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| − | == Foreword ==
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| − | In Sacred Underworld the famous ICON set - the one that gives you burning feet - became a very very rare find. Its much harder now to have a full set in your possession than in earlier versions of the game (i.e; [[Sacred PLUS]] - where most players had at least one full set). The set was mostly used either to [[split]] the enemies or for pure cosmetic reasons.
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| − | In Underworldw we need many things changed but most importantly:
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| − | * Servers are much much more unstable now and their performance is far more worse than in older days.
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| − | (ICON was always making Lag)
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| − | * With the "new" Underworld Set Items namely [[Fadalmar's Counsel]] and [[Orla-Aisling's Jolt]] the purpose of the ICON set greatly changed.
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| − | The purpose of this guide is not to further the use of ICONs but to help those people who never had a chance try it.
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| − | Overall these ideas could help you get burning feet if you are willing to pay its price: long boring hours.
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| − | == Basic idea of the Guide ==
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| − | The guide is based on that observation that the ICON set will be always available at the lowest possible level: at level 1.
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| − | == '''1 How to find ICON's''' ==
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| − | The process is based on the observation of the SETs lvl: its '''ALWAYS''' lvl1!
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| − | So its not hard to figure that a lower lvl char would find it easier than a max lvl niob toon.
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| − | Of course this isn't that easy. Icons are very rare - and the chance to find them is low. So
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| − | to increase the chance to find them we need a low lvl char with a considerable amount of MF.
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| − | Before we go into details I need to remind you of a few things:
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| − | '''a''' Like any other Magic find (or trade) the only thing we can do is to increase the
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| − | chance. There are no guarantees that it will work for you.
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| − | (but it worked for me more than once)
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| − | '''b''' It could take a lot of time. Not necessarily but possibly.
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| − | Trying it wont harm you but generally only the really patient and determined souls will see
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| − | its fruits.
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| − | The Char
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| − | Basically every char could do it. But if we would like to optimize it further I wont propose
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| − | Wood Elf (simply because she cant use jump or fly to get around obstacles more easily) and the
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| − | Seraphim (because of her lack of available sockets.)
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| − | Two chars are IMHO exceptionally suited to the job:
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| − | Dwarf*:built in MF - GREED - pros: increased MF / cons: GREED needs rune investment and if you
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| − | stick to the idea keeping him low lvl and restarting your char often the runes would go to
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| − | Vampiress: She is one of the toughest starter char (IMHO) and can jump across obstacles.
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| − | My ICON finder was (is) a Vampiress. (well more of nostalgia than everything else)
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| − | The Gear
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| − | Sockets sockets and more sockets - we are after a lot of sockets. Put max lvl dwarven MF forge
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| − | in thoose sockets and your you MF will be increased DRASTICALLY.
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| − | The setup will be the following (vampiress):
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| − | Item Number of sockets
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| − | Helm 2
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| − | Shoulder Guards 2
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| − | Armor 4
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| − | Boots 1
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| − | Gloves 1
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| − | Belt 2
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| − | Bracer 2
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| − | Greaves 2
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| − | Sword 4
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| − | Shield 3
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| − | So you will have total 23 sockets available. That is +460 MF for a lvl 2 char. Amazing isn't
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| − | it? 2biggrin.gif (Another nice feature of this forged bonus that your char will be almost
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| − | invulnerable - each forge will give you 30% to all resistances - total 690% bonus to all
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| − | 1,Where and how to play
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| − | We see that staying low lvl is important to reach our goal. So we need to stick to the
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| − | starting territory and wander only a little bit around it.
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| − | You can do it 2 ways:
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| − | First you use your lvl 2 vamp and you avoid getting any XP. That means you need to repeat
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| − | quests where little or no fightings are involved. Best would be to repeatedly do the "Pay
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| − | Book"*** quest. This quest has a chance to reward you with a set item and it is pretty easy to
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| − | complete (and fast. Relogging to start again is longer - at least for me - to finish the quest
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| − | itself) and you don't need to fight at all.
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| − | Of course doing this way means that you need to get into a pretty boring cycle: log in - do
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| − | the quest - log off - log in again - start doing the quest again - etc...
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| − | paladin.gif The second way is to make the a low lvl hunter gear then pass it from char to
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| − | char. I mean you start a new Vampiress (or Dwarf) play her till she reaches lvl 8-9-10 then
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| − | start her over. Alternatively you can lvl her till 10-15 (maybe even 20). This way you will
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| − | have increased chance to find some of the lower lvl sets. You can find them here.
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| − | If you choose this way the Goblin Lawn and the Porto Vallum area is an ideal place to hunt.
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| − | 2, Some ideas for general set hunting around the starter lvls
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| − | Basically this is the above detailed way just you are not after the ICONs and do not restart
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| − | your char until you feel it became too hard in your lvl1 MF gear. With minimal rune investment
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| − | a Vampiress can get to and over lvl 20 in such a gear without any problems.
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| − | Ideal to find rares and the minimum lvl sets also mentioned above.
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| − | Remember: you need to spam the MF socket into your gear. Don't start exchange them into
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| − | anything else. The sole purpose of this char is to have the highest MF possible at low level.
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| − | 3,How to use the ICON set relatively safely
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| − | ICONs set will generate LAG. Its not a big deal if only 1 player are using it but the
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| − | situation could become dire really quickly if more players log in with full ICON set.
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| − | As previous experiments and research proved it the main source of LAG considering the ICON set
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| − | comes not from the graphical side (the burning effect) but the splitting effect. ICONs will
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| − | cover a relatively large area really quickly with a damaging trail of fire which dissipates
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| − | after a while but if your char is moving around you chance to split the enemies around you
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| − | will be increased dramatically. Even with very low split (1-5%) a lot more enemies will be
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| − | doubled. If your split is higher (10-20%) its almost guaranteed that every enemy who aren't
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| − | killed really quickly will be split. Any more split over 20% would mean you are making an army
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| − | of enemies in a few seconds. Now this is what the Sacred engine cant really handle.
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| − | So when using ICONs try to reduce the split you are using to a real low amount - it will still
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| − | work better than a much greater value without burning feet.
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| − | Secondly: if you plan to use Fad (or Orla - don't do it) with ICONs avoid populated servers.
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| − | It could be ok with 1 or 2 ppl (even together with 3 ppl) but if any more players are joining
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| − | and/or the others use LAG creating CAs or they are using also ICONs too flee from that server!
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| − | Lag will build up pretty quickly and it will threaten you and the others. In our HC way of
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| − | playing that threat can turn easily to the end of your (or someone else) char. Its also a good
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| − | idea of ask or warn the others (if there are other players around).
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| − | Last words about ICONs and LAG and such things
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| − | ICON could create lag - thats true. Fad and Orla could create LAG as well. And there are a lot
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| − | of things who could cause LAG (sometimes much worser LAG). But never forget: the main cause of
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| − | LAG isn't your actions but crappy coding and programming.
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| − | So as long as you try to avoid threaten other ppl too much you can and you should try every
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| − | strategy that suits you.
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| − | * Dwarf could be an interesting experiment. I am not sure how Greed influences Quest rewards.
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| − | If it does Dwarf would be definitely the number 1 choice for us. This thing would need some
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| − | future experiments.
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| − | ** It is possible (not easy but possible) to find a 4 socketed one handed sword. My lvl 1
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| − | dwarven trader uses such a blade. If you are not able to find that one a simple 3 socketed
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| − | *** the "Pay book" quest is much easier to do if your char is able to jump or fly. If you know
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| − | the quest you will understand what I mean
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| − | I would like to thank Erialc (again) for her invaluable help! (converting my babbling into
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