Jab
1721
I found that the crystaline bracers, but neither fit my assassin build. Legendary is when the game pulls out all the stops. I was fighting the hydra last week, and even with a scroll boosting my elemental resist I couldn’t hurt it. I was kinda hoping that they added in hidden bosses for act 4 on epic or legendary. I should be on today either playing epic or legendary farming for artifact parts.
mono
1722
Yikes. Hope everything is alright John.
Hey Geo, how’d that battle end? ;)
I just died my first death at level 35 in Hades. I was swarmed by some Pale Formacids (I believe they are called) and two of them were Captains with some big hit/stun thing going on, I think. As I was retreating from this circle of death with little health left, I thought I’d be smart and decided to turn and put them to sleep (I’m a Templar, and make liberal use of Sands of Sleep) but I forgot there’s a little pause before I get the spell off. Unfortunately, that was enough for a Captain to reach me again and I was a puff of dust. Ah well. I’ll chalk that one up to my mistake, not a game difficulty issue.
To John: indeed, I hope everything is okay with your daughter.
Jab
1724
No problem, hope your daughter is alright.
Thanks guys. She’s fine this morning. She was just severely constipated and nothing we could do for over 4 days (kayro, suppositories, etc.) was helping so we took her for an x-ray to make sure she wasn’t impacted. She finally ‘went’ this morning, passing a stool that would’ve made me cry.
Geo
1726
The brief conclusion! :)
I took heckacious splash damage when it fell. Usually I’m smart and keep Colossus (you become a giant temporarily with mega damage and defense buffs) or the Ancestral Horn (3 summoned ghost swordsmen) ready and I think in that video I didn’t. It did end OK. Thanks for asking. :) I liked its variety of attacks, which seemed to include left hand flamethrower, right hand “swinging chained detached hand” attack, foot stomp and an occasional burst of lightning nova. I wish other bosses had such variety.
And my best regards for John and daughter too. :)
Jab
1727
I think I kinda broke TQ earlier. I kept on switching between characters to get some relics pooled together, on loading up the third guy the game froze and I couldn’t get it to run. Closing the game and restarting didn’t work.
I just met up with her in my current game and died twice in rapid succession. I don’t think I even got a hit in, either time. Although I used a Cyclops scroll to see if that’d do anything (it didn’t; she whomped him in no time, too). I then tried to take her on by using a bow (my secondary weapon, which I haven’t had to use yet) but I only get one shot in before having to run like mad for while to get her off my back. Then I’m left taking care of the minions before getting one more shot at her. That’s just not something I’m interested in doing for the hour or so it’d take to kill her. I’m thinking I need mega stun resistance, bleeding resistance, or life leech resistance or something. I just can’t go toe-to-toe. Arg!
I’m thinking there’s something in this cave that I need, though. Must remember to check my journal when I get back in the game.
As usual, this is the type of battle that just turns me right off. Two kills without even getting a hit on that spider seems a tad strange. At least other mega-tough one-hit kills gave me at least a token hit. Have to say, dying on Normal is new; haven’t had that happen to a character since my first play through of TQ, if I remember correctly, and now I have three deaths in Hades on my current character. Ouch.
Kalle
1729
Agreed on the spider boss. My archer brigand died twice on her, and I spent half an hour finally killing her. The tactic was to hit her once, then kite her to the point where she loses interest. At that point I can dart in and out of distance and have her jo-jo back and forth. What made it difficult with her was her cursed mini-spawns. The undodgable ranged attack hurts like hell and every arrow spent on killing them is an arrow that could have whittled down mommy spider’s HP.
stusser
1730
Yeah, it’s a quest boss. I agree, that spider is WAY too hard for normal mode.
Hmm, tried her again with my secondary bow but noticed that I was practically doing no damage to her anyway. Decided to give up but got caught on my way out and I died again; it’s just not worth the trouble for this character. Movin’ on. :(
Overall, I’d have to say that from the moment I hit Typhon onwards, I’m finding TQ:IT to be more of a grinding chore. I really loved the original portion and everything that was done to enhance the game within that section. I also love the look of the new IT areas, and some areas are just spectacular. Honestly, though, I’m not too keen on playing the IT areas as much as playing new characters through the portion up to Typhon.
