Sacred 2:Shrunken Head

A Dryad may use Combat Arts and Buffs to increase the chance that some slain opponents will drop a shrunken head that can be equipped by the Dryad (only one at a time). When a player has found a shrunken head, he may drag it into his inventory screen (After pressing "F" key) and set it within the shrunken head slot. The head is comparable to a piece of armor that benefits the dryad with bonuses to magic, combat and protection. All shrunken heads possess an Armor value which gives the dryad a higher resistance against mostly physical damage when worn.

The following Combat Arts will increase the chance to drop a shrunken head from the Dryad's Cabalistic Voodoo Aspect:

• Twisted Torment - Bronze Headhunter modification, Silver Sadist modification - duration (for recasting)
• Viperish Disease - Silver Headhunter modification
• Black Curse - Bronze Headhunter modification
• Moribund Animus - Both Silver and Gold Headhunter modifications

The following Combat Arts will increase the chance to drop a shrunken head from the Dryad's Capricious Hunter Aspect:

• Sinister Predator - No modification needed

She may also use the Combat Art (Buff) Moribund Animus to raise a Hireling to fight in battle with her. A Hireling's damage is only increased by the level of the hireling summoned. The level of Hireling summoned is directly related to the Combat Art level at which Moribund Animus is cast at. A weapon slot with pluses to all Combat Arts, Moribund Animus, or to the relevant skills can be used to increase the level at which this Combat Art is cast, which will result in a more powerful Hireling.

• Note: Combat art level factors into chance for a head drop. Moribund Animus level 1 with a level 1 character results in a 10% chance to drop. (Even if the Animus is not involved in the combat) At Moribund Animus level 1 with a level 200 character you have a 0.4% chance to drop a shrunken head. So, drop chance scales with character level and combat art level, at least for Moribund Animus.

Types of Shrunken Heads

The different types of shrunken heads can be classed according to these three characteristics:

• Combat Modifier - The general type of modifier that benefits particular traits of a character.
• Color - Color of the head which, in conjunction with the enemy type of the head, indicates the unique hireling it summons.
• Enemy Type - The type of enemy that will drop the head

3 Build Types for Headhunting

In decreasing order of effectiveness for headhunting:

Version 1 - Voodun

• take both Voodoo Focus and Voodoo Lore
• Keep your regeneration time of Twisted Torment to under 0.5 seconds
• Gives huge chance of head drop

Version 2 - voodun

• take Voodoo Focus only, but not the Voodoo Lore
• Keep your regeneration time of Twisted Torment at 1.0 second
• Good chance of a head drop

Version 3 - non-voodun

• Concentration, stamina boosts from potions (and alchemy trophies) and equipment, Regen per Hit (RpH)
• lowest drop chance, still can somewhat layer Twisted Torment

Combat Modifier

Rare (2 star) (yellow) shrunken heads can have up to 3 modifiers. These include such beauties as:

• Death blow
• Regen Time -X%
• +X General Skills (Bargaining, Alchemy, Blacksmith...etc...)
• +X to All Skills
• +X to All combat arts
• +Visibility range
• +Selling price
• +% EXP bonus / kill...
• and lots more

• Uncommon (1 star) (blue) shrunken heads can have 1 modifier.
• Common (0 star) (white) shrunken heads have 1 modifier.

Combat Modifiers for shrunken heads come in three general types:

• Defense
• Spell Resistance
• Cabalistic Voodoo Aspect

The three different types of base combat modifiers found upon heads give the following different benefits each per head to characters.

Defense - This affects a monster's Chance to Hit versus the character.

Spell Resistance - This affects a monster's chance to successfully cast a spell at full strength upon the character.

Cabalistic Voodoo Aspect - This can increase either the Cabalistic Voodoo Lore or Cabalistic Voodoo Focus levels.

