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  1. Characters in Sacred2 were like a selfmade birthday dinner with cakes and BBQ and all variations, characters in Sacred3 are like a Birthday at McD? Dragon mage uses Mahlstrom to reduce armour and reduce max hp on enemies because of reduced stats. Left clicks can use the doublehit from mastery while weapon ca's can't. So socketing deathblow could be an option.
  2. Nestlings mimicry a snake with this head movementm, they also do hissing sounds. Adult birds use it sometimes to watch bark from all sides for hidden insects. They can not do brute force as their relatives the woodpeckers can do.
  3. @belga The weapon is allowed to have direct damage, but it shouldn't be from a spell/Buff. My old level 35 was a polearm dragonmage, hoping for the 'hit nearby enemies' or whatever it is called in english on most polearms.
  4. The challenge is to play a character who just does normal attacks: no damage doing spells, no weapon combat arts. Buffs and spells would not be allowed to raise x% damage, direct damage or base weapon damage. Stat boosting would be allowed and as is using the CM-patch. Which character would you choose, which weapon type, which ca's? A dragon mage or shadow warrior with boosted willpower and laser swords? Dryad or dragon mage with boosted intellligence and using a wand? Is there something hitten like the flying crossbow demon from Sacred1? I will try to revive a level 35 character who was rotting on the harddisc for quite a while because I hadn't the game knowledge I now have. Have you ever tried a similiar character? What was the reason for a fail or a success?
  5. This character was one of the first we played. I started with multi-aspect characters to test out as many CA's in a single character as possible. With this knowledge more specialized characters were started. But with the amount of equipment collected in chests and some calculations and optimizations, the old one was considered playable again and really: it was And now I wonder if another old level character could be made playable, with all the equipment and knowledge which was collected in the nearly 2 years the characters was rotting on the harddisc. But this is for another thread.
  6. The elementalist of our oldest is a bit different: She calls it Full Power To The Destroyers. It makes full use of the new items in C;-patch 1.40, mainly the Set Sigils. Bargaining is replaced by Mentalism focus. So an extented range Mahlstrom can be casted to support the destroyers. The targets have reduced armour and stats, so even if the maximum damage is not raised, the relative damage is. If a destroyer does 3000 damage and oponent has 7000hp you will need 3 to kill. If the target has only 5000hp because of reduced stats thanks to Mahlstrom you will need only 2 destroyers. Add the reduced physical armour. Next in the list was to take away shield lore. The shield which adds CA-range will be used and it has nothing which scales with shield lore. Because of runes of protection (Mentalism focus) there will already be some x% defense. Shield lore will be replaced by spell resistance which will make great use of the will power the familiar buff will give. So she uses a combination of Destroyer/Mahlstrom. What you have to know about this combination: Destroyers are spawned next to you, but the Mahlstrom will be created at the place of the closest enemy, even if this results in running. Mahlstrom doesn't need an enemy as a target with the combination. But too late to do a bug report I think. The mahlstrom should be created at mouse pointer or centered on player, but not on closest target.
  7. Nature put a jynx on the tree hut of the kids. A few metres above the hut a pair of wrynecks (jynx torquilla) build a nest in a tree-hole. Funny to watch the neck twisting of the birds.
  8. Well, I called for a water truck more than once.... If the fountain runs to low it is usual that the water has more sediments and at a certain point I can't use it and I get a trailer with 10000 litres of water. But affecting millions is really big scale.
  9. Just try it out, very easy recipe. We do several pounds at once and store it in the fridge for up to 4 weeks. Rote Grütze and Ice is more a sunny afternoon On a sunday morning; Waffles with Rote Grütze and vanilla sauce, very yummy too. As a saturday midday dish Grießbrei (semilona pudding:)) with Rote Grütze Lot of recipes to use it, so doing some pounds is no mistake at a household of 8.
  10. Dryad reached level 135 in niobium, no deaths: Tactic lore nature focus and lore voodoo focus and lore dual wielding damage lore concentration ancient magic combat discipline Dust devil for combat art block, 3 sigils with CA-reflect 2 nlovae staves and LeGallLeum sigil set , around 45% more combat art range acute mind and healing, then spamming this nice net attack which roots, spreads on nearby enemies and burns them on hit and DoT because of damage lore Add totems, a companion, curses, ... Lot of fun to play, but you really really should know what you do and how to choose your equipment. Characters like these are what I miss in D3, SA3, .... I always liked to play totally against the planed design of a character.
  11. Sacred3, Diablo3, ... Respec, not wanting to make builds which need collecting certain items, .... I liked that you could teach carefully character planing, optimizing and such things with sacred 2 to my kids, just to say spidergirls. But a game which is coop playing and just mouse acrobatic.... Fine motoric finger training my daughters could learn with needles and sewing, and learn something useful with that too. Coop and teaming I would prefer team sports for them or good old board games. I know I sound like my grandma, but I see no sense in wastung time on a game which has no teaching effect to kids. I still think that Sacred2 was worth the money we paid even if it would have had the double price (well perhaps just start with 4 classes and bring the others with more addons). I hate boxes with games which went to a box after playing for just a single weekend. Was I proud when our 13 years old played a single aspect Inquistor through niob without dying, answer is yes, because she explained why she did skills, combat arts and equip in the way she did and was using and learning maths in doing so, english too because she read sacredwiki in english. Will I be proud if she finishes Sacred3, Diablo3, .... probably not.
  12. My ice elf uses both shield lore with a Kira Scaling melee and ranged block, with CA-protection from the ice buff
  13. I wonder is there something like the german Rote/Gelbe/Grüne Grütze in south africa? http://www.thegermankitchen.com/index.php/recipes/2009/05/rote-grutze-german-red-fruit-pudding-recipe-red-grits/ Red/Yellow/Green is just from the colour of the fruits used. Our cherries are mainly of a yellow variant (less likely to be eaten by birds) and we mix with apricot and instead of corn(or potato) starch we use buckwheat groat. Well just what grews at our place. Tastes really great with vanilla ice.
