LeeAbe
3061
Slow resistance isn’t listed on the character sheet as far as I can tell? Is it just not listed, or am I blind?
Thanks for the info. So I need to respect to more of a tank I guess. Right now, I am mostly Thunderball, Ice Shard, and Lightning Bolt (with some Storm Nimbus). That combo was extremely overpowered on Normal until I got to Act IV, where it became a bit more difficult.
In Epic Act II everything is easy again so far. So next speed bump I will take your advice, thanks.
Soma
3062
No slow resistance isn’t listed on character sheet. Slow is dangerous in very specific circumstance, e.g. glass caster that draws aggro. For melee characters it is a non issue mostly because they rarely need to run away. Iron Will of Ajax relic gives slow resistance.
For Storm, my experience is that Squall is essential, anything else depends on playstyle. It is good as a debuff, for yourself and for pets, but you need to max it to make it useful. Storm Nimbus is good for the cold/slow retaliation, but if you depend on pets there is no point sinking anything more to it. Ice shard I never use, because I got something similar on the spirit tree. Lightning bolt is basically a I-win button in late normal/early epic, but going into legendary the damage output can’t keep up with the monster increase in health and is basically too expensive energy wise. Thunderball I think it sucks, because AoE is small and effect isn’t instantaneous. It is probably useful for a melee Stormer for crowd control.
LeeAbe
3063
I just got rid of Thunderball because all to often it misses, and as you said, its small. I put the points in Squall instead and having been playing with that.
I just beat the base game with my illusionists. He wasn’t spec’d in a super way, but max traps, and max wolves, with a bit in Nymphs. Although he was a melee character, I just let the traps do work for me, and retreated when the going was rough.
Now, I’m in Rhodes, but I have a Conjurer in Egypt I’d like to level up (with a couple of cool items from my illusionist) and a Storm Caller kicking ass in Greece.
Has anyone had any success with the Storm Caller? She’s level 13, and has a few great Storm Items, but I’d like set her up with a second mastery before leaving Greece. Something that puts a bit of hit points between me and swarms out there. Outside of Nature and Earth, are their any other masteries with a good beefy pet early on?
Beefy AND early on? Not so much, although Spirit has the very potent Summon Lich King available at 10, and with 5 ranks it unlocks a nice area affect attack. However, he’s a ranged attacker and therefore won’t tie up mobs so much if you’re looking for that.
Dream has a good DPS (but poor HP) pet in Summon Nightmare (put at least 5 points into it to provide an extra skill which let’s it fire 10 projectiles every 4 seconds.
That said, you need to be level 10 in these masteries to unlock the skills, so 10+5 ranks = 15 points, which may not qualify as “early” in many books.
Yeah, I didn’t think there was anything easy to get. I might grab Dream, since I don’t have any dream characters, but for now, I guess I’ll stick to storm.
AStott
3067
Skipper
3069
What the flip? I mean, I’ll buy it because I loved Titan Quest, but this seems to be a strange release. Lingering code that someone is flipping to make money off of?
There’s someone actually coding on TQ because the Anniversary Edition updates weren’t just lying on the cutting room floor. Someone had to develop that shit in the now. And I wouldn’t be surprised if part of the point was to be able to then sell expansions.
abrandt
3071
Such a shame that this game was a flop originally. Grim Dawn means I’ll probably never go back to it. I really like the setting and environments(really all of the Asia chapter) in TQ.
This is impressive. I just started playing Grim Dawn after having it in my queue for a year or two. So I won’t go back to TQ right away but I’ll still buy an expansion b/c I will go back at some point if this is an active game again.
I think, speaking personally, that TQ wasn’t a big hit because it was mythology based instead of medieval fantasy. Some folks really like the ancient era setting but I’d wager most prefer the medieval one. I don’t recall very much hype about it either; sort of just like [another] “Diablo clone”. Why not just play Diablo?
I’d agree. Well, that and the too-clever-for-our-own-good DRM (since removed after moving to Steam).
Mark_L
3074
Wait. Is this made by the Grim Dawn guys? Or is it just some rando throwing together an expansion?
It’s made by whoever they have working on it at THQ Nordic, who own Titan Quest. Definitely not the Grim Dawn folks.
Mark_L
3076
Gotcha. I’m rather less excited, then.
abrandt
3077
I suspect that this was a problem in the era of boxed games that the game was released in. In today’s digital market I believe that Titan Quest would have been as successful as it deserved to be.
Grim Dawn isn’t a normal medieval setting and seems to be doing well enough.
Ultrazen
3078
Titan Quest wasn’t “dark” enough for fans of the genre I don’t think. Lots of grass, flowers, and the lighting made it look like a girl scout troop had gone for a walk in the woods and found some animals that threw spears at them. I always thought the look of the game was sort of at odds with the action and classes. I think that’s especially true of the lighting, it was very flat, and in general, very bright. There wasn’t ever really a sense of foreboding in any TQ zone I can recall.
Which is precisely why I loved it. TQ was a breath of fresh air after the grimdark fantasy of other ARPG games, and it remains unique in its feel. Ironically the Immortal Throne expansion delivers on exactly the kind of grimdark that the original avoided, and I think it’s less inventive as a result even though it’s largely consistent with the lore. However, it’s offset by you becoming a virtual god of destruction by this point, everything dies so spectacularly!
Whoever tweaked the Anniversary Edition clearly knew what they were doing though, it definitely improved the game, so I’m cautiously optimistic about the expansion. I thought I was out, but no! And as much as I enjoy Grim Dawn, I think I’d rather play more TQ.
This came out of absolutely nowhere. I started up Steam today and boom there’s an announcement of an expansion to my most played game in history. I can’t even process how that sneaked by without even a whisper. Wishlisted it for a time I have the chance to dive in because I know this will chew apart any gaming life I may have. Huh.
