A Guide To The Little Melee Bosskilling Dryad - Duel Wield Dryad In Action

[ololcat 3]

A guide to the little melee bosskilling dryad.

 

 

#1 Intro

 

Hello to all good players! People asked me to specify my Dryad bosskiller build, so here it is, enjoy!

 

She was designed for SP in Sacred 2: Ice & Blood, version 2.65.1 and played in HC mode. She's using niob bargainers' and niob smither's support as well as support from my good friends that provided her with such cool equipment. I had a goal to push %LL over 10% and see what will happen, but I'm too lazy and stopped at 9.1%

 

Okay, enough talking, to the point.

This dryad is a melee fighter, so she has to have a tough defense (a little bit of "tanking power" ), good damage and quick attacks. She's using powers of all three aspects available to her.

 

 

#2 Attributes

 

 

'''Strength''' - one point per level. This will provide some extra attack value and slightly increase damage.

'''Stamina''' - nothing. She really doesn't need this since regen times never were a problem.

'''Vitality''' - one point per level from level 50. Slightly boosts survivability.

'''Dexterity''' - nothing. She will have enough "defense" to additionally boost it.

'''Intelligence''' - nothing. This dryad is a melee fighter.

'''Willpower''' - nothing. Her GGT will add a bonus to this attribute.

 

Attribute allocation from level 150 is your concern. If you played her to this point, you know better what will be good for her.

 

 

#3 Skills

 

Level 2 - '''Tactics Lore''' will improve damage she dealing with her weapons, give a bonus to crit chance and give mod points for Capricious Hunter aspect's CAs.

Priority to master: 1 //This means that you should have 75 hard points by level 75.

 

Level 3 - '''Capricious Hunter Focus''' will shrink CH CAs' regen times, allow higher CA levels and provide mod points.

Priority to master: 6.

 

Level 5 - '''Dual Wield''' will grant her ability to fight using two weapons, will improve attack value and give sweet double-hit bonus when mastered.

Priority to master: 4.

 

Level 5 alternate choice* - '''Pole Arms''' will improve attack rating, speed and give chance for double-hit once mastered.

Priority to master: 4.

 

Level 8 - '''Spell Resistance''' will save her life couple o' times. 5 points here ASAP to unlock AL and Con.

Priority to master: 3.

 

Level 12 - '''Armor Lore''' will improve her resistances and lower regen penalty from armor.

Priority to master: 2.

 

Level 18 - '''Concentration''' will lower CAs' regen times and allow wearing two and three, when mastered, buffs.

Priority to master: 1.

 

Level 25 - '''Nature Weaver Focus''' will allow more levels for this aspect's CAs, lower regen times and provide mod points.

Priority to master: 5.

 

Level 35 - '''Constitution''' will just let her survive.

Priority to master: 1.

 

Level 50 - '''Nature Weaver Lore''' will give mod points for NW aspect CAs and improve AB (hp regen and phy/poison resistance bonuses) and GGT.

Priority to master: 6.

 

Level 65 - '''Cabalistic Voodoo Focus''' will allow more levels into Moribund Animus buff. I advise you to put there 8 points to level 75 to have a strong pet when Conc is mastered.

Priority to master: 6.

 

After you achieved mastery in all these skills, you *probably* already know what to do with rest of them. I would pump them into Nature Weaver Focus for couple levels into Ancient Bark.

 

*Pole Arms as an alternate choice:

If you have a "bargainers network", you can try your luck and shop something like this:

 

 

Of course, pole arms dryad's attack (and killing) speed won't be that high, but still she will rock (I beleive ).

Picking Pole Arms instead of DW was not tested by me, but it may work good too.

 

 

#4 Combat Arts

 

'''Capricious Hunter Aspect'''

'''Sinister Predator''', when unmodded have no use for melee fighter, so you'll have to mod it first in a special way:

1. '''Eagle Eye''' provides a nice crit chance.

2. '''Marked Shot''' gives cool "Chance that opponents can not evade" bonus.

3. '''Hunting Focus'''. Other mod is useless for this dryad.

