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Since we have the 3 kids of a friend for 3 month at house the above question arose. Which class combinations would you choose to introduce the game to a newbie in a lan party? We did a serafim to help a newbie shadow warrior. She did all 3 trees but not the tree lores to reduce her damage to allow the newbie to do most of the kills. Honestly if I would have seen this character 4 years ago I would have said redo it. But the serafim does well, even with her limited damage.

Our second was quite happy when I found this for her iPhone for x-mas. She uses the phone as a monitor and remote for her camera already. Now a light meter is added. Even the camera has a buildin light meter, the buildin only measures the reflected light from the target. With this one you can measure the light arriving at the target, nice for studio and portrait photos. http://www.esdevices.com/products/lux 33Euro compare it to the 150-500 Euro for normal light meters. The biggest advantage of IPhone is that they are all same. At androids the diffusor attached for the phone has to be re-calculated and build for the lens and chip for each model, making the prices raise above 100 Euro, reaching the ones of normal light meters. Even if I am no fan of IPhones normally, for her photography needs they seem to be great. I still use my Sonim ,even I have to admit it looks strange if I have to pull it out at a business meeting

Lot of real life business, character reached level 46 by now. Funny character, just finished collossos. And this without barkskin or a life leech weapon. By using only the hunting buff even the griffon was no real danger in gold at level 42. If getting debuffed I loose only hitchance and regeneration time. So using trophies to get them back. Actually the wild boar and the stuns were more annoying. What I am writing down currently are the modifiers found on shrunken heads, like: white ones: physical resistance +one of: voodoo focus voodoo lore base defense valie --- use this if having barkskin, effect will be multiplied even without modification x% spell resistance blue ones collecting the combinations yellow ones here it will be a no-list I think, a blue one(?) added with another of any modifiers except: no x to all skills? no x to all combat arts? no x% life leech?

The danger off bosses is that the info screen onlyshows the damage types of their melee attacks. Their specials may do another damage type which hits you atno protection and multiplying the damage because of negative damage mitigation in this case.

At least in the german version the highelf keeps talking about a 5-years plan she had tofulfill. Same in other versions? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Five-Year_Plans_for_the_National_Economy_of_the_Soviet_Union There is the Wall , there are the 100 coins welcome money, the officer sounds like the politician who accudently made the fall of the wall, now add the 5-year plan. Also there is a Raubritter Runkel in the german version, which was a forner east german comic series. Just found it http://www.sacredwiki.org/index.php/Sacred_2:Runkel_and_His_Horde Seems at least one of the developers put some relations to east germany into the game.

I normally play bronze just to modify a defensive buff or spell. Then I switch to silver just doing the main quest line. At gold I start to do the side quests with bosses. The reason: Beasts do more damage, you have better resists and more hitpoints to neutralize this but higher difficulty is better for item boni So if 10 hits kill you in bronze and in gold, the block/reflect/evade chance in gold is better. So while in bronze the enemy may need 12 strikes to do 10 hits he might need 17 in gold. So actually some bronze fights -if not already at level cap - might be harder than in higher difficulties. --- Most of my early deaths were because of a failed heal potion spamming. If you start to quaff heal potions when nearly dead and they heal only 40% you need three to full recovery. But drinking fast lowers their effect.... Alchemy turns the 40% heal into 60 -95% depending how many points you spend. So most of my newer characters use alchemy. An alternative is to keep a regenerating buff or spell running - if the class allows it.

The only time I play hardcore is when I want to stop a game and try another one. Somehow these hardcore characters are played much more carefully and my highest characteri s a level 178 dragon mage. Because he never died I never touched Diablo3 Trying to all quests in niob with him. Normally I dont play hc. Kids, dogs, cats, weasel, jackdaw, ....too much which can happen. Perhaps I should train the jackdaw to pick at the space when the screen turns red? Currently it is more removing cables from the computer.

My test dryad managed to reach gold without ever dying at level 40, even it was close sometimes. It was played while sitting at the telephon(and citizen band radio) for possible calls for my wife as a doc or me as firefighter. Tactics Lore-9 For the buff, sure hits and criticals, needed to recharge heal and totem spell via Reg per Hit, chance for early shrunken heads. Spell resistance-5 to unlock armour Alchemy-40 wanted to try this: long lasting trophies early on to fill holes Armor Lore-1 mainly to unlock modifiers on armours early on Nature Weaver Lore-9 only the heal spell till now Cabalistic Voodoo Focus-40 totems for hybrid playing, curse to remove buffs at bosses Enhanced Perception-23 did I mention that I started on a new notebook without any saves carried over? Combat Discipline-1 took it now because of a bit damage and 10% regen wit ha single point planed Nature Weaver Focus nature mages are hard to play early on so I take this late Dual Wield I won't have more than a single point in this last skill, so two nlovae for better webs For recharging: Shurikens and a shield are nice and safe. But flying beasts are often not hit by the ballistic curve of the projectile. Take a blowpipe with instant hit at these enemies Healing Many Many people die because heal potions loose power if spammed. Alchemy is a good way to prevent this. 95.2% heal with a small potion instead of 40% without alchemy. A single potion to full heal intead of three... what to say more Experience rate Mentors last already significantly longer and enhanced perception unlocked some experience rate modifiers on stuff. So evern the kill rate is quite low yet, my experience rate is comparable to normal builds by now. Regeneration times 15s cooldown +55s reg time for a totem, but with 3s reg per hit and darting assault often hitting 3 it is not as worse as it sounds. Sometimes I have 2 totems running, even at bosses. Yellow potions are used on a regular base at boss fights. Undeads I have the pink potions with 93% undead ban permanently up at undead areas and still not running out of them.

