Tags
Tags in Titan Quest 2 (TQ2) are used to classify Skills, Modifiers, and Feats by their mechanics or properties. They allow players to understand what kinds of bonuses or interactions a skill might scale with or trigger.
Tags can appear on:
- Active Skills and Passive Skills
- Modifiers and Feats
- Equipment, Attributes, or Builds that scale certain effects
TQ2 Tags
These tags help describe what type of mechanic a skill uses (e.g., Spell, Aura, Channel), and they are also used by Modifiers and Passives to boost only specific types of actions.
Only tags that are **explicitly listed** in the infobox, or declared using **+Tag** syntax in a Modifier or Feat, are shown here.
Active
Explicit: A skill that must be placed on the hotbar and activated manually.
Amplify
Explicit: A stackable buff gained by spending Energy or using elemental skills. Amplify stacks scale damage, trigger effects, or are consumed for bonuses.
Area
Explicit: Affects multiple enemies within a defined zone.
Aura
Explicit: A persistent field around the player or allies that grants ongoing buffs or effects.
Blessing
Explicit: Self-targeted skill that temporarily boosts stats or power. Not sustained or aura-based.
Burning
Explicit: Applies Burning Damage over time. Some skills scale bonus damage if the target is already Burning.
Channel
Explicit: Skills that must be held or charged over time to produce continuous effects.
This tag can be added via 
Whirlwind
on 
Sweeping Strike
.
Cold
Explicit: Indicates Cold-based damage or effects, including Freeze or Chill.
Debuff
Explicit: Applies negative status effects or penalties to enemies.
Disruption
Explicit: Tags abilities or modifiers that interfere with enemy actions or apply disruptive effects like stun or status manipulation.
This tag can be added via:
Flash Powder
on 
Vanish
Enhanced Stun
on 
Stomp
Earth
Explicit: Theme tag for Earth Mastery skills. Can also indicate geo-themed effects.
Exhaust
Explicit: Indicates skills with limited uptime or that induce recovery effects after use.
Fire
Explicit: Denotes skills that deal Fire-based damage. Often interacts with Burning effects and Fire-themed passives.
Lightning
Explicit: Applies to skills dealing Lightning Damage or applying Shock.
Overwhelm
Explicit: Resource mechanic used by some skills and modifiers for scaling damage, area, or effects.
This tag can be added via Modifiers:
This tag is explicit in these Skills:
Projectile
Explicit: Skills that fire moving objects or effects, usually modifiable by passives.
Ranged Attack
Explicit: Skills that scale with or require a ranged weapon. Can be removed by modifiers that convert to spell behavior.
- This tag may be removed by modifiers like
Shadow Dagger
Rogue
Explicit: Theme tag for Rogue Mastery skills.
Shadow
Explicit: Used to denote stealth or dark-themed skills.
This tag can be added via Shadow Dagger
on 
Trick Shot
.
Spell
Explicit: Skills that are non-weapon based and use magic, usually scaled by Spell Damage.
This tag can be added via Shadow Dagger
on Trick Shot
.
Storm
Explicit: Theme tag for Storm Mastery skills. Usually appears alongside element tags like Cold or Lightning.
Strike
Explicit: Often applied to physical damage skills that "strike" with melee force.
Sustained
Explicit: Toggleable skills that remain active until deactivated, usually with passive effects or aura behavior.
Teleport
Explicit: Instant movement to a target location.
Warfare
Explicit: Theme tag for Warfare Mastery skills.
