Zeus331

Market Place are you talking about each town? I dont understand when you say put/remove items from where the merchants or are you talking about the chest in each town? Other players cant buy stuff from other players unless you trade gold for an item

Artamark Star is a 3 star amulet/ring which drops from killing monsters just like any other 3 star jewelery

As far as runes you should have modded MA and read enough runes to keep pet level 2x above yours. Ancient Bark you can read as many runes as your heart desires. I was able to tank monsters including Orc Cave while my pet killed them. So you should not be taking a pounding. What Combat Art's have you modded so far? If you have lances fully modded you could run Griffon and Fire Boar in Bronze to get some set items to help you out.

I know you dont want to hear this but I would scrap your character and remake one. Here is the problem you did not modd the most important skill even if you use the build in this guide or the one I am going to suggest. This is why your having alot of problems and with 110 skill points total already in Astral Lore and Focus it would take about another 60 or so skill points to fully mod this which at 2 skills points per level it will take you 30 more levels to fix this problem which would put you in platinum / niob which you would not survive nor would your 4 skellies running around. Shadow Veil is a must to be modded first and eat about 25 to 30 runes by the time you hit level 25 this will give you 100% invisibility and allows you to cast spectral hand, raise minions etc with out becoming visible to the monsters. Nether allegiance is the next to be modded as indicated in the previous post. Having just two skellies but reading runes to make their level 2x higher than yours is a must. So I would place any set items, important jewelery, potions, etc. into my chest. I would sell the rest and convert my runes to the ones I need. Now you can use Stephane's guide here in this post which works great or you can use this pure summoner guide which allows you to sit back command your minions. Along with finding good set items etc. Skills: Astral Lord Lore:75 Astral lord Focus:75 Concentration: 75 Tactics lore:9 (Lets you mod fully 1 Combat Art in Malevolent = Augmenting Guidon) Riding:5 Enhanced Perception:75 Armor Lore:75 Duel Wield:1 Malevolent Champion Focus:75 Ancient Magic:75 Mod the combat arts in this order Astral: Shadow Veil : Creep (1a), Fade (2b) and Sinister Pact => Increase furtivity + Reduces detection with spells + Permanent effect (buff) Nether Allegiance : Sharp Blades (1b), Tower Shield (2b) and Elite Equipment (3b) => Damage + Armor x2 Skeletal Fortification : Rapid Fire (1a), Ice Shards (2b) and Scatter Shot (3a) => Firing rate + Ice Damage + another projectile Rallied Soul : Armament (1a), Vivification (2a) and Contagion (3a) => Armor + Soul duration + Infection Malevolent Champion: Augmenting Guidon : Ensign (1b), Healing (2a) and Fear (3a) => Expend Area of effect + Healing in the area of effect + Reduces attack of the opponents Reflective Emanation : Backslash (1b), Antimagic (2b) and Idol (3b) => Reflect ranged + Reflect spells/AdC + Area effect Belligerent Vault : Routine (1b), Shock (2b) and Commotion (3a) => Regeneration + Confused/slow down + Stun in the area. P.S. Once you get Augmenting Guidon and Skeletal Fortification modded put them in a combo works great for orc cave.

I assume your on silver so the options you have depending how far you are: Orc Cave South East Corner in the Swamps I also like going fromm Windswept Fortress until you get to the merchant before going down to fight the Four Guardians

Well as far as modding I gave it all to you except Spectral Hand in my previous post. Now the question is what skills have you taken so far? do you have any open skill slots where you have to still pick? How many skill points do you have that you still have to use? What have you modded so far? This will help to see where we can go from there. I do have to admit I have made about 4 of these Summoners so far my very first was the one your link took me to at that time it was the only guide for a pure summoner.

actually if it is 10 level gap make a free world game make sure the level gap is selected for 10 and create game and the one who did not create game join the the game. Yeah I saw this when I was over my friends house someone had 2 of them in two monster kills they went from level 18 to 26

Here you go http://darkmatters.org/forums/index.php?Spectral Hand...amp;hl=leveling

1 Bargaining allows you to shop from the merchants. It is not really the armor you are looking at it will be the jewlery. Example if you dont have bargining you wont be able to by the + All Skills with excellent 2nd or 3 mods. Like +4 All skills with 30% Deathblow. 2nd You can not buy sets from merchants. The sets you will find by having taken Enhanced Perception so when you kill Mini Bosses (White Griffon, Boar, etc.) Elites they have better chances to drop set items. I have Enhanced Perception maxed at 75 and sometimes I open chest and set items drop out. 3rd here is a build with no shield, with or without Bargining. I always recomend taking Enhanced Perception. So it is only 1 free skill. Nature Weaver Lore Cabalistic Voodoo Focus Nature Weaver Focus Enhanced Perception - Gives us a better chance of finding gear, if not to equip, then to sell for money. Also unlocks accessories with Chance to Find Valuables and experience per Kill modifiers. Keep it at either 1 if you go with Combat Discipline, if not keep pumping, need 5 to unlock Bargaining. Combat Discipline -OR- Bargaining Concentration Combat Reflexes - Needs 5 points to unlock Armor Lore. Armor Lore Tactics Lore - Need 5 points in this to unlock Dual Wield. Dual Wield - Can leave this at 1 point. Hope this helps

