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Hi guys,

I want to know if the devs have said anything about adding the missing content in Sacred Stone. Sincerely I have lost the will to continue playing the game after reaching this place.

I know that I can finish the main story, but, sincerely, the game got launched with a full totally empty zone? There's a quest that takes you there and them nothing happens?

I'm a little disappointed with it and want to know if the content for this zone is going to be added one day.

Thanks.

Why they should add any content to the Sacred Stone? O_o This is fkin cultists village, you need to burn it down and slaughter everything, not do quests for them.

At least you get the recipe for the Shambling Oak Wand if you reason with the Immaculates in the ice zone, but I was wondering the entire time if I made a mistake / just have to visit them later to get a quest from one of these cultists.

I was also wondering if I have miss doing anything that I have nothing to do in Sacred Stone, but then Shaki is right, it doesn't make sense to do quests for people you are going against.

I'm not speaking about quests for them, but if you get an actualization in your journal when you get there, saying that you can/may look for source evidences/signals there, and you find a pile of corpses behind a waterfall and your chars don't even have a single word to say about it, IMHO, looks that this place his unfinished.

If this place is working as intended, sorry, but IMO the devs would have put some type of signal that the place is only a completely dumb place in a fantastic game, where no other place until now was dumb.

I think the journal prompt telling you to investigate should perhaps be rewritten, as it conveys a false expectation. However, the waterfall part in particular need not be; it speaks for itself. I feel it would be utterly ruined if the characters had even one word to say upon uncovering the scene.

Speaks for itself and says nothing. Not even one entry in the journal.

I'm glad i'm not the only one that found that location and the prison kind of strange. It seemed like there was a lot of potential there. I messed around in that area a lot trying to find quests from the prisoners, or some kind of reaction from that cave...

/agree

Agree that the waterfall speaks for itself, I wouldn't shoehorn any dialogue right at that moment. Maybe afterwards though, when you exit.

I'd be already very happy if we're allowed to kill the guards without reputation damage.
(Maybe a recent patch fixed this though.)
As for the lack of quests... I don't mind at all. Sacred Stone deserves to be slaughtered.

Ok, the place is there only to get wiped, and it is enough?

I'm a completionist(is this word right?) and don't like to do things in games without a clear indication of it, or I get the feeling of missing something.

I have a sugestion for the devs, if it is not the place for it say me where I post it.

When you get to the bodies you get a journal update and some lines of dialogue, something like:

Journal: You find signs that there are source activity there, but no sign of what really the Imaculates are doing with all these blood stones, and where. You can wipe this place out for the good of Rivelon at least.

Chars:

Char 1: These cultists seems to be... very busy.
Char 2: Well, I say that is time to we get to work too and wipe this freaks of Rivellon!

If anyone have a better suggestion let I know.

Well, there are a few things to do there:
You get some more insights into the cult's character.
You can acquire a book on Tenebrium which might come handy of you refuse a certain other quest.
You have a vendor for Tenebrium weapons.
You can find a puzzle in a cave nearby.
You can encounter a few funny things (e.g. look around the school).

It still does look a bit as if they cut some things there, though.
Overall the whole area seems a bit static. One or two small quests might be welcome.
And what's with the teacher and the students walking around the area and right through the heavily trapped ruins? Eventually he's always lecturing to the air since his students have al been incinerated...

confirmed on the global reputation hit. even if you get the guards to go hostile by opening the gate to the draconic statues, your global reputation falls by one point.

just tested it. latest patch (1.081).

spent some more time with it, and also searched around; there are a few ways around it:

edit:

-you can at least limit the hit to one of your hirelings instead of your mains if you detach them from your party, and have them trigger the event.

...and one more way, a bit more difficult:

featherfall or teleport Bruthor out of his prison cell.

KEEP HIM ALIVE, while you and he kill all the other guards. If Bruthor dies, the fight ends. if you can kill all the guards before bruthor dies, you won't take any rep hits.

it's too bad bruthor turns on you though, and you have to kill him as well.

or, as someone else with far more patience than I did:

- I gave all five guards a tenebrium bar, which will make them rot.
- I placed my characters in a way that all five guards are visible. (They don't continue to rot if you're not nearby.)
- I watched some tv until they were near-dead. (They won't die from rot, they'll be left with 1 hitpoint.)
- I had one of my characters pick them off one by one, making sure the kill isn't seen by any of the other guards.

Because you can instantly kill the guards this way, they don't have time to ring the alarm bells and you don't suffer a reputation hit. smile

"You can find a puzzle in a cave nearby."

??

you mean the portal cave or?

As El Zoido said, the place actually does have a reason as you can can acquire the book to learn Tenebrium. There's also the prison where you can free all the prisoners if you choose to. Why does it need journal entries to remark upon this? There's nothing dumb about the area. You either use it to trade with the tenebrium vendor or you go in (like I did) and slaughter every Immaculate.

Well, there's a guy in the temple there... have yet to find how to get to him though, with the stairs broken and I'm pretty sure teleport doesn't allow me to pass over the gap