Ravaged Impact is our main mob killer. Against bosses I use it only to start fight, because of it's execution time's strange jumps: it goes up, then when you pick up new weapons (without attack speed penalty) it may drop. However, to use it against mobs effectively, we have to mod it second this way:

1. Your call, I chose Envenom.

2. Breach gives nice chance to disregard armor. Other mod is useless for us though.

Dust Devil was in use at early game. I modded it "just in case" this way third:

1. Recondition lowers regen (or cooldown) time.

2. Spell Shield provides much-needed sometimes "Chance for block: CAs" bonus.

3. Spread increases it's area of effect.

Cabalistic Voodoo Aspect

Moribund Animus is the only CA from this aspect we will use. It provides a nice support that will help you with normal mobs. To have strong summon, you should take these mods:

1. Malice boosts it's damage.

2. Elevation boosts it's level.

3. Fury increases it's attack speed.

Nature Weaver Aspect

Ancient Bark is our main protection. Mod it ASAP:

1. Rugged gives a wicked resistance boost.

2. Divert gives good close combat reflection bonus.

3. Invigorate improves survivability.

Goldenglade Touch has been used when I rushed through the campaigns. It gives nice hp regen bonus as well as boost to Willpower, when modded:

1. Flow boosts hp regen even more

2. Persevere. Bonus to Willpower.

3. Diligence to increase duration.

Some words about regen times and rune eating and all that stuff:

Try to balance between short regen time for RI (I found that 1.3 sec is enough, the rest goes to RpH) and powerful buffs (especially Ancient Bark). Try to make GGT and DD chain-castable. When your regen times are good enough, you can pump 200 runes into buffs (like I did) or make some buff suits or these two things together

#5 Equipment

 

Armor: full Detheya set.

 

Weapons: Double Kal'durs or something with chance to disregard armor.

 

Jewelry in slots: Two Artamark's Stars, one RpH ring and two rings with modifiers listed below.

 

Shrunken Head: best one is rare (yellow) insect's head. 'specially if it has a deathblow bonus.

 

Modifiers, you're looking for:

All skills +X;

All CAs +X;

Chance that opponent can not evade +X%;

Deathblow (optional);

Chance for block: CAs +X% (you'll need at least 20%);

Opponent's chance to evade -X%;

 

And I have at least 4 Anneals forged by level 200 niob smither.

 

#6 Gameplay and tips

 

It is *default* melee character, so take your weapons and cut your way through enemies' hordes! Use GGT and DD in emergency situations, have some Reds in your backpack and everything is gonna be fine.

 

*Try to stay away from fire damage and Dragon Realm for a while (you can have your revenge later, at niob).

*High attack speed is your best friend.

*Don't go to Cursed Forest unless you have Spell Resistance mastered.

*Chance for double-hit is another good friend of yours.

*Watch out for LL 1-hit kill bug!

*It was not tested on some bosses (Sinister Prince, for example).

*She requires support from smither and bargainers as well as from magic find characters.

 

 

#7 Laser show time, yay!

 

 

 

 

#8 Video.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Приятной игры!

[Spunky 16]

Ah nice one! slightly better then my Dual Wielding Dryad with "only" 6.8% LL

[gogoblender 3,199]

Nice Vid! zomgod, is it any wonder that everyone wants those beautiful weps in HC Closed.net

 

Which mode are you playing in ...Sp?

 

Nice work Dmitry, inspiring

 

 

gogo

[ololcat 3]

Which mode are you playing in ...Sp?

I'm playing mostly SP (hardcore of course! ), but sometimes we set up a LAN MP session with friends.

Edited July 26, 2010 by ololcat

[Spunky 16]

Yes, those "Kallies" are wonderful if you are going Dual Wield, have found my share of them already, but I want more and better ones!

[gogoblender 3,199]

Yes, those "Kallies" are wonderful if you are going Dual Wield, have found my share of them already, but I want more and better ones!

