Titan Quest 2 patch notes: Skill nerfs, Buffs to Uniques, and more Affix tiering

Titan Quest 2 just rolled out its first-ever balance patch since Early Access release. Those who were waiting for Ice Shard to get its inevitable nerf will be happy/sad to know: the reckoning is here. There are mostly nerfs to almost all of the meta skills for each class, although the developers promise that their philosophy is never to "overnerf", and they will re-evaulate the direction of balance later.

If you go through the patch notes for this Titan Quest 2 minor update, you'll find that it mainly targets the "one-shot builds", with the intention of not making bosses so trivial. Before we proceed to the patch notes proper, here's a summary of the two changes not listed here.

Firstly, Health increases and Flat Damage increase affixes are now getting affix tiering, and won't be purely based on the item's level anymore. THQ will eventually extend this system to all affixes, in order to make ground loot a more exciting part of progression.

Secondly, "some" Unique weapons are getting buffed via the addition of flat damage Affixes.

Without further ado, here are the full patch notes.

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Titan Quest 2 full patch notes (Minor update - August 30, 2025)

The top-end builds are nerfed for now (Image via THQ Nordic)

General Combat

- Dialogues and other interactions are now only canceled on damage taken on not when 'in combat' (as this can trigger through aura effects etc. as well)

- Interactions with destructibles will no longer trigger the 'in combat' state

- Fixed outline calculation for box shaped destructibles. Approaches should now work properly when attacking them.

- Fixed previous target for 'Keep Target For Repeated Casts' not resetting correctly when ability execution would fail (e.g. because you're out of mana)

- Portal is now usable directly when combat ends, not after a delay of a few seconds

Masteries

- Fixed issue where Ability Modifiers did not unslot automatically when the Modifier they required was itself unslotted by a requirement

- Fixed all characters having access to some Tier 4 mechanics (Chill causing Freeze, Bleed causing Rupture)

- Rupture: Increased Damage 10% MaxHP -> 30% and fixed higher tier enemies not taking reduced damage from Rupture

- Earth - Flame Volley - Orbit: Fixed Orbit firing every 1.5s instead of every 1s

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Weakening Heat: Fixed Resistance reduction being applied faster than intended

- Earth - Roiling Magma - Overload: Now refunds Energy over 1s instead of instantly

- Rogue - Vanish - Flash Powder: Equipping the modifier no longer causes the cooldown to be longer than expected

- Storm - Cyclone - Personal Storm: Fixed VFX stutter

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Homing projectiles now start homing after traveling 1m

Bossfights

- Aristomenes: Fixed reduced loot

- Hippocampos: Fixed Wave Jump not being used while target is in melee

- Dysepilogos: Fixed Summon Skeletons ability not being used during Ritual of Ares fights

General Item Changes

- Flat bonuses to Health, Damage and Health regeneration now scale with Tiers instead of Item Level

- Vendors now offer a return window for items. Bought an item by mistake? You can return it for the full price*! (* Offer only valid until leaving the shop. Does not apply to mystery items.)

- Slightly increased allowed pickup range for items in order to prevent NPCs or other minor obstacles from making them unreachable

- Fixed a bug that could cause item icons to look different during drag & drop

- Fixed a bug that could cause item icons to be mismatched, which happened particularly often for quest items

- Fixed navmesh being able to be generated on top of trapdoors, which potentially allowed items to be dropped on top of them and subsequently become unreachable once the trapdoor was opened

- Bandit Monster Infrequent: Reduced added base crit implicit value

- Reduced Maximum ailment stack bonuses on uniques

Changes to Specific Uniques

Katharsis:

- Added Affix "+x Lightning Damage"

Moonclaw:

- Energy gain is now +30 instead of +5%. Effect now has a 3 second cooldown.

