Torchlight 2 Catch-All

BlackSabre wrote:

For engi, I do 2, 1, 1, 1. Is that what everyone else does?

I am pretty haphazard about my stat distribution, it depends on how I feel at the moment. I often put all my points into one stat at a time. If there is a high-level item I really want to use, I'll pump that stat until I can use the item. I figure the points will be useful either way. My Engineer is mostly strength and vit, with a bit of focus and less dexterity.

The nice thing is that all the stats have an impact on the effectiveness of your character. It makes multiple approaches viable.

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I picked up the game last night and started an Embermage. Really really enjoying the game! How many Acts are in the game?

breander wrote:

I picked up the game last night and started an Embermage. Really really enjoying the game! How many Acts are in the game?

Three.

garion333 wrote:

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That is awesome.

imbiginjapan wrote:
FedoraMcQuaid wrote:
Vargen wrote:

Tried the demo with an Outlander on Veteran...

Are boss fights supposed to be 20+ minute slogs, or an I doing something wrong?

How far does the demo go? I hit the cap on the original Torchlight demo pretty quick, but the one for TL2 has kept me busy for two decent play sessions and still shows no sign of ending.

From what I've read the secret to outlander is to pump a lot into focus and dexterity. You can ignore strength almost completely, it wont increase your DPS by much.

I mentioned just recently I think Outlander is a bit weak against the bosses. There are a couple single-target damage skills but they are mostly geared towards crowd control and ranged attacks, which are not great against bosses. On the other hand they can be very effective with a partner because they can slow the mobs while the other character takes out the main boss.

I agree with Fedora, Dexterity and Focus are probably the key attributes for an Outlander. They need to crit a lot.

For damage I rely on a variety of things at the same time.
A) Skills that reduce armor
B) Critical attacks
C) Rapid Fire (which also accomplishes A)
D) My pet summons two minions plus the minion from one of my skills

Rapid Fire can be cast MUCH faster than the regular attack and can do a ton of DPS.

Playing an Embermage, lvl 26 in Act 2. Loving the class. I highly highly recommend Prismatic Bolt and keeping it maxed, nothing kills like spamming seeking missiles. I also use Thunder Locus which drops an electric orb which zaps foes for ~20 secs, Blazing Pillar and Hailstorm.

Mana isn't an issue at all, just remember to also putting points into Vitality so you can survive long enough for the pots to heal.

Yeah I tried all 3 starting skills on the way to the first town. Prismatic Bolt seemed far and away the best, so I respeced out of the other 2 at level 3 while it was still free, and am having a blast.

I also use prismatic bolt as my main damage dealer, with blazing pillar and thunder locus. Beyond that I started up with the elemental damage/armor buff and just recently the spell that makes slain enemies give you life. That one is really great if I remember to put it down.

I also just got ice blast but I keep forgetting to cast it. I got a mouse with new buttons (more on that later) that I forget about.

The game is great! Played Berzerker for a couple of levels, got bored then switched to Embermage. Now life is good.

I do wish it was easier getting a game set up with friends. A buddy repeatedly timed out trying to join my private room and I couldn't find his game listed for the life of me. Please take a hint from Xbox Live and Diablo 3.

My mid teens (early on still!) Engineer is currently rolling with a very fast attack speed axe and shield. I was originally leaning towards heavy two handed weapons but I hit upon a setup using Supercharge which adds extra damage + charge on hits, so high speed weapons mean even more charge. I have the Dervish spell which greatly increases attack speed, so my typical approach is to attack until supercharge occurs, cast Dervish then hammer away. The built up Charge goes towards spamming the Flame Hammer attack, which despite the name works with axe or sword as well. For defense I always have a healing bot on duty to help me ignore damage.

I have to add... there is something unique about this game that keeps me interested and entertained. I can't say I've ever been much into Diablo and its ilk. I completed D1, never finished D2, and never played D3. I found D2 gameplay repetitive and the skills to be bland. Torchlight 1 was OK, but I never really progressed that far. For some reason Torchlight 2 hits the mark. Some of that is the pacing, but I feel there is a compelling quality to the game that others lack and I am having trouble putting my finger on what that is exactly. For the sake of conversation I wish I could, but alas.

Maclintok wrote:

The game is great! Played Berzerker for a couple of levels, got bored then switched to Embermage. Now life is good.

'Zerker seems awfully strong with those multiple pets. Half the time I keep fighting when my pet is doing a store run because I can just call up another wolf.

Stele wrote:
Maclintok wrote:

The game is great! Played Berzerker for a couple of levels, got bored then switched to Embermage. Now life is good.

'Zerker seems awfully strong with those multiple pets. Half the time I keep fighting when my pet is doing a store run because I can just call up another wolf.

Multiple pets you say? I need to look at that boy's skill tree again.

I did quite enjoy the "wolf dash" and freezing breath skills I picked up after hitting Level 3. I think because melee combat felt so amazing in Diablo 3 the visual and tactile feeling of of melee in other ARPGs just feels lacking.

Yeah wolf pet at 7, and then another group of wolves way later (28 maybe?) that I haven't got yet.

Also. I just ran across a hidden quest with some Goonies references.

Love this game so much.

Played the demo. I was completely in lala land until the demo ended.

Purchased.

This game is good. But what's going to happen to Guild Wars 2 and Borderlands 2?

