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Excellent work Knuckles

Yeh, I took the screenshot from the wiki, cleaned it up and adjusted the colours to make it look sort of sketched. If someone wants to use it as a basis for a sketch, go for it.

Some might call it cheating

I understand why you took Sword Weapons, and I understand what those modifiers achieve, but if you don't have the ability to socket overpowered jewelry you are going to be lacking in defense and due to the nature of a 3 aspect build you will have to sacrifice one of your skills to make up the difference. I suppose AM could be dropped instead, which would resolve the issue.

I believe what Nakatsu_Hime is asking is, if 1 of the 4 orcs disappears before you exit, will there only be 3 (or possibly none) when you enter on the next run? I'm interested to know this also.

Have you tried turning off all the unnecessary visual effects? There might also be some services that can be turned off. This link should help with both of those: http://www.askvg.com/master-tutorial-to-ma...s-7-super-fast/

The problem we found with the guidon is that human players know to run away from it. This also goes for any other stationary CAs. I'm pretty sure I still have my LL SW, but I think he might have gone over level 20. Perhaps I could run him up a bit higher and use him to boost others.

I ran the givrym dragon about 30 times after you left last night and all I got was 2 uniques and a couple of sets. You were right to go to bed For bosses, I have recently been running; Boar, Poison Lord, Holos, Grunwald Dragon, Girvym Dragon, Garganthropod, Guardians and finally the forest up to Mishirla. For mobs, I agree with DB/Loco; swamp, jungle, dryad/turtles, forest are the best bang for your buck

I would suggest that without all the socketables, he would be reasonably strong but a little lacking in defense. Perhaps dropping Sword Weapons for CR or Toughness would help. That said, I don't play PvP, so I don't know for sure. Thanks for the build Guru, nice to have some PvP guides

Combat Discipline diminishes too. The jumps between 155 and 200 (every 15) add 146, 127, 113 and 99. At level 155, CD gives a 250% damage boost while the Lore is 332.5%. It's also only non weapon based Combat Arts too. That said, it does allow for bigger combos and improves regens. Mind you, this is all assuming Eth has CD.

Well, as per the tables in the wiki you're getting the following additions every 15 levels.. Lore: +15% damage, +.8% crit, +3% cast speed Tactics: +15% damage, +.8% crit AM: +12% damage, +1% -immunities This is a bit of a rough estimate, as they all diminish as you get higher. As you can see, tactics/lore are the same, except lore gives cast speed as well. AM is giving you the negative immunities, but you're also losing damage. AM's damage increase is effectively half that of the lore (188% vs 377% at level 200). Being that AM is only going to effect non weapon based Combat Arts, you're not going to be increasing the output of Spectral Hand. As such, I'd suggest the lore.

Yeh, that's basically the issue. I don't have any idea how that is remotely possible. Oh well prepare to face my wrath, Ancaria!

It is not possible to edit ClosedNet characters, but if you are playing OpenNet or Single Player, you can use the editor linked here: http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?showtopic=16047 This will help you complete 1 & 2.

Problem solved. Factory reset the modem, reinserted all my details (exactly as they were) and it's fixed. Hooray! Quite annoyed it took such a long time to diagnose though. Urgh.

I would have thought that something would show the problem, but apparently not. I will attempt to contact Netgear and see if they can explain the problem. Coming back now

Well, that's interesting. I have just dug out my old modem and I can connect with no problems. The problem is caused by my Netgear DGN2000. Next step is to factory reset it and start again to see if it's a setting I have enabled. But for now, I'm going to play some Sacred, hooray!

Final result from my ISP is.. 'Please find that I've rechecked with our Network Engineers and also performed several further tests, but we are unable to find out any issue within the Network. We can connect to your game server from our LNS router and also we can connect to your router from our LNS router without any problem. Therefore unfortunately nothing can be done from our side to fix this issue' I am now attempting to contact Koch Media to see if they have any ideas.

