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.

Grimlore Games and THQ Nordic are offering a deeper look into the game’s unique dual-mastery system through a series of build showcases. First up: the “Crit Trick Shot Ashstalker,” a devastating combination of the Rogue and Earth masteries, tailored for players who crave critical hits, precise disruption, and explosive crowd control.

Heroes,

As you already know, in Titan Quest II you will create your own class by utilizing aspects of two masteries. We want to give you a more detailed look at this by highlighting individual mastery combinations.
Expect more of these over the next weeks, as we are approaching the long-awaited Early Access.

In this example we will take a look at a combination of Rogue and Earth, which form the Ashstalker.

Rogue Actives

Let’s talk about the active skill tree on the Rogue side, where we will put a lot of our points.

We will be heavily focused on the Trick Shot skill. This is a fast, target-penetrating projectile attack.
We want to use this to deal very targeted damage and with our Modifier system we customize it to to disrupt our foes.

We add the following modifiers:

• Interrupt: When we hit a channelling enemy, they get stunned. Very nifty when trying to disable channeling abilities like enemy heals or charged up attacks.
• Counter: Let’s double down on this aspect! With this Modifier, channelling enemies take hugely increased damage, making it the perfect “snipe” in the right situation.
• Enhanced Critical Hit: Hugely increases our crit chance to round things out and synergize with some of our other abilities (more on that in a second).

To further boost the damage and critical chance of our abilities, we will be using the following supporting skills:

• Preparation: An aura that increase damage for us and our allies. We customize it to synergize with our plan: The Enhanced Critical Hits modifier helps us further here.
• Mark For Death: This skill lets us mark a single target. By choosing the Shadow Dagger modifier we’ll deal massive damage when critically hitting the marked target. If timed while an enemy is channeling, this has the potential to get a super juicy super-crit! Note: The keen eyed amongst you might see the “3” extra damage for this Modifier and I can already hear your sceptical mumblings!
• Rightfully so! This is just a UI-Bug and the damage of course is much more than that).

Rogue Passives

On the passive side we want to create good scaling to support our choices.

We will mainly focus on 2 passives for this:

• Accuracy: This passive increases our damage and crit chance, which already is a great combination for us. But here’s the catch: The feat High Critical Chance synergizes very nicely with our plans. It increases our crit chance by a hefty 100%, but reduces the crit-damage in return. Luckily, we partially mitigate this drawback by our other choices! Remember the Shadow Dagger modifier we just talked about? That now triggers every time!
• Deft Hands: This offers a good set of bonusses throughout. Damage? Yes please. Attack and Cast Speed? Never hurts. By choosing the Critical Hit Chance we get exactly what we need and further build our synergies.

Earth Actives

If we position ourselves well, each of these Trick Shots should be able to damage many enemies, but as its area of effect is in a thin line, we could use a clearing skill from Earth to help us get through light mobs more quickly.

Let’s pick the Earth Enchantment aura to benefit both our fire and physical damages. As our Trick Shot does pierce damage, this should be a clean synergy. But having 2 auras early in the game can be highly taxing to our energy pool, so putting a point or two into Conservation to reduce this energy reservation is a good idea.

As for our mob-clearing skill, let’s go with Roiling Magma. Who doesn’t like a big ball of fire to dispose of all those pesky swarming enemies? We go for the following modifiers:

• Overwhelm: Once we spec into this, whenever we use our Weapon Attack we gain a stack of Overwhelm. When we have 3 stacks, our Roiling Magma can consume them for a super charged shot.
• Enhanced Ailment: With this Modifier we have a higher chance of setting enemies on fire as well. That’s very useful against light mobs in case they survive our initial shot somehow. The burning stacks should finish them.

Weapons and Attributes

Now that we have our skill trees locked in, let’s quickly talk about weapon choice.

Since we want to build these Overwhelm stacks quickly, it makes a lot of sense to opt into dual-wielding daggers for their fast attack speed. That also perfectly fits the style of an Ashstalker!

We will definitely put some points into Agility. We can also split it with Might to boost both physical and fire damages with our connected meta-attributes (Fitness and Resolve).
A more focused build is also possible. While splitting is good for versatility, as enemies have varying damage resistance profiles, focusing on less attributes gives you larger advantages in certain areas of the game.

The choice is yours to make!

Putting it all together

To summarize:

• We use Trick Shot to deal high critical damage, especially to channeling enemies. With this we can even interrupt their abilities, helping us to control the battlefield in a very rogue-ish way.
• Roiling Magma helps us to clear out light mobs, especially after we charge it up by swiflty attacking with our daggers a couple of times.
• Our 2 auras (Earth Enchantment and Preperation) give us a constant boost. Finally Marked for Death allows us to pick and obliterate a single target, if needed.

Oh, and one more thing:

As the experts amongst you might already suspect, many of the passives in the Earth mastery will boost spells, but not weapon attacks. This lacks synergy with our main ability, Trick Shot!
That could be a problem for us in the long term. Unless… we turn it into a spell! The Trick Shot Modifier “Shadow Dagger” does exactly that.

That’s all for this one. Of course, this is only one way to build an Ashstalker and as you progress through the game you could add a lot more abilities and passives to this build.

We can’t wait to see what kinds of builds you all come up with.

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.