Interesting change if that's the case JohnWedley.  Wonder if it will make it into any future PC version too. 

Welcome to the forum and back to the game.   

For anyone playing on the mobile phone version here's an HC challenge just for you.

Complete all 3 difficulties of the game and if your character dies their challenge is over.  Screenshots of boss kills required and also screenshots of the second page of your character's stats to confirm no deaths.  No ESC-QUIT either folks!
Screenshots of boss kills required once you hit Epic difficulty.  Until then I'll accept just the stats page when you finish a play session to update your character's details.

Please see this thread on how to post screenshots on the forum.

https://titanquestfans.net/index.php?topic=464.0

Please provide your character's info in the following format.

Your username - character's name - level, class and version being played and whether twinked - location

Example:
Medea Fleecestealer - Aritha3 - L19 Illusionist AER (TWINKED) - Rhakotis

Characters are untwinked unless specified on the leaderboard.

So plan your builds and start your Hardcore Challenge journey. 

Characters who make it into Epic Act 3 and above and perish there will be added to the Fallen Heroes' Graveyard leaderboard.
Characters who complete the challenge have well earned the title TITAN SLAYER.

NOTE: AE after a character's class denotes they're being played in the Anniversary Edition of the game, AER they're played using the Ragnarök expansion, AERA they're also playing the Atlantis expansion.
NOTE: Anniversary Edition Ragnarök expansion - Accomplished Heroes are not eligible for this challenge.

Leaderboard as at 16.02.21 - Characters are Untwinked unless specified
Colour coding:
Red: Legendary difficulty
Green: Epic difficulty
Blue: Normal difficulty

Aevic - HC_Aevic - L17 Dragon hunter (UNTWINKED) - Room of the conduit

Modders make what they want to make with the game; whether other people enjoy their work or not is personal taste.  Playing as another creature type doesn't appeal to me personally, but it does to a lot of other people.  It's not like you're required to play like that in this mod, it's just an option if you do want to. The same with the other features he's added.  A lot of people want to customise their characters more than the vanilla game allows or want to shapeshift temporarily.  It's personal choice; if you don't like it that's fine, no one's going to insist you play a mod you don't like. 

And no, Endymion isn't admin, he's just another person who enjoys modding the game.

Found a couple more

And we've reached 1,000. 

Crate are currently looking to hire a Senior/Lead Engineer and a 3D Artist. 

https://www.crateentertainment.com/jobs/

Crate also said on their Facebook page in response to a question about GD2 that the Unreal engine may be being used for a project.  Another comment said they were working on a new generation of the GD game engine.

So we have:
Zantai's  project which should be of interest to GD fans, but isn't GD2.
Grava's project of which we know nothing more.
A possible project using the Unreal game engine.

I checked on the official TQ discord and it seems Beastcaller's, etc, aren't available in the base game; they were only added with the IT expansion.  So probably only necklaces and staves will have + to different masteries on them in the vanilla game.

However, given the recent twitter post by Handy Games it may well be they're just about to port all the expansions for the game over to mobile.  Cross fingers.