Hey guys, I have taken the item contents out of blueprint.txt and converted it into an excel file. I have made two versions, one that includes the raw output (available here) and a reduced version which is designed to highlight the minimum constraints eg. min level, item tier, the unknown value and the level jump (available here). Unfortunately due to the automated process I used to do this, I had to remove the 'bonusgroup' references the items have. I may go back and address this, but it was beyond the scope of what I was attempting to achieve anyhow. Number of items per tier: 101 (Tier 15), 167 (Tier 14), 533 (Tier 13), 13 (Tier 12), 48 (Tier 11), 9 (Tier 10), 229 (Tier 9), 9 (Tier 8), 2 (Tier 7), 0 (Tier 6), 136 (Tier 5), 15 (Tier 4), 0 (Tier 3), 5 (Tier 2), 314 (Tier 1) & 966 (Tier 0). Total, 2547 items. The highest minimum level is an item called 'EMPTY' at 255 (which obviously isn't possible), below that it's the 'big' potions at 110. The highest legendary is Charo's Ring at 65 (which I can't seem to find in the wiki) and the highest unique is Quetzal's First Strike, also 65. The largest level jump is 'unique ring zwei', which I believe is the second ring at 35 levels between drops (starting at 35). Everyone's favourite, Kal'durs, sits in tier 14, has a minimum level of 40 and drops every 20 levels. Some interesting things I noticed; most of tier 11 is the Xmas sets, lightsabers are in tier 12 which explains why they're hard to come across, most runes are in tier 9 and most trophies are tier 5. There are also several test items and a handful of 'DONOTDELETE' or 'DELETEME' items, interested to know if these are actually dropable. my boss would kick me in the rear if I left stuff like that in my code Anyone want to hypothesize why tier 6 and 3 have no items?

As much as I loved D2, I think the synergies were a bit of a mistake. If they had been implemented in the original game, it wouldn't have been a problem, however they caused a lot of skill combos to become quite powerful and as such they had to increase the difficulty of the enemies. This meant that a lot of builds using a mixture of non synergy based skills were no longer viable. In my mind this is much worse than an across the board nerfing (like the reduction of +all skills in Ice and Blood). The Sacred 2 'synergies' are not all so obvious, but with a lot of experimentation most of them have been discovered. As essjayehm mentioned, a good percentage of them extend past simply selecting two (or more) compatible skills. In this way, they are much more subtle and fluid than D2. As a side note, it was the same patch for D2 that added a bunch of powerful runes and with the amount of duping going on, really ruined the game experience.

You need to get in as quickly as possible, they will stop attacking her as soon as you attack them. I've only ever failed the quest once when I joined someone else's server in Niob and the bandits were twice my level.

Thanks man.. just as I suspected, dragons and guardians. I guess I'll do those first and if I'm getting reasonable drops, I will do the rest of my list in hopes of finding something worthwhile. I am in contact with the Support Supervisor and they're actually testing things now (versus low level support where they ask me to turn things off/on). Unfortunately they claim there's no routing issue, so I am not sure if/when I will have a resolution.

I was considering making a new post about legendary farming, but seeing this thread answers most of my questions, I'll just dig it up to ask. Due to my current situation, I have been attempting to limit my play time to conserve bandwidth. As such, I am using the time I am able to play for boss hunting. My ultimate goal is legendaries. I have been attempting to make a loop of as many bosses/mini bosses as possible in an effort to avoid restarting servers every 5mins (the connection to the lobby/starting a server takes upwards of 15mb, while playing barely uses any bandwidth). That said, I still don't want to attempt bosses that are a great distance from a spawn location. At this stage I am doing: Boar, Poison Lord, Holos, Grunwald Dragon, Girvym Dragon, Garganthropod, Guardians and finally the CF up to Mishirla. Am I wasting my time with all the mini bosses? I have several inventories full of set pieces and I seem to be getting a steady supply of uniques but from what I can tell, only the dragons/guardians are likely to give me legendary drops. I am in need of an upgrade to my gear, and I'm going to attempt to socket a lot of MF. I have a reasonable amount of SB, but not a huge amount of map revealed (and unfortunately no time to do this at the moment). Is there anything else I can do that might help the process along?

hahaha, where is the 4th guardian going?

Astral Lord

I don't see any reason why not. You'll certainly surpass the quality of the xbox