Up to level 38 with my Engineer, just rolled to Grunnheim or whatever the city after the desert bit is called. Really satisfying to identify an issue with your character and then swapping loot until it's fixed (in my case, not enough mana).

Loved the Djinn fights. Actually all of the boss fights have been pretty cool.

You know, I had thought that Mists of Pandaria was in trouble due to the onslaught of great games out recently. But lately, I have changed my mind.

I do think there is room for TL2, BL2, GW2 and MoP. If anything it prevents extreme burnout. I bought TL2 last night after playing BL2 for a few days after playing GW2 for nearly a month.

I still don't have any interest in playing MoP right now but I also told myself I wasn't going to get TL2 and that lasted only a couple weeks.

On topic, I'd have to say that an 2 handed melee engineer is pretty on par with melee characters in d3.

Because I never do things the easy way, I'm currently playing a cannon/robot engineer. Every point I get is going into the construction tree. It was a bit tough going for the first few levels, but after that everything has been great. My minebot and pet summon swarms keep enemies at bay. My healbot keeps everyone alive. My cannon? Well... some things are best left private.

I played an Outlander for the demo, with a mismash of skills, but gravitated towards a bow.

Now that I've purchased, I'm playing an Embermage with all of my skill points into the electricity tree (around level 9 or 10), wielding dual wands, and biasing my armor towards focus enhancement. The first two passive skills are entertaining, especially the chaos one. One of the effects was a little flying skull that shot firebolts at everything that followed me for nearly the entire level. But, there are times that I have to remember to use my wands, between the prismatic bolts spell and my panther.

Good stuff.

The game got a lot easier when, at level 11, I finally found the skills tab at the right. I'm going to try and stick with the 2-handed engineer build for now. The cannoneer doesn't appeal to me.

emyln wrote:

Playing an Embermage, lvl 26 in Act 2. Loving the class. I highly highly recommend Prismatic Bolt and keeping it maxed, nothing kills like spamming seeking missiles. I also use Thunder Locus which drops an electric orb which zaps foes for ~20 secs, Blazing Pillar and Hailstorm.

Mana isn't an issue at all, just remember to also putting points into Vitality so you can survive long enough for the pots to heal.

Ohhhh, thanks for the tips!

Toanstation wrote:

I played an Outlander for the demo, with a mismash of skills, but gravitated towards a bow.

Now that I've purchased, I'm playing an Embermage with all of my skill points into the electricity tree (around level 9 or 10), wielding dual wands, and biasing my armor towards focus enhancement. The first two passive skills are entertaining, especially the chaos one. One of the effects was a little flying skull that shot firebolts at everything that followed me for nearly the entire level. But, there are times that I have to remember to use my wands, between the prismatic bolts spell and my panther.

Good stuff.

Oh good idea. I keep forgetting to try that wand passive. I've been dual-wanding for a while, but just never seemed to have points for that passive to spare.

Why do random inanimate objects explode around my embermage? Is elemental attunement to blame?

Just finished my first run with my Outlander on Normal. Tons of fun, but I felt a little squishy towards the end.

Considering my next character, I really want to try the Embermage, but I am not sure if I want to do another ranged character...

Does the version of this game that is purchased directly through the Torchlight website require Steam to play?

No.

I just spotted a secret that I think many people will miss. It's in the second mission that the Djinni gives you:

Spoiler:

The Luminous Arena, that portal that opens right next to him.

First, it seems you can run this arena over and over, and I've been using it to gear up a little, because I just haven't been getting very many good drops -- many of my items, at level 35ish, were from the teens. Don't be in a rush to turn the quest in; I assume the portal closes, although I haven't done it yet, so I don't know for sure. Every run so far has gotten at least one orange, and usually two.

Second, this is the hard-to-spot secret: when the light finishes moving, centered on a portal, don't go through the portal. There's a chest there to loot. Then, just stand there. About 1 minute after you arrive, maybe a little less, a lever will materialize out of thin air. If you then pull the lever, the light will take you to a secret area with two big chests and maybe a third thing. The light won't stay in the secret area long, so loot quickly. The lever will reset, after getting back, if you need to return there. The loot has typically been quite good, although it probably doesn't quite match how hard that lever is to spot.

Each pass through the arena seems to respawn all the chests.

As I mentioned this game has finally gotten me to upgrade my mouse, and I really like my current setup.

I got the CM Storm Inferno:
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Left click is normal, that little button right next to the left click is teleport, right click is my spammy skill (Prismatic Bolt) the little button to the right of the right click is my active skill (the one toggled with tab, and right now Blazing Pillars/Thunder Focus).

My buffs are on the scroll wheel (up is Death's Bounty, down is Elemental Boon), clicking it currently does nothing. Front thumb button is Frost Wave and second thumb button is Gouts of Fire.

I hardly ever use that last one, but I need to remember to go to Frost Wave more.

So yeah, I really like the new mouse and my setup makes me feel really badass with everything I can throw out. Does anyone else have nifty setups like this?

How am I level 25 already. I just bought this game 6 hours ago...

Switched to Veteran... noticed i was spending a looooot of gold on potions. Still fun as hell.

Can't imagine playing an embermage on Vet though. May have to do normal for him on my second playthrough. Still haven't gotten past act I... but that can be attributed to rerolling after a few hours because the sword and board was kind of weak. And then rerolling again tonight for Veteran. Still loving this though!