Im addicted to Titan Quest~!

[MrAngryFace]

Unless you have an attack the procs a percentage of the time when you normall attack, like defense does. Then you want a fast/very fast weapon.

[Fragamemnon]

One of the most interesting things about TQ is that it has a flat proc rate on weapons and on-hit effects, regardless of swing speed.

Yes, I am abusing the hell out of it. MAD MINMAX: BEYOND MUNCHKINDOME.

[MrAngryFace]

really? I didnt know that. Maybe ill go spear soon

[Howard Alan Treesong]

yeah, I have an every-fourth-strike proc and my Very Fast weapon is abusing the hell out of it.

I got a blue shield with +1 to Warfare and Defense, two trees I don't use. Cry cry.

I just found out that weapon bonuses and most importantly POISON AND BLEED APPLICATION apply to throwing knives. So I'm dropping traps and going knives/flurry as my new primary form of crowd control. Helllllllls yeah.

[MrAngryFace]

I dunno sometimes a blue shield is good regardless of it being for your class specifically

[Van Cruncheon]

i beat hades tonight. i am awesome. on to epic!

[Howard Alan Treesong]

My light-yellow shield (uncommonly-good uncommon?) with Archimedes Mirrors was a lot better. I got a new blue tonight that rocked me, though. Plus I got the Bracers of Atlas and they give me STONE FORM!!! bitches I can turn into STOOOOOONE! yeah.

[Fragamemnon]

Been doing the turtle run like mad for a good level or so worth of XP. Just had this drop out of the chest at the end of one:



A dark horse pick for expansion pack of the year for the platform, even given the awesomeness of Burning Crusade  (which will be a shoo-in, given the PC press' ability to elevate things like Serious Sam 2 to awards).

[MrAngryFace]

I AM JEALOUS OF UR PURPLES! Im almost in Hades Epic, the weird sisters gave me some issues.

[Fragamemnon]

The game says I've spent 75 hours on my harbinger, so maybe it's time I put the game down for a bit. Anyway, the closeout stats since if I do play again it will be with a caster of some sort.




I can swap resists around but really with the insane offensive and defensive abilities I was sporting the stuff I was farming (Secret Passage, Hydra, Act II and III telkenes, and Typhon), was more than enough to get me by thanks to having some damage-to-health gear (35%) coverting that insane DPS to health.

[MrAngryFace]

You are as a god!

Im still in Hades Epic. I keep getting fucking shield purples which I dont need cause theyre all pretty specific but the same in damage protected so wtf. I want sum HELM PURPZ. ANyway awesome stats frag, congrats on conquering Titan Quest

Im getting towards Legendary, Hades expansion is actually taxing me, but I think I blame my -40 pierce resist. No major death issues yet tho, just gotta keep potions handy.

[Fragamemnon]

You are as a god!

Im still in Hades Epic. I keep getting fucking shield purples which I dont need cause theyre all pretty specific but the same in damage protected so wtf. I want sum HELM PURPZ. ANyway awesome stats frag, congrats on conquering Titan Quest

Im getting towards Legendary, Hades expansion is actually taxing me, but I think I blame my -40 pierce resist. No major death issues yet tho, just gotta keep potions handy.

I have some stuff, including a vaulted Helm of Ares, if you want.

I got so many farking shield purples it drove me insane. I DUAL WIELD. It took me forever to get my two maces of huge stats/lifeleech. 

[MrAngryFace]

haha, well im def spec but goddamn im getting DOUBLES of purple shield drops. Thats sad. I wouldnt mind a purple helm, we can link up tomorrow maybe?

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I'm at the last warp point in the expansion, gonna beat it tonight. Oddly, the white spider queen has been the hardest boss BY FAR. I beat Typhon on the 2nd try (solo) but she took like 8 attempts. Ugh. All-in-all, the game is RAD.

I want to do some farming before I move on to Epic. What are the best places to go? Frag mentions "Secret Passage" and "Hydra" and "turtle run" but I dunno where those are. I don't see Typhon runs as a good time/reward given there's no warp point near him and the run up is kind of annoying. Act III Telkine I got down to like 3 minutes from the rebirth fountain.

Anything I should know about Epic before I attempt it? I think there's a resist penalty a-la Diablo, anything else?

This game is awesome.

[Fragamemnon]

I'm at the last warp point in the expansion, gonna beat it tonight. Oddly, the white spider queen has been the hardest boss BY FAR. I beat Typhon on the 2nd try (solo) but she took like 8 attempts. Ugh. All-in-all, the game is RAD.

I want to do some farming before I move on to Epic. What are the best places to go? Frag mentions "Secret Passage" and "Hydra" and "turtle run" but I dunno where those are. I don't see Typhon runs as a good time/reward given there's no warp point near him and the run up is kind of annoying. Act III Telkine I got down to like 3 minutes from the rebirth fountain.

Anything I should know about Epic before I attempt it? I think there's a resist penalty a-la Diablo, anything else?

This game is awesome.

One thing about being at the end of normal is that a lot of your gear doesn't have runspeed bonuses. Once you get movement speed up faster, farming usual bosses starts to get more reasonable because moving from point A to point B is much simpler.

If you are looking to do some farming going into epic, I would only really suggest it if you are in truly woeful shape equipment wise. Act 4 Normal is harder than anything up to Act 3 Epic, and there will be much loot and monsters to get during those first two acts in epic.

Regarding the secret passage/"turtle" run, they are one and the same. Hades has a chance to drop a small item (1x1 on the inventory grid) that looks like a turtle and is called the Overlord. You can use it to access a secret area near Rhodes in the start of Act 4, behind a locked off gate down near the shore just a little while west of the rebirth fountain in the Coastal Asomata area. This passage has about 15 tough enemies in it, but they aren't TOO bad at normal difficulty. Once you kill them all, you can open this big chest from which a lot of good items and relic pieces drop out of.

