Titan Quest - Anniversary Edition ». So in your guys opinion best build? I hava harbinger lvl 47 pretty cool so far you guys have any builds for it? Are Haruspex still good in ae edition? Im just playing around testing builds and etc i know what matter in some builds are good gears. Pet builds are a little bit better in TQ:AE than they were in the original game. The strongest build in TQ:AE is a pet champion build with +80% CDR (the new cap). Perma-ancestral warriors, and can drop battle standards down in every encounter, spam warhorn/doomhorn, etc. I haven't seen anyone post a video of a stronger build than this. Titan Quest Atlantis “Untouchable Spellbinder” Guide (Retaliation, Reflect, and Life Drain Build) Hello everyone. My name is Nuchy and I’m a veteran TQ Player. I’ve played for around 3500 hours and have built over 20 high-level characters, so I tried to make a character building guide I hope it’ll be useful.
Finished a legendary run with Ragnarok’s new throwing weapons and just wanted to share my thoughts.
Dual Wield throwing weapons – Int based – Shaman (Rune/Spirit) but Spirit can be replaced with another supporting mastery as you wish.
Stats
So what should you be dropping your attributes into?
- Health: If you’re feeling a little squishy, you can drop a few points here if you wish.
- Mana: Not an issue at all for the build, the build never goes oom
- Strength: Enough to equip your throwing weapons. Runeword: Feather will allow to reduce the strength requirement on your throwing weapons allowing you to get away with fewer points in strength. You’ll need to drop a few points later to equip weapons even with the the runeword, otherwise don’t invest any points into strength
- Intellect: Your primary stat. You need enough to equip your gear at a min. When you have free points you drop it here.
- Dexterity: Your second stat. You need enough to equip your gear. ~450+ or so at end should be good.
Rune Mastery
Rune mastery is the ‘primary’ mastery of the build. It allows you to equip your throwing weapons easier by reducing str, saving valuable points for int and dex. It has your main LMB attack, AOE and CC abilities and let’s you duel wield.
Rune Weapon – Your LMB attack. Maxed out, it will give big boosts to your intelligence, elemental dmg and total dmg. The attack is further buffed with Energy Drain for support and Transmutation. Transmutation is the core of the build. With +4 to skill, 99% weapon damage becomes elemental damage. This dmg gets buffed by your int which becomes sky high from rune weapon stacks. See the screenshot below as an example. Max these three out but you can ignore the Magical Charge synergy skill as you won’t be getting hit.
Runeword Feather – Reduces your str req for throwing weapons allowing you to save points for int/dex. Max it out.
Rune of Life – Good one point ability with extra str for movement speed, str%. Maxxing allows you to get your vit resist from here instead of equipment through. Not required, but drop at least one point into it.
Thunder Strike – Your primary aoe ability. Use whenever it’s off cooldown. Fires 5x projectile per weapon (ie: fires 10 projectiles when duel wielding). Absolutely wrecks everything. Max it out and it’s synergy skill Unleash for it’s CC.
Menhir Wall – Your primary CC ability. Drop in front of enemies and spam your attacks from behind it. Helps keep melee enemies off you and distracts ranged enemies allowing you to get close enough to kill them without getting pounded yourself. Dropping directly on top of enemies can cause clipping issues sometimes, drop in front of them, or if you’re running away from enemies, drop in front of you then run past it and start attacking. Max it out.
Reckless Offense – Let’s you duel wield. Obviously must have. Max it out to increase the chance of getting the big dmg buff.
Energy Armour– A bit of extra padding to soak up incoming damage. Energy costs spike substantially as you level it up. 8/8 skill is good, don’t go over this unless you have good energy reduction. Otherwise the skill may cost so much that you can’t cast it even with full mana.
These are the ‘core’ skills in the build. Core rotation is pretty simple. Thunder strike when off cooldown, otherwise rune weapon. Apply energy shield whenever it’s off cooldown and not on you. Drop wall whenever you need CC. Apply Rune of Life every 10 mins.
Feel free to try out any other skills you want or experiment.
Spirit Mastery
The secondary mastery. As I mentioned earlier, this mastery was primarily used for support with Rune mastery being the core of the build. You should be able to switch another mastery as your secondary without issues.
Deathchill Aura – Nice debuffing aura combined with it’s synergy skills. Max it out.
Liche King – I like pets so I picked up Liche King. He almost never dies and can make advantage of deathchill debuffs. I maxed him out but you can free up points here for other things as you wish.
Outsider – Basically used as extra muscle for boss fights
Death Ward – Even with energy shield up, int gear doesn’t exactly provide much protection. Death Ward provides further padding, giving you an emergency health buff and some damage absorption giving you time to pot then drop a wall/thunder strike. Max it out.
There’s no shortage of other useful skills that can be picked up (Circle of Power, Dark Convenant, etc.) Again feel free to experiment and use other skills.
Equipment
So what sort of equipment should you be looking out for?
Weapons, just equip whatever gives you the most DPS and/or utility:
- You’ll want +4 to transmutation skill to make most of your damage elemental. +skill bonus to masteries are always good to look out for.
