I'm getting burned out. I usually play one game at a time, to the extreme. I frickin love TQ, a lot. I have put at least 500 hours into it since Ragnarok came out. But I'm starting to get bummed out on it, due to the scarcity of gear, the brutal RNG, and my lack of mental capacity to excel. Really good pieces are infrequent, while I continue to collect vaults full of certain repeating drops (epic+ throwing weapons seem heavily over seeded with Ragnarok installed, for example). With Grim Dawn, getting decent resists is fair straightforward, even in legendary. With TQ you have to have superhuman patience with relentless, mind-numbing levels of farming, and even if you do that you are going to hit a wall sooner or later when you need at least one good Legendary farming toon, and if they don't have the gear for it, you are screwed...the drops are always way underleveled for the point you are at in the game. For once, I would like it to be a little simpler for just one of my toons, instead of spending hours trying to figure out the right combination of gear and stat point allocations to pull it off. And frankly, I think I suck at it. I just don't have quite the mathematical mind that most of the veterans here have, I suspect. The fact that TQVault has a very simplistic, name-only search function doesn't help. I have to hover my mouse over each and every item to check the stats, dump a ton of gear into my toons inventory and then test and test to get any semblance of effectiveness. I have never gotten even close to the kind of effectiveness I see you discussing like it's routine. The way it goes is I have an awesome time for 60 or so levels and then I hit a point where either my resists, armor, stats or bonuses or a combination of them suffers badly and I become ineffective. I feel like I simply lack the innate ability to see the big picture like most of you do on a certain level. For example: I was just falling in love with my Diviner. I saw my health starting to drop a bit too quickly so I went looking for info. I had some ideas, such as the ones I talked about in my Diviner post. They then quickly get shot down by more experienced players. Then I check the guides: hrrrm here's a guide on Kirmizi with an uber Diviner based on %health reduction and %damage converted to health, an unkillable farming machine! But nope, apparently health reduction doesn't scale and bosses now have tons of Vitality resists. I still tried it, equipping a Harrowing staff with Anubis affix and speccing into Ternion. But yep, it sucks, super slow kill speed and even with all the gear I farmed over that 500 hours, my resists are lacking. In short, I want this game to still have my enthralled but I'm finding it harder and harder to feel happy about launching the game.

That's it, just wanted to vent a bit. I hope it doesn't sound like I'm hating on the game because there is a reason I put hundreds of hours into it. I just find myself rerolling a new toon out of necessity when I would rather push on with the same one, and it's bumming me out.

Looking at the description vs tooltip on the Spirit skill Life Drain, it says Vitality damage. I assume this is NOT life leech damage. Is there a skill that does life leech damage? There seems to be a ton of gear that gives a percentage bonus to life leech, but not much in the way of raw life leech damage from anything. Just a tad of flat damage here and there on weapons and some retaliation on armor. There is also x% damage converted to health, assuming this can be any damage type and does not benefit from bonuses to life leech. I'm wondering if there are any builds that focus on life leech somehow, with the plenitude of bonuses to be found on gear.

I am unable to register simultaneous key presses in TQ, including mouse buttons. For example, if I want to Thunderstrike a group of mobs, then hold down LMB for main attack, while dropping Runic Mines and Seal of Fate I must release LMB for a full second before dropping the mines, and I cannot drop SoF and Mines at the same time. The keypresses are not buffered at all, and the game cannot accept multiple simultaneous button presses (about 70% of the time this is true, hard to be exact with a bunch of things going on). I wonder if this is an issue with TQ or my laptop. Laptops often have memory-resident programs that govern the keyboard, mouse, trackpad etc. I am looking into both sides and checking with you guys if this is common behavior in the meantime. Perhaps there is a key buffering section in an .INI file for TQ somewhere? Now that I'm into Legendary it's becoming more and more "fraction of a second" timing and this is now a problem, so thank you in advance.

EDIT: It could also be too MUCH buffering, for example a ton of LMB clicks filling up the keyboard buffer and preventing other presses from registering.

I'm not seeing much effect from Scatter Shot in the Epic game. I have heard that they once did piercing damage, but now that it's mostly bleed, too many mobs are immune to bother with it. I have a few points into it, and a bunch of +skill to this one from gear. If it's a waste of time I will spend it elsewhere. Subjectively, it seems like I need to specifically target a mob with my arrows to kill it.

Does +%attack speed still enhance ranged weapon attacks? Or is that strictly from +%projectile speed? If yes, do they stack? If no, which one applies to thrown weapons? Finally, I'm assuming that +% total speed also affects projectile speed, let me know. Thanks.

I mean something like Spellbreaker skill in the Spirit tree. I see these from time to time: something with a description that sound greater than the stats listed in the skill. It sounds like it should dispell buffs and debuffs, respectively. But the skill really only drains energy. Are these "enhanced" descriptions just there for fun?

Storm Nimbus is phrased as if it's a weapon attack buff. Heart of Frost sounds like an aura. However, the latter has no radius listed. It's all rather wierd, since Heart is a Nimbus synergy. How do these actually work? Just to make matters even stranger, the final synergy in the tree seems like it's a defensive proc. Was that the whole point, to give Storm this ability with three different aspects?

I have AE+Ragnarok. Some of the info on skills for TQ was written years ago. I hear references to bugged skills sometimes, wondering if I need to install the fan patch, or if I even can with Ragnarok. I have the GoG version. They sometimes integrate these kinds of patches so maybe it's in there already?