I think i saw the red dude cast warwind in the 2nd rd.. some shield charge/batter here and there

so this is where marcin tybura started 

MMA fighters buy swords, shields, helmets of all kinds

This is Spartaaaa!!!

Ok so i know PvP is not popular in Titan Quest. But it is possible in-game and some players may be interested

To start, me and my nephew used to have fun killing each other in gladiator PvP mod downloadable at kirmiziperfect. But it's just 1v1 because we don't have anyone else to play with. But back in my college days, we would spend hours playing diablo 2  1v1 PvP, team PvP, free for all PvP, 2v1 PvP, anything. We even came up with new strategies specially made for PvPs.

Don't worry about deaths, should you die in gladiators PvP mod, the deaths don't reflect on your main game. I don't know about other PvP mods, but in gladiator mod, what you do in PvP does not get saved on your main game. There are gladiators outside but we don't use that, we stay inside and a player signals the start of the fight. Also, there's a mystic, caravan driver, merchant and arcanist near the rebirth fountain.

So if anyone is interested, just reply to this post. I may not be even able to join because I'm in a different time zone than most of you guys.

Rules (all are subject to change):

1) matchups are to be decided by players themselves, whether 1v1, 2v2, etc

2) no use of defiler or any cheat engine. custom made items are not allowed

3) difficulty is to be decided by players, whether normal, epic, or legendary difficulty

4) i suggest a level division. like 40-50, 50-60, etc.

5) i suggest a limit to potions. me and my nephew use 10 HP and 10 MP only. that way the fights don't take very long and we find some balance for weapon users and casters

6) In the case of team PvPs, if one dies, he/she should wait in the rebirth fountain until the fight is decided

No bragging please. You might win 1 PvP but you can always lose to other PvPs

Players with strong PCs are requested to record and post video PvPs. Requested, not required. That way we get a small taste of the fun, even by just watching

Now, nobody might participate but that's ok with me actually. For those who want to join just reply to this thread. For those not interested, that's ok but you are always welcome to join should a PvP match pique your interest one day :p

Before this forum was created, we had a mini contest like this at reddit. It wasn't really a contest but i lost horribly to these:





I still cringe at the sight of that half humanoid female insect

Now i want to recreate that fun in this forum. Doesn't matter if it's not your in-game items. Just wear what you think look cool together.. or terrible together.

I'll start. These ones i ithink look cool







This one for the ugly looking category

how to get desired completion bonus from charms and relics without using tqvault, defiler, and without exit to desktop.. i find this hard to explain in words so i put it into video instead



some characters you see in import section are not actual characters.. either for testing purposes only or taken from another pc for pvp fun

completion bonus is not random.. it depends on the last piece you finish it with.. this is how to take advantage of that feature

be careful not to accidentally delete your character.. if you do, i'm not to blame

absolutely not mine.. this is a guide by poinas.. but i made some notes regarding changes in AE


Here are the damage types of each and every boss.

Number for Estimating the Attack’s Threat (NEAT) gives you a rough estimate on how lethal the attack is.

6 – Avoid at all costs, 100% guaranteed death.
5 – Death without maxed resistance, death even with 80% resistance if you have low maximum health.
4 – Quarter to half of your health gone with high resistance. Death or near death with no resistance. Requires instant potioning.
3 – Some resistance needed against this attack. Keep guzzling potions non-stop and you’ll be fine.
2 – You can take several of these attacks without needing a potion.
1 – You’ll more likely die in boredom watching the boss trying to kill you with this attack, than from the actual damage.

Example:

Bad-arse mofo // The name of the boss
Fire breath (4): Breathes a cloud of fire at you. // Skill name, NEAT rating and what does the attack look like.

50% poison, 25% fire. // recommended resistances.

The .doc and .rtf files can be found as an attachment.

Act 1

Nessus
Melee attack (2) : Swings a sword. Physical.

No resistances needed.

Arachne
Poison bomb (3) : Thows a projectile at you. Green cloud of poison.
Melee attack (2) : Swings a sword. Physical.
Summons small spiders that do physical damage : (1)

20% poison.

