[Damage boost by monster type...affected by?]

When playing a Dryad character you have the option of equipping a shrunken head.

The shrunken head gives you a bonus (damage?, attack?, defense value against?).

 

I've noted that all the characters have differing values of bonus versus different categories of opponents.

 

Does anyone have a handle on how these values show up? Or is this just something partially exposed to us in the interface?

[Finally going to do it.]

Way to go Furian! Thanks for sharing your success story!

[The Whiskey business has never been so good!]

All of them? Or just the one? I know he has more than one. He's like DaGirl that way.

[Re-hi: I'm still kickin']

Nice to see you Tharkane. I'm sorry to hear that S2IB doesn't work for you. I know the painful time after S2FA was released turned a lot of people off the game... but the patches did come out. It's not perfect, but, to me at least, it's gorgeous!

 

Wishing you well, as always, your co-writer Frost/Dave

[Frosty has a birthday!]

Thanks all! I was really really afk (by about 200 miles!) over the weekend.

 

I've had my 3rd birthday dinner now... with pie, more pie, chocolate cake (still drooling it was that good!) and oreo cake last night!

 

I'm doing an internal happy dance... and just want to say thanks for the well wishes from the [D.a.r.k.]!

 

Cheers all!

[Ever wanted to own your very own Gogo?]

Yes... but with this one your food budget does not explode!

[Off to other adventures]

Hi Timo! Nice to see you.

 

Re: time/new interest? Umm... Sports. How about sports?

 

Good luck in the job search, and Cheers

[How to recover passwords for Sacred 2 Account?]

Hey guys, how can I get my lost password for my account back? I've been trying to get it back for 2 days now using the link that it gives you ingame and all it says is that the server is down...

 

I would look in the manual and use that email address.

If that failed, I would look at the help section of the official forum.

[Sacred 2 crashing with new rig :(]

Just want to report that due to excellent help from this forum I was able to get my new Ice and Blood to work under windows 7!

 

 

Thanks all!

[Found my 1st 4 star item]

I will have to imagine! The only legendaries I have were boneslicers or a hammer given to me by a German player.

 

The excitement of an orange drop (on pc) is still in my future!

[Sacred 2 crashing with new rig :(]

Thanks. I'm downloading this particular patch as I type this.

[How do I know if I reached skill mastery without removing my gear]

RE: magnifying glass to use on websites: Internet Explorer comes with built-in accessibility features that you can turn on/off to allow you use the computer to magnify parts of web pages, or... you can change the default font sizes to larger...

 

I did both of these things for a co-worker before her cataract surgery. It really helped her!

 

Cheers!

[Car accident]

Your daughter is showing great spirit and intelligence. Chip off the old block? (wink)

 

Thank you for enlarging my knowledge about the getting stronger quote.

 

I seem to recall another quote that is a tough person's quote that might fit... Pain is weakness leaving the body. It is in English, but sounds German to my ears.

 

Wishing all your family the best,

 

Frost/Dave

[Looking for names for Ancaria's Regional Graveyards]

I recall a graveyard in a cave in the Human Region (around the banshee) that has Silearth and someone else (or 2 or 3) from the Sacred International Forum (SIF)... at the time I took screen caps... so when I get home I'll start on that one.

[What do I do?]

I would just like to say that I've been reading this thread with interest, but don't have the experience to be able to make intelligent comments.

 

So, I want to help, but... well. You know how it goes. I'm pretty sure I'm not alone in this.

[Sacred 2 crashing with new rig :(]

Necro-ing this thread since I now have a Windows 7 box... and I know that Dobs has ongoing ctd issues.

 

I put in UK Sacred2 2.0.2.0--and tried to patch it to 2.40 UK version...

 

The patch tells me I don't have any Sacred2 installed. I'm using x64 Windows 7... and it installed Sacred2 in "Program Files x86".

 

Was going to leave Sacred 2 in that mode until I tried a VD Dryad... but the ctds stopped me. (though I wasn't yet running in XP compatiblity mode, nor running as Administrator yet).

 

Will try the suggestions others have posted here... but what gets me is the patch is telling me I don't have Sacred 2 installed at all.

 

[Identifying Class Specific Quests in Wiki]

I was digging a bit through the class specific quests in the wiki.... and found that it was not always obvious which class the quest was for.

 

I was thinking we should add a line in the top to say:

 

Seraphim class only quest

 

or

 

Class Specific Quest: Seraphim only

 

or some such.

 

Also, I would like to have the links to class specific quests say

 

Children and Demons (Seraphim Class Quest)

a-b-c (Shadow Warrior Class Quest)

 

so that people who are looking up their character's quests can quickly uncover them... the way it is now, that is difficult.