Trygon's Tail:

- Removed Affix "+x Poison Damage"

- Removed Affix "+x Pierce Damage"

- Added Affix "+x Cold Damage"

Soul Carver:

- Removed Affix "+x% Increased Attack Speed"

- Added Affix "x% increased Vitality Damage"

Silence:

- Removed Affix "+x Energy Regeneration per second"

- Added Affix "+x Weapon Lightning Damage"

Kaenas' Sword:

- Removed Affix "+3% Weapon Base Critical Hit Chance"

- Added Affix "+x Strike Damage"

Sagaris Karkinos:

- Added Affix "x Cold Damage"

Shadowsting:

- Added Affix "x Vitality Damage"

- Added Affix "+ Damage vs Undead"

Raging Bull:

- Added Affix "x Strike Damage"

Megalos:

- Added Affix "x Lightning Damage"

Harpe:

- Added Affix "x Fire Damage"

Rimescythe:

- Added Affix "+x Cold Damage"

Fotia:

- Removed Affix "x% increased Ailment Power"

- Added Affix "x Fire Damage"

Thyrsus:

- Added Affix "x% increased Cast Speed"

Gamepad

- Changed energy potion gamepad input to RB to mirror the health potion mapping on LB

- Added setting to choose gamepad icons (automatic, XBox, PlayStation)

UI

- Added fallback fonts for Cyrillic, CJK, Devanagari, Arabic, Greek and Coptic so you can now enter your player and Caravan inventory name with non-Latin characters

- Fixed not being able to quickly check map while running when using 'LMB context sensitive' input preset

- Enemy health bars: Health in the UI now drains with a more dynamic animation and a flash on impact. Rapid consecutive hits stack the trailing effect before interpolating down

- Added hide UI input (F10 by default)

Visuals

- Added more randomized idle animations for NPCs

Performance

- Updated FSR to version 3.1.4

- Added support for AMD Anti-Lag 2

- Savegames will now be written asynchronously, to reduce hitches during saving

- Fixed several VFX which were never properly removed after playing, slowly degrading performance in extended play sessions

Miscellaneous

- Moirai Codex: Fixed chapter completion not triggering for the Flooded Farmlands chapter. Existing characters will update the codex once you load into them.

- Fixed an issue that could cause the inventory character preview to grow uncontrollably at high resolutions, eventually causing the game to crash.

- Fixed an issue that could cause items to be dropped in an unreachable position if they dropped while the player is not on the navmesh (e.g. during a jump or on a ladder)

Ability Balancing

- Core: Increased the rate at which raw skill damage and monster health scale to reduce the impact of weapon bonus damage and to offset the new increase in bonus damage on affixes (~25% more raw skill damage and monster health at level 20)

- Core - Dodge - Celerity: Adjusted Cooldown increase +0.5/1/1.5s -> +1s at all ranks

- Core - Dodge - Celerity: Reduced All Speed increase 15/30/45% -> 15/25/35%

- Core - Dodge - Dash Attack: Reduced Critical Hit Chance increase 50/100/150% -> 20/40/60%

- Core - Dodge - Dash Attack: Reduced Damage increase 20/40/60% -> 15/30/45%

- Core - Overload: Increased Self-Damage 1% MaxHP -> 1.5%

- Core - Overload: Now recovers 5 Energy per cleansed Overload over 1s

- Earth - Flame Volley - Enhanced Amplify: Removed additional required Energy spending per Amplify +1/2/3/4/5 -> +0

- Earth - Flame Volley - Orbit: Adjusted Amplify loss interval 1/1.5/2/2.5/3s -> 1/3s

- Earth - Flame Volley - Orbit: Increased Capacity Cost per rank 1 -> 2

- Earth - Flame Volley - Orbit: Reduced maximum rank 5 -> 2

- Earth - Ignite - Resistance Reduction: Reduced Resistance reduction -5/10/15/20/25% -> -4/8/12/16/20%

- Earth - Ignite - Resistance Reduction: Removed Duration increase +0.5/1/1.5/2/2.5s -> +0s

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Blazing Heat: Increased maximum Rank 3 -> 5

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Blazing Heat: Reduced Energy Reservation increase +10/20/30 -> +5/10/15/20/25

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Blazing Heat: Reduced distance-based Damage increase 60/90/120% -> 25/50/75/100/125%

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Enhanced Amplify: Reduced Energy Reservation increase with Permanency +10/20/30/40/50 -> +5/10/15/20/25

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Enhanced Amplify: Removed additional required Energy spending per Amplify +1/2/3/4/5 -> +0