  14. I think your sherbert is close to what is called Milchsorbet, sorbet latte, .... in europe. Even the word sorbet and sherbert are quite close. Are the poppy seeds to thicken the liquid? Using seeds or part of seeds to suck up liquid and stiffen the mix is done by our Rote Grütze too. http://www.thegermankitchen.com/index.php/recipes/2009/05/rote-grutze-german-red-fruit-pudding-recipe-red-grits/
  15. Just watched this commercial. Since I don't know which countries block it because of copyrights I put the original site: http://www.johnnolanstudio.com/films/nolans-cheddar/ funny end...
  16. Our second was trying out the old objectives and how to blur the background with a apperature of 1.4 at a 50mm. Model was her adoptive mother: Sphynx. You know that a family can adopt a dog, but a cat will always adopt its family if it can strive around? Danni wanted to try out non people first before she would take pictures of classmates at a daytrip of her school to Cologne.
  17. The God Choosing Forens for the CA-Reflection is probably the best choose. Gefahr is german for danger, so the G is not for God-power in my eyes but for danger. Whenever approaching a known spawn point of devil eyes or demon champs who can do x% life leech attacks, pressing the danger-button is a must-do when playing hardcore I think. Only chance to reduce their damage is to block or reflect this life leech combat art. Really don't wait with the G power until you see a x% life leech enemy if you know you are close to a known spawn point. Do it a bit in advance.
  18. Our second played a bit at hospital when she was there for scar treatment Level 170, 602 quests done. Killing ghosts to get nice rings and amulets for the change to the level-195 set.
  19. I visited 3 dams and everytime the graveyards below of the people in the valley who died when they were bombed.... One of my neighbour villages which was build in the afterwar years for refugees from former east germany and hungary is in a valley. There were no houses for centuries because once in a hundred years there was a flood. It happened at a certain wind direction when clouds got pressed together and couldn't climb the valley. Last time our firefighter dep was called for help and we pumped cellars for 3 days around the clock. If even this local floods do great damage and people are warned, I don't want to imagine what happened when the dam at the Eder was bombed. I feel always lucky that I live near tophill, even it means that I have to order trucks with water if my fountain runs dry.
  20. Tolkien wasa researcher in languages and got inspirations from old languages. Isengard is also an old 13th century female prename. Hildegard , protecting battle-maid Irmgard, Mighty protection Isengard, strong and sturdy protection Ebergard, protecting like a boar ... All female prenames, first two are my aunts. Isengar, Isgard Ishild, kinda an iron maiden Isberg, burg is castle, a protective place ...
  21. Oh , there is a real Eisenstadt in Austria, a capital of one of the austrian states. Speaking about the old use of Eisen/Isen I meant this town which was a very fortified town. Latin name for it was castris ferrus, iron castle. But as a Sacred2 name it will fit too.
  22. Eisen, iron. Stadt, town Translates as Isengard Isen is old german for something strongand sturdy. Iron and steel were stronger than copperand bronze, so the metal got the name Isen, nowadyas Eisen. But the townname uses the old meaning of Isen as strong/sturdy.
  23. The boots of the dragon mage Pyx set are called Knobelbecher in german and dice cup in english. A Knobelbecher is a cup made of hard lether, you fill dices in, close the opening with the hand, and smash the Knobelbecher on the table after removing the hand. If a dice is not covered by the Knobelbecher when it hits the table: free drinks to all of the dicing round. So I think a dice-cup ortdice shaker is the correct translation. But for 100+ years Knobelbecher is the soldiers nickname in ther german speaking armies for their jackboots. It is made from a hard leather, impossible to destroy but also impossible that it will ever fit on your feet how many miles you walk with it. They look like a dice cup, with just a foot part added.
  24. Good for the kitten you found a solution Probably institutes and laws are a bit different here, and I am a bit late with another option: Vet students often need pets to train with. Sometimes a student can be trained on this type of surgery under control from an experienced vet. Depends on how far the university is away, only costs are normally the material needed, but not the time. I was looking for a home for our kittens last autumn. We had a pair of troll-cats but mother troll-cat fell in love with a european wildcat which was striving our forests it seems. So we got 5 somethings that we call Blender- mix of a housecat and a wildcat. I gave 4 of them to nearby farmers, they can be fearless rat-killers. But staying in a house is no option for a blender.
  25. This is a case where you have to trust your vet. Bone fixation if the kitten is still quickly growing is not easy. And saying that the kitten will avoid the pain is not always given,it is this first jump befor it learns that will ruin the treatment. We had a little owl with a half wing, a fox probably, who lived and BREEDED in our barn for several years. She was feeding on insects and mice with only a minimal extra food. Did she feel pain, don't know. She learned to climb a ladder and did rotating dive flights. We named her Stuka, german for dive bomber. Deers with amputated front legs, weasel without tail, birds with broken wings, ... We got them all. Each case was different and sometimes it was best to do nothing at all, and sometime to kill because of the injury. The surgeries of our dog summed up to 2700 euro, smashed lower front leg when an idiot hit the dog with a ski because he couldnt stop on ice. If the dog wouldnt have placed itself in front of our kids the ski driver would have hit our then 3year old. Since an animal is a thing the idiot had only to pay the cost of a new dog because court said a new would be cheaper than the surgery. In our case a second and third surgery were needed because the dogs body refused the alien stuff put in to fixthe splinters. Back to the kitten A big reason for the surgery would be if the cat will beoutside later in its life, fights with other cats, running from dogs,...
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