FrostElfGuard

I know, I want them too. Books are so expensive ,and I've kept been looking for the books second hand in my store, but over past few years, nothing's come up... no chance now with this series being released Big Wah gogo Umm. abebooks.com (for second hand books, some as cheap as a .01 (plus shipping--they make their money on the shipping--but not often all that much).

We went on Saturday (2nd day of release)... timing our show over supper time. I was astounded. There were only about 30 people there. We got seats in row 3 middle of the main section (center of the theatre). So: I recommend the 4:20 PM showing. Enjoyed the film. My fav is #1 due to it's consistency.

I tried to jump onto the Harry Potter bandwagon when book 4 came out. (Long before the movies). My roommate's boyfriend's kids were loaning the books to my roommate... and she LOVED the books (and the kids). I tried reading book 1... but the child abuse hit a bit too close to home (my Mom's childhood was much fun, my was fine.) When the first movie came out, I got caught up in the excitement and ending up going to a midnight showing. Midnight! We all enjoyed the movie (I had to grit my teeth for the first bit...but once they got to Hogwarts I was ok). I like the books, especially the early ones. My favourite 2 things about them was the magic, and the realistic children's voices. It really helped the author to be around children of the correct age. Looking forward to the conclusion in film form.

I had a look at the posted stuff on the GSF, and haven't found the icon set. Game50.pak doesn't open for me, the rest all works... Spent some of yesterday and some of today hunting more icons... and got another Seraphim statue! Oh holy Grail, wherefor art thou:)

I decided to log quest reward items for my Icon search... and so far just doing these quests I've gotten 3 or 4 set items... which surprised me. I thought set items (regular) wouldn't drop at the outset. But they do. Thanks masteff for the linky. I'd forgotten about where those German downloads were. (And, yes, I was looking at GSF earlier in the week). Thanks masteff, you've resolved my frustration at finding the DL links.

I'm thinking the way of quest rewards involves a random factor. That is: do a quest, and a random number is generated. If that number is > threshold, then boom! You get an item drop. Then, what level of item are you going to get? (8 / 1000 chance of a set item if normal rules are used, that is= 0 MF). Tooltips in Sacred 2 say that more quests increase your chance of a set item drop. Now, is that because more quests is more chances for 8/1000? Or, does it keep track of how many quests you've done and give you a bump for every, say, 8 quests completed? (Just picked the number 8 out of my head) If so, on your 8th, 16th, 24th quest you'll have a better chance. I vaguely recall chatting in-game (with Obsession IIRC) and he said that he tried the Vampiress thing... and just kept going at it. He would've been doing it online. IIRC online, I was often very pleased when new people joined the server... because it seemed (and this is emotional memory here, so very subjective!) that new players=higher chances of sets and uniques! (for a short while). Obsession was/is a focused player--with his eye on the prize--and someone who could limit his wandering eye and "Get 'er done!". By that, I mean he could stay focused on the icon set hunt until finished. My focus isn't so good... so, after 16 hours or so I stopped. I seem to recall that he took a week to find the icon set. My only other known source of success for this method is Rotluchs. His online seraphim got killed in hc, and he needed an icon set to create his super fast leveling Magic seraphim, and I gave him 2 or 3 pieces. He hunted online for the rest and met his goal of making a super leveling seraphim while the servers were still up... ==== I just did a hunt through my archives. Found that imertoh (Remi from France) also suggested Csazar's method. He recommended keeping char level under 10. imertoh built a Trade Dwarf, shopped with him for charisma rings, gave the rings to a Wood Elf (highest start charisma) (socketing). {The WE's charisma was about 100 at char level 20. Which is confusing, since he mentioned keeping the char level under 10.} His character ran the non-combat quests in Bellevue, Porto Vallum, Mascarell and Braverock. 5 times through all those quests yielded a full set. ===== k. I used Prism's Guide to SP starts as a basis, combined with my exported accounts from the servers (when Sacred1 was still hosted online by some company paid by Ascaron)... I cobbled together a WE with level 1 armor, and 178 speed. At that 'walking' speed in Bellevue you can avoid most combats by out running your pursuers. I started with the Seraphim Statue. I did a series of escort quests (mostly in Bellevue to keep the xp gain down) in LAN Hack 'n Slash games. Pay Book, Sheepless in Bellevue, Arogarn the Forest Ranger, Angling without Bait, Missing Son, The Absent-Minded Sister I found the Dark Elf Statue after about and hour of questing. Then I remembered I had more Icons from the online accounts, and discovered 2 more: Shell and Royal Statue. Just need the Grail now. Escort Quests with 0 MF, a WE (highest start charisma). One Icon found in the evening, 1 to go. I'm on my way!

