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Welp... The Electric Poo now has a page on the SacredWiki in the Easter Egg section. No quest directly involved. But it's there... A big steaming pile that throws off electrical bolts. Gogo seems to have been quite excited by the prospect. See post 9.

Ah.. Yes.. I have come across the Schaboffski fellow and have a chat with him every time I go into Artamark for the first time. What the heck. Free money is always good. He's in the US version as well. There's no explanation as to why he's there though - never quite made the connection with the Berlin Wall. Definitely an inside joke amongst the older German programmers who remember the pre-reunification rituals. Mega bummer about Bruno the bear.

Ok... You asked for it... Edit: You got it.. It's up there - right below Rambo explains T-energy...

Since we're on the topic of Easter Eggs.... Ok... I found one... Not quite so sure how...appropriate it might be, however. I recall Llama8 teasing about a quest involving some "electric poo"... I have a picture of said item. No quest involved with the substance. It's just a landmine sitting in the road in the middle of a forest. No idea what kinda critter dropped it. Didn't stop to ask. Not that the werewolves or spiders in the immediate area would have answered in a way that was intelligent. Figured I'd ask before offending anyone by posting it. Secondly... I noticed there were some pics missing/deleted from the Alien easter egg page. Do we have any idea what they were before they became toast?

I see you and Schot were busy beavers today with the Easter Egg Page - Looks nice... Didn't recognize it at first! Sacred 2 Easter Eggs on SacredWiki Got another one for you. I was coming out of the mine owner's yard heading for the cemetary hill next to Artamark's Gate and almost tripped on a rather large rock with the caption that reads: Memorial In memoriam of the victims of the great accident in the Ikarion mine. OK.. So it's not the prettiest rock in the game, but eh.. It's an egg for sure... There's a new page up in the Easter Egg section for it. Edit: I also found a picture of the mother of all mouse traps... It's also now got a shrine page in the Easter Egg section.

To answer your question a bit more directly... I don't believe there's much benefit to DA Focus when it comes to Grand Invigoration only. Buffs as a whole don't have a regen/cooldown time themselves. Buffs DO have an effect on OTHER combat arts - mostly to the negative as they raise the cooldown/regen times for the most part. Grand Invigoration is an exception. You can mod it to either reduce the penalty on either Arrant Pyromancer or Mystic Stormite. So... The question is - does Delphic Arcana Focus help reduce penalties/regen times for either of those two (whichever mod you chose)? I haven't really noticed any major drop on my level 52 HE build. I got DA Focus fairly late (Level 35) and the stats on GI didn't change. I did see the +55% for all combat arts with a -33% on Arrant Pyromancer. As it is, I am still able to get my favorite AP CAs down to the 3.5 second regen range. My DA Cobalt Strike was down to about 3.4 seconds as well. My Grand Invigoration is at about level 15. My HE is level 52 and for the last however many levels, I've been spamming points into the 3 focus skills and Concentration. Edit: There IS actually one benefit to having DA Focus. DA Focus will allow you to have a higher level (I.e. eat more Grand Invigoration runes), hence increasing the benefits of GI, without penalty. Read more about it on the Sacred Wiki here at the bottom.

I'm thinking you may be missing something important. One of the High Elf's best defense tools is Expulse Magic. While it probably isn't too much of a big deal against some mobs, there are some bosses - mini and maxi - that can drop a world of hurt on you - like debuffing your Crystal Skin and Grand Invigoration. Expluse Magic can be quite useful to debuff them before they debuff you.

Yeah.. It sounds OK.. Tho I would add Delphic Arcana focus and build up Cobalt Strike. It's pretty useful in situations where you've got baddies sneaking up behind you as well as in front. I'd go with the two chain mods and the explode mod at the end. It's quite effective with those mods at taking out 5 - 6 baddies (depending on how closely packed they are) at a time. And it has a chance to bounce behind you to get that one guy trying to sneak up on you as well.

Sent.. You've got spam... I'm thinking it may just be the way it's supposed to work...

Very cool... I think we can make sacredwiki THE ultimate resource for all things Sacred 2... One minor issue I'm having - and I'm not sure if it's IE 8, or what. On one of the quests I did last night, I had a difficult time getting an external link inserted into the entry. The drop down with the Insert Special Item | Insert External Link didn't seem to work properly. I was trying to insert a link to a wikiepdia entry to show another easter egg of sorts - the quest log's entry says "I love it when a plan comes together." That's a line made popular by one of the characters on that program. Seemed like a good idea to link the two. I had to insert a regular link instead.

Yeah.. Well.. Just had to do it. I figure it's content no one else seems to have. The only reference, for instance, on Wolfe's Lair to Star Wars was llimited to lightsabers. Edit: I just finished another chain quest on the Wiki... 7 Days of Rainy Weather and it's companion - A Radical Solution. Edit 2: Just wrapped up yet another chain quest - The Fat Rat - now available on the Wiki... Edit 3: And a 3rd one bites the dust of being ignored... The Legend of Gronkor is now up for your perusal... All three are available from the Quests | Chain Quests | Chapter 3 section...