Polyphemus
Melee attack (2) : Swings a club. Physical.
Stomp (2) : Stomps the ground with his leg. Physical.
Wave (3) : Sends a rippling wave towards you. Physical.
Roar (3) : Polyphemus spreads his arms and roars. Skill disruption, slow, 25 % health reduction. Consists of 5 “projectiles” so your HP gets reduced (with no resistances) by a minimum of 25% and by a maximum of 76%.

25% vitality.

Gorgon Sisters – Medusa, Euryale, Sstheno
Hypnotic Gaze : Medusa shoots two projectiles from her eyes that stun you.
Melee and ranged attacks. Physical, piercing then poison (Sstheno), cold (Eryale), fire (Medusa).

30% pierce and 30% poison.

*note by botebote77: their stun attack is no longer stun but petrify

Hydra
Arctic Breath (4) : Breathes cold damage on you, 85% total speed reduction for 6 seconds.
Fire Breath (4) : Breathes fire damage on you.
Poison Breath (5) : ~40% reduction to HP, poison damage, 60% reduced resistance for 8 seconds, 85% chance to fumble attacks for 8 seconds.

80% poison resistance. Stay in melee range even if you’re a mage.

Alastor
Staff attack (2) : Normal attack with a staff. The game randomises a staff for him, so it’s either fire, cold or lightning.
Circel of Decay (2) : Alastor is surrounded by this aura. 50% cold, 50% vitality. Slows attack speed.
Ranged Blast (3) : Casts a magical bolt at you. 50% cold, 50% vitality. 15% HP reduction.
Summons skeletons (2) : Cold and physical.
Life –and mana leech (2). Leeches life and mana.

20% cold, 20% vitality.

Talos
Fist hit (3) : His default fist attack. 30% fire, 70% physical.
Stomp (4) : Stomps the ground. 50% physical, 50% lightning. Stuns.
Fist swing (3) : Throws his fist at you. Physical.
Fire Breath (4) : Breath a cloud of fire. Fire burn.

60% fire, 50% lightning.

Minotaur Lord
Melee hit (4) : Dual wields axes. Physical. Not a problem in normal, devastating in legendary.

Megalesios
Statues (2) : Physical and piercing.
Thunderball (2) : Throws a thunderball at you. Lightning, stuns.
Specrtal Blast (3) : His default attack. Lightning.
Energy Blast (3) : Throws a projectile at you. Vitality, stuns, skill disrupts.
Summons pets (2) : They leech life from you and give it to Megalesios. They do some physical damage too.

Act 2

Scarabaeus
Melee attack (2) : Physical.
Posion Cloud (3) : Breathes a cloud of poison at you. 54/68/82% slowed for 3 seconds.
Summons minions (1) : Summons small bugs. Physical.

40% poison.

Scorpos King Nehebkau
Earth Fury (1) : Physical, slows attack speed.
Sting (2) : Stings you with his tail. Poison damage.
Poison Gas Bomb(2) : Throws a small bomb at you. Mostly poison, some piercing and bleeding.
Summon minions (1) : Summons small scorpions. Physical damage.

30% poison.

Manticore
Bite (2) : Default attack. Physical.
Lightning Breath (4) : Breathes a cloud of ligntning at you.
Pounce (4) : Stomps you with his paws. Tons of poison, some physical and little bit of piercing.
Poison Quills (4) : Shoots quills from his tail. Lots of poison, moderate piercing and physical. Makes you fumble attacks for 3 seconds, skill disrupts.

65% poison, 50% lightning, 25% pierce.

note by botebote77: there is a trick here.. before manticore casts his skills, there is a noticeable animation like he steps back or something.. so when you see the animation, quickly get behind him and attack again.. the stomp attack though, the animation is difficult to distinguish from his normal attacks

Aktaios
Light of Ra (5) : Columns of light appear. Fire damage.
Fireball (2) : His default attack. Throws a fireball at you. 50% physical, 50% fire.
Summon minions (2) : Summons two bone hounds. Physical damage.
Sandstorm (2) : Physical, 5 seconds of 80% fumble with bows and staves, reduced offensive ability, 1 second stun in legendary, 3 seconds of skill disruption.