Trying the download link in post #1 nets me this error message: [#10869] You do not have access to this section of the site.

Any chance we can have an icon set from Sacred1 available?

A few years ago I tried this method (young vampiress full of MF) and did quests and quests and quests in Bellevue area. When the vampiress reached about 10, I would consider sepaku (suicide) and start a new one. I believe after a few days (~16 hours) of play I had 2 icon set pieces. Ouch! Is this the dedication required to get this set? I've resurrected my Sacred1 (UW) install on XP, and am considering another run at the icon set. Any suggestions anyone?

Besides searing the meat to seal in the flavours... if you sprinkle it with salt and sugar before searing... you will get a carmalized seal which will produce a moisture barrier (keeping moisture in), and prevent burning the meat. I saw this on a cooking show... where the cook was searing the meat... then eating it 'blue'. (That is: primarily uncooked). I suggest thorough cooking though!

Have you considered using yahoo to search the web? They use Trend Micro's anti-virus/anti-crud to limit your finds to safe items... or show you they're not safe (don't recall which). Search safe!

Set items don't drop until your character is level 15. They have min drop levels built in. So... level up and enjoy the rare drop!

Congrats! 15 pounds is a good amount to lose in this timeframe. Well done! Good luck with the hernia. They're doing so much better with new techniques with hernias and such. Enjoy the Sacred/recuperation!

What I'm about to say does not apply to all men... but it is a general indication of what I've observed about the human courtship practices and stages of people's lives. At ages under 12, usually life is all about the person (boy or girl) themselves. At the teen years, the ability to think about others and the ability to treat others as you would have yourself treated begins. Also at that time, girls begin to have adult interests in getting a significant other. A little later, boys get hammered with hormones. And I mean HAMMERED. In the teen years it is very hard for boys to deal with those they wish to have relations (sex, making out, relationships)... because the hormones keep getting in the way... also the inexperience hurts their chances too. Once legal drinking age is reached, many young men hit the bars with as much cash as they can manage. Alcohol lowers inhibitions, and they make asses of themselves. Some, retreat into blind drinking to deal with their shyness. With more age and experience, they tend to moderate their drinking, and their self-confidence increases. --now given all that... it sounds like far too many men you meet are reacting hormonally to you. That is: You're the bomb. The blonde bombshell that takes everyone's attention. The one girl every guy in the bar wants to be with... So. You could try to dress less attractively... not saying don't be attractive, just tone it down. As others have mentioned, try other places to meet men. When I went to Spanish night classes at university, I met some women who were actually looking for intelligent men. One redhead dated all the single men in the class, over time. So. Pick your hunting grounds differently as others have mentioned. Try the gym. (Lots of men there. Some single.) Try dance clases. Try language classes, cooking classes. One of my friends from High School used the city Chess Club to find her first husband. (She wanted tall, slim, and smart in her future husband. So she chose the chess club to be a starting place. {and she was a wild party-er.} Oh. She also tried church.) Good luck!

Does this "in on game session" algorithm apply to all the achievements? (Example: The all 42 towns visited)?

Always happy to oblige! Frost/Dave

You could 419 it. That is, contact the person and string him/her along. Pretend to be in love with a stranger you've never met, nor seen. Just drag it out, and waste their time... as they constantly try to get your bank account information, or try to get you to send money by wire transfer (which cannot be reversed). If you do send them a picture... make sure it isn't really you in the photo! Google 419 to find out what others have done with the Nigerian scam.

Wow. Our habits really do add up when we stop and think about it, (pile the bottles, or other evidence), don't they?! Re: sleeping better. I find that what helps me get a better night sleep is exercise. When I was hitting the gym regularly, I slept like a log. Options for the non-gym-ready (which is me right now) is simply walking in place while watching tv. After a bit, ( a week), you could then jog in place for 100 steps, then walk in place... just make sure the change is managable, and realistic. Setting too high a goal is discouraging, and setting too low a goal doesn't do much... Congrats on the 8 months cig-free!

Why not just turn the music volume to 0 when not in a town?

Hilarious! ... reminds me of the Beastman diary in TitanQuest forum.

Drop quality is influenced by monster level (based on char level + SB boost + area min/max) + EP/Magic find level (which increases with char level too) and level of difficulty of play. The higher up you go, the better the drops. So... what char level, what level of difficulty do you find the Kobolds give you good drop rate? What is your MF... for me to make sense of your statements I need to know the context.

The Witch-King of Angmar couldn't do better! Wow!

Wow! Ask and ye shall receive! The more I learn about Sacred the more complicated and exciting I find it! Thanks for the info... and, still, I would like to thank the devs who worked such long hours for so many months! You devs (if any of you need an ego boo) have made a wonderful product given the constraints you had imposed on you! Wow! What a game!