YoodenVranx

I completed the HC character ( bronze campaign ) and got the "Dedicated" achievement. Pic I discovered that pelting strikes followed by soul hammer is an awesome combo. PS shoots two bullets and SH one, that delivers "coup de grace", this one shots almost anything and is an excellent boss killer. And since it also shoots 3 shots with 84% pierce, it does pretty well against mobs, too.

That's 'Dedicated' and yes I agree. I am trying to get that with the same character as well ( hardcore BFG seraphim ). I finished chapter 5 and am at 9.5%.. So far so good..

I'm back! Was busy with a bunch of RL stuff. Ok so I'm playing my BFG seraphim on hardcore, completed upto chapter 5. Few questions: -Pelting strikes only shoots 2 bullets, even with the double hit mod. Any way to get it to do more? -Which is better vs bosses, pelting strikes or soul hammer? -Since this is HC I went warding energy over battle stance for my second buff. DP doesn't seem reliable because you can't have it up all the time and it has a regen time which stops me from using other CAs for a long time after casting it. Any ideas?

Tactics lore also increases soul hammer/ pelting strikes damage, no? Btw, why pelting strikes only shoot 2 shots from BFG? It does so many with dual wielding swords. The BFG build's only downside so far seems to be low attack speed/ regen times. But I guess they will pick up.

Thanks guys! I am giving the dryad a break for now ( am having to limit my video gaming time for RL reasons ), and instead started a new BFG seraphim on hardcore. It seems like BFG is improved by CA level, player level, Tactics Lore, Ranged weapons, Rev. Tech Lore and Battle Stance? Damn, that's one hell of a weapon.

You are right in that I am not able to look at the big picture here.. Give me a character in Diablo 2 or Median XL and I can tell pretty well what it's capable of given the skills and equipment, I can't do that in Sacred 2. Maybe I haven't played enough, but thats the other problem. It takes insanely long to level up and esp. at high levels it seems like now its taking 1 hr to gain 1 level. How long it takes to get a level 130 character? Do the math.. its insane. A game like Van Helsing 2 I was able to finish from beginning to end in under 11 hours, that's the first playthrough and without any other help, and I did every quest I could find. Nevertheless I think I will in fact get a high level dryad, even though it'll probably take months. I'll be trying to beat all the quests in the game (in platinum ), as well as reveal 80% of the map and (eventually ) beat Niob. I allocated 5 sockets to visibility gear ( light range +11m and +37% vs. range ). It doesn't seem to make a difference to me.. I went into an unexplored area and seemed to uncover the map and the same rate as before. I guess I'll have to take your word for it. I am coming across a lot of these rings that have like adds 24-24 damage. I read that it just adds on to the base damage of your weapon. Seems.. imbalanced? I can't think of a better socketable, and these are really easy to get.. you can just shop them, even without bargaining. Alchemy however proved to be quite interesting, even at just 1 pt. Construction parts trophy gives around 40% block against enemy CAs, this sounds pretty great huh? as boss powerful attacks are really the only dangerous thing to her ( this one isn't listed under trophies ? ). Demon Tooth trophy, 1.4 RpH pretty cool huh. Better potions too. Edit: I don't really know how to reduce fire damage. Only thing I can think of are relics and they only add like 150 each, while my physical armor is 6000+ . I also found a ring with 1.2% damage reduction vs elements, but again.. too little.

vision and vision% are good for exploring huh? I thought that mod never did anything at all.

Yes, alchemy sounds interesting. I thought about using it on my HC shadow warrior ( which I started and is now level 15 ), but he has it as a secondary skill. Doesn't seem worth it to get blacksmith just for that ( how is blacksmith useful anyway ) However, I could use it as the 10th skill on my dryad, who has it as the primary skill. I've heard people say good things about bargaining, but the truth is I'm not really a 'shopper' . I can look up stuff in shops every now and then but not really go out of my way for doing so. .. I've been reading up on the whole spell damage and resistance stuff and man it is annoyingly complex. Used to be really easy in Diablo 2, for the most part you would just have a number like 75% fire damage reduced.

Hmm.. this place is a lot less active than I thought..