 

 

Spunky has it exactly

 

DO NOT TRADE THESE AWAY

 

muhahah

 

 

gogo

 

p.s. Unless...you're being offered twinkies... Twinkies changes everything

[Dobri 55]

Really good work and awesome damage. You should really shut her up though... "Dumayu zashla slishkom daleko" (I think I overestimate myself here - free translation)... yeah right She can kill Guardians twice her level at this rate.

[locolagarto 15]

OMG did anyone notice how much sexier the dryad's voice was compared to the UK version?

[gogoblender 3,199]

heh, yer right ...I much like better this voice than the EU. ha, I just can't get over how FAST this build just chops down those bosses... hollee moleee

 

Dimitry I hope you'll put up your build guide in a seperate thread for us?

 

I'd love to see how you specced this.

 

 

gogo

[ololcat 3]

Thanks, guys!

 

You should really shut her up though... "Dumayu zashla slishkom daleko" (I think I overestimate myself here - free translation)... yeah right She can kill Guardians twice her level at this rate.

No way! She seems giving most fun comments than other characters

 

Dimitry I hope you'll put up your build guide in a seperate thread for us?

 

I'd love to see how you specced this.

Of course yes

[gogoblender 3,199]

Of course yes

 

 

Sweet!

 

I have been looking through Dryad Guides... we are in good need of one for Ice and Blood DW'ing that can literally liquefy and frappe guardians.

 

Am excitedly awaiting your build guide release for this exciting Dryad.

 

 

gogo

[Ryanrocker 200]

Holyyyyyyy crap! This build is jacked up on some heavy duty stuff! Man, the sheer power behind that video left me in awe. I also await a guide to becoming an epic guadian chef

[gogoblender 3,199]

hahahah I know!

 

But it's SP... so maybe to bring it into HC there could be some rebalancing for survival..still though..it's wielding the leech axe set... the most sought after pieces of weaponry in the sacrediverse.

 

With those two, all forces-against fail

 

 

gogo

[Spunky 16]

I'm curious too to see how he specced his dryad, wonder how much difference it is between mine and his.

 

I'm still only level 103 in Platinum though, and have had some small issues with the spawned TG's spells, but nothing Goldenglade Touch & Spell Resistance cant handle.

[Superfreq 0]

Awesome video, olocat. She really does tear through stuff nicely, even on console. Having a quick guardian farmer never hurts anyone I say.

[Dobri 55]

Hmm. From what I see, the minion also leeches from the boss. The question is - does it count towards the LL% of the char? If it does, that's 2xhits from the char and 2xhits from the minion. Total of 4 hits, even with 4% LL per hit, that's 16%. ololcat has a bunch of Kal'Durs, so he surely goes over 6%. If that's the case - 4x6% per hit, no wonder why the guardians are dropping down so quickly.

[Spunky 16]

Perhaps the shrunken head contains a small amount of LL, not sure if it works that way though.

[ololcat 3]

Minion has a flat LL value, something over 100, I think.

[chattius 2,622]

As far as I know only the doubleganger of an inquisitor gets the X% life leech from the character. Character must have it at doubleganger creation, can swap gear once the doubleganger is there.

I think one shrunken head minion has fixed life leech?

[dreeft 9]

Craziness. Just goes to show LL is the king of modifiers!

[ololcat 3]

I think one shrunken head minion has fixed life leech?

Yes, it is.

 

Here is a compilation of videos where she takes down various bosses:

Carnach, Grunwald Cave Dragon, Forest Guardian, Diaanja's Hellhound, Diaanja's Bodyguard, Mishirla and Abishai of Dissension

 

[Ryanrocker 200]

Man, you took down 7 bosses in a minute and 53 seconds! That's roughly 16 seconds per boss! And take off the time it actually takes for you to start attacking, and its even less, maybe 12-13 seconds. Sweeeeeeeeet

[Ryanrocker 200]

Dude! What a sick guide! Extremely nice job with the formatting, makes it nice on my eyeballs Awesome that we finally get to see the inner workings of the beast. Thanks for posting it

[locolagarto 15]

Very nicely done my friend and sekzy too.

[Flooxim 50]

Nice writeup ololcat. Great job!

 

 

Max