Spend the night on a hill with a big tent. The hill is mid between 4 villages and allows quick access to each of them. So for 2 decades now we do a newyear party there with volunteer firefighters and their families of the 4 villages. Nothing bad happened this night (which is rare) and we all wish that same is valid everywhere and for everyone for the rest of the year. Learned explosives at army and work with them at job, but I really have to ask the people who did this how they did this. Must have been a lot of calculations at Berlin.

Depending on your character build, sometimes you can simply place a character at enemies high enough to give survival bonus. My dragon mage was standing in the orc cave for a whole night for example in platinum. Killed the spiders with their poison damage, wearing all equipment with physical damage mitigation I could find and I had constitution mastery for regeneration and shield mastery with a yellow shield blocking 95+% of all attacks. My high elf with crystal skin and choosing gear with cold damage mitigation was able to do the same at a place with just cold type enemies. A friend used something like AutoIt to watch the health bar and automatically sending a pressed space to the game... I don't like AutoIt and others because they always confuse my anti-virus software.

I am a fan of Eierlegende Wollmilchsäue too. Egglaying wooly milk-giving pigs is the equivalent to the english Jack of all trades. While not reaching the peak damages of specialized builds they are great to learn about a character class. Cleansing Brilliance is also useful to fight certain summons from bosses. The golem summons these rocks, they are t-mutants so cleansing brilliance can destroy them without caring for them. The scorpion summons small scorpions, which are of the t-mutant variant.

Welcome to Darkmatters I think different sized heads need new calculated wire models for the characters, out of luck here. For the camera: http://forum.worldofplayers.de/forum/threads/475218-MOD-Sacred-Tool-für-Sacred-2-Erlaubt-u-a-Einstellung-der-Kamera-und-Item-Drop-Zeiten Look at the screenshots for this tool. My daughter used the first setting for her sniper chatacter. Is this a bit what you are looking for?

Remember me to write a shrunken head hunting guide. Obviously such a guide is missing in the dryad guide section. But first I have to play the dryad a bit again. Last year was only dragon mages for me, but nice dragon mages, energy blazes covering the whole screen.

Our second reworked the character into an explorer type character, something like Darwin, Humboldt or Lotte Hass. Specially the later inspired her and was the godparent for the name: Xarifa. http://www.scubahalloffame.com/hallmembers/2000/hanslottiehass.html The name of the boat she and her later husband used when they were among first in underwater biology. Their movies made me starting diving, not scuba just snorkling first. Needed army and classes in disarming seamines to finally learn scuba diving. Now I do it mainly as a referee at underwater rugby. My daughter will get her diving license next week. Since she was 12 she helped at an nearby institute for handicapped children: leading horses at vaulting, bow shooting, ... And now they have a project running with scuba diving for kids with muscle defects. So she trained scuba diving at my underwater rugby club. ---- The explorer dryad So the character as an explorer has alchemy to research the trophies (and using longer lasting mentors for more experience), enhanced perception to find stuff (and get and use items which boost experience rate), spell resistance (needed in niob I&B to counter damage over time) to unlock armour lore. Combat discipline to boost damage in all 3 trees. Together with 100% chance to halve regeneration time it will start the regeneration clock at 8 once mastered. All 3 tree foci and nature lore to test out most combat arts. The 10th skill is open yet: concentration for 2 buffs ancient magic because she would be a nature caster dryad mainly late game constitution to prevent one hits, everything else she would heal away voodoo lore: to have better totems and a third damage type, so not needing ancient magic Currently level 31, with 31 points in hunting focus (buff and large dustdevil for spell resist) and 31 in combat discipline to boost all 3 trees. 9 points in nature for healing and 9 in voodoo for totem. Barkskin is not used because predator buff is needed for recharging the spells. This start should allow to bypass the frustrating first levels as a nature dryad by playing with darting assault and totems through silver. Also the CM-patch adds a nice sigil set with +CA-range for longer reaching vines.

While she is at home for 2 weeks winterbreaks the microcontroller for the rear camera, DVD, TV, ... will be replaced by a raspberry computer. More functions, including reading out possible error codes from the car/engine electronics. Car didn't had a any defect for 11000 kilometres she was driving.