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Overload: Reduced Damage increase per Overload 2/4/6% -> 1/2/3%

- Earth - Ring of Flame - Weakening Heat: Reduced Resistance reduction -4/6/8% up to -12/18/24% -> -2/4/6% up to -6/12/18%

- Earth - Ring of Flame: Reduced Damage increase per Amplify 20% -> 15%

- Earth - Ring of Flame: Reduced base Damage per second 4 -> 3.5

- Rogue - Preparation - Weapon Coating: Reduced Poison Weapon bonus damage by 60%

- Rogue - Vanish - Deadly Strike: Reduced Damage increase 20/40/60/80/100% -> 20/30/40/50/60%

- Rogue - Vanish - Lifesteal: Fixed bonus Vitality Weapon Damage using the wrong formula and scaling faster than intended

- Rogue - Vanish - Lifesteal: Reduced Vitality Weapon bonus damage by 75%

- Storm - Ice Shards - Chaos: Increased Capacity Cost per rank 1 -> 2

- Storm - Ice Shards - Chaos: Increased Energy Cost increase +1/2/3 -> +20

- Storm - Ice Shards - Chaos: Now grants 100% more Projectiles instead of +4/8/12 additional Projectiles

- Storm - Ice Shards - Chaos: Projectiles now spiral outwards instead of flying straight to make hitting enemies easier without homing

- Storm - Ice Shards - Chaos: Reduced maximum rank 3 -> 1

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Adjusted Homing Strength +80/100/120 -> +100

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Adjusted Projectile Speed reduction 20/30/40% -> 30%

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Increased Capacity Cost 1 -> 3 per rank

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Ranks 3 -> 1

- Storm - Ice Shards - Homing: Removed Projectile Range increase 0/10/20% -> 0%

- Storm - Ice Shards - Infused Shard: Reduced bonus Cold Damage from Energy Reservation by 50%

- Storm - Ice Shards - Orbit: Adjusted Energy Cost increase +10/15/20 -> +20

- Storm - Ice Shards - Orbit: Adjusted Projectile Range increase 0/50/100% -> 100%

- Storm - Ice Shards - Orbit: Capacity Cost per rank 1 -> 2

- Storm - Ice Shards - Orbit: Maximum ranks 3 -> 1

- Storm - Ice Shards - Projectile Penetration: Increased Capacity Cost per rank 1 -> 2

- Storm - Ice Shards - Projectile Penetration: Instead of 20% less Damage per penetrated target it now deals 50% less Damage after the first one

- Storm - Ice Shards - Projectile Penetration: Removed Energy Cost increase +1/2/3 -> +0

- Storm - Ice Shards - Projectile Penetration: Removed Projectile Speed increase 20/40/60% -> 0%

- Storm - Ice Shards: Reduced base Damage 5-8 -> 5-7

- Storm - Overcharge Passive - Duration Feat: Reduced Overload Damage Reduction 40% -> 15%

- Storm - Overcharge Passive - Duration Feat: Reduced Overload Duration increase 100% -> 50%

- Storm - Overcharge Passive - Energy Feat: Instead of instantly recovering 3 Energy on cleanse recover 5 Energy over 1s

- Warfare - Leap - Cooldown Charge: Reduced Cooldown increase +3/6s -> +1s at all ranks

- Warfare - Leap - Seismic Leap: Increased Launch Damage 4/6/8 -> 10/12/14

- Warfare - Leap - Slam Attack: Increased Weapon Damage 160% -> 210%

- Warfare - Leap: Increased Base Damage 15 -> 20

Item Balancing

- Items - Bandit Monster Infrequent: Reduced added base crit implicit value

- Items - Moonclaw: Energy gain is now +30 instead of +5%. Effect now has a 3 second cooldown

- Items - Affixes: Flat bonuses to Health, Damage and Health regeneration now scale with Tiers instead of Item Level

- Items: Reduced maximum ailment stack bonuses on unique items

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Check out our other guides on the game:

• Titan Quest 2: Fiend's Hollow brazier puzzle solution (Cages in The Dark)
• What to do with the Strange Jar in Titan Quest 2
• All Titan Quest 2 difficulty settings explained
• All stats and attributes in Titan Quest 2