Meh, maybe I’m getting grumpy in my old age. Enough complaining for the day. grumble grumble
Geo
1732
I’m the opposite - going through the old stuff is tedious (for me) and the Act 4 stuff seems so much more imaginative in story, quests and set design. I think that’s part of the reason clowns keep joining my MP games (labeled as Epic Act 2) and jumping into Act 4 and start activating quests there - very annoying. :D Or maybe they’re just farming Typhon. I haven’t done act 4 enough to even know what players were saying when they’d say “let’s farm Typhon!” Blargh. I’m grumpy too, just from the standpoint I wanted to enjoy the act 4 storyline, not Speed Dash to Typhon, which is what I keep running into.
Just when I was complaining the game was too easy, I ran into Manticore (and not the friendly super hero in City of Heroes) in some sandswept caves that I don’t think I’ve bothered to go into before (it’s one with an endless number of stairs), like so:
Another crazy, imaginative boss (he spits fire, lightning, and “poison bullet salvos”, and his “tail mace” is nasty), but again not a quest boss and I think I’ve skipped this one without knowing it previously. If he wasn’t 12 (!) levels over me, I think I could’ve taken him but instead I, my ancestral horn summons and my “scroll Dijinn summons” all got whacked repeatedly.
Geo - What name do you host as ( game name i’m tired of clicking each and every game trying to find the right maximus weilding the rimscythe ). What time do you usually have the game up around ifyou could include what timezone your talking about if it’s not EDT that would be helpful too.
‘Farming Typhon’ refers to Typhon the Titan the original final boss at the top of olympus you run to him, kill, click essence, grab loot, drop the generi loot, make or join a new game, rinse, and repeat. Farming in this usually game refers to killing a select mob ( Typhon or Hades current favorites as their loot tables are usually much nicer ) quickly and repeatedly. I have actually taken to ‘farming’ Hades, Telkin of act3 and typhon in one game once the last of the 3 is dead I drop to main menu and remake the game. Using a Highly tweaked out charcter it’s easy to amass a little cache of pruples and blues to spread around alts that I choose to play slower for fun and enjoyment.
Edit to add- If people have a set they are looking to complete let me know and I’ll keep an eye out for it.
I think (like most bosses) that she’s build-dependent. I killed her with my Conquerer (level 34, no outstanding gear but no crap either) without much trouble. Colossus form + 5 Ancestral Spirits + lots of strong defensive powers worked nicely. The chest behind her holds the Mirror of Psyche, which you need to advance the Orpheus/Eurydice side quest to the next stage. Fun, but not critical. You can always come back with more levels and better gear later on.
I agree. I’m having a blast in Act 4 so far–it’s easily my favorite act, though I’m only about 2/3’s of the way through it so my opinion could still change.
One more TQ post: anyone know how to backup save files? I can’t find them in the game directory, and I’ve seen enough reports of people having them get corrupted/needing to reinstall/etc. that I’d like to keep a copy somewhere safe.
Geez Dave, are you new to this whole Windows stuff? :)
The save files are in My Documents\My Games, of course. I think you only need to back up the Immortal Thrones folder for an IT character but while you’re there you might as well save the original Titan Quest folder, too. Pack them into an archive, with all nested subdirectories.
My Dreamkiller beat Typhon, and it was the usual boring grind. Pop in, fire arrow, pop back out. No chance going hand-to-hand with him, he’d just use one of his instadeath attacks like the meteors and I wouldn’t get away fast enough to survive. I’d really like to know which kind of build can melee Typhon.
I like Act 4 a lot so far. Somewhat harder than Act 3 but not outrageously so, and the new escort missions are fun.
But what’s the matter with spectres? I can’t get no spectral matter! There’s one artifact that requires spectral matter, and I have only one piece so far. (I built a full charm earlier but used that for another artifact.) Farming the Sphinx didn’t give me a single drop. I hope Hades is full of spectres…
Oh yeah, scrolls are completely useless! I tried a bunch against Typhon and I might as well not have bothered. They have a gigantic cool-off time, and it applies to ALL scrolls, not just to the type you fired off, so forget about using two scroll effects at the same time. The effects are also decidedly underwhelming – the area of AoE spells is so small that I never managed to trap Typhon in it.
Kalle
1740
Act 2 and act 5 are the main places to find spectral matter. Not just Hades but Rhodos before before that too.