First off welcome to the forums. This is a great place for alot of information but you remember some of the newer builds are made for pc blood and ice. Yes this build will work for consoles. The biggest thing using Frenzied Rampage or Scything Sweep is not to break you being invisible. Now onto your questions I can tell you already you made the wrong choices for your skellies. You should not have 4 of them running around. You should have modded them for better equiptment etc. You seem to be more of a summoner type build where you are the general and you command your minons to do the work for you and every now and then you assist by using spectral hand. There is nothing wrong with this but in that case I would suggest looking at the Larry riches guide. Here are some of the key Modds it would be up to you to decided if you want to be pure summoner or want to get your hands dirty: Shadow Veil : Creep (1a), Fade (2b) and Sinister Pact => Increase furtivity + Reduces detection with spells + Permanent effect (buff) Nether Allegiance : Sharp Blades (1b), Tower Shield (2b) and Elite Equipment (3b) => Damage + Armor x2 Skeletal Fortification : Rapid Fire (1a), Ice Shards (2b) and Scatter Shot (3a) => Firing rate + Ice Damage + another projectile Rallied Soul : Armament (1a), Vivification (2a) and Contagion (3a) => Armor + Soul duration + Infection Augmenting guidon : Ensign (1b), Healing (2a) and Fear (3a) => Expend Area of effect + Healing in the area of effect + Reduces attack of the opponents Reflective Emanation : Backslash (1b), Antimagic (2b) and Idol (3b) => Reflect ranged + Reflect spells/AdC + Area effect Belligerent Vault : Routine (1b), Shock (2b) and Commotion (3a) => Regeneration + Confused/slow down + Stun in the area

Also a to low level Ancient Bark, at 39 I read 39 samething with MA your pet level should be 2x your level at all times

It will depend on what skills and mods you have taken already. I would not stick anything in that armor unless it is a really nice Atamark Star (All damage mitigation) other than that all skills something of that nature. Now lets look at what skills you have taken. Did you take Armor Lore? Did you take Shield lore? A very nice high level glacial defender with a Atamerk star in it works out some good mitigation. Now onto modding for Ancient Bark did you take Rugged? It is a must if you want to shrug off some damage.

This is what I did Skills: Astral Lord Lore:75 Astral lord Focus:75 Concentration: 75 Tactics lore:9 (Lets you mod fully 1 Combat Art in Malevolent) Riding:5 Enhanced Perception:75 Armor Lore:75 Duel Wield:1 Malevolent Champion Focus:75 Ancient Magic:75

Can someone tell me what the difference for the following Combat Art's mods: Ancient Bark: Slippery vs Rugged Golden Glade Touch: Bandage vs Flow

It was just a little humor hope you did not take my "Thong" remark serious. That must really stink that BeeEffGee was nerfed, I did not know that since I play on console.

You must just really love seraphims. It must be the thong that brings you back. There is nothing wrong with your BeeEffGee build which handles the Guardians now this guide. Which do you prefer BeeEffGee or this Ranged Version?

Still cannot figure out a good regen time level for vines, I dont have any RpH. Any ideas, I really want to pump up the vine damage.

For about half games when you clear your cache, all the updates from xbox live are removed and must be reinstalled when the game is started up... unless signed off of xbox live. I know I used to do this for some oblivion cheats that no longer exist. Maybe backing up my character and removing the game completely would work? I would just play offline until 200 then sign on and update. I'll try Why just why? It is not like there is an experience glitch, what you will have is all of the bugs on quest, getting stuck in spots like walking down a path, etc. 200 is just not going to come over night even if you use all experience gear. Just play the game with the patches there are 2 characters you can take to 200 pretty easy. 1st being the voodoo dryad just alot of desert runs and on xbox much easier because you can have a full game and run the desert with out crashing the server. Where on ps3 you can not have anyone else in the game. 2nd would be a Summoner Shadow Warrior but it is slow until you get Shadow Viel 100% after that very very easy with full experience gear and high level skellies.

