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 team at Grimlore Games has another exciting glimpse into one of Titan Quest II’s key features: the mastery system. This system lets players shape their heroes exactly how they want, free from the constraints of a single class.

This time, the developers have combined the Earth and Storm masteries to create a powerful Elementalist. The Elementalist is a wild spellcaster who loves to charge into battle, immobilize enemies, and shatter them with elemental fury.

Curious to see how it works? 

Overall Build Concept

Crash into your enemies like lightning blinking from the skies, freeze them in place and then obliterate them by unleashing a powerful Earthquake.

Does that sound like it’s up your alley? Let’s have a look on one way to achieve this fantasy in Titan Quest II.

The build will make use of one main damaging combo with a high investment of resources. Perfect for clearing out larger packs and stronger enemies.

In addition, we use two cheaper abilities that synergize with the rest to clear out small groups or any surviving creatures.

The Main Combo

This combo is built around the power of Earthquake, an ability that offers some nice risk and reward gameplay. The longer you channel your cast, the higher the damage and effects of the Earthquake you unleash.

Our plan to use it has four steps:

1. Get In: Since Earthquake’s effect takes place directly around us, we first need to find a way to get into the thick of it. Preferably in style, while already dealing some nice damage.
2. Survive: As previously mentioned, we will need to be able to survive for a little while in order to fully charge up our Earthquake.
3. Boom: Unleash our fully charged up Earthquake to decimate anyone around us.
4. Clean-up: We will use our other abilities to take out any creatures that survived the main combo.

Step 1: Get In

For this we will use Blink. Usually an ability that helps us zoom around the battlefield quickly. Modifier system lets us tailor the ability to our needs and turn it into a juicy engage ability. We will use the following Modifiers:

• Thundercrash: Instead of teleporting around, this makes us surge into the sky and then crash down from the heavens, hitting anything in our impact-radius with decent damage.
• Cold Explosion: Spawns an explosion at our start and end position, helping us to soften enemies up even further from the get-go.

Step 2: Survive

While we could focus on more traditional defenses to make us more tanky, we will choose a more fitting route for an Elementalist. Freeze all nearby enemies around us, which should give us enough time to channel up our Earthquake without getting hit too much. We will use Ice Nova with the Flash Freeze Modifier. This makes sure we always freeze, increases the duration of our freeze, but adds a hefty cooldown in return.

Step 3: Boom

Now it's time to look at our main damaging ability, the Earthquake. As we said previously it charges up, which happens in stages. With every stage we reach it deals more damage and can even stun enemies (should any of them survive at least). Here we want to mainly choose Modifiers that allow us to get the biggest bang out of our cast:

• Extended Charge: This allows us to channel Earthquake for an additional stage, which results in even more damage. It also grants us Overwhelm stacks while charging up, which we can then use to boost the Earthquake itself and also synergize with other abilities.
• Heavy Impact: This modifier greatly increases Earthquake’s damage for each stack of Overwhelm we currently have. Perfect for what we are going for.

Step 4: Clean-up

Now let’s talk about the other two abilities we make use of. Either to kill what’s left after the Earthquake, or if we engage smaller packs where we might not want to go through our full cycle of abilities.

First let’s take a look at Fissure. An earth ability that splits the ground in front of us to deal damage in a line. This is where we can see the flexibility of the Modifier system, allowing us to create a whole bunch of synergies with some clever choices. We go for the following Modifiers:

• Additional Fissures: This spawns an additional Fissure, which is great. But more importantly it serves as a requirement for our next Modifier…
• Overwhelm: Remember the Overwhelm stacks we built up while channelling Earthquake? This is where we can spend them. We consume a full set of them (which we conveniently have after fully charging up 3 stages of Earthquake) to spawn 2 more Fissures for a total of 4.
• Shockwave: This Modifier allows us to trigger a shockwave whenever our Fissures hit a stunned enemy. Since Earthquake stuns for a short duration, this works together beautifully.

Our final ability is Ice Shards, which allows us to shoot multiple small icicles. The main use here is to generate Overwhelm stacks outside of our main combo, so we can fully utilize Fissure when fighting smaller packs as well. While we could slot in any ability that generates these stacks, Ice Shards offer some nice other synergy potential we can make use of. We choose the following Modifiers:

• Torrent: An overall great Modifier that adds extra projectiles to the ability.
• Projectile Penetration: Allows our projectiles to penetrate their target and hit others behind them. Great to increase damage and reliability.
• Frost Explosion: A little extra for synergy. Whenever we hit a frozen enemy, we spawn a frost explosion. Since we already have guaranteed freeze from our Ice Nova, this is a good option for us.

Passives, Attributes and Gear

Now that we have covered the active side of things, let’s take a look at what we want from our passives and gear.

This will just be a very quick overview. You could certainly customize all of this to your liking much more, but we don’t want this article to go on forever, do we?

On the Passive side, we go for the following:

• Energy: Since the main combo can be quite Energy intensive, we will invest into the following passives:
  • Earth’s Arcane Abundance increase Maximum Energy. We pick the Regen Feat to also increase Energy regeneration.
  • Storm has Arcane Influx, which increases Energy and Energy Regeneration. By choosing the Energy Feat, we also unlock the “Ether Shield” effect, which allows us to redirect some damage taken towards our Energy. Helpful for staying alive when charging up the Earthquake.
• Damage: Of course we want to scale our damage substantially. This is where most of our passive points will go
  • Erth’s Grand Magic is perfect for us. It increases our Spell Damage and even gives us extra Energy. The Feat Spell Damage and Cost gives us another hefty bonus of 30% Spell Damage, but increases their cost. Since we invested enough into Energy, we can make use of it.
  • Storm gives us Raging Mind, which increases Cast Speed and Spell Damage. It also unlocks the Rage mechanic, which increases our damage on every spell we cast for a short time. This synergizes perfectly with the more spammy Fissure/Ice Shards combo we have for clearing smaller packs.
• Defense: Lastly we want some more defense to not turn into a glass-cannon.
  • Storm Protection greatly boosts our Barrier core ability, which gives us a reliable extra layer of defense we can activate when crashing into our enemies.

For our Attributes we go for a split of Might, Knowledge and Vigor. This will indirectly scale our main damage types: Strike and Cold. It also allows us to go down a “Battlemage” fantasy for our gear for decent protection.

For our gear we will look at the following effects:

• Increased Spell Damage helps us scale all of our damage. Alternatively Strike helps us increase the bulk of our abilities' impact as well.
• Increases to our main Attributes are always good to have.
• A decent spread of defenses in the form of Resistances and Health.

Where to take it

Since Titan Quest II offers huge levels of customization, this is only one example on how to make this build. It provides a very strong baseline, but can be taken into many different directions.

While our character progresses we can invest deeper into all of our existing abilities to add more Modifiers and synergies to them.

For example Earthquake has the Modifier Fast Channel which decreases channel-time. Or Stone Protection, which makes us more tanky while channelling.

We could also add new supporting abilities into the mix. Cyclone would offer more utility and damage in an area. The auras Storm Nimbus and Earth Attunement could further boost us in different ways.

These are just a few examples, though. The choice will be yours!

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 / Epic Game Store), PS5 and Xbox Series X|S.