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I'll agree with Llama. Reflective emanation is the bread and butter to my SW as well. Mine is also DW. I decided to pick concentration so I could have two buffs, and I use grim resilience for the mass HP buff and extra will power so I don't have to take spell resistance. Regular enemies do not hit him very often, and so far the only mini boss I've had any trouble with has bee white griffin (He debuffs often). Also might think about putting your attributes into strength and vitality. On this latest build I've dumped them into strength at a two-to-one ratio. Hope this helps!

Level 40 now. Took down the dragon in Grunwald. Made sure to use my relics in the fight, and it was a piece of cake. Used one potion in the middle. Everything is working well so far. I have also learned my lesson, I now only afk while talking to vendors or logged out =) Edit: Wowee, I just picked up a sword that does "170.8% damage of enraged players"... That's some crazy numbers right there.. I tried to take a screenshot, but the pictures always end up without the UI. If someone knows how to leave the UI in, let me know and I'll take a pic and post it here =D

Ok, I figure instead of putting in character updates every couple of levels, I would instead do it every ten, and notate any mini bosses or regular story bosses I took down, and how it went. I just hit level 32 and went after Bloodclaw. He was remarkably easy, and I only had to use a potion after he died. Not quite sure what I did with this character over the last one. I think it has been my distribution of stat points. I have been putting in 2 points of strength for every one vitality ( Last time it was 50/50). It seems to be a pretty noticeable difference.

Hercule the risen has..... arose. Back up in the 20's now, and everything is working well. Using the same spec I had before.

All good things must come to an end I guess. I went afk to have a smoke, no enemies near by, came back and he was toast. I will immediately start a new one and continue on!

Man. My find magic items is very low, since I don't have perception to buy rings and whatnot. I fought a group of enemies and they dropped a set item. I then fought another group RIGHT AFTER, and another one dropped. Three groups later, ANOTHER piece dropped... I'm not going to complain, but what the heck? And I also have a question. I did a quest (I cant remember which one), and I picked up a gray item called "Item", Its icon is a fruit basket, and it is level 18... Not sure why but I am going to keep it forever (who doesn't love a good fruit basket?). Is this the Sacred equivalent of vendor trash? I seem to remember something similar in Sacred 1.

Made it to level 20. So far so good! I did end up taking DW focus. Regen lowering and mod points gooood.

Nice, RE is a staple to my life now. You might try just going with the armor and buffs and see how that feels before you commit to shields though. Past level 25 on my non HC SW he rarely got hit. Or perhaps you are going for the "NOTHING will ever hit me" way. I'm interested to see how that turns out =D

I decided to test out my little spec on something a little more hardy, so I took a trip to say "Hello!" to white griffin. I must have forgotten my deodorant, because as soon as I saw him, he came after me. After much complaining about his de-buffing, I finally downed him. Took about four minutes total, and around 9 potions. Good trade if you ask me, and it lets me know I'm stepping in the right direction.

Yeah, once that happens, I'll be all for getting some combo's for bosses going

Totally, I already have 3 deathblow rings waiting for him =) EDIT: I've also noticed that chaining some of my Combat Arts like FR and DB appear to not work. Either that or the animation is bugged and it only shows the motions of on CA. I'll test it out more.

I'll keep an eye out on it. I primarily focus on regular attacks, using Combat Arts more as an occasional attack. That may or may not sound odd to some people, but it has worked well. I'm going to go ahead and plan out a little more and decide if I have an open slot for DW focus, because it would be nice to not only cut that regen down, but to get more mod points at the same time.

Thank you =) Level 7 now, keeping the points flowing through malevolent champion so I can buff the heck out of reflective emanations and rampage. Fully modded RE; I decided on reflecting both spells and ranged, as well as adding more damage with the last mod. The next skill I am picking is concentration so I can have the two buffs. The added attack and defense from GR really help to hit and mitigate that damage, when I do take some. Soon after concentration is armor lore for the most basic of reasons... I don't want Hercule to kick the bucket. Now, one might normally go ahead and get the death warrior focus so they wont have the penalty. Well, I have no problem getting tons of runes, so I'm just going to pump into that bad boy with lots of runes so I have the extra slot open later. I just applied my second buff, and it's working well. Taking less damage is always a good thing, and I can tell RE is shooting back projectiles and weakening my opponents before I get to them, making it easy work. Thumbs up so far!

Level 4 now. Took melevolent champion for my second skill while increasing tactics lore for DW at level 5. After I take DW, I will be taking concentration. Will not be putting points into it, the regen it gives is very small, and I only want it for the dual buff. I have placed mods immediately on RE, one to reflect spells, the other to reflect ranged. The less damage I take, and consequently the more damage the enemies take, the better. Thanks for the welcome!

Hello. I am new to the dark matters scene, but I have gleaned much information from the guides you have posted, and I have found the information invaluable to my character creations. I am now embarking on my very first HC character. Hercule the shadow warrior. I have already leveled a normal SW to 47, and after having tested a few different builds, I want to make a sort of progress report. Every three levels I will put another post up of where I put my points, and how I feel the character is progressing. Any feedback will of course be greatly appreciated. First skill is going to be Tactics lore. The first attribute point is going to be Vitality. I am aiming for a variance of the standard tanking build, with a little tendency toward damage. While the spec I have in mind does less damage than other potentials, it's totally worth never having to use potions. Well, here we go! EDIT: In my previous post, it was unclear on whether the HC character was 47. I have cleared this up =)