BeeEffGee is the way to go. I just did this about a week ago straight out of the box. Very 1st character no runes, no gear no nothing. I followed KA's since his was played on console, but Dobri's is good also. Play on Bronze follow the path to each quest line. Sell everything you pick up and dont forget swaping runes does not count for buying any items either. Remember you can run the orc cave to gain levels also.

I dont know if there is a video for the Kolbolds but there is one for other areas but I will try to explain what you should be doing at this point. 1st at level 12 you should have chosen at least these three skills Nature Lore or Focus or Both and Voodoo Lore along with concentration. 2nd Voodoo Lore and either Nature Lore or Focus should be at your level meaning 12 points into each. As you level you continue to put points into these skills this allows you to mod the Combat Arts along with reducing Regen Times etc. 3rd At your current level and if you placed your points right you should have Viperish Disease and Ancient Bark fully modded. Make sure you picked the right ones for Viperish Disease. 4th You should have picked up a barbarian head from the kolbolds. If you did you must equipt the head. How Viperish Dease works is based upon you having the correct head you have active. 5th Make sure you have read 5 runes of Viperish Disease, As many as runes to keep you pets level 2x higher than yours and as many runes as you want the more the better in Ancient Bark. 6th In town you should have activated the Kolbold Chieftain quest. Leave town and once you have crossed the bridge turn slight left (puts you off the road onto some grass) continue to head north slightly west. There is another bridge you cross another bridge (by this time you seen a bunch of kolbolds and will continue to see them). You will see a road that allows you to go east or west. East will take your towards the Chieftain. You want to go west this will take you to a portal, activate this portal. Now the fun begins, from the portal you have two options which ever you pick it does not matter. From the portal if you head east cast Viperish Disease everytime you are able until you reach the area of the Chieftain. If you modded right half way to him all of the littel kolbolds and everything else some be contaminated glowing green. Once you have reached the area around the chieftain kill everything also dont forget to cast Morbid Anumis (your pet) it will help kill the koldbolds. Once you start killing them you will see the experience rolling. You can now then teleport back to the Portal you activated and run up the path north repeating what you just did by cast the Viperish Disease. The only exception here is when you get close to the top of the path you will see the becon that you can activate (STOP RIGHT THERE). If you run any further there is a town dont go up there it will stop the Viperish Disease. Also at the becon if you go west there is an open field a boss is located there "White Griffon". After you have completed these two runs you can repeat this suggested to make a new game. Hope this helps you can post your skills and combat art mods and further questions and I will try to give you as much as advice that I can.

What level are you now being in Plat.? You could the level gold just have to find a good spot to net experience. I like to run the Pass (Demons and Aliens) from the Waypoint to where your about to enter to work your way down to the Guardians. Do you have alot of your sockets filled with experience.?

Okay lets start off with: 1) Riding is fine just dump 5 points into it which will unlock EP (Dont Pick Black Smith) 2) You can pump armor lore but I would not this early in the game. 3) You did not have to spend more than 5 points in Tatics Lore it wa sonly for you to get D/W Now questions for you: 1) What regn times are you talking about? plus post what Combat Arts your using along with how many runes you have read this will help out. 2) Concentration are you going for 3 buffs or only 2 (Shadow Viel and NA)? If you are only going to use the both of them then dont spend anymore skills but if your going to use 3 Reflective Buff from Malevolent Champion Skills then you have to take it to 75. 3) If your skellies are doing all of the damage while you are in the Shadows you should put points into Malevolent Champion Focus to Mod the Combat Arts your using then stop puting points into unless your going for the three buffs. 4) EP and Orc Cave equals alot of uniques and set items so I would suggest to get EP and level it as fast as you can but keep the Astral Lord Focus and Lore at your Level.

As a former Xbox 360 Sacred Player, If it is two Voodoo Dryads only one can cast the Viperish Disease. As far as any other characters playing with the Voodoo Dryad, yes they will get the experience. as long as they are close by you and in your party (Free World Games). Just be careful when it becomes laggy stop running stand still and start killing everything around you drink a experience. potion and watch the experience roll on in, because you maybe on one of the sand dunes and your party memeber may appear they are right next to you when in fact they are off your screen.

Yes Blacksmith does not work I also think I read somewhere or at least Alchemy does not work properly. If you go with all upgrades to equipment you will have 2 very strong skellies but you will not get anymore than 2. Yes keep them 2x times your level.

By all means double back in the desert or where ever you run VD at and gather any pick ups from the recent deaths, you can also gather a group and cast your pet. Killem, loot them now you have money to switch your runes or when you get bargining up to your level along with + Bargin relics you can shop for better gear. EP will get you better drops, money, sets but you dont want to level this right away because the importance is your damage and your bargin skills. EP will get boosted up when you start finding or buying + all skills jewelery.