Titan Quest II, the sequel to the hit action role-playing game (ARPG), has finally arrived. Developed by Grimoire Games and published by THQ Nordic, Titan Quest II promises thrilling combat across a myth-laden Greek countryside as you fight against the forces of the vengeful Nemesis.

Our Titan Quest II guide has several tips to help you get started on your adventure. We tackle everything from build customization and skill point allocation to surviving out in the wilds as you face the divine and the damned.

Choose your difficulty and be ready for challenges along the way

When you create your character in Titan Quest II, you’ll be able to choose from three difficulty options. Pick the one that you’re most comfortable with as you begin your journey.

• Neophyte: Your character takes half the damage and regenerates health faster. You can permanently switch to Normal difficulty via a Ritual Shrine (more on this later).
• Normal: The default difficulty.
• Hardcore: This option isn’t for the faint of heart, as the death of your character is permanent and you'll have to create a new one.

Build out your main attributes and secondary attributes

An important Titan Quest II tip to keep in mind is that your character’s capabilities are governed by their attributes. You can add points to increase your main attributes, which then subsequently affect your secondary attributes. The main attributes include:

• Might: Supports heavy armor, ornate armor, and heavy weapons.
• Agility: Supports light armor, medium armor, and fast weapons.
• Knowledge: Supports magos robes, plated robes, and magical weapons.
• Vigor: Increases your maximum health points (HP).

These are the secondary attributes:

• Fitness: Improves strike damage and pierce damage. Increased by Might, Agility, and Vigor.
• Resolve: Improves fire damage and cold damage. Increased by Might, Knowledge, and Vigor.
• Cunning: Improves poison damage and lightning damage. Increased by Agility, Knowledge, and Vigor.

Note that you can only equip weapons and armors if you have the required minimum attribute stat for them. As such, if you focus on Knowledge, then you probably won’t be able to equip gear pieces that require higher Might, Agility, or Fitness. The good news is that you can reset your attribute points via a Ritual Shrine.

 

Choose two Masteries that suit your playstyle

During the prologue, you’ll interact with two Divine Altars that allow you to pick two Masteries. These determine the types of abilities and perks that you’ll be able to use down the line. Here are the available Masteries:

• Earth: Harness the powers of fire and stone.
• Rogue: Make use of poisons and evasive maneuvers.
• Storm: Unleash lightning- and ice-based magics.
• Warfare: Get into the thick of the fray to strike down your opponents.

The idea is to pick Masteries with skills that complement each other. For instance, the Earth and Warfare combination lets you utilize defensive boosts while you rush straight into enemy packs. A Rogue and Storm combination, meanwhile, allows you to blast targets from a distance before closing in for the kill.

 

Unlock higher tiers of skills by gaining Divinity

As you progress, you’ll unlock additional abilities by gaining Divinity. This is denoted by the vertical bar with levels/thresholds at the left-hand side of the Masteries screen. Divinity is amassed through the following means:

• Leveling up your character.
• Completing certain quests.
• Undertaking Divine Challenges, such as eliminating enemy spawns when you interact with Titan Ichor.

Boost your active skills and passive skills with modifiers

Another important Titan Quest II tip to remember is that you can have over half a dozen active/usable abilities, as well as multiple passive skills. In fact, the points you gain and allocate for these are counted separately.

Your skills can also be leveled up. Doing so lets you select modifiers that grant powerful new effects. Here are some examples:

• The Roiling Magma spell from the Earth Mastery lets you toss a molten orb that explodes and deals fire damage. Certain modifiers can increase its damage or cause fragments to rip apart hostiles near the impact zone. Alternatively, you can alter the spell’s effect so that, instead of exploding on impact, it deals prolonged fire damage within a radius.
• The Warfare Mastery's Weapon Proficiency passive initially buffs weapon damage and attack speed, but certain feats grant extra attack speed, critical hit chance, and ailment/status effect chance.

Note that you can reallocate your active points and passive points via the Mastery screen as well. Simply click on “Respec Mode” to make changes to your build. However, each point that you refund adds to the total gold cost of this process.

 

Tackle side quests to obtain more rewards

While Titan Quest II’s main story involves avoiding Nemesis’s clutches, it’s always a good idea to undertake any side quests that you stumble upon. From herding a bunch of cows back to a village to gathering parts to repair a ruined statue, there are numerous activities to keep you preoccupied as you explore Ancient Greece.

Completing quests may reward you with the following:

• Experience points
• Gold
• Higher-tier equipment
• Ancient Embers
• Divinity points
• Attribute points
• Active and passive points
• Permanent increases to your maximum HP and energy

Use core abilities and consumables to stay alive

Your character also has core abilities that you can level up and add modifiers to:

• Primary Attack I and II: These refer to your basic attacks when wielding your primary or secondary weapon loadout.
• Dodge: Allows you to avoid damage. There’s a cooldown before the action can be used again, but you have two charges by default.
• Barrier: Activating this creates a forcefield that nullifies a set amount of damage.

You also have to keep an eye on your Health Potions and Energy Potions:

• You have an infinite amount of potions—but limited charges, so you can’t spam them all the time.
• Health Potion charges are replenished whenever you deal damage and defeat enemies.
• Energy Potion charges are replenished gradually at the rate of +1 point per second.

Activate portals as you explore the game world

Titan Quest II gives you multiple kinds of fast travel portals to help with exploration:

• Rebirth Waypoint: You respawn at these locations whenever your character perishes. You can fast travel to these areas and they tend to be major hubs with vendors and quest givers nearby.
• Waypoints: Regular fast travel waypoints in the wilderness.
• Personal Portal: Press the “L” button to create your own magic portal.
• Death Portal: This portal is automatically created when your character falls in battle. Teleporting to it lets you return to the fight quickly.

Be on the lookout for large ornate chests

As you’re trekking across the Ancient Greek countryside, you might come across large chests in enemy camps, caves, or temples. You’ll be in for a surprise once you open them—they may contain not one, not two, but dozens of items for you to loot!

 

Automatically arrange your inventory via the “Sort” button

Speaking of loot, you’re bound to pick up all sorts of weapons, chest pieces, helmets, belts, rings, and potions as you roam across Titan Quest II's take on Ancient Greece. If your Tetris-style inventory is almost full, you can click on the “Sort” button at the right-hand side of the panel and automatically rearrange your items to fit the space more efficiently.

 

Activate the functions of Ritual Shrines

Upon reaching Pyrgos Village, you’ll be able to interact with a Ritual Shrine. This fixture has several functions.

Rituals of Athena:

• Reset Attributes: Pay a hefty sum in gold to refund all attribute points.
• Exit Neophyte Mode: Permanently switch from Neophyte difficulty to Normal difficulty.

Rituals of Ares:

• Adjust Difficulty: Pay gold to increase enemy levels (+1 to +5).
• Adjust Minimum Enemy Level: Pay a huge amount of gold to scale enemies to your current level.
• Respawn Enemies: Pay a small amount of gold to respawn enemies in the region.

Revive bosses so you can fight them again

Certain bosses can drop maroon-colored items known as Remnants. You can offer these to a Ritual Shrine to activate the summoning function. If you return to that boss’s chamber, you’ll be able to pay gold to spawn them once more. This allows you to fight them over and over for rewards.

That does it for our Titan Quest II guide. We hope these tips help you prepare for the legendary adventure that you’re about to undertake.

Titan Quest II is available now on the Epic Games Store in Early Access. You can check out the campaign’s prologue and first act, as well as fine-tune your build using the available Masteries and skills.