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The stimulate gold mod for Disloged spirt works now in Ice and Blood. When modded for increased damage and DOT it can be spammed on bosses. I didn't test it much but it might be worth a look Sounds like a fun build Dobri, will be intersting to see what you do with him.

Not sure about that mouse, looks kinda ugly and uncomfortable I've been using a Roccat Kone for the last year and love it. excellent software, loads of programable buttons and lots of flashy lights. You can program buttons for all your games and then switch profiles from the taskbar. A little known company that took some finding but glad I did. An excellent mouse for Sacred 2.

Hey r00, I had this happen once in closed HC. It was definatley reflect from one of the boars. I go there with spellcasters quite often and have never experienced it. The drop dead bug is new to me, have never heard of that happening before. The toon that died was either a FR Shadow Warrior or a magic staff dryad using DA and they werent mounted. Left the game and rejoined and the toon was still alive, the same as others have reported.

I think there is something to it for the toon being lucky upon creation but had never thought about the serever being lucky. Very interesting I started a thread here about 2 TG's I made and noticed a very similar thing but wasnt sure if kill speed could have something to do with it.

The invisible Dragon Mage problem is usually a windows 7 compatability issue. If you are using Win 7, try running Sacred 2 in windows XP compatability mode.

Right click attacks won't un-veil you, only left click attacks

Nice info Slevin, had no idea thats what it did. I thought it reduced the armour @llama, good question. I wonder if AM mastery is really that good? it depends on how many enemies have damage mitigation.

Yes DL does work on the singe mods but it only increases the damage and duration of the fire damage of the Combat Arts, it also works on the poison damage arrows of Totem. Tested on a blank level 200 toon in niob.

I did some testing on a level 200 test DM and none of his Combat Arts will cause extra DoT damage from DL mastery:(. As Claudius said, the only way you could go is a high level Familiar boosting INT and burn chance and then shoot staffs. The damage is not great though because he has no melee CA and it only shoots single targets. I even tested both dragon forms for all skills to see if any made a difference, would love to find a way of making the forms work but they seem broken to the point of being unusable. Slightly off topic but the Dryad has at least 3 spells that are affected by DL mastery , Lances and vines modded for fire damage and totem modded for poison arrows give nice DoT as DL mastery-a possible build I've been toying with. Edit: my apologies Claudius for quoting your name wrong

I love this build, thanks for coming up with it Vaclaf You did a really clear and well written guide. My LF Temple Guardian is now level 89 in closed HC and going strong. The only difference in skill choices I took was toughness instead of EP for a little bit more damage mitigation. He took a few different mods for Amlyfying Discharge- Ricochet/Ricochet/ice bullets as I intended it to be his main CA for mobs. A level ~55 AD is doing about 9-10k per bullet now. Using an 82% chance to half regen he can fire 4 bullets every 0.5 seconds , it's is a suprsingly good way of taking down mobs fast and is very good fun to use. Apart from bosses he uses AD all the time. For bosses I use JT modded Life leech/voltage/shelter. The silver Voltage mod means an instant regen after the first cast and you can eat many runes in JT to increase damage and mitigation. The life leech mod is now giving about 650 leech per tick of JT with multple ticks per cast. It takes bosses down very fast and safe. I've not even used or modded Deathly spears yet or mastered damage lore and still find this build very powerful. Something I noticed when using JT playing online, if you hold down the right mouse button it will give a much slower regen than if you hammer the mouse button. So hammer that mouse for super instant regen of JT. This also seems to work a little for using AD and is just like playing ping-pong Had a blast playing with Gogo's pryo elf the other night, it's a perfect team build. Thanks again Vaclaf, definatley recommend everyone to try this build out.

