MarkoH01: Hi, I am new to the whole Hack and Slay genre and so far the only one I've played was torchlight. Now I am playing Titan Quest and I have two questions about the possible modifiers your character can get through collecting magical items and such. I think I already have the answer to one (only needs confirmation) but still don't understand the other.

1) As far as I understand whenever you get a X% fire damage (or ice ect.) you need to also have a basic damage of the same type (like a weapon with +X fire damage) otherwise it would not be effective at all.

2) Where is the difference between +X life regen / sec and +X% life regen. In general why is the /sec missing in the latter? (same goes with energy regen).

If someone of the professionals could help me out here I would be very grateful. I've been searcghing through the net and some big TQ forums for days but especially this second thing never was explained to me.

mystral: 1) You're right, percentage buffs only work if you already do damage of the right type.

2) + X life regen/sec means you'll get healed for X life each second after you've attacked with the weapon that has that property, while +X% life regen means you'll get back X% of the damage you just dealt as health. The second property is much better than the first if you do decent damage. Note that life and mana leech don't work on undead and constructs, so switch to another weapon for those.

MarkoH01: Thanks for confirming the first point. Regarding the second point: I already noticed that life leech does not work on undeads and constructs (and it's logical for me). However I always though the modifier that would change attack damage into health was called "X% Attack damage converted to Health". The ones I was talking about was simply "X% Health Regeneration". Thank you again for your help.

mystral: Yeah "X% health regen" isn't about life leech, it just boosts your natural health regen (which is about 1hp/sec) by X% I think. Not very useful.

Falkenherz: Actually, it can be very useful. If you have any items or skills which increases your "health regen per second" by a decent amount, than an +X% health regen" on an item can be pretty nice.
1 health per second + 50% = 1.5 ---> not really helpful
20 health per second + 50% = 30 ---> nice (can save you some potions, especially between combat)

MarkoH01: Thank you again. Now I understand it. Playing a melee guy regenration speed often helped me a lot because I was simply able to hit the monsters more often wihout even noticing much damage (regeneration was faster than the monster's hits). Of course this does not work with every monster and not with many monsters at the same time. But then again I only played on "normal" and I am just in the city of lost souls. It was absolutely useless fighting big monsters because they just hit me too hard.

KGAGoodOlGames: ..... keep losing the pointer during most fights! Still overall it's a great game.

MarkoH01: Oh I can feel with you. Happened for me often too. Of course the pointer is not really gone but it's hard to concentrate on that little pointer when all the hell breaks loose :) But then again it is called a fight and not a picnic ;)