Titan Quest II

Platform(s): PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X
Genre: Strategy
Publisher: THQ Nordic
Developer: Grimlore Games

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'Titan Quest II' Shares Details About Its Rogue Mastery - Screens & Trailer

by Rainier on Feb. 28, 2025 @ 11:44 a.m. PST

Titan Quest II is an Action/RPG where players will be immersed in the mythological realm of ancient Greece, facing unimaginable challenges, striving for exquisite loot, and combining different masteries to create unique, powerful character builds.

Return to the classic mythology-inspired setting of Titan Quest and go toe-to-toe with legendary monsters as you journey across a fantastical reimagining of ancient Greece.

Nemesis, Goddess of Retribution, is out of control. She is corrupting the Threads of Fate and condemning all those who oppose her to eternal punishment - including you. Take up your weapon, fight alongside gods, and change fate itself in order to stop Nemesis, free those she’s punished, and weave your own epic tale.

Set out on an adventure worthy of myth that takes you from picturesque beaches, to serene Greek temples, to places where no mortal has ever ventured, including the mysterious realm of the Moirai themselves.Battle classic creatures from Greek myth and the original Titan Quest, including Ichthians, Centaurs, Satyrs, Harpies, Sirens, Gryphons, and many, many more.

Pay close attention to your surroundings! The world is full of mysteries and secrets to discover. Legendary monsters lurk in hidden groves, and you never know when you will end up face-to-face with a god.Visit memorable towns full of life and intrigue. The conversations you engage in and the items you find along your journey can lead to surprising discoveries, or they might just hold the key to stopping Nemesis. This is your adventure.

Heroic deeds require heroic effort. The enemies you face are far from defenseless - dodge and counter their attacks, then overwhelm them with a well-timed flurry of blows. Powerful rituals allow you to freely control the game’s difficulty, while deep character customization systems ensure that there’s always a good reason to replay.


The dev team at Grimlore Games has been hard at work refining the initial Titan Quest II Early Access content while also preparing what’s to come.

Previously, THQ Nordic announced that Titan Quest II would launch with the Warfare, Earth, and Storm masteries. But what’s better than three masteries? You guessed it: Four masteries! The Rogue mastery will be available right from the start!

About the Rogue Mastery

The Rogue mastery is built around three core pillars:

  • Precision: Rogue abilities are precise and accurate, hitting precisely where they mean to.
  • Preparation: The Rogue mastery allows you to apply coatings to your weapons, preparing enemies with various ailments to set up for powerful combos.
  • Evasion: It's not brute force that brings you success, but moving through the battlefield as if you were your enemies' shadows. Your enemies will be none the wiser until they have your blade at their throat.

Some Key Rogue Skills

Below we will highlight a handful of skills from the mastery that work together very neatly, combining the pillars above. There are other skills of course, and depending on your second mastery, you will be able to build different synergies. As you can imagine, the Rogue mastery has a limited offering in terms of defensive capabilities, so this might be one of the cross-mastery opportunities to pursue.

Lethal Strike:

  • A classic-style staple of the Rogue mastery. Deals a large multiple of your weapon’s damage to a single target. When heavily invested into and timed right, it will remove large chunks from the health of even the toughest enemies. What’s more, if you manage to kill your target with this skill, the cooldown is refreshed, allowing you to rapidly finish off weaker or low-health enemies.
  • When you obtain the “Flow” status via other abilities, you will be dealing additional bonus damage, consuming the Flow stack.
  • You are able to further boost it with modifiers, such as by adding a “Rupture” chance that deals a raw HP percentage damage to the target, a poison explosion, or a bonus damage reward against “marked” targets.
Mark For Death:
  • Marking your target will enable a variety of interactions and powerful debuffs via its modifiers, but by itself simply deals a portion of your damage as vitality damage. You can only mark one target.
  • Whether you look to build interaction with Lethal Strike, or release exploding poison into your marked enemy, or summon shadow daggers to strike the target, this is a a cheap and effective way to make your job easier.
Flicker:
  • A teleport skill that will deal some pierce damage to your target. A critical part of the Rogue kit when working with a glass cannon build, allowing you to get out of nasty situations.
  • Gain flow when used, recover cooldown and/or deal more damage when hitting your mark, gain cooldown charges, or transform it into an offensive ability via modifiers.
Preparation:
  • An aura skill increasing poison and physical damage, but reserving a part of your energy. This directly boosts most aspects of the Rogue mastery.
  • Via modifiers, increase your ailment and critical hit chances, convert your weapon damage type to either poison or pierce, or summon shadow daggers upon critical hits to hit your target.

With all these together, especially if further backed by the right items and passive skills, it should be possible to hugely commit to poison damage, marking an important enemy, applying Flow via Flicker, and using Lethal Strike on this target to release a massively boosted poison damage, as well as a secondary explosion to hit other nearby enemies.

Not everything about Rogue is about direct reliance on your physical weapon damage however. Most abilities have a modifier to summon shadow daggers, helping you scale your character with spellcasting capabilities, which comes in particularly useful in conjunction with the Earth and Storm masteries, where the Knowledge attribute’s scaling of fire, cold, lightning and poison damages synergizes some more.

Here is a demonstration of much of the above in action:

  • The character is dual wielding and deals massive poison weapon damage, with all weapon damage converted to poison via the Preparation aura.
  • Applying Mark to the toughest target will release poison damage once we deliver enough damage to it while marked. It will also deliver a poison explosion to nearby enemies, which there are plenty of.
  • Tossing a grenade, modified to deal poison damage into the crowd, we soften the whole group a bit.
  • Hitting the marked target with Flicker, we gain the Flow status.
  • With damage having built up already, we deliver a Lethal Strike to the Brute, taking it out of the equation.
  • Eliminating the lighter enemies by using Lethal Strike repeatedly refreshes the cooldown, allowing us to spam it until we run out of energy.

Key Features

  • Flexible character system: In Titan Quest 2, you are in control of you own fate. Customize your hero, then form your own class by combining two masteries. Build your character around the strengths and weakness of both masteries, exploring different combinations of skill modifiers, attributes, and items to create your own hybrid class and find your favorite playstyle. Grow your powers from those of a young mortal to a hero to rival the gods themselves!
  • Meaningful loot: Every item serves a function, and every character class has many options when it comes to finding the perfect equipment. Even the most common spear can be upgraded via affix crafting, and with the right ingredients, you may even forge it into a unique item spoken of only in legend!
  • Challenging action RPG combat: Enemies form factions and work together, combining their unique skills and abilities to keep you on your toes. Use the deep character build system and access every skill at your disposal to vanquish them in this unique action RPG experience.
  • A beautiful, handcrafted world rooted in Greek myth: Encounter stunning vistas and deep caverns, and traverse the world with your divine mount, Areion. Use the powers of the gods to uncover secret locations and explore lovingly designed levels full of verticality.
  • Online multiplayer: Join up with friends to take on the Goddess of Retribution. Like Jason and the Argonauts, sometimes you need a group of heroes for your journey.
  • Rich and immersive sound: An atmospheric soundtrack blends traditional Greek music with modern orchestral elements to create epic, memorable themes, drawing you into Titan Quest 2's unique world.

Titan Quest II is coming to PC (Steam), PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.


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