karruptedkat

Hello guys/gals its been way to long since I have read this Topic. I just wanted to stop in and say happy holidays and thank you to all who have answered questions about this build in my abscence. If you have anymore questions just look for my post I have also posted videos of the swamp and desert regions to help. Take care all and thank you all for your interest in this build.

Amen brother! Nough Said. So we hit the 20's^^. I will check the thread now and again but for now my sacred playing days are over. Wife and I are playing xiii final fantasy so it takes up the ps3 time. Cant wait till xiv drops. Take care all.

Unforunately theres no way to get passsed that its why some skip leveling in the swamp all to gether faster experience but but getting bound sux. Lets just call those bound moments oppurtunity. What I would do in you shoes is use this oppurtunity to recast acute mind/GGT/ or even VD itself on the straglers coming to swing at you. this will increase its potency and thus making those experience floods come thru. If you read up I mentioned that while sitting still I always semmed to start getting the floods. Its like being chased by a Tornado I guess. Sorry but get use to it level mostyly in the south easy quadrent of the swamp and you will be in heavan. After awhile nothing will be there to bind you all you will be doing is runningg around picking up runes and eqipment and seeing the occasional strangler pop right before you.

Wow Ty gogo. That's awesome I always say it I do it for the fans. Get strong figure it out and help others along the way that's why I enjoy games like these. I appreciate what you've done.

@ zinger yes you can do my regular build level insanely fast and bosses with ease. The reason for the shopper in a colorful answe is this. A Toyota is an awesome vehicle but its still no lexus. With shopper you get the kexus for a Toyota price and you also get an additional parking lot to walk through and choose from. The best way would be to build her and buy random goodies as you level for your actual main character to wear as it levels.

Welcome Back Steve. Well in out its been fun. Been invited to test another game. Ill read the thread here and there so I will still be here to answer questions.

Here's the answer in short form. let's attack vd first you don't want to up its damage really even eating a bunch of runes you want to up your damage not its. Meaning as time goes on and you get higher in levels you will be finding a bunch of plus skill rings and amulets also plus combat art amulets. These item will enhance vds damage naturally if you put all your attribute points into intelect that's why even to this day I stand by saying only read twenty rubes max for vd. Now on to the spread everyone has there favorite place to use vd two of the most popular are the swamp and the desert. Both of these areas spread fast and result in fast experience gained. To do so get yourself a insect head and your set. The spiders in the swamp spread the disease faster and there located in the south east region of the swamp. In the desert head west two the scarabs which spread the disease the fastest. Oh yeah don't cast vd on undeas they resist it one hundred percent.

Not a bug that's the way they intended in it being I believe. Have you jumped on your mount then casted it yet ? Also ess the world isn't enough. Eighteen why stop there let's go twenty. I'm sure there's a few questions I haven't answered yet or clear enough.

So how is the leveling going? Its been awhile since we got questions here. sacred two done or has everyone moved on to there next class already?

Okay A couple of quick tips. The VD exploit has been nerfed so it doesnt stay up !00% of the time but does last awhile. Only thing you can do to keep it up longer is add some spell intinsity in your gear and also make sure to cast acute mind as often as you can. Also on the last 2 slots add in ancient magic and shield lore for sure. This build is seriously nerfed w/o those too. It can be done by a very experienced player but being new I wouldnt go w/o those two.

yes cynical thats exactly what I would do. From now until your @ 200 dump all the points you have in those three posiitions. !st Bargaining 2md nature lore third Nsture focus @ 200 I would for sure have bargaining @ 200 and nature lore as well. Now for your money problems you can od more then a couple of things to solve that but the simplest would be to farm White griffin for an hour or so. At your level every drop almostt is worth 1 million plus. Im sure you know this but incase you dont the plus skills gear is great for farming as well. For the simple fact you said your EP is very low so that doesnt help your farming much but the + skkills will boost that and also increase your drop results. Also on your plus skills that is pretty decent but dont stop shopping the higher that plus skills becomes the more acess to better items you will have so add the max plus skills shop again. Then you will find an even higher amount of + skills rings and amulets.

Dump them like a truck at the landfil in bargaining all of them....

Yes I am still very much so active here so go for it.

Another reason you don't have to worry about runes read or skills is + combat art tings and amulets. Also plus rings later on. Its why You can bypass allot of the skills and only put points into the one you actually need. In the lower difficulties there a rare find but as you get past gold there a dime a dozen so keep grinding if you can do the difficulty skip trick do it or form some campaign games and let other help you later on you will be able to help them in a big way^^.