Sandwraithlord
Melee hit (3) : Physical.
Sandblast (2) : Attacks with a small projecile. Low pierce damage, slows run speed for 2-6 seconds.
Fireball (2) : 50% physical, 50% fire.
Sandstorm (3) : Physical, 3 seconds of skill disruption, 75% reduced total speed for 3 seconds, 150 reduced offensive- and defensive ability for 3 seconds, 50% reduced resistances for 3 seconds, 80% chance to fumble with bows and staves for 3 seconds.
Summon minions (3) : Summons sandwraiths. Physical.

No resistances needed.

Act 3

Chimera
Deathring (3) : Releases a ring of lightning. 4 seconds of fumble, 1 second of stun.
Fire Breath (3) : Fire damage.
Bite (2) : His default attack. Physical.

30% fire, 30% lightning.

Barmanu
Melee attack (2) : Dual welds maces. Physical damage.
War Shout (1) : Minor vitality, minor elemental, 3-5 seconds of stun.
Blizzard (6) : A shower of icy meteors from the sky. Massive cold- and physical damage. About 8500-9800 (75% cold, 25 % physical) damage per projectile in legendary, 15 projectiles. How does 100,000 damage sound to you =)

80% stun resistance.

Gargantuan Yeti
Freezing Breath (2) : Cold, 4 seconds of freeze.
Ice Blast (2) : 10% pierce, 90% cold. 3 seconds of slow.

20% col resistance.

Bandari
Static Charge (1) : Passive buff. Minor lightning retaliation.
Heart of frost (1) : Passive buff. Slowed movement and attack speed retaliation.
Energy Blast (3) : A purple projecile. 40% vitality, 60% cold. 3 seconds of 50% reduced total speed.
Eruption (4) : A small volcano. 40% physical, 60% fire.

40% cold, 40% fire.

note by botebote77: i would also advice heavy vit res especially that vit res has a difficulty penalty now

Dragon Liche
Buffet Wings (4) : Dragon Liche spreads his wings. Cold damage, 7-9 seconds of skill disruption, 8-9 seconds of 75% total speed reduction, 8-9 seconds of 100% chance to fumble.
Freezing Breath (4) : Cold burn, 70% reduced run speed for 2 seconds.
Decomposition (4) : Spills some green goo on you from his stomach. Steals pets for 10 seconds, ~50% reduction to health, poison damage, 50% reduced total speed for 10 seconds. ~300 reduced offensive- and defensive ability for 10 seconds, ~50% reduced resistances for 10 seconds.

60% poison, 35% vitality.

Fire Bull Yaoguai
Ring of Fire (5) : Fire burn damage.
Gore (5) : Wriggles his head. 15% physical, 85% bleeding.
Demon Charge (3) : 50% physical, 50% pierce. 4 seconds of skill disruption.
Summon Minions (1) : Summons three shadowstalkers. Physical damage.

80% fire, 80% bleeding. Ignore bleeding in normal.

Ormenos
Telekinesis Drop (3) : Boulders drop on you. Physical damage.
Energy Blast (4) : Shoots purple rays at you. 40% physical, 60% cold. 33% reduced total speed.
Short Range Blast (3) : 50% cold, 50% vitality. His default attack.
Summon Minions (3) : Summons three fire sprites. Physical and fire burn damage.

50% cold, 50% fire, 25% vitality.

