00:00Greetings, Heroes.
00:01Last time we had the start of our Early Access Campaign
00:04right here at the THQ Nordic Showcase.
00:07This year we are back with some significant updates
00:09as we reach the next stage in our journey.
00:16Many of our players have been eagerly expecting the Spirit Mastery
00:19and the Summoner gameplay that this Mastery offers.
00:21Here we have a level 20 Spirit-focused Summoner.
00:24The overall idea with our build here
00:26is that our Summons will do the majority of the damage
00:28while we support them with some spellcasting.
00:32Our Greater Summon, Athenacross, will be dealing the bulk of our damage.
00:36Other than its high Vitality damage from regular attacks,
00:38we have set it up to cast Arcane Blast,
00:41which sends out three projectiles that deal damage in an area on impact.
00:45We have also picked Modifiers to increase its damage greatly,
00:48but at the cost of its health.
00:50We'll need to compensate for that with healing.
00:53To heal our Summons, we can make use of the Deathwood Beam,
00:55Normally a damaging ability that can pass through targets,
00:58we have modified it to heal allies targeted.
01:01Of course, you could also use this on other allies,
01:03such as your friends in co-op.
01:05In Titan Quest 2, you typically have some dedicated empowering skills for your Summons,
01:09but Deathwood Beam can be modified to do this itself.
01:12For more damage, we also have our lesser Summons, the Aedalong Guards.
01:17They are powerful, but lose health over time.
01:19We have modified this aspect to slow down this health loss.
01:23Healing them with Deathwood Beam will empower and heal them,
01:26increasing their lifespan substantially.
01:28Quite importantly, both our Summon types can apply the Doom effect,
01:31a powerful way to deliver Vitality damage once high stack counts are reached.
01:36Extended Combat makes your Summons quite deadly indeed.
01:39We can be even more deadly by adding Soul Vortex.
01:41This is a powerful Vitality damage spell that also pulls non-boss enemies towards its center.
01:47With the Weakened modifier, it can also reduce enemy resistance values over time,
01:52and we have also modified it to increase the damage of our Summons inside the Vortex.
01:56Combining all of these into a loop of Summoning Aedalong Guards on the regular,
02:00followed by pinning enemies into place with Soul Vortex,
02:02and then healing the Aedalong Guards with Deathwood Beam makes for a rather powerful combo.
02:07Ideally, you can line up the Beam with the Athena Cross as well,
02:10but positioning needs to be ideal for this.
02:13Several other playstyles will be available,
02:15especially once you combine what Spirit offers with the other Masteries.
02:19But even within it, there's plenty to explore,
02:21such as health sacrifice, executions, and plenty of life-stealing and debuffs.
02:28Another feature many have been eager for is crafting.
02:31Our first iteration will include salvaging of items and basic item manipulation for an escalating cost of gold and crafting
02:37materials.
02:38Each salvaged item will offer you basic materials as well as one linked to its rarity.
02:43You can salvage items in groups or use the hammer to salvage individual items from your inventory.
02:48Once you find an item mostly to your liking, you will be able to add an affix in case your
02:53base item has fewer than the maximum possible.
02:55Of course, there are limitations to this. Specific types of items can't roll every affix.
03:01Sometimes, you will have items where the values of your affixes could be better.
03:04You will now be able to reforge one affix per item.
03:07It might take a whole bunch of attempts to get to where you want to be.
03:10This can get quite costly.
03:12There's also the scenario where your item has the maximum number of affixes,
03:16but one of them is no good for your build.
03:18You can replace that affix to find one more to your benefit.
03:21Things are a little different when it comes to epic items though.
03:24If you like, you can give them a one-off level up, enabling you to make use of them for
03:28a little longer
03:29before you would need to farm for another one at a higher level.
03:32You will be unable to change the nature of these items though.
03:35The Spirit and Crafting update is available as part of the Titan Quest 2 Early Access right now.
03:40We are looking forward to your feedback about the new gameplay
03:43and we will be working hard on the remainder of our Early Access roadmap.
03:47There is a campaign to finish and we will be polishing the entirety of the game for our 1.0
03:51release.
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