Thanks... I've got a couple more from the Orc region happening in the next day or so. Organizing isn't too bad. It helps to have the entire chain done, do a screen shot of all quests, trim and convert them to JPG, upload 'em to photobucket, then create the master chain quest. From there it's just a matter of doing each quest in the chain, one at a time in the order they happened. Tho... I do have ONE thing I'm not entirely sure about. At the bottom of every quest, there's the section where you have to pick the catagory. The primary quest - is obviously a "chain quest" but the individual quests for that chain don't seem to work properly. Not quite what they should be linking to or how.

Is that your final answer...? Cause if the High Elf looked anything like the redhead in this video, I'd be most interested... VERY interested..

You can add another chain quest mostly complete - This one's from Chapter 3 - Nor Plat... It's called Master of the Hunt Check it out...

Well.. Hopefully she will be back to give us an update once her computer's back and running. And hopefully the whole hacker thing hasn't scared her off.

Yah.. It does - as I found out finally last night. Bloody hackers... To borrow a phrase from the Inquisitor dude... I'd like to send a few hard core Orcs his way... So many posts wiped out by their nonsense... The data is now up on the wiki.... Hopefully it won't get wiped out a 2nd time.

Feh... The edits I made previously were OK.. But they could have been written better. So I did it better the 2nd time around. Fortunately, I had the page open on another machine so I could see what I wrote and could use the bits from there on the one I was editing the page with. Either way, Gogo and I were just PM'ing about how the infamous Epic Office Quest could use a bit of a rewrite anyhow... Yah.. I did... But it was a close one! If that last employee wasn't the last one I was quite ready for a vacation.

Good thing it was only a few days, not longer. But it's good to have you guys back up and running. In the mean time, I'm kinda peeved at that bunch of skript kiddies who took the sites down... I lost a few edits I made in the days right before they hit - which didn't make it to the backups. Good thing I had the browser open to at least one of those pages.

There's that set all characters can wear - Kayser's Luck - that consists of two rings - Benny's Promise and Ellen's Commitment. Benny's Promise is easy enough to get - go talk to Benny in the Fortress after the Epic Office Quest is under way and he'll drop it. But Ellen's Commitment - assuming that's his finance or at least girlfriend - is there another fixed character who drops the other ring or is it one of those random things like most of the other drops in the game?

Hmmm.. So the Ice and Blood expansion drops a whole world of FUGLY on Sacred 2...? And removes the Chain Quest feature..? Hmmm.. You'd think developers would make things BETTER as time goes along, not worse.

OK.. Well... Let us know when you do get it back or get the version info. The reason I ask - if you look at the left side of the quest log on the pics I posted, The Arena in the Clouds quest shows up as a chain quest - the primary is to the left, the subquests are indented one tab's worth. Notice that the Researcher quest on my screenshot is also a chain quest with the subquests of Crystal Monster and Studies of Ice Elementals. On your screenshot, we've got one quest called Researcher and one called Stone Creature Studies. I'm going to guess that the quests consist of the same thing - in one, you have to harvest the crystals from ice elementals and in the other, you have to get the crystals from the stone critters running around on the island (not like there's that much of a choice - those are the two primary targets on the island). That, and the color/font selection on the two of them are entirely different. So I've got to wonder what you've got.

Indeed. Tho I thought it was level 15 before the set items started appearing... Maybe you've got Armor lore or something that allows you to use higher levels without penalty...?

I dunno. Most of the stuff you get is for your character. There are a few spots, however, the consistently drop the same item - I forget where exactly - but there's one quest I've gotten a Niko's shield every time I've done/redone it. In fact, I've gotten a glut of those shields - all of which (except 2) are the same level, same stats though the prices varied. I kept the most expensive and dumped the rest of them. Oddly enough, in all the drops I've gotten, I can't recall too many, if any, for the Temple Guardian -and I've got TWO game slots occupied by TG builds. You'd think that would perhaps bias things in favor of the TG...

I'll have to 2nd that - camera angles in caves bites big wind. It's like without fail, you get dumped into a cave and there's a section of wall right there in the way - of course, some baddy is wailing on your behind and you can't see what's going on to do anything about it. Really HATE when that happens.

A browser based game would blow harder than Hurricane Katrina... And not in a good way. You'd have to LOSE so many features - like the 3D scrolling environment from Sacred 2 and probably even the pseudo 3D from Sacred 1 and drop down to Super Mario Brothers style to make it downloadable for the masses. Unfortunately, FIOS or cable modems are not ubiquitous yet and are a LONG way from becoming so. I am assuming that DeepSilver are in business to make money. Imagine having to wait half an hour for a particular bit of the game to load... I'm all for SOME ad supported games like the stuff you find on MSN/Live, but as long as the ads don't last more than 30 seconds or so. 30 minutes would be a nightmare. NO serious gamer would want to put up with that kinda thing. Nah.. Super Mario Bros was cool when it came out - but it's so... 90's.. For Sacred 3 to really rock - it has to deliver graphics and game play that are at the very least as good as Sacred 2 - preferably BETTER.