Typhon
Bolt of Zeus (3) : A bolt of lightning.
Poison Bolt (3) : Spills poison on you. 33% reduction to health, poison damage.
Titan’s Wrath (4) : Breathes a cloud of fire at you. 7 projectiles, fire damage, 18% reduction to health.
Life- and mana leech (4) : Inhales sucking the life out of you. 33% health reduction, life leech, mana leech, mana burn damage, ~60% chance to fumble ranged attacks.
Meteor Shower (5) : 60% physical, 40% fire.
Thorny Aura (4) : Thorns grow on Typhon. Bleeding retaliation, physical retaliation, pierce retaliation, 33% damage reflected.

note by botebote77: life leech damage has been nerfed in favor of longer duration.. it is resisted by vit, not life leech res
(ver. 1.43 changelog: - Typhon's Life Leech now does less immediate damage and more over time)

Act 4

Graeae – Deino, Enyo, Pemhpredo
Large Projectile (3) : Vitality, lightning, 0-5% reduction to health. 15% reduced total speed for 1.5 seconds.
Small Projectile (3) : Lightning, 0-5% reduction to health. 15% reduced total speed for 1.5 seconds.
Lightning Clap (3) : 0-10% reduction to health, lightning damage.
Thunderstorm (4) : Red haze appears under your feet. 25% vitality, 75% lightning. 15% reduction to health.

50% lightning, 25% vitality.

Charon
Oar Hit (2) : His default attack. 60% physical, 20% cold, 20% vitality.
Geysir (4) : Pillars of water rise from the river. 50% cold, 50% vitality. 10% reduction to health.
Bolt (3) : Charon shoots small projectile at you. 50% cold, 50% vitality. 10% reduction to health.
Tidal Wave (3) : Charon launches a wall of water at you. 50% cold, 50% vitality. 10% reduction to health, 35% reduced total speed for 4 seconds.
Stomp (4) : Charon hovers upwards and then smashes you with his oar. 40% cold, 60% vitality, 10% reduction to health.
Summon Minions (2) : Charon summons two spirits. The mimions have aura that reduces your health by 3-5% once per second.

50% cold, 25% vitality.

Cerberus
Bite (3) : His default attack. Physical damage.
Acid Bite (4) : Almost the same as normal bite, but does lots of posion damage over 12 seconds.
Acid Breath (4) : Breathes poison on you. 10% reduction in health, poison damage over 1 second.
Acid Puddle (4) : A puddle of poison appears at your feet. Poison damage, 5% HP reduction.
Crack Fire (4) : Acid flames emerge from the cracks on the floor. Poison damage, 5% HP reduction.

80% poison resistance, any physical resistance is a bonus.

Undead Typhon
Melee Hit (3) : Physical.
Bone Shard (3) : Typhon throws bones. 25% pierce, 75% physical, 3% reduction to health.
Bone Spire (4) : Spikes on ground. 20% reduction to health, 33% pierce, 66% physical.
Bone Trap Grenade (1) : Pierce damage, entrapment.
Spirit Breath (3) : Vitality, 10-15% reduction to health.

25% pierce, 25% vitality, some entrapment is recommended, any physical is a bonus.

Hades
Form 1:
Sickle Sweep (3) : A roundhouse sickle sweep. 20% vitality, 80% physical, 10% reduction to HP.
Shadow Bolt (2) : 33% vitality, 66% physical, 5% reduction to HP.
Shadow Star (5) : Large purple-red orb. 33% vitality, 66% physical, 5% HP reduction.
Form 2:
Sickle Sweep (3) : A roundhouse sickle sweep. 20% vitality, 80% physical, 10% reduction to HP.
Shadow Bolt (2) : 33% vitality, 66% physical, 5% reduction to HP.
Shadow Star (5) : Large purple-red orb. 33% vitality, 66% physical, 5% HP reduction.
Shadow Balls (3) : Launches 6 projectiles. 50% vitality, 50% physical, 5% reduction to HP.
Shadow Cloud (3) : A red circle follows you. 50% vitality, 50% physical, 10% reduction to HP.
Form 3:
Expanding Ring (3) : 66% vitality, 33% physical, 10% reduction to HP.
Minibolt (3) : 50% vitality, 50% physical, 10% reduction to health, 15% reduced total speed.
Shadow Bolt (3) : 50% vitality, 50% physical, 10% reduction to health, 15% reduced total speed.