Epic difficulty has some new bosses that aren't in Normal, like the manticore in act 2(avoid at all costs) and the undead dragon (easy) in act 3. The Hydra is unique to legendary and is considered the second hardest creature in the game, but he's a damn chump for any melee class.

Epic has two main changes-higher level enemies and a across the board -40 to all PRIMARY resists (not secondary). It's not hard to get over that limitation well before the end of the difficultly level.

I would focus on getting some good blues or socketed greens for now.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I may skip farming, then; I have a good mixture of blues (include +2 to my Rogue abilities) and super tweaked greens, and feel really pretty damn okay gearwise. I energy leech enough that I can just spam my skills at cooldown and not need to chug potions. It's great!

Spec-wise, I'm a Dreamkiller (Rogue/Dream).

Rogue, I'm focusing on throwing knives and poison, with a secondary focus on shrapnel/gas bombs. Traps are also really useful in long boss fights. I feel a bit spread out, though, and may try to drop one of those disciplines. Probably the gas bombs; they're great, at times, but I'd rather keep spamming knives.

Dream, I'm focusing on Trance of Wrath and slowly building up my pet. Not so much, otherwise, though I feel I should pump up some of the other great passive bonuses.

I've maxed out both trees already, so...any build suggestions?

[MrAngryFace]

boost trance of empathy and your pets base skill, then a few points into mez cause its funny. Trance of Empathy + high level dream pet is kinda mega cheese.

Most of my attention went to defense class tho cause OMG SHIELD BASHES

[Howard Alan Treesong]

boost trance of empathy and your pets base skill, then a few points into mez cause its funny. Trance of Empathy + high level dream pet is kinda mega cheese.

Most of my attention went to defense class tho cause OMG SHIELD BASHES

mez = the pet's hypnotic gaze?

[MrAngryFace]

yeah

[Howard Alan Treesong]

why trance of empathy over trance of wrath? I'm lovin the lit damage aura esp. against pesky undeadlings

[MrAngryFace]

Well im def spec so many trance of empathy is better for me, but my trance of empathy currently reflects 77% of damage dealt

[Fragamemnon]

All 3 trances are good, to be honest.

I went with wrath because the resistance reduction at the higher difficulty levels really opened up the DPS I was doing. The 1.0s skill disruption component was also darn handy.

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah if I was Warfare I woulda probably gone wrath too.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

I GOT A PURPLE AXE MY DPS DOUBLED I WILL SOON BREAK 1K DPS IN EPIC ACT 1 WOW JUST WOW

[Howard Alan Treesong]

Beat Epic tonight (level 48, over 2000 DPS wow just wow). Anything I should know about Legendary penalties?

I got the Overlord item from Hades and did my first "turtle run." Took me like an hour, tons of dying and running back and being just generally pissed at the game. HOWEVER, it was all worth it. I opened the chest and got <b>BOTH</b> pieces of "<a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/titanquest/setitems/thetexan.php>The Texan</a>" set, <a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/search/banshee_search.pl?_layout=TitanQuest_Items_Page&_cgifunction=search&TitanQuest_Items.id=261>Tarwater's Shade</a> and <a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/search/banshee_search.pl?_layout=TitanQuest_Items_Page&_cgifunction=search&TitanQuest_Items.id=345>Tarwater's Kickers</a> A combined +650 defensive ability, 40% armor, 60% to all elemental resists, and a few other assorted resists and stats. But most importantly of all IT MAKES ME LOOK SHIT HOT.

<img src=http://i2.tinypic.com/4mbzez9.jpg>

Bring on Legendary!

[Fragamemnon]

Beat Epic tonight (level 48, over 2000 DPS wow just wow). Anything I should know about Legendary penalties?

I got the Overlord item from Hades and did my first "turtle run." Took me like an hour, tons of dying and running back and being just generally pissed at the game. HOWEVER, it was all worth it. I opened the chest and got <b>BOTH</b> pieces of "<a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/titanquest/setitems/thetexan.php>The Texan</a>" set, <a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/search/banshee_search.pl?_layout=TitanQuest_Items_Page&_cgifunction=search&TitanQuest_Items.id=261>Tarwater's Shade</a> and <a href=http://www.gamebanshee.com/cgi-bin/search/banshee_search.pl?_layout=TitanQuest_Items_Page&_cgifunction=search&TitanQuest_Items.id=345>Tarwater's Kickers</a> A combined +650 defensive ability, 40% armor, 60% to all elemental resists, and a few other assorted resists and stats. But most importantly of all IT MAKES ME LOOK SHIT HOT.

<img src=http://i2.tinypic.com/4mbzez9.jpg>

Bring on Legendary!

Haha, yeah after farming that a bit on epic I could run around as a cowboy, Sherlock Holmes, Santa, or cowboy. It was pretty awesome.

My main tip for legendary is to make sure to keep your DPS nice and high/balanced as you go through the difficultly setting. One of the big problems I had was that I was focusing too much at times on things like Offensive/Defensive ability or making sure that my resists were near capped out, and I had some tough times in the second or third chapter. Then I changed out some gear to crank my DPS a bit, and life got a lot easier. Kill them before they kill you is a perfectly fine strategy in this game.

It wasn't until I got to act 4 legendary and started doing the secret passage there that my character got really crazy powerful. Beware, though: Toxeus is even more a bitch there than he is on epic.

[MrAngryFace]

Yeah Legendary has been tougher for me than epic so far. Been addicted to .Hack tho so my attention is split am total.

[Howard Alan Treesong]

TVC rightly pointed out that this AWESOME outfit makes me look like a Simple 2000 game heroine.