Color

The color of the Shrunken head dropped is indicated by the color of the writing. This also indicates the strength and kind of hireling summoned. White heads are the easiest to have dropped from enemies but create the weakest hirelings. Blue is next in rarity, with Yellow only being found from unique bosses (or young dragons). In this way, a shrunken head of the same enemy type can come in three colors. Each color summons it's own unique hireling with the yellow head hirelings of that particular monster type being the strongest. Yellow heads generally also produce summons that have life leech of their own, making them much more durable. The scorpion summon is particularly robust due to it's high attack rate and double attacks. In the example shown here of the three types of colored heads of the same monster enemy type, the yellow enemy summoned would be the minotaur, one of the strongest hirelings possible. Blue Heads may have an extra modifier on the head as bonus, with yellow heads having the largest number of modifiers with greatest values.

Enemy Type

Each enemy in the game is grouped within an Enemy Type for the use of shrunken heads. Orcs and ogres, for example, belong to the goblinoid enemy type. A Dryad who wears the correct Enemy Type head while in battle against a matching enemy within that same enemy type gains significant bonuses via damage. Dryad Combat Arts that benefit from wearing the correct Enemy Type head are:

• Viperish Disease

• Malicious Totem

• Twisted Torment

List of Voodoo Head Enemy Types

• Animal
• Barbarian (Kobold, Kobold Archer, Kobold Chief, Kobold Shaman, Kobold Stone Thrower, Kobold Warrior)
• Dryad
• Dragon
• Goblinoid
• Elven
• Human
• Insect
• Monster
• T-Mutation
• Undead

Hireling List

Base Game Shrunken Heads and Hirelings

White Animal Head

Drops from most of the Wild Animal Enemies

Blue Animal Head

Drops from the Raging Boar miniboss

White Barbarian Head

Drops from Kobolds of all varieties Slow Weak Damage

Blue Barbarian Head

Drops from Kobold Chieftain Gahanka quest boss

White Dryad Head

Drops from most of the Dryad Enemies

White Elven Head

Drops from most of the High Elf Enemies

Blue Elven Head

Drops from Nimonuil in the end of main campaign

White Goblinoid Head

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Drops from most of the Goblinoid Enemies such as Orcs

Blue Goblinoid Head

Drops from Orc Warrior champions

White Insect Head

Drops from all Insects such as Spiders and Scorpions Moves slowly

Blue Insect Head

Drops from the spider champions in the cave on the Dryad Island

Yellow Insect Head

Drops from Garganthropod Dual Wielding with Life Leech. Fast attacks.

White Monster Head

Drops from most of the Monster Enemies

Blue Monster Head

Drops from the Poison Lord and White Griffin minibosses, also drops from Werewolves in the Swamp

Yellow Monster Head

Drops from the Nameless Guardians and Octagolamus Has 20 life leech, single attack

White T-Mutation Head

Drops from most of the T-Mutated Enemies

Blue T-Mutation Head

Drops from ... Can't move. Can teleport to the player's character if the distance between them becomes significant

Yellow T-Mutation Head

Drops from Gar'Colossus, Swirling Mist of Miasma, Facetteleon has 15 life leech, single attack

White Undead Head

Drops from Zombies, Skeletons and other Undead

Blue Undead Head

Drops from Zombie champions in the Swamp

White Dragon Head

Drops from most of the Dragon Enemies

Yellow Dragon Head

Drops from the Dragon Bosses

White Human Head

Drops from most of the Human Enemies

Blue Human Head

Drops from the Gambling Den Owner shadow campiagn boss

Community Patch Shrunken Heads and Hirelings

Yellow Animal Head

Drops from Master Bruin from Can Christmas Still be Saved quest

Yellow Barbarian Head

Drops from Walther quest boss

Blue Dragon Head

Drops from the Young Dragon champions and Jungle Lizard Priest champions

Yellow Dryad Head

Drops from Mazzagon's Female Bodyguards from The Ancestors Chambers quest

Yellow Goblinoid Head

Drops from Lupus Coldhand from The Master of the Hunt quest

Blue Human Head

Drops from the Cult Overseer champions and Sacrificing Priest champions

Yellow Human Head

Drops from Asmarael, the Queen of Spiders and Failitia, Dreamweaver of the Gods - both bosses from The Impostor quest

Yellow Undead Head

Drops from Terus, General of the Undead Legion quest boss

See Also

Shrunken Heads Ingame Renders

Creating Shrunken Head Renders