Casters, if they’re going to rely on skills like eruption, lightning bolt, etc, need 100% CDR. Unless they give those skills an overhaul and add some weapon damage % onto them or something like that. Or they could give damage boosts to those skills in epic, legendary, the same way pets get higher levels. Again, they haven’t done that. And they haven’t expressed any interest in doing that.
It might be fun to play some sort of melee hybrid that can actually do viable damage with those types of skills for example. Outside of simply using trees like Earth mastery just for their buffs/pets, of which there are masteries with better synergies for that type of focus. Such as spirit and dream or nature for example. All of which have better buffs/debuffs/pets than earth mastery does.
Skills like Earth Enchantment and Storm Nimbus should give some sort of physical to fire/lightning conversion on them. That would open the door for a viable elemental melee build or elemental archer. They can add more depth to the game with a few skill changes.
no they don’t, that you could reach 100% CDR was fixed a long time ago I believe (pre Nordic), in any case mine never had it and never needed it.
It was broken and rightfully got fixed
Skills like Earth Enchantment and Storm Nimbus should give some sort of physical to fire/lightning conversion on them.
I don’t think TQ has conversion, nor is that any good for casters (maybe for hybrids), so not relevant to the caster discussion, but might be an ok change
Even if they now added the ability to add components to epic and legendaries now, i still wouldn’t play it. It’s a little too late now. To me Grim Dawn is just better in every way. Much faster and enganging combat, much better plot (plot of TQ is too basic and boring) and lore, more enemy diversity, far more fun builds, more diversity in locales, better level design. To me Grim Dawn improves on everything and it’s a far better game to me.
To make me want to play Titan Quest they would have to change the entire game and i don’t see that ever happening. And if they were going to do that, they might as well make Titan Quest 2.
9 freaking characters in and i’m still playing and looking forward to whatever content is in store.
Last, OA only affects melee attacks in TQ?? What the hell?
Yep. Bow attacks can’t miss, but they never crit. Likewise with spells. DA has the same effect, but the reverse. DA can’t dodge arrows/spells. DA only gives you a certain chance to avoid melee attacks/not be crit. You need “chance to avoid projectiles” to avoid arrows, and ironically, defensive mastery gives none.
Defense Mastery boosts your shield wielding abilities, which includes blocking - and yes, that includes arrows and spells. Defense mastery is about mitigating damage, not avoiding it.