Graeystone

Hrm. . .likes - Interesting spread of playable characters. Unique skills and abilities(Combat Arts) for a lot of customization. The Buffs. Seraphim! A whole of lot of modding via the TXT files.(If you know what you are doing then you can either break the game or make Niobium Difficultly look like Bronze!) Dislike- That jerk from the Escort Tutorial Quest in Sloeford.(Never, EVER let that idjut use the sword!) Any unarmed/non-invincible NPC in an escort quest who just loves to straight into a mob of monsters. PhysX option is completely and utterly broken. Ascron not porting Ice & Blood to the US around the time they went bankrupt. Not having a Yes/No option when choosing a Skill.(I've screwed up builds when accidentally choosing the wrong skill.) Bugs and Crashes. . .

Witch Blair was scary for awhile then when the suspense started to really build the one woman started dropping the F-Bombs left and right. Not that I blame her(she really didn't know what was going on because it was all improvisation) but still kind of ruined the mood. One movie that scared ca-ca out of me because I was too young to watch and too stupid to realize it was Nightmare on Elm Street. To this day I can't even watch most of the Elm Street movies.

Using the above method worked! Paypal without using a real credit/debit/bank account. Just create a Paypal/DLgamer accounts(if you don't have them) and buy Greendot Money Pak card at a store. Put money into card then transfer the amount to Paypal account. Real easy to do. Buying Sacred 2 Gold was a snap. The money pak card has the added benefit of being able to put more money into it at the store it came from so it works like a debit-card. Downloading Sacred Gold now. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H84gkp5GEAM&feature=related

Another problem may be the position of the Sacred Wiki/Donate Button. I was thinking - This way the forum window can be stretched to the max possible.

Heck, I'm surprised a Seraphim can move in that kind of armor. Just shows how tough they are. On a whim I bought a full set of that type of armor without the Armor Skill to see how bad the penalty to CA recharge would be. . .let's just say that vertical bar in the Inventory Screen look like it was about blow its top. Had about a 45 second recharge time for the CA and that was with good amount of points pumped into Concentration and Focus. Excellent drawing and her armor design you used would make for a good looking mutant or set armor. Like the twin pony tails. Hopefully in S3 the designers will actually give the tails some real length.

I just set up an account with Paypal. They offer an alternative to adding money to one's paypal account if a person doesn't own or doesn't want to use a regular credit/debit card to fund their account.- https://www.paypal.com/us/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=xpt/Help/popup/GreenDotLearnMore

Knuckles - Thanks! Checked Visa and Mastercard sites - The Visa Vanilla Card(link I posted) can only be used in the US however certain MasterCard Gift Cards are stated to be used anywhere in the world. Of course it all depends if the site selling the product will accept them regardless.

Have a concern - I don't own a credit/debit card so whenever I do any shopping online, I just buy a gift card at a store(something like this - https://www.vanillavisa.com/product.html). Is a Visa/Mastercard backed gift card bought in the US acceptable payment?

wolfie2kX - Not everyone is able to get Gold/Expansion for whatever reasons (and work being cut back is a good enough reason for me not to buy Gold plus another reason I need to ask in a certain thread about) and I also brought up the point that what works for me may not work for everyone.

You're welcome. This mainly started as a way to stop the crashing when I quit the game and noticed a lot of improvements afterwards. A big one was when I clicked on a shop NPC, there would be one heck of lag for the shop window to appear. I think I'll try running the game without compatibility and how that works without those two .dlls in the mix. . . . . . . EDIT - So. . .keeping XP SP3 compatibility on is a good idea no matter what. . .not only did the game crash. . .my Options(Graphics, Sound, etc.) were wiped out and had to reset them. EDIT 2 - CRUD! Playing a bit more and the Overworld Map did go buggy on me. However when I exited out of the game there was not crash error so at least that's something.

AMD 2.50 GHz Dual Core(64 Bit) 2 GB Ram Nvidia 9800 GT(All graphics maxed/PhysX Mode enabled) Windows 7 Ultimate Sacred 2 Fallen Angel 2.43(Running Windows XP 3 Compatibility) Country/Region - United States ***** Like everyone else running Windows 7, Sacred 2 - Fallen Angel crashes/lock ups HARD for me. During one of those crash/lock-ups, I did a CTRL+ALT+DEL to get the Task Manager so I could shut down Sacred 2. When I got the prompt to shut down the game, I click a button to see what was causing these problem and this file was shown - LaptopGaming_xp.dll.(Found in Sacred 2 system folder) Every time the game crashed that file would be the culprit. As an experiment, I moved the file out of the Sacred 2 folder so the game could not access it. The crashes vanished but there was still another bug that could lead to a crash - the overworld map(M Key) not showing up except for Ressurection, Quest Icon, and Shop Icons. There is another file I had noticed named - LaptopGaming_vista.dll while moving the XP file. I didn't think much about it because I'm not crazy/stupid enough run Sacred 2 in Vista Compatibility. However on a whim I removed that file also. To my surprise there was an actual improvement in game performance and even the Overworld Map bug didn't happen. So what's going on?(Theories)- Opposing Operating Systems - These two files are probably geared strictly for Vista and XP. Since I'm running Windows 7 and even with compatibility mode(not to be confused with the optional Windows XP Mode for Windows 7 Professional/Ultimate[I wasted a hour of my life installing XP Mode and Sacred 2 won't even install on it!]) the file in question tries to treat the OS as XP or Vista which causes the conflicts and crashes. "Dang it Jim, I'm a PC, not a Laptop!" - The file name says it all 'LAPTOP'. Laptops and PCs have their differences and again, these two files are trying to treat the rig as something its not. "MAKE IT STOP! MAKE IT STOP!" - In the game Torchlight there is a 'Notebook/Laptop Mode' option. This can be turned on/off depending if a player is using PC or Laptop. Sacred 2 FA doesn't have that kind of option and I don't know if adding an exception line ("LaptopGaming_xp.dll=0" or whatever) in some TXT file will work or not. The easiest thing to do is just delete/move the files. ***** Concerns - Since I'm strictly a Single Player Gamer, I don't know if removing those two files will negatively affect Multiplayer/Closed Net or not. Bugs like having too much RAM - I don't know if these two files are the cause of that bug or not because of the PC/Laptop differences. Laptop+Windows 7 - I don't have a laptop with Windows 7 so I don't know if removing the files will help or hurt. Me but not you - What works for me may or not work for others. ***** I don't think this is a cure all for Windows 7 problems but for me its at least a decent start.

