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Date:
9/23/2016 5:57:41 AM
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Titan Quest report
I decided to go back to my spirit mage in single-player. She's now lvl 26 and doing all right.
Presently, I'm in Thebes, having defeated the second Telkine in the Valley of the Kings. He wasn't much trouble. In fact, the only monster that's come close to killing me was some weird champion harpy that used a really OP energy/life-steal spell. That was something like ten levels ago, and I haven't come across anything that powerful since.
I'm only using about four spells in the Spirit mastery tree -- Tenion attack is my main LMB damage dealer. RMB is bound to Life Drain. Otherwise, I have that debuff thing (can't rememeber what it's called) and the undead debuff thing with the extra dmg-to-undead passive, and of course my liche. I just put points in these right now and ignore the upper half of the Spirit tree and all of the Dream one. In other words, half of my skill bar is empty. When I get bonus skill mastery points, I devote them to climbing up the Spirit tree, but I'm still eight points away from reaching those skills.
This seems to work fine in Normal. Everything except bosses gets one-shotted. I'm not sure I'll do another playthrough any time soon. If I do, I imagine the upper skills and Dream mastery will become handy. Obviously, I'm just derping around very casually to see the sights and collect the piñata loot.
Speaking of loot: I'm having to buy and craft everything, so it's good that I'm making money. The game seems designed not to drop anything good for your class while overloading you with wonderful upgrades for other classes. If ILA ever plays again, I have a crapload of things in my transfer stash. I probably won't make another class, so it's just sitting there. Meanwhile, I'm just buying things from vendors and crafting things with charms and essences. It seems to work out. (Amateur tip: get as much attack speed as possible.)
It's so sad that Iron Lore went out of business. I know they came back as Crate and did Grim Dawn, but the latter game is not really as good as Titan Quest, imo. TQ has amazing production values. You can tell that they really put their hearts into this. The levels are beautiful. The music is quite good. The voice acting is, by turns, really pro and hilariously bad, but I'm impressed by how much research the devs put into Greek mythology. I'm sure nobody listens to the story-tellers standing around in the towns, but they should.