Hi folks! Nice to be posting here. I have been playing Sacred 2 for about 4 months now. Here is a list of all my current characters. I am playing Ice&Blood with community patch. I have completed almost every quest, including 'Epic Office'. I have done all achievements except 'Dedicated' and 'Master Cartographer' ( and 3 multiplayer ones but am not interested in those, I am solo player only ). Okay! Now I want to talk about my Dryad character. It is a ranged dryad, with full Detheya's set and currently using a level 80 bow called 'Bull's eye', that I used to beat Platinum. At 1.8 RpH, my CAs cool down almost as fast as I use them ( Ravaged impact, darting assault and Sinister predator are at ~level 55, Ancient bark at level 30 ) I have the following skills ( base points ): Ranged weapons ( 20) Tactics lore (75) Capri Hunter focus (75) Concentration (1) Nature Weaver focus ( 31 ) <-- for Ancient bark and tangled vine aspects Combat reflexes (10) Armor lore (49) Constitution (38) Spell resistance (1) Combat Discipline (1) I use Sacred 2 character editor to 're spec' characters and am fine with doing so. However I only use legally obtained equipment ( ie no downloaded stuff ) and do not change up stats more than what is supposed to be in the game. I find myself thinking that I may have made some bad decisions. Combat discipline doesn't seem to work, it doesn't increase CA damage as advertised. I don't really use combos anyway except for one, tangled vine followed by ravaged impact vs bosses. Spell resistance also doesn't seem to be doing much for me. Infact with Ancient Bark I have so much armor that only spells damage me seriously. I only died one time with this character, and that was in Platinum, a red 'young dragon' champion monster one shotted me from 80% health as I was going back to the island after killing Carnach. (w t f!? How did it happen, is it a glitch? ) But also, I have been taken down from full to ~10-20% life by one of the final guardians, a dragon boss, the octopus ( slam with 3 arms ) and the Gar-Colossus . All in platinum, and all by spells/CAs ( normal attacks just don't do much damage when I have ~8k armor ) I have no idea how to mitigate this spell damage, Spell Resistance mastery? What other skills might be useful, Damage Lore? Speed Lore? General skills, I have no idea how to use them, are they really important? Enhanced Perception, I took this on my Seraphim and have regretted it. With 25 pts, it doesn't do jack. Bargaining. I don't buy stuff from shops generally.. seems boring. Alchemy. I have better things to do than farming trophies.. Blacksmith. The NPCs work just fine. They are the only thing I even have to spend money on ( 50 million on my dryad ) Riding and Divine Devotion- are just bad. I would like some advice regarding survivability in general ( especially against spells/CAs ) and the use of General Skills. Particularly as I am planning to make a Hardcore character - A shadow warrior with a lightsaber , grim resilience will increase willpower . ( Is this a good idea? ) Ok to sum up here are my plans 1. Create a HC character ( probably lightsaber wielding SW ) and beat at least silver 2. Complete 'Dedicated' and 'Master cartographer'. 'Dedicated' seems to be really hard ( my inquistor is in the seraphim area and he's nearly at 10%. And I tried really hard not to go off track ), so I'll probably do it with a bronze character. 80% for 'Master cartographer' seems real hard, my best character has around 50%. Any tips there? 3. Complete any quests I may have missed ( probably done along with master cartographer ) 4. Maybe complete Niob difficulty with dryad - but that will require a lot of levelling and farming along with switching around skills as I have indicated.. It takes so f%@#ing long to level at this point.. All enemies have been in deep purple for a long while now, Niob enemies are level 115 and I can just barely beat the weak early enemies such as the Rune masters quest.. 5. Maybe get 1 of each character through the game. Inquisitor, TG and especially DM seem to be AWFUL. I don't enjoy playing them at all, maybe I'm missing something. Thanks for reading!

Thanks a lot! Will start posting tomorrow.

I would like to change it to Yooden_Vranx . Thanks!

That's what I did, and I also removed darkmatters from my list of apps on FB. Didn't work. Oh well..

Hi there! I have been playing Sacred 2 for four months and want to start posting here. However I logged in with Facebook, and now when I want to create a proper account, it won't let me use my normal email address ( presumably because it is linked with facebook ). I don't really want to create a useless email account just for this. For various reasons I don't want my facebook to be connected with my gaming activity, but I could live with it if at the very least I am able to change my user name to not be the same thing as from Facebook. Any help in this regard would be appreciated!