Defence and ???

[Ataxia]

Hi again folks

Im looking at making a spear/shield character with defence as one class, what would be good for the other class. Ive done a few pros for the ones I know about but your advice would be most appreciated. i really want the character to be playable all the way through legendary WITHOUT having to spend hours farming for new weapons/armour.

Defence/Hunting - Takedown is useful, herbal remedy could be useful and study prey to add some dps against bosses etc.

Defence/Rogue - Calculated could be used as primary attack adding some DPS in bursts, the effects of the nightshade tree/mandrake useful later on in legendary. lethal strike...Ive nort used it before but looks like it could add some decent damage against bosses

Defence/warfare - Onslaught for a extra bit of Dps, ignor pain could be useful, and battle standard for added dps

I really wanted to add a second class thats going to add DPS and maybe some skilsl useful against bosses.

if you have any comments/suggestions or ideas please post them

cheers in advance folks

[ArcaneX]

If yu planing to make Spears/Shield theres no better option than Hunter, and theres a lot more to warden Combination than HerbalRemedy,TakeDown and Study Prey. You obtain Wood Lore Thats a must have caouse its boosts your defence and speed (yu should alredy know that spear is most ****ty speed wepon) , Yu gain Call OF the Hunt( with -%recharge items it can be always on) for huge dps bonus.Art of the Hunt - too boost your big pierce bonus even more and to get / dodge projectails,speed. Finaly yu gain the most BeatifulSkill in Whole mastery Volley. Pers i dnt realy like TakeDown but its a good way to fast get to tose ****y archers worth 1 pnt imo. So if yu want to make your spear shine it no better option than Hunter Mastery.

[Eledu]

yep...if u wanted a spear there is no other way.... :P hunting mastery is prepared for spears :P

you could not chose defense and still using a shield (my logic would be: spears ---> hunting .... shields---> anyone, doesnt need to have defense, unless you want to attack with it or block a lot :P)

although onslaught doesnt add "a bit of dps" ..it adds a lot of dps.... with rancor (cant remember the name of the skill now) you will have a good boost in attack speed (so it can be KINDA like the spear passive) and if you get good +skill items and take onslaught to level 12/8 i think onslaught increases your damage by 75% , which is a lot

but as i said: if you want spears i dont think there is any other way :P

[Ataxia]

Cheers for the replies folks

if i take hunting as my main class, would there be abetter class to have instead of defence??

[Eledu]

i dont know....actually....i like the idea of almost all the chars possible :P

do you know titancalc dont you? http://www.titancalc.com/

experiment a little bit with it..you can come with a couple good ideas :P
i like slayer (warfare/hunting) although i didnt try it...i just feel it could work :P

and right now im working on a spellbinder (defense/spirit), i believe spirit is a mastery that can work with any kind of mastery, is pretty multitask, if you wanna call it that way. :P

[Ataxia]

yeah ive tried a few...tried hunting/nature with wolves...seemed like a complete waste later on because they needed heavy investment with points to be useful

Thats why Ive asked for this advice to save me spending another 5 - 10 odd hours on a character only to find they suck at the higher levels

[Eledu]

well...but to be honest...the idea of the game is to be able to complete it with help...to play coop....it should be lik really hard to be able to beat it with 1 player ...although there are some chars that can do that ...

[Flying Fox]

Take defence first, fill out that damn mastery tree, the skills in defence will be a lot more useful. Take hunting secondary.

[coppersink63]

My favorite mix (for tanking) is defense and nature. The combined skill buffs that are perminantly active for each skill trait make you almost un killable. As far as damage goes... well if you wanted to do a damage class you probably wouldnt have picked defense.

aoe shield bash with and almost un ending supply of health is quite a good mix.

[Flying Fox]

Originally Posted by Eledu

well...but to be honest...the idea of the game is to be able to complete it with help...to play coop....it should be lik really hard to be able to beat it with 1 player ...although there are some chars that can do that ...

I'm pretty sure in Titan Quest its quite easy to beat through the game normal to legendary with any class equipped with decent gear. I wish there was one more difficulty above Legendary or simply make Legendary even harder but with more drops .