Secret Passage
Toxeus
Regular attack (3) : 3% chance to cause mana burn damage, life leech, pierce and physical damage.
Distort Reality (3) : An wave that ripples from Toxeus. 35% physical, 35% vitality, 30% electrical burn, 1.5 seconds of stun.
Lethal Strike (3) : A special hit with his weapon. Mostly physical, can be some pierce too.
Phantom Strike (3) : Toxeus disappears, reappears and hits you. Mostly physical, can be some pierce too, energy leech, 1.5 seconds of stun.
Distortion Wave (3) : Toxeus shoots you with a wave. 20% physical, 80% electrical burn, 50% slowed for 4 seconds.
Envenom Weapon (2) : Buff that adds poison damage to Toxeus’ attacks.
Bladestorm (3) : Pierce, poison, bleeding, 15% reduced total speed for 8 seconds.
Distortion Field (2) : Passive buff with 15% chance to activate, physical retaliation.

Max every resistance for every damage type that you deal, Toxeus reflects it back to you.

KP link


note by botebote77
unfortunately, this was also written for TQIT so none of the new bosses, including act 5, are included.. Dactyl also isn't included

members of this forum have contributed to act 5 bosses:
pls see link
https://titanquestfans.net/index.php?topic=564.0

Foreword: This is just theorycraft and not an actual character. I actually wrote this like a month ago but forgot about it and only remembered when I was reading Laionidas thread
This is a variation of the dual wield Thane (storm/warfare) icesharder. For those who do not know yet, it utilizes 2 persephone's caress to boost ice shard (2x +100% cold and frostburn damage)


What I'm thinking is Thunderer (rune/storm) also allows dual wielding through reckless offense but it also has access to runeword:feather making it possible to concentrate on int and not sacrifice too many points on str. An iceshard thane has the potential to be a tanky mage but an iceshard thunderer has the potential to deal lots more DPS. Thunderer actually has some protection in energy armor but lots of -%energy cost would be needed like incarnation of golden fleece (-30% energy cost). Pelaron has -20% but it’s a shield and it defeats the purpose of this build so it’s out

Rune of life gives added vit resist and sacred rage can maybe be useful for a glass cannon like this.

Rune also have rune weapon which can boost DPS of iceshards to maybe epic proportions. I just don’t know if the time to charge up the skill is worth it. Other rune skills like runic mines and menhirs, I don’t know yet if needed. But seal of fate I think can be a good boss killer especially when paired with squall and eye of the storm

The skills I would recommend for storm would be squall(max), heart of frost(max), eye of the storm(max), spellbreaker(at least 1 on each), energy armor(at least 1 on each), storm surge(1 pt), and of course ice shards(max).

I think the best way to farm Persephone’s Caress is by doing Minotaur runs because he wields two axes but I believe I got 1 from secret passage before. If you already have 1 you can simply duplicate it in your tqvault if you’re open to that (I’m not). Dvalin’s Simulacrum bug has been fixed in later versions iirc. But I encountered a hero boss doppelganger somewhere in mimer’s maze before. I’m not sure if it has a chance to drop your own items but I believe so.

Early assessment indicates that this is a classic glass cannon focusing on DPS with little regard to defense (could be fun then)

I can’t make a proper titancalc link because I haven’t played this yet so I don’t know how many points to put in rune weapon for example (if any) or max or only 1 point on reckless offense.

When Esdese-sama is finally laying waste to enemies in legendary, perhaps a better info would come

This guide also appears in KP but is so helpful this deserves it's own thread in this new dedicated TQ forum:



Resistance reduction comes in 2 flavors , absolute and percentage.
In the absolute case , the target’s resistance goes to ; original – debuff.
In the percentage case , it goes to ; original*(1-debuff%).
If the target’s resistance is negative ; original*(1+debuff%)

The 2 effects (percentage and absolute) are NOT always labeled correctly in the game.

Things with a percentage reduction ;
– All skills that reduce all resistances (ToW , soul blight , squall)
– weapons “of the betrayer”
– some epics/legendaries

Things with an absolute reduction ;
– All skills that reduce specific resistances (study prey , necrosis , triumph , plague)
– dark medicine and monkey king relics
– some epics/legendaries

As far as I see , percentage and absolute reduction are correctly labeled when they appear on most equipment.
So you know what you are getting when you pick up a sapros or pyrophoric lop.

