g0ry

Hi, I'm about to start playing Sacred 2, and I've already read LOTS about it, so I'm well prepared Because I don't have much ingame experience, my questions might have been answered if I had played the game for a while, but I'd rather ask the community. Feel free to answer as many questions as you want, I'm just happy if I achieve some help --------- 1. Where do you guys recommend me to start my character: In the single player campaign, or in the ClosedNet thing? I'm not sure what I want/care the most about: Ascaron's private servers, or player made servers? Is it really worth it to create a character in ClosedNet, that you can't use in OpenNet? What do most people use/do? 2. I wonder about something related to how the game calculates values in the game. Lets say that I want to socket a ring with "+2.4 All Skills". Will the game read the new skill values as X + 2.4, or will it "round of" the number to 2 (I'm norwegian, so my english might be bad )? By this I mean: Will the game read values with decimals, eventhough the ingame values shows a "full" number (ex.: game says 9, but in reality it's 9.4)? 3. Have someone tried to "race" a character with level 200 riding skills versus a player with level 75 riding skills? What I really want to know is how much the riding skill increases the speed of your mount between riding level 75 and 200? Eventhough level 200 in riding gives a 30 % increase in speed, is it really that much more than riding level 75 with 15 % speed increase? 4. I read about the "Highest Spell Level Without Penalty", and I now have some questions related to this: a) How often would you recommend to use a rune to increase a combat art without hitting the penalty spell level? I think that every fourth level would be fine, and then I'm not taking Focus skills into consideration. b) I read that I should "Try to learn every Level 1 CA for your character (I.e. all 15)". Is there any negative sides by doing this? And another slightly related question: Is it "safe" to use every level 1 rune I find, eventhough I'm at a low level? I won't be getting any penalties by doing so, except the possible money, and other runes that I could have earned by trading the runes I don't want? But I've heard about these item modifiers that requires certain runes to be learned. What are your thoughts on this:) c) If I am stupid, and hit the penalty level/highest spell level when learning a rune (lets say I now have spell level 10.4 in a combat art), will this be "fixed" when I've my character has gained some levels, or will the penalty haunt me forever? 5. What are the downsides of dying, except losing the survival bonus, and respawning at another place? 6. I like hair. Actually, I love hair! Is there a way to turn of the visibility of helmets? I want to have the helmet equipped, but I may want it to not be visible. 7. Do you have any suggestions for what race is the best for a bargaining character? Hehe, it probably doesn't matter. Because of my lack of experience with this game, I know that my first-ever character will be my least "best". Therefore I'm planning to make him/her my "chest slave" To do this I really would like some suggestions from you guys! What other skills and stuff should I be focusing on with my first character? Is Enhanced Perception really any good:) And what kind of race should my character be (I'm considering Shadow Warrior, because he seems to be an "easy-starter")? I want this character to end up as a good slave character, who will feed my upcoming, more serious builds. Thanks in advance for any help!

Hello, I'm new here, so I felt like introducing myself! I come from the norwegian city Oslo, and I bought Sacred 2 FA about a week ago. My life started after my mother shot me out in 1990, so I'm 18 years old now. Since I'm a strange, but VERY VERY wise person, I haven't started to play Sacred 2 for real yet.. O.o Please don't judge me too hard (just a little). The reason I've waited "so long", is because I always love to read allot about my newly bought games before even buying or installing it. The fact that I've invested in this game is because it seems to be pretty awesome, and not to mention: Legen... wait for it... DARY! (How I Met Your Mother, anyone? ). Anyway, I figured out that I wanted to play Sacred 2 for a long time (probably). Eventhough I'm going to study psychology soon, I will always love PC and gaming. My first impression was that this is a friendly community, and a rather big one. So thank you guys for this forum! I'll probably read a lot of stuff here, and eventhough I won't write as often as I want, I will always show up from time to time when I have time By the way, I'll make a new question post the Sacred 2 General Discussion forum. After I've read so much about this game it is clear that I have some rather advanced questions, so please help me out on those ;D Cya around! -g0ry