Awesome Mainerunr a couple of quick tips. At the level your at you can scratch voodoo focus mastery all together its a back burner kinda food. Only use that pan in case of emergency. Pump the points you planned to spend there in bargaining then dump the rest in nature lore your hp regen will sore. My voodoo focus at 157 was pretty low I'm off line now so I cant tell you the exact number but I believe it was around 40 if that. If you picked voodoo lore you can spend points there to mod the rest of your combo arts but nix the point alocation in voodoo focus all together. Unless you wont the animus to do all your killing. Even then hes not going to hold a candle to what your main boss killer combo can do in 2 presses. Also one of the best boosters of your bargaining skill is through relics you wear so next time you are shopping check the merchant for relics that he has there. They are allot better then the ones you find running around while leveling.

There will be alot more where those come from so don't even worry about those skills at ten. That's the beauty of a bargaining character. those skills will be alot higher in just a little bit. you will easily have those level 10 skills at 200 plus with out adding a point more into there current state. Thru socketing + skill rings/amulets into your gear. quick example my baragaining dryad has +130 in bargaining relice shes level 157 so her baragaining is 157 but her total bargaining skill is 512^^ woot use that in my shopping set. I take off some of that + skill while leveling

no doubt @ 150 whith her I can beat Niob Havent done it yet but read my last post I will not with her. Okay heres the story so after figurring out I could save my game to a flash card and download it back to the system as many times as I wanted A little light came on over my head. Then the little devil appeared on my shoulder and said DO IT DO IT Dont be scarred. Well I should have been. Some already know where im going with this. So I created another user ID on my ps3 with online acess so I could trade between characters. BIG NO NO. The original thought was how do I get two of these nice rings hmm trade them to myself. DO NOT DO THIS. Now not only did I figure out I cant trade to myself, but now my Dryad cant trade anyone and she walks around with a dunce cap on in shame. So now Ive been blocked from helping others trying to help myself DOH. Now the only upside to this story is I have the main ingridients to A Voodoo cake. Which is very easy to bake. Thanks to ViolentR I have a super fast way to take her from 1-18(I wouldnt recomend leveling past that on the power level). So here is how it works. Go ofline and also delete the Sacred 2 system utilities file(The one with out your characters highest level listed underneath). Reinstall the game oflline. Start a campaign on your highest character and open up all the quick quest. like kobold chief, muggers, blacksmith tutorial etc. Now go and do everything up to the part where you collect the experience points/reward(on all the quest) for doing the quest. SAve your game and exit. now save this file on a flash card. Now create a second user on your ps3 and start a level one character. save exit and go back to your main handle on the ps3. Start the same campaign and go to the town where all the quest have not been completed. have player 2(2nd user enter the game) and complete the quest. save then exit player 2 1st now player one. Go to your game utilities which list your highest level character and delete it. Now acess your flash card which is directly over the game utilities and copy the file back on the system. Now do as you done before start the campaign again have player 2 come back in and do the same thing. Walla now your charater just jumped from 1-10 in 3 minutes playtime. Another thing you ask is well 1-18 fast but they will not have any runes read no problem there do the runemaster tutorialto collect on some good runes. Also you will be low on cash so if your characters strong enough do blind guardian even at 12 all the items will sale for a fast 100-300k^^

DOH.....A friend helped me out so Im passing along what he told me. My 157 dryad is no good anymore as of 2 days ago I cant trade I'll explain later but heres a quick fix to leveling. "Okay so what I was gonna tell you is this, if you've got two controllers it works good, so with my old file, I have a seperate offline account with that old data on it, since I had two chars in niob that basically only leveled there I had alot of quests to do, and I seen where the PC players power leveled threw 2 quests in areyender (sp), well I did those two quests along with the kobloid chieftain and the blacksmith tutorial before collecting the rewards I saved my game and backed it up to my flash drive. So when you go back into the game make it offline and enter the game and go to areyender and bring the other char in like its a couch co op. it doesnt matter which char talks to the npcs to get the rewards... I go from 1-9 with a few buttons and then from 9-12(13 depending) with another, I took a temple guardian to 30 in like 40 minutes of this.... you might have already knew how to do this, but it was new to me, so I figured id share " ViolentR. Thank you. On my new dryad shes level 22 in 10 minutes playtime woot. even faster then my original post. If you dont get how this works I will fully explain later.Also thank you Damware for your tip. Awesome to hear that that works on xbox aswell^^. Woot kick it old school for Super fast leveling.

