Yeah.. going by the "OMG Knives super nerfed!" cries that kept popping up, not many people did.

i thought i told you about the knives somewhere in this forum medea.. maybe my "possible OP char" nonsense thread? (btw, anyway to delete that thread?)

 i know i mentioned about the knives in my diary of a mage lover.. maybe a case of tldr? 

vio I've said over and over again that throwing knife has been boosted in AE not nerfed.. it also opened up more knifethrower builds beside sorcerer and magician.. some people choose to cry and whine first before trying things themselves

i also mentioned about throwing knives not needing CDR on my house of flying daggers guide.. (knifethrower as early as lvl 25)

I know I'm pointing way ahead, but if anything, it might be motivation to continue.

I remember it being mentioned that Throwing Knives count as weapons, and get the Transmutation bonus as well as other things. In that case, I'd say you could keep an eye out for Falcon Cape: along with +2 to all Rune and +1 to all Rogue skills, it has an additional bonus of converting 50% of base weapon damage to elemental, which I assume affects the knives, so you won't necessarily have to charge the Rune Weapon up to get some conversion! I think it's a legendary and only starts to drop in Act V epic, so sadly there's a way to go for it yet.

But would still be good for dual wielding thrown weapons using Reckless Offense. Yes?

@Vio: same Vio as in Violos???

Damn nice to see you alive and kicking... 

Yes - any attack that uses the weapon.

And yes that's me @gasconron. Just dropped the Greek -los because it sounded... unnecessarily violent.
(Actually only added that in a fancy when first registering for tq.net, not expecting to stay for a decade haha)

No worries, I'll be staying with Titan Quest for a while. 

Well, so so day today.  Tempest is at Medea's Grove, but he's had a few deaths since he ventured into the Secret Passage.  Frazier killed him once and Toxeus 3 times so he has 5 deaths now.  That wasn't the annoying part though.  It was those 3 extra foes that are in the AE version on the righthand side in a cell area with no door.  I pity any pure melee toons trying to reach them because of that.  I managed one because he came up to the bars and I was able to fight him through them, but the other two didn't come within reach.  I respec'd out of Throwing Knives and tried Traps - nope, didn't work.  Respec'd again and put points into Poison Bomb and also Seal of Fate.  Bomb didn't work either, but Seal of Fate had some success.  Then suddenly I got switched with the Shaman inside and had to fight the remaining guy.  No problem there, but then had to reach the Shaman who was now outside the cell and me in.  Luckily he was in range of Seal of Fate and with several castings I managed to bring him down.

The other problem - and I don't if it's a bug or deliberate on the devs' part - you can throw down a portal in the Secret Passage and get out, but you can't portal back - it doesn't show up on the portal map when you're in there.  So what with the deaths and being stuck in the cell I spent a lot of time portaling out and running all the way back to the SP again.