 

 

 

What do people think?

 

I'm quite willing to poke at this if the consenous is to move ahead with it, given a little bit of guidance.

[Is this too gruesome for SacredWiki]

Methinks too punchy.

 

It is intensely emotionally charged and wonderfully executed... but if you note: the 'blood' in Sacred is about 3x less realistic than this. This is the stuff of nightmares for some 12 year olds.

[Show us what you do for a living in real life]

Weeeeeelllll! I'm just brave enough to watch the video... but no where near brave enough to climb like that!

 

Wow! Just wow.

 

I suppose one could acclimitize oneself to doing this, but it would take me a loong time to get to that point (read months of daily incremental attempts). If I did climb, it would be the slow, always safety lined way. My imagination is far too active.

 

Wow.

 

Oh... and as an added thought: I work as computer support.

[Guess the movie from the screenshot!]

Easy: The Transporter

Medium: Pearl Harbour

Hard: no clue

[Shadow Veil and the Orc Cave]

I had read about Dobri's Guide to the Orc Cave here at FDM, and decided to try it out with a Shadow Veiled Shadow Warrior. (as suggested by Dobri).

 

I had decided to try out r00ster's suggestion that SW do not need to take Creep (bronze mod) since their hiding ability will naturally be boosted by Astral Lord Lore, so Avoidance (less DoT) would be a good choice for a dedicated Astral Lord type build.

 

Well.

 

Collision of ideas.

 

Dobri is quite right that it is a great place for a SW to level.

 

However, that depends on not being noticed by the Orc Champions. At character level 22, with 16 runes read into SV, my SW was occasionally becoming unveiled. A quick 6 (toggle buff 1) would re-cloak him. If there was only one orc left, then I could afford to duke it out with him, no problem. I was careful in positioning my SF and my SW so that I had time to react if my SW became uncloaked.

 

However, the trouble came when I got careless and became visible when there were still 4 orc champions still alive. They caught me using SH on one of them. They turned as one and headed for my SW. I quickly pressed 6 to cloak (as I had done countless times in the past). And... cloaked and uncloaked. Wham! They hit. Cloak and Uncloak. Wham! Wham! Flash! Dead!

 

Things end so quickly in Sacred. I was playing in Silver, figuring that I would upgrade my armour when something good dropped. Which... well it didn't. 55 physical resist in the body armour.

 

I had thought I would be fairly untouchable with an 82% chance to cast without uncloaking... but missing the proximity boost to cloaking (which I'm used to)... was fatal.

 

One of these days I will get it right.

 

So. I thought recapping some of the ways my chars have died might help others avoid the same:

 

1) Don't use NA around Dragons, Octagolamus, spitting spiders, or other Area of Effect opponents.

2) Don't de-cloak unless you have to... (eg, you have to trigger the guardians)

3) If you're going to test something, don't test it online with your HC character. Export, go to SP, and test there. (A gold level Nimonuil level 62 against a level 42 SW is not going to end well)

4) Take "Creep" bronze mod for SV for added unnoticibility. You'll need it if you stand next to your opponents at any point in the lower character levels.

[I'm Back!]

Welcome back!

[Dobri Gives Out A Round Of Drinks!]

Alcohol aged in casks... I'm just a little jealous!

 

Hmm.. the green smilie isn't jealous... it's sick! lol Imagine it green with envy... and NOT barfing!

 

Best wishes on your special day!

[Dismount to reach Gar'Colossus]

A mounted character should be able to dismount while on the walkway above the Gar'Colossus... and magically (by ignoring the laws of physics, laws of physics, laws of phyiscs, Captain!) appear on the bottom level of the open pit mine... right near the Gar'Colossus!

 

I've been able to do it in the past... and failed miserably recently (in Ice and Blood).

 

I'm also sure that Schot posted the instructions in another thread (topic about something else). (post 11 in this thread).

 

I'm pretty sure someone made a video of doing it... which I cannot find now.

 

Help! Help!

[Shadow Veil - Shadow Warrior with Reflecting Minions for Niobium]

Congrats on the fast 40 levels!

 

Where did you farm for levels? On the way to bosses, or just ride as quick as possible (veiled) to the bosses for quicker xp?

 

Perhaps you get more xp due to being in Europe and playing with other Europeans (mid afternoon in Europe is early morning in North America)?

 

I was hoping the contagion mod on Rallied Souls would be like the Vampiress Raise Dead CA... that is: each hit had a small% chance to convert the opponent... regardless of how many life points remained. Sounds like it doesn't.