Yin and yang. After the update it is rough on you w/ gear but @ 75+ you will see a huge increase in drops/money on the ground. the early years for this build are rough but the end is always good. That goes for any build in the early years it may seem that your build might not be so grewat but you have to look at the future result of your choice. Ive built a HE like 4 times. 2 pyros and 2 ice queens. Hard to find the yin/yang w/ her because she is so fragile but it is there and you can find it f you dont give up. Same for this build version 2.0 will help more new players since your arent so versed in the arts yet. So the defensive bonusses and regeneration plus will help you farm and not run away and miss out on the loot that you left behind. Happy Hunting im back online for now. figurred out one more thing ess about online versus off. The voodoo spread stays up almost for ever offline like seriously go make a sandwich come back and theres still mobs infected.Another bonus to being offline is the mobs stay stronger then you longer. Meaning offline the mobs were dark red for me 5-10 levels id say higher in level. Online they went to Orange in the same area. Online the disease drops alot faster id say no matter what you do ive only been able to keep a good spread up 30 minutes or so. Also theres a bigger bonus from survival being online. so Ascaron kinda screwed the exploit but gave us a plus in survival bonus. Yin/Yang.

Go W/ the Shield 1000% on that..... Flexes are nice but she has a nature evasion boost. Spell resistance is natural for her aswell when you pop Golden glade touch check out your attributes your will power sky rockets.Plus w/ the right shield I.E Stalworth or glacial shield her defensive bonus is insane. So 1000% go shield. I posted up Version 2.0 on the 2nd post of the main for the newer players but still prefer this one^^.

I'll try the desert next just wanted to show a quick comparison. the more times I make this build the more I figure out and I try and write about it. Not to be a Debbie Downer but Ive also noticed the difference in item/runes that are spawned.(this test was performed in a free world offline) When I use to play(Before last update)I would start online then get kicked off but the game had already loaded up the formulas for being online so my drops were alot better. Ive also noticed one big combat art that I missed on the intial write up that needs attention. The use of the malicious totem. This is a huge asset when it comes to killing bosses and farming for the proper head. Modded-solid,Pointed,Expert........not sure how I missed that gem but omg its huge on damage w/ this build. Add this one in a button by itself and you can have multiple totems out killing all in the area.

ESS you can have your combat arts up to par but you would just have to read alot of runes. The plus combat art amulets are just horrible offline. heres a video of a small flood. 2 minutes after contaminatibg the swamp.

well I've been Mia testing out a new dryad build off line and let me say ess I feel your pain a little bit. There is a huge difference of being offline before version update 1.02. Last update for console what you were saying about combat art plusgear is insane and I ran into that same thing. One for ten ouch. I still would do this build before the update though for one simple reason it was built to level fast and oh it does before the update. I'm level thirty eight and have a total playtime of three hour and ten minutes. Where I lack in hear I make up in skills. My gear is all level fifteen. I do see a difference in rune drop rate too they seen to drop a lot slowwer. So yin and yang the online offline experience. I would recomend deleting your game utility and going offline if all you want to do that day is level. Then when you go back online quest or kill bosses or look for gear. It takes like three minutes to get the update again when you go back online. [

Wow ten for one thats horrible. The experience floods I always get those off line actually if im online and I get a flood(Not drizzle) it kicks me off the PSN. Ive rethunk this build a litlle bit. That and my ps3 crashed Im going to make one more voodoo Dryad pure caster almost identical build aside from taking armor lore instead of CVL. This will be on a ps3 slim when I get it. Ill make a new vid showing skills ttributes and gear so you can see my trigger of the flood. Cant promise it will be this week but maybe next. The thing that mostly triggers the flood for me is acute mind. When I cast that you can see mobs in front of me instatly get diseased.

Someone said they were broke and running out of ruins. As My main man Zeus said make sure you double back. Or run a very tight circle because like the pants of some your leaving it on the ground. Make sure you double tap. Maine I use to always have that problem w/ the trade until I killed my alter ego character. "Please verify online id log both in 100% in someone elses game then make my own then log off do the same on both accounts and still not be able to trade. That sucks only resolve I have found for it is give it time in like 2 hours>.> you can trade each other again.