Have a question about the numerical sequences in Drop.txt - In my unedited Drop file the last for 'shoulder' is- entry56 However for the mutation shoulder, its - entry58 So what is entry57? Playing US version 2.43.

Protip - Don't use Notepad when doing a 'find/replace' command to edit an eight megabyte file. . .tends to crash(at least for me.) I think its funny to be able to bludgeon an enemy with a bow. And pistol whipping? Heck yeah!

Nice mole the Seraphim has with that armor top.

'L33t Speak' irritates me to no end. English is a difficult language to learn with all its variations and definitions. On forums, I have seen many non-English speaking posters who want to learn English or have a hard time with it. L33t Speak does not help matters when people are trying to learn the language.

Also keep an eye on your CA Level and Focus Level- If your Combat Arts level has a decimal - Level 2.5 instead of Level 3, you'll need to get the focus raised to get the CA up to the next level without wasting runes. Always make sure the 'Next Level' is a whole number instead of a number with a decimal.

I think you have to be careful early on what you equip or rune eat early on because certain pieces of armor/runes/weapons will be harder to come by. Case in point is armor - I don't like my characters to have mismatched pieces of armor yet trying to buy specific armor pieces from shops can be a real pain.(Still trying to find all the pieces of the seraphim's 'Golden Bikini top' Just have the top, boots and what I think are the pants.) One of the thing about runes that I do in the beginning of a new game(Bronze/Silver) is that I don't use the specific CA/eat runes that I want for later in the game or just stick with the CA the character is already equipped with until my rune collection grows to the point that eating them is needed/viable. (Level 10/reach Elf Capital)

Watched the trailer for Avatar foolishly thinking it was for Avatar - The Last Airbender. Thankfully I watched the trailer and knew what this movie was going to be about - "Sick, murderous, sadistic organization wages war on peace loving indigenous species who are in tune with their version of mother nature unlike the techno. dependent humans."

Now it might be a language difference but in my itemtype.txt(US English) HELBERD is spelled HALBERD.

Legend of Mana OST- (Pain the Universe) (Opening)

My name has its roots from the Gargoyle TV series and the character Matt Bluestone. Liked his last name and it stuck in my mind for quite awhile. Then when I started going on the Internet and needed an alias for online,(AOL chatrooms. . .yeah, I'm an AOL Chatroom Survivor!) I thought back to Bluestone. 'Blue' however didn't work for me so I went through various colors red, yellow, black, white, etc. Then I got to the color gray and there it was. However just Graystone or Greystone was still too bland. Then I thought, why not use both vowels? First tried Greaystone but didn't like the letter order and switched to ae and that's how its been ever since. . .that and it looks cool.

But why would you expect it to? Unless DW mastery allowed you to use a two-handed weapon in your main hand & a normal-sized weapon in your off hand. Which would actually be quite cool, thinking about it... In Diablo 2 the Barbarian was able to DW two handed weapons like spears. http://forum.sacred2.com/showpost.php?p=608656&postcount=13 Pretty much what I want to.

Another question about BFG - How many runes have to be eaten to get Ranged Weapons up to Level 75 via BFG RW Bonus or is there a limit cap on the BFG? Checked Sacred 2 wiki but it doesn't have the info.

Whelp. . .that stupid broad(Auto-start quest between Elf Outpost and Thysilum[sp?]) got killed a second time this week! Just got a horse and thought to myself - "Maybe I'll ride up on the mugger and kill him on horse back.' . . .the plan only half worked. My HE decided to have a bad case of the 'Missing The Target'! Another time I even tried to snipe the mugger with Incendiary Shower since that CA can be activated on a spot regardless of distance to target. . .and YET even before I had the chance to try it as the quest started, the mugger killed the woman. . .talk about a Holy Hannah! moment.

Money only rewards. . .its not like there is million other ways to get money.