- Resistances in general. You can get vitality resist from Rune of Life. Elemental is fairly common so shouldn’t be too hard to pick up. Pierce is another pretty important resist as plenty of enemies do heavy pierce in the game, through I managed to go through legendary with pretty sub-par pierce resist.
- Cooldown reduction so you can use thunder strike, wall and energy shield more often.
- Speed buffs so you can kite faster.
- Other stuff like health, defense, stats, etc.
Honestly just try to equip gear the best you can. If you find yourself lacking in a resist, you can always find a decent green and socket with a good charm/relic.
My final loadout:
Leveling
This character started off as an ‘Accomplished Hero’ and I just moved some gear from bank so she kind of started off as a bad ♥♥♥ with all the appropriate skills.
Starting from level 1, start with Rune Mastery. One point into Rune of Life and Rune Weapon. Drop points into feather as needed. Concentrate on leveling up Rune mastery skill and dropping a single point to abilities to unlock them. One point into thunder strike, then unleash and wall. One point into Reckless Offense to unlock duel wield. Once rune mastery you can start putting points into transmutation to get some elemental damage and drop points into your other skills to make them better and/or start working on your second mastery.
If you make an accomplish hero char you should be able to fill up the the good parts of rune right away.
What an unexpected holiday present to fans: Titan Quest rises again! A whole decade after the base game's original release, an expansion just arrived (although perhaps it's not quite so unexpected considering the launch of the Anniversary Edition last year).
As should be obvious from the name and imagery, the Ragnarok DLC injects a Norse theme to this aging ARPG. It's interesting that the expansion arrives just as Thor: Ragnarok hits theaters, and does it have anyone else now biting their nails over the upcoming God Of War mythology reboot?
Although the graphics are quite aged, if you've devoured Grim Dawn and the Ashes Of Malmouth expansion, you will be right at home playing Titan Quest and the updated mechanics in Ragnarok.
Just as Grim Dawn saw the recent additions of the Necromancer and Inquisitor, now in Ragnarok a whole new skill mastery has been added. Runemasters are warrior-shamans from the cold North who inscribe their equipment with runes or drop runes on the ground to gain battlefield control.
Titan Quest: Ragnarok Rune Mastery Skill Tree
Runemaster Mastery Combinations
Including the Dream skill mastery from the original Immortal Throne expansion, Ragnarok now bumps the total base classes up to 10 with the addition of the Runemaster.
Below is every class combination currently available with this new Titan Quest mastery, along with tips on how to combine mysteries for effective class combinations.
| Mastery 1 | Mastery 2 | Class |
|---|---|---|
| Runemaster | Runemaster | Runemaster |
| Runemaster | Defense | Runesmith |
| Runemaster | Dream | Seidr Worker |
| Runemaster | Earth | Stonespeaker |
| Runemaster | Hunting | Dragon Hunter |
| Runemaster | Nature | Skinchanger |
| Runemaster | Rogue | Trickster |
| Runemaster | Spirit | Shaman |
| Runemaster | Storm | Thunderer |
| Runemaster | Warfare | Berserker |
Picking Secondary Masteries
Effectively picking your secondary mastery requires knowing ahead of time what skills you intend to pick on the Runemaster side.
The first tier of the skill tree will change your attack focus, the second tier offers various bonuses, while the third tier is where you start to get actual runes that modify how you play.
The fourth tier is then filled with various elemental or lightning-focused attack options, while at tier five you choose between either elemental or freezing runic mines to place on the ground. Finally, the sixth tier is all about selecting defensive options to round out your build.
These are the four base branches of the Runemaster skill tree at the first tier:
- Rune Weapons increases your elemental and total damage with each basic attack.
- Magical Charge deals elemental damage and grants elemental retaliation.
- Energy Drain gives additional energy and health while slowing opponents with each basic attack.
- Transmutation turns a portion of your basic attack into elemental damage instead.
Although it seems like the most obvious choice, Thunderer is weirdly the odd man out on the Runemaster combos. You can get some decent combos there with the right skills and stats, but strangely the lightning on lightning stacking doesn't actually have the synergy you'd expect.
So far, dual wielding as a Berserker seems to be working incredibly well, as it pairs well with the Runemaster's focus on increasing damage on basic attacks. Reckless Offense on the second tier has a small chance to go off with each attack, drastically increasing damage for that attack, pairing with lots of basic weapon attacks.
Dragonhunter is an interesting mastery combo when combining bow ranged attacks with a focus on the Thunder Strike skill, launching multiple area effect projectiles.
Runesmith is excellent for survivability, creating a walking tank. Although it seems cool at first as it offers damage absorption, the Energy Armor skill has a hefty energy cost and a long cool down time, so it's less useful on this build than might be expected.
If you are going for a melee-focused build of any kind, the Runeword: Feather skill reduces strength requirements for heavy weapons and also increases offensive capabilities for any attack.
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Setting down Runic Mines for defense
Those are all the basics you need to know to get started with a Titan Quest Runemaster build (special thanks to YouTuber Wilfrid Wong for the screenshot)!
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What's your favorite Runemaster combination so far, and what skill load out should we be trying? Let us know in the comments!