Don't know OnStar or a similiar thing in germany yet. Tne radio I have automatically changes frequency to a sender with emergency traffic alerts like a Geisterfahrer, ghost driver, wrong way driver. To report them I have a hot button on build in cellular phone to call police directly. The company car I drive has radar for collision warning, drive assistent which warns if you are leaving your lane because of being tired or whatever,... But a Geisterfahrer is one thing I fear, given that my traveling speed on a 4 lane would be 240 km/h if possible, around 65m/s.

Selfmade liqueur from egg counts? However it is not just x-mas, base for some most girly cocktails at after-ski in the alpes. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Advocaat http://www.foodgoddess-ulli.com/christmasliqueur.html Best is to mix the yolks with the alcohol alone first. Leaving it for 3 days to kill all possible salmonella. Eierlikoer has many uses, makes a great cake for example.

Only 3 fallen trees at the heavy rain storm, two could wait till after christmas days for removal. 2 cellars running full of water in the village down, already pumped clear. So we had time to watch 'Rare Exports' at fire fighters this morning while waiting for possible more calls. I think it is in the top 5 of the most black humour x-mas movies? Our oldest daughter arrived mid in the storm from her studies in france just before midnight. Had told her to search a hotel but she said she was trailing a street clearing truck on the Autobahn so she was feeling save to drive.

Weather reports predict a heavy storm with tons of rain at the night from 24th to 25th of decembre. Sadly no white christmas here, but I hope that the storm won't do too much damage. 4 years back we had an ice rain which gave my wife a lot of work because of broken legs and arms she had to fix,. Our church is a fortified one, nearly 1000 years old on top of a hill with a mighty wall around. When people left church it had ice rained meanwhile and the first did slip before the ice was noticed. Actually it was a nice experience ( not the broken bones ) to see the people improvise with sharing food, songs,...till me and a friend walked to our home to come back with unimogs to bring the people to hospital or home. Took till around 2am. Frohe Weihnachten und einen guten Rutsch

Welcome to darkmatters, just seeing its your first post. The damage shown at an increase in ca-level at the dragon mage is a bit strange if the companion is turned on. There was a thread in the german sacred forum which even reported a decrease in damage when raising a ca-level. the thread http://forum.sacred2.de/showthread.php?t=69367 A screenshot with a decrease in gust of wind. http://forum.sacred2.de/attachment.php?attachmentid=43280&d=1257445876 My own not varified idea: The addon brought a change how damage is affected from stat points. I think the damage shown for a increase in ca-level uses the old routine. I noticed at my characters that the shown values increase after a time again. So it isabug, but in myopinion just a display bug, because the damage seen when fighting didn't drop. --- For the stun: I think at higher levels beasts have higher stun resistance.

Our second and the son from my diseased friend got in a discussion over these videos: While the Van Damme video is more or less real -small platforms behind the mirrors for the feet and an invisible savety rope - the Chuck Norris one is a fake. pfui Chuck. Both were topped when our youngest daughter ordered our big (he 124 pound, she 98) Leonberger dogs to crawl side by side and she did a split on them for 5 seconds befor they reached the wall and they started to lick her face.

This fixation is a problem if you try to raise young birds fallen from a nest or adults died. Remember when I had 4 one day old red backed shrikes. We call them Neuntöter (Killer of nine), because they pierce they prey on thorns as a food storage for rainy days. Wearing black gloves and a black t-shirt, the gloves had something like a beak between pointing finger and thumb. Learned the hard way from the time when I raised a western jackdaw, which was to tame to fly away when grown up. Very intelligent bird, can even do some unwanted tricks, like loosening cloth-pegs when we did the washed cloths out at the sun. Nothing to blame on the jackdaw, it used to sit on a shoulder when young and learned and imitated when we put the pegs. The bird is 13 now, quite old for a wild one, but tame ones can go up to 25. But for cats, there is the old saying: a human can choose a dog, but a cat will pick its human. At least at countryside and the cat free to strive around.

I like turtle island for levelling. Just 2 different enemies, so it is easy to attach the armour to them. They are not great for good items, but they drop big amounts of mentors. My level 156 weaponmaster dryad kills each niob boss in 10 seconds and in half the cases even getting a shrunken head. And this barehanded with flip kicks, but she uses carefully chosen equipment collected in a year. A nature dryad is hard to start, probably best to play here melee style first: a lifeleech shuriken with sockets, a shield with sockets and forge hit chance rings in each of the 3 or more sockets in this boss killing weapon slot. My dryads normally have alchemy, so I get attack speed and hit chance from trophies.

Got an x-mas present today from the food tools company which buys our special metal: a potato ricer. Wonder why it is called potato ricer when most of the time it is used to make spaghetti ice: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Potato_ricer The above is ice The potato press has exchangeable sieves with different sized holes: potato pressing for dumblings and mashed potatos, sort of noodles and for the ice.

Camembert cheese , rolled in a quirled egg, dusted with bread crumbs, fried served with a sauce from Preiselbeeren (cowberries?, mountain cranberries?) I add: throw some parsley into the hot oil and fry it for some seconds to get it soft and tasty