Sadly the DM and damage lore mastery don't mix well Dragon Strike with fire DoT and Gust of Wind modded with poison DoT get no benefit from DL mastery because the DoT is built into the CA. His other spells are mostly Physical damage and will not cause open wounds. Open wounds can only be caused by wearing an item with the mod and then afaik it's only from melee damage. He might be able to weaken further with DL mastery from his magic damage based spells but they won't cause futher DoT damage

I love this skill The mastery gives a % chance to block close combat even when not using a shield(stacks if using a rare shield). IMO this skill is a must for pure magic toons that don't get CC block/reflect from a buff. Shield lore mastery when combined with the DM buff Runes of Protection can give % chance to block all when modded the right way

Thanks for this great guide Schot. I'm downloading xfire as I type. Promised Gogo a video of my TG playing ping-pong in the swamp

Are we talking light parties with seraphim or dark parties with Inquisitor here Wouldn't want to be the lonely Inquisitor stood on the isle with his skirt blowing up around his ears

Sounds like fun Schot, It's been a while since joining one of the big events. I'll see if the llama will come along to

The problem is windows 7. Unfortunatly Sacred 2 just doesn't run well on it, even with the Ice and Blood expansion. I had the exact same freezing that you did and in the end I dual booted Windows XP just to play Sacred 2. Sadly there is no fix for your problem unless you Dual boot. Even with XP it will still freeze/crash after a few hours of play, gotta love Sacred

Sorry Woody but I'm still unsure about this even with the pics Surely this would need testing over larger number of spawns because I thought that spawns are not the same amount every time you join a server? If you joined a server with 0%VR multiple times wouldn't you get similar random results?

I've recently made 2 Temple Guardians, one Source warden and the other Lost fusion. The source warden is at about level 55 and has been very unlucky with drops. He found very little sets/unis at all through the first 50 levels, even mini-boss farming was pretty much unsucessful. The Lost Fusion is nearing 40 and has had awesome drops since start. He as found many sets/unis from normal mobs and bosses to the point where it made me think something is very different between the two toons. Neither have any MF, around 10%. The question is do you believe they get a kind of secret MF value that is set on creation? I talked with Lllama a bit about this but we didn't come to a conclusion. Do you find the same with your toons? This is on closed HC if that makes a difference. The only other difference between them is kill speed. One uses fiery ember which kills slowly in small hits and the other uses Amplified Discharge which is one-shotting most things. This could be further proof towards kill speed affecting drops

Congrats Spunky, tbh I thought you already were a member You are a big part of this community so it's about time you joined

Thanks Furian, so this sounds like a server issue then? can others comfirm this problem to? Edit: just got into a server with a helpful german player who said that some servers have been like this for days. It has been reported on the german side but he commented on "sleep silver" lol. so it seem the only way to play is to find a server that works, lots I've tried just crash

I broke my game Was playing for a bit this morning and put a weapon in the shared stash to forge, logged out to change to my forger and logged back in fine. Forged an ammy into a silver slot, put it back into the chest and logged out again. When trying to log back in with my niob mage the game will CTD when trying to connect to the server. It will say connecting to server, then show one of the tips screens, do a little flicker and then CTD I've tried logging in with different toons on the account into free and campaign servers but it still CTD's. Tried restarting the computer and the router, used the sacred2 file cleaner, deleted the options.txt. It works fine in SP but not closed.net HC. I have a dual boot set up so tried running in XP and Win7(seperate hard drives and Sacred 2 installs) but still the same. It feels like I've somehow corrupted my account Searching on the SIF didnt throw up and clues so has anyone had a similar problem?

It looks really good but sadly it sounds like it won't be coming to the PC Sounds like it will be an xbox live arcade/playstation network download game.

Congratulations and Happy Birthday Schot! Hope you have a good one

Wow, good to see you both here. Happy Birthday Knight I remember you both from the early Warrior Nation days of S1, if you are the same people?

The weapons are probably ok as the are, not all of them can be uber even if it is a let down to find one of the not-so-good legendaries. The jewelery needs a base damage or armour value added to make them useful. Slightly off-topic but all the unique and legendary jewelery could do with improving, rings could do with base damage and amulets could do with armour being added to make them better than the ones we can shop for. The jewelery in S1 was way better than Sacred 2, such a shame Sacred:Silasas's Great ring of concentration compared to.... Sacred 2:Silala's Ring