Popular Post Flix 5,116 Posted December 17, 2019 Popular Post Share Posted December 17, 2019 Dwarf Tales, part 1 It's time to take a new character through the awesome Sacred Reborn mod. This time I picked the other expansion character, the Dwarf. I don't know why it is but expansion characters in ARPG's are always so much cooler than the base ones. Maybe it's because developers always feel they have to hit the basic archetypes first, then they can get really weird in the expansion packs. Any rate, the Dwarf is a really appealing and unique character, even compared to Dwarves in other fantasy games. He's very oriented toward ranged weapons and auras that give party buffs. He also has some support for being more of the traditional two-handed axe-wielding berserker. Since I just got done playing a mostly spell-caster Daemon, I decided to take the melee path this time. His name is Eolus Thunderfist, named after an important Dwarf in Divine Divinity, one of my all-time favorite RPG's. I plan on building Eolus with the following Skills: Weapon Lore Constitution Dwarven Lore Armor Concentration Axe Lore Blacksmith Agility Attribute points are going 50/50 in Strength and Physical Regeneration. The Dwarf has no spells, so Mental Regeneration and Regeneration Spells -X% are not even a factor. I am not going to lock him into strictly 2h or 1h/shield, but am keeping the option to switch between both. So, when wielding 2h weapons the CA's will be: Vehemence and Recoil. When wielding 1h and shield the CA's will be: Hard Hit and Attack. Honestly the 2h CA's are just sooo much better in Sacred Reborn, with insane damage bonuses, but it's so hard to find a steady supply of 2h axes and hammers. Often I keep them for so long the damage will just fall behind, and I'll have to switch to a 1h/shield setup to keep damage up to par. I'm also making good use of many of his buffs. He has Warcry, Berserk, Dwarven Armor, and Dwarven Steel. I write more about my strategies of leveling these CA's and using combos later. I'm keeping an eye for Thodran Amfist's Rage as it's the only Dwarf set with a 2h hammer. See you next time! 2 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,042 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 Beautiful writeup! I remember when this came out it was all the rage...cept for me I could never get into the character...but his sounds, musical effects and entire style are a charmer. I remember reading how much more "dense" these characters were than the first group released, and they could bring about lag for parties... and yet... these dwarves were beloved. Wait omgod.. is that a helicopter ? You took some great pix Flix.. I'm spending some time mulling over them, the devs really put a lot of care into this. And yah.. Divine divinity... loved that gogo Link to comment
Thorium 115 Posted December 18, 2019 Share Posted December 18, 2019 (edited) Because of the Blacksmith skill, it's a must have character. You can use him to Blacksmith for other classes. Since ReBorn includes the unofficial 2.29 patch, you can run sacred multiple times at the same time and join your own server with two characters. So you can exchange items between them and use your dwarf as a blacksmith for all your other characters. I recently played the dwarf as well and it's magic find it incredibly overpowered. Getting 2000 magic find, is easy by level 60 and sets and uniques drop like candy. ^^ Edited December 18, 2019 by Thorium Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted December 19, 2019 Author Share Posted December 19, 2019 On 12/17/2019 at 9:12 PM, gogoblender said: Wait omgod.. is that a helicopter ? Haha yeah... his backstory is he was flying back in search of his homeland, got lost, and crashed in Ancaria. He's supposedly the last of his kind, the rest are all Undead/Ghosts in the Underworld, and the Dark Elves have taken over all the Dwarf kingdoms in Ancaria (Gnarlstat is now called Zhurag-Nar. etc.) 4 hours ago, Thorium said: you can run sacred multiple times at the same time and join your own server with two characters. Yes, this is a wonderful feature. My Dwarf started out with a few set items in his stash thanks to this. 4 hours ago, Thorium said: I recently played the dwarf as well and it's magic find it incredibly overpowered. Getting 2000 magic find, is easy by level 60 and sets and uniques drop like candy. You're using Greed I guess? I read a bunch of runes in it before I realized my defense was going down, not up, with each rune read. I'm mainly just using his Blacksmith skill to put more Magic Find in my gear. I guess I could try out Greed but I hate to lose all that defense as a melee character. Link to comment
Thorium 115 Posted December 19, 2019 Share Posted December 19, 2019 3 hours ago, Flix said: You're using Greed I guess? I read a bunch of runes in it before I realized my defense was going down, not up, with each rune read. I'm mainly just using his Blacksmith skill to put more Magic Find in my gear. I guess I could try out Greed but I hate to lose all that defense as a melee character. Yes, I use Greed. It does make your character more squishy, that's true. But even without it. Once you get +100 magic find from Blacksmithing it adds up quickly. Link to comment
gogoblender 3,042 Posted December 20, 2019 Share Posted December 20, 2019 On 12/18/2019 at 6:08 PM, Thorium said: Because of the Blacksmith skill, it's a must have character. You can use him to Blacksmith for other classes. Since ReBorn includes the unofficial 2.29 patch, you can run sacred multiple times at the same time and join your own server with two characters. So you can exchange items between them and use your dwarf as a blacksmith for all your other characters. I recently played the dwarf as well and it's magic find it incredibly overpowered. Getting 2000 magic find, is easy by level 60 and sets and uniques drop like candy. ^^ 23 hours ago, Flix said: Haha yeah... his backstory is he was flying back in search of his homeland, got lost, and crashed in Ancaria. He's supposedly the last of his kind, the rest are all Undead/Ghosts in the Underworld, and the Dark Elves have taken over all the Dwarf kingdoms in Ancaria (Gnarlstat is now called Zhurag-Nar. etc.) Yes, this is a wonderful feature. My Dwarf started out with a few set items in his stash thanks to this. You're using Greed I guess? I read a bunch of runes in it before I realized my defense was going down, not up, with each rune read. I'm mainly just using his Blacksmith skill to put more Magic Find in my gear. I guess I could try out Greed but I hate to lose all that defense as a melee character. This was one of the hottest debated topics in the Sacred forum when the game was released. The powers that MP had over SP and that chest... back and forth back and forth.. .finally SP player finally figured out a way to share the chest between their toons and could "trade" like Mp players could with their friends online. Happy to see that this is new a fixed part of this fantastic mod... SP player globally rejoicing gogo Link to comment
Flix 5,116 Posted May 2, 2020 Author Share Posted May 2, 2020 Just a quick note to say Eolus Thunderfist is loving this 1920x1080 resolution. And here's another neat feature with latest 3.2 release: potions have their own unique text color, and an icon next to it so you can easily see when they drop amongst all your loot. 1 Link to comment
gogoblender 3,042 Posted May 2, 2020 Share Posted May 2, 2020 I cant believe how much of a difference that color adds. I always found those tiny little pots so hard to make out. Great idea connecting it to distinct colors. This team has done great with the game gogo Link to comment
klinklang40 4 Posted August 5, 2020 Share Posted August 5, 2020 On 12/20/2019 at 6:28 AM, gogoblender said: This was one of the hottest debated topics in the Sacred forum when the game was released. The powers that MP had over SP and that chest... back and forth back and forth.. .finally SP player finally figured out a way to share the chest between their toons and could "trade" like Mp players could with their friends online. Happy to see that this is new a fixed part of this fantastic mod... SP player globally rejoicing gogo Hi gogo I just started using sacred reborn can I ask how to open 2 games same time for trade? also how many points in forge skill for get special items like +100? Link to comment
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