Just when I decided to separate them from my account and deleted them all you are asking for more. Maybe I'll make another one for spam and confirmation emails and reupload whats left.

Youtunheim is boring, in legendary I think I made few shots, thought fuck that and switched  to spear. Werewolves made me switch back to bow though. I actually found one crowd control mechanic that works on common yotuns, its confusion. But sage has none.

Blessing of the Moirae is one item that makes things easy. For me its also one item I have tried not too long ago so I will likely pass on it for now. People here praise Chakrum of the Sun and this one is similar, you get some of the most useful stats this game has on just one item. Call it OP but if you take it you won't fail.

But if you wanted a 2H bow things are more complicated. I think TQ has too few slots for items. Thats an impression after spending lots of time in more modern competitors. If you just put eitr on two rings that leaves out demon's blood or legendaries and is a very drastic impact overall. You can't just give players eitr and call problem solved.

And where exactly is the wiki this is for?

Its not a weapon based skill, formally it is a spell. That creates knives with piercing and bleeding damage. These knives do not act quite like normal spells though, they convey flat damage and effects from equipment, as if they were indeed weapon attack. Like chance of flat physical from rage of Ares relic or burning from earth enchantment. And poison from envenom weapon. Envenom weapon was one of the main reasons people were using it at all, because their own damage is low and too low for legendary. Most of the time its just to spread slow and confusion, a crowd control skill. It can be built around with some good items.

I've been trying to make this body do something useful in a non-summoner build and couldn't.

Since life reduction is now useless against bosses, so is the liche king, and he lacks the damage to be of any help against both bosses or trash mobs. Arcane blast makes no difference, it is approx 1,5 times stronger than main attack which is still too low in legendary. Best I could make him do is 1,5K-2,5K (normal attack - arcane blast) with the help of deathchill, unearthly power and the circle of power. But then my character in same conditions does 7K per ternion projectile and 3-4-5 shots bosses before liche reacts to their presence.


His attacks  do not convey pet damage from gear, thus he is only made stronger with % buffs like circle of power or nightmare's mastermind, which is still not much.

He can be used as decoy to distract bosses, but nightmare can do the same for 2 points.

This leaves him the role of the glorified debuff tool for 16 points which you can not control directly, slower than seal of fate.

It just looked like a lazy design. Last minute fix or I don't know what.

How it was: Life reduction damage affected by vitality resistance, life leech damage displayed in vitality resistance. Making players and monsters different is just complicating this mess further.
How it should be: Life reduction is a separate damage type, life leech is a separate damage type, both have their own resistance de facto and in player stats.

And why life reduction in AE was removed from many attacks that were doing it in IT.

vit resist also affects life reduction

http://titanquest.wikia.com/wiki/Reduction_to_Enemy%27s_Health

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Reduction to Enemy's Health is a special type of direct damage. It is a type of Vitality Damage (Life Damage) and its effect is reduced by Vitality Resistance.

but it doesn't scale with %vit damage

- Nope. Haven't you heard about life reduction nerf in anniversary etc? That wiki is clearly pre-anniversary

https://titanquestgame.com/pcchangelog/TQ_AnniversaryEdition_FullChangelog.txt

- Special resistances against % Life Reduction and Mana Burn Damage can no longer be reduced

And it is decoupled from vitality resistance.

- Heroes and Bosses now have 75/80/85% and 85/90/95% resistance against % Life Reduction

I started as a Pyro, saw all the knives so added Rune as secondary, thus Stonespeaker. Not very far up the Rune mastery.

Thats actually the wrong way to do it if you want to attack rather than cast spells. Rune weapon skill needs points to do any satisfactory damage. Its best started as rune, then you put 3 points in skills and 3 points in mastery bar every other level until masteries are maxed. At around level 40 that would be both masteries maxed, rune weapon half maxed, and most others skills as one pointers. Rune weapon except energy drain can then be fully maxed at around level 45 or so. Dragon hunter I was playing got respectable 4K DPS at the beginning of epic with a vendor grade weapon much like what I told you



Basically its overleveling one single skill ahead of the curve. And if you are not even going into legendary, you won't even reach the point when it becomes less overpowered.

Once around level 40 and act 5 normal it won't be very important what you started with though, with both masteries maxed you can just move points around at mystic.