it properly. It was disappointing, but it didn't move me to anti-Sacred raging like some. I came to the conclusion it was a CPU bottleneck due to the code not being well optimised. But that is just a best guess. I am not a programmer. Does anyone know, does the game code run single or multicore? I still had problems on my previous Core2Duo (2.4Ghz). Many older games are unable to use multicores, so how well they run depends on the speed of the individual cores Thus far on my current rig I have had no slowdowns or stuttering or crashes and I am having a blast with the game; finally able to get into it properly.

I always use Nvidia; and I dont use compatibility mode on W7

Very odd; I wonder why that is? Do you use the CM patch?

This is why I chose W7 64Bit when I built my current rig last Christmas

I recently clashed with a character on the Steam forums who insists that Sacred 2 will not run on modern machines or operating systems; meaning anything after XP I think. I think he wants the game removed from Steam; or a warning placed on the store page What is the experience of the vets on this forum? Personally I run the game on an i3 with W7 64Bit and it has never run better Prior to this I had trouble running it - very bad stuttering, especially in towns How about Sacred 2 on W8 and W10?

You are both right And thank you for replies The word is applied to a genus of apple trees; specifically crabapples which are small and sour Could that be why the term malus was applied Or I wonder has it anything to do with the biblical myth of Adam & Eve - in the sense of the sin or evil of Adam & Eve Also used in the sense of a penalty clause The word is a Latin word - in Latin it means bad or evil Strange they chose that word; it is not at all common in English

Thank you Flix Malus is a rarely used word in English I guess it must be a German word?

I keep coming across the word malus in skill descriptions and on the forums and guides but I dont know what it means For example on the Mind Strike modification 'Weakness' the game says this: Weakness - Increases the regeneration malus I get the impression it is some sort of technical term Could someone please explain what is the regeneration malus and what it means to increase the regeneration malus and why that is a good thing? Thanks

My experience is that the digital versions from Steam or Gog are more stable than the retail version from discs with downloaded patches; even on my old machine there was a noticeable improvement - although not quite enough. I have the gog version installed and so far it is running smooth and well. If I run into crashes etc I will try changing the compatibility; so thanks That's a good hint about the quicksave; thanks.

That does help; thank you What is s2gs.exe? I have Windows 7 64 bit and the CM-Patch v.1.50 and the game runs fine as is thus far on my i3 (3.7GHz) and GTX750ti I have Physx off I had a Core2Duo (2.4 GHz) in my old system and it didn't have the cycles to run Sacred2 adequately Pretty sure it was the CPU which was the bottleneck on my old system I've only played a couple of hours; testing and setting things up and refreshing my memory re the menus etc I went into Sloeford with one character where my old machine used to stutter pretty bad and all was smooth So looking good thus far

Interesting mod Modimus Prime. I Might give it a try once I've completed vanilla, which I have yet to do; in spite of several attempts mostly due I think to performance issues The game is poorly optimised and needs far more than the recommended requirements to run well But I keep coming back to it There is something about the world and the stats and the loot system etc that grabs me and the folks at Dark Matters have always been friendly & helpful

I haven't played in a while and had forgotten DMs don't get blacksmithing ! S

I'm trying to decide if I should take Blacksmithing Also Enhanced Perception Would be grateful for any advice or links to threads or guides etc Thanks ps - playing a Dragon Mage