If it is not obvious , percentage reduction has no effect on a 0% resistance.
It is possible to push resistances negative with percentage reduction , but good luck stacking 100%+ of percentage effects.

So for example if you hit a target with study prey (-50) , you’ll reduce his resistance to physical and piercing by 50 points = a 70% resistance will become a 20% resistance.
If you use squall (-30%) you’ll reduce his resistance by 30% = a resistance of 70% will become 49%.

STACKING

Now this is the complicated part.

GEAR

For effects on gear just add them all up apart from the ones on weapons and shields.

If both weapon and shield (or weapon and weapon) have the same type of effect (like both having absolute reduction) then only the stronger one will apply.
If they have different types of effects then they’ll both work.

You need to hit the opponent with the weapon/shield that has the debuff on it for it to work.
The effect is not shared by the weapons and the same goes for shields

So add the weapons effect (or effects) to your total , for a x absolute and y percentage total reduction.

These stack up as already discussed ; resist = orig_resist*(1 – pc_debuff) – abs_debuff.

SKILLS

For a start , multiple skills with percentage reduction DO NOT stack (or so it seems).
Yes , that’s right , squall and ToW don’t stack.
Only the strongest will apply.

Multiple skills with absolute reduction do stack.

Combining skills with different types?
In this case the absolute reduction happens BEFORE the percentage one.
So it’s ; resist = (orig_resist – abs_debuff)*(1 – pc_debuff)

SKILLS AND GEAR

Here is where I almost went insane.

For a start , percentage debuffs from gear don’t stack with percentage debuffs from skills , the stronger one is applied.
Absolute debuffs from gear stack with everything.

Then there’s the order.
Apparently skills get applied before gear , that simple.
It doesn’t matter what kind of reduction you have.

Which leads to this if you have percentage and absolute effects from both gear and skills.
resist = (orig_resist – skill_abs_debuff)*(1 – pc_debuff) – gear_abs_debuff

Where the “pc_debuff” is what you get from gear or what you get from a skill , whichever is larger.

BIG EXAMPLE

You (somehow) have study prey (-50) , plague (-39) , ToW (-30%) , sapros the corrupter (-60) and a weapon “of the betrayer” (-40%).
And you use them all to nuke an opponent with a 30% physical resistance.

For a start , check the gear.
The 2 weapons don’t have the same effect , one is absolute the other percentage , so they stack.
A total of -60 and -40%.

There are 2 absolute and 1 percentage skill , so they stack.
A total of -89 and -30%.

Then combine the 2 ; absolute effects always stack , but the percentages from gear and skills DON’T.
The total effect from gear is -40% , the one from skills is -30% , so the one from gear will apply because it’s stronger.

And for the total calculation
1) absolute reduction from skills
resist = 30% – 89% = -59%
2) percentage reduction from skills ; we don’t have any , it’s overriden by the betrayer weapon.
3) percentage reduction from gear , because the resistance is already negative we use a + instead of a -.
resist = -59%*(1+40%) = -83%.
4) absolute reduction from gear
resist = -83% – 60% = -143%

END OF BIG EXAMPLE

If there is a lower limit to how far negative you can push an opponent’s resistance then it must be very low.
I’ve pushed an opponent’s resistance below -1000% and it still worked.
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Personal Sidenotes (by botebote77):

1) This guide was written for TQIT but is still true for TQAE/R

2) When comparing the three skills that give resistance reduction (squall, study prey, and susceptibility), study prey and susceptibility both give absolute resistance reduction and so is better in terms of lowering a resistance as low as possible.. However, squall reduces all resistances so squall might be best if you deal many different types of damages

3) In the case of spreading resistance reduction through attack skills, i found ternion, throwing knife, and thunder strike with 2 throwing weapons equipped to be the best.. Do not make the same mistake as i did by selling all my the frail.. The resistance reduction given by it is absolute and is a whopping flat 30.. If you get lucky enough to find Twisted Coil of the Parasite, it should be a no brainer that you should keep it.

4) Wherever you are now apocalyse80 good sir, domo arigatou gozaimasu