Titan Quest gets another expansion

[shortylickens]

Took about 10 years, but thats life.

http://www.4-traders.com/THQ-NORD-3...an-Quest-Ragnarok-released-on-Steam-25528458/

http://store.steampowered.com/app/741350/Titan_Quest_Ragnark/

You need the special edition from Steam. It looks like fun.

 

[TechBoyJK]

whoa that's cool

 

[Stg-Flame]

To clarify, THQ Nordic - not the original developers of Titan Quest - made this expansion. The Runemaster class they added resembles the Inquisitor class from Grim Dawn, but I'm reserving my opinion until I actually play the expansion. So far, the Anniversary Edition is still receiving constant updates with features that we've been wanting for years. One of the best features they released is the ability to set the game speed faster than what it normally was. Playing present-day ARPGs (Grim Dawn/Poe/D3) and trying to go back to Titan Quest felt like everything was in slow motion. Now it's right up to the proper speed and plays like any other ARPG, except Titan Quest is still better than 90% of the ones on the market.

So far, I'm really excited for this. Not to mention it's on sale at the moment.

Also, pants are in the game now. It kinda makes sense considering the new expansion takes us into the Norse realm and from what I hear, it gets chilly up there.

 

[darkswordsman17]

That's awesome. Titan Quest was ok, but I never could get into it much (even when it came out so it wasn't just it being old) as something was off about it. Will give it another try sometime.

 

[Majes]

Wow, had no idea... Will probably pick this up!

 

[TechBoyJK]

That's awesome. Titan Quest was ok, but I never could get into it much (even when it came out so it wasn't just it being old) as something was off about it. Will give it another try sometime.

The soundtrack is amazing.

 

[XavierMace]

New mastery/class is kinda meh. It largely plays like a weaker version of the Dream mastery. I wouldn't say it's bad necessarily, I just can't find a good reason to pick it. It doesn't really synergize well with any of the other masteries.

 

[shortylickens]

New mastery/class is kinda meh. It largely plays like a weaker version of the Dream mastery. I wouldn't say it's bad necessarily, I just can't find a good reason to pick it. It doesn't really synergize well with any of the other masteries.

No thats the biggest problem. The original 8 masteries were perfectly balanced and every possible combo worked well. Meaning the expansion masteries don't have much to offer.

 

[XavierMace]

Ummm , Dream mastery was awesome. It works well with literally everything.

 

[Stg-Flame]

No thats the biggest problem. The original 8 masteries were perfectly balanced and every possible combo worked well. Meaning the expansion masteries don't have much to offer.

Dream was incredibly overpowered when it was released and it still is to an extent. The Anniversary Edition has nerfed the mastery down considerably, but it's still really strong if you have the gear. Hell, anyone who says Dream was lackluster never played a Haruspex. If you picked the right spells and used even half-decent gear, you were literally invincible and could one-shot most of the enemies in the game.

As for the new mastery, it seems to synergize rather well with Storm and Earth but there are some issues people are having while trying to go ranged with the new mastery. Supposedly it's a glitch that's going to be fixed, but so far, it's pretty powerful.

 

[XavierMace]

Dream was incredibly overpowered when it was released and it still is to an extent. The Anniversary Edition has nerfed the mastery down considerably, but it's still really strong if you have the gear. Hell, anyone who says Dream was lackluster never played a Haruspex. If you picked the right spells and used even half-decent gear, you were literally invincible and could one-shot most of the enemies in the game.

So much THIS. I want to say I had my passive (base+trance) health regen somewhere around 140hp/s? Dream was laughably broken. Evoker and Haruspex was my preferences although it was hard to beat Ritualist for being just a pure damage sponge. High level Evokers though, you just Phantom Strike into groups of enemies with Dream Stealer and Ring of Fire and laugh as they explode.

As for the new mastery, it seems to synergize rather well with Storm and Earth but there are some issues people are having while trying to go ranged with the new mastery. Supposedly it's a glitch that's going to be fixed, but so far, it's pretty powerful.

Rune+Storm was the first build I ran and personally I just wasn't feeling it. Rune+Earth was my next and it wasn't bad but just felt like a poorer version of Dream+Earth. Maybe that's just me.

 

[Homerboy]

Woah! But sadly I don't have the special edition so I guess I'd have to buy both

 

[shortylickens]

Woah! But sadly I don't have the special edition so I guess I'd have to buy both

Its 3.99.

 

[Sunburn74]

Looks like steam upgraded my titan quest for free actually to the special edition since I already had the old one. Still have to pay for the $14 dollar viking dlc if I want it (for now I will pass).

 

[GagHalfrunt]

Dream was incredibly overpowered when it was released and it still is to an extent. The Anniversary Edition has nerfed the mastery down considerably, but it's still really strong if you have the gear. Hell, anyone who says Dream was lackluster never played a Haruspex. If you picked the right spells and used even half-decent gear, you were literally invincible and could one-shot most of the enemies in the game.

As for the new mastery, it seems to synergize rather well with Storm and Earth but there are some issues people are having while trying to go ranged with the new mastery. Supposedly it's a glitch that's going to be fixed, but so far, it's pretty powerful.

All the classes were overpowered in the original game. The original game was way easy, other than Typhon himself even most of the boss monsters were easily beaten. Once you unlocked some mob-control skills you could sail through a lot of the game without worry. I think the Hunting skill was overpowered too. When you got puncture shot and scatter shot arrows maxed out with a good bow most mob fights were like mowing grass. Just stand back and all the melee enemies were dead before they got close enough to even get a single attack in. Put hunting and dream together or warfare and dream together and you had an almost unstoppable killing machine. The Overlord mod fixed that. Dream was still overpowered because it synergized so well with other skill trees, but at least the balance was closer and mobs were a hell of a lot more dangerous.

Too bad this is for the AE game only. If it was available for the original I'd buy it, but I'm not going to download the AE edition just to play this expansion.

 

[bystander36]

Too bad this is for the AE game only. If it was available for the original I'd buy it, but I'm not going to download the AE edition just to play this expansion.

As was mentioned by an earlier post, you probably already have the AE edition, as it was given for free to people with the expansion (maybe the original too?). I just looked, and I happen to have the AE version, and I never bought that.