Torchlight 2 Catch-All

Played as the Engineer and enjoyed it more than the Outlander. Swinging hammers and whatnot is more satisfying than shooting things in this game. Either that or I'm burned out on ranged due to playing a Demon Hunter in D3.

Well that's kinda why I picked the Engi. I played the Demon Hunter in D3 and just wanted something different.

Can't.
Stop.
Playing.

Only food has pulled me away this evening... sheesh.

I haven't played too much yet, only level 11 on my Outlander. Veteran difficulty is the right level. But kiting will surely get old. I'll be checking out an Engineer pretty soon.

The Engineer is gloriously self-sufficient. High damage, high HP, HP & MP regernation pet, damage pet, slowing pet, AOE standard attacks, AOE spells, etc.

Malor wrote:

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

Interesting, thank you, unfortunately I completed that just last night. I suppose you can't go back to reactivate the ques?

Also, my panther now breathes fireballs. That's all kinds of awesome.

jlaakso wrote:
Malor wrote:

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

Interesting, thank you, unfortunately I completed that just last night. I suppose you can't go back to reactivate the ques?

I don't know, as I've been careful not to complete that quest... I've been running that area repeatedly to get some decent gear. I suspect that, once the portal closes, you can't go back.

Yonder wrote:

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?

I have a Logitech G700 that I love, but I've never bothered to do anything fancier then assign the four side buttons to the first four number keys. Which I personally find to be much easier then reaching up to hit them on my keyboard.

Pretty happy with my "Big Daddy" look:

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thanks to these

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I had the left hand drill but was using a 2h. I was hoping for a decent offhand 1h so went to the gambler guy. Turns out I got the same exact thing. Sweet!

Good way to tell this game is awesome... the Torchlight wiki has ground to a halt. Like nothing has been updated since the game came out.

Demosthenes wrote:

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!

Playing an Embermage on Vet as my first character and have died about 5 times so far. I've only had to buy health pots early in the game, after that you find more than enough just killing stuff. And as long as you don't mind kiting and shooting, Embermage is easy mode (assuming you pick the right skills).

garion333 wrote:

Played as the Engineer and enjoyed it more than the Outlander. Swinging hammers and whatnot is more satisfying than shooting things in this game. Either that or I'm burned out on ranged due to playing a Demon Hunter in D3.

My complaint about the Outlander is the skills feel exactly like the ones in D3. The rapid fire, the vault, the spinning daggers, all feels the same exact way. The ember mage does not feel that way, even though they're similar to a Wizard in other games. Just feels better, I don't know why.

Part of it might be there was nothing new at the low level skills, so I felt I should put it all in passives. That's boring.

I was feeling the same with my outlander, on normal admittedly, the glave was just too effective at low levels and that difficulty. The bats were something that might have grown effective in later levels with enough points, but I rerolled a embermage on veteran.

Hit a wall on embermage this morning where I died like 4 times in the same dungeon. Around level 26, in Act II. Not sure what it was. I think two of the deaths were not even to purple boss characters. The dungeon had lots of mech type stuff in it, and turrets.

Hopefully that was just a bad streak and I'm not going to get stuck doing this repeatedly. I was enjoying Veteran so far, popping potions here and there but not too bad.

Scratched wrote:

I was feeling the same with my outlander, on normal admittedly, the glave was just too effective at low levels and that difficulty. The bats were something that might have grown effective in later levels with enough points, but I rerolled a embermage on veteran.

I think you can use the console to change difficulty. I may go back and do that on my Berserker. Not sure I wouldn't get bored playing him on Normal.

Stele wrote:

Hit a wall on embermage this morning where I died like 4 times in the same dungeon. Around level 26, in Act II. Not sure what it was. I think two of the deaths were not even to purple boss characters. The dungeon had lots of mech type stuff in it, and turrets.

Hopefully that was just a bad streak and I'm not going to get stuck doing this repeatedly. I was enjoying Veteran so far, popping potions here and there but not too bad.

I am playing an engineer, and also died a couple times in that dungeon, seemingly to a purple boss. It seemed like I was getting one-shotted, which seemed strange. Then I realized that right in front of the boss were some blade traps that I hadn't seen. So it was really the combo trap + boss that was doing me in. After that I avoided the trap and problem solved :p

Huh yeah it was definitely that dungeon with the traps. Maybe there were some I missed.

Or maybe my pet and spell pets were running into them? Fighting solo when I thought I had 4 pets out would make a difference.

Stele wrote:

Hit a wall on embermage this morning where I died like 4 times in the same dungeon. Around level 26, in Act II. Not sure what it was. I think two of the deaths were not even to purple boss characters. The dungeon had lots of mech type stuff in it, and turrets.

Hopefully that was just a bad streak and I'm not going to get stuck doing this repeatedly. I was enjoying Veteran so far, popping potions here and there but not too bad.

That's a tough dungeon. Lot's of traps on the ground that are easy to miss, also several places have swarms of tiny creatures that come out behind you while you're fighting someone in front, essentially cutting off your retreat and getting hit from all sides. Nasty.

Montalban wrote:

The game got a lot easier when, at level 11, I finally found the skills tab at the right.

This amused me. Thanks for that.

emyln wrote:
Demosthenes wrote:

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!

Playing an Embermage on Vet as my first character and have died about 5 times so far. I've only had to buy health pots early in the game, after that you find more than enough just killing stuff. And as long as you don't mind kiting and shooting, Embermage is easy mode (assuming you pick the right skills).

I've been doing very well with my Embermage. I dumped all my stat points into focus and skill points into Magma Spear, Charge Mastery, and Wand Chaos and things have been pretty smooth. I've only died 3 or 4 times (I'm at level 15) because I made stupid mistakes, like not running away screaming when I encountered a mob. My bulldog has a spell that raises a group of skeleton archers which are surprisingly tough.

Wand Chaos is awesome. When spamming Magma Spear, it's like the end of the world. Poison rain, fireballs falling from the sky, frozen enemies exploding... Good times.

I think this game has the best "buy our game now!" splash screen at the end of the demo, with the little picture of my bulldog Sputnik, and the text below it, "Sputnik loves you." Ironically enough, the "Buy full version" button did nothing.

Stele wrote:

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

Spoiler:

One-Eyed Willy's Other Eye!

Has anybody found this easter egg?

Spoiler:

Notch's Mine! I saw the video with all the creepers. It looked amazing!

Crockpot wrote:

Has anybody found this easter egg?

Spoiler:

Notch's Mine! I saw the video with all the creepers. It looked amazing!

Found it last night. Was very cool, although I wish there was more to it.

Ive caught 5 spells and 4 tomes from the enclave, just killing time 5 minutes here and there when I don't have time to quest. It's a silly little timewaster, but at least there are worthwhile rewards from time to time.

Could someone shoot me an invite to the TL2 group. Thanks!

ckozelic on steam.

Skill Calculator

Best one I've seen so far.

ilduce620 wrote:
Montalban wrote:

The game got a lot easier when, at level 11, I finally found the skills tab at the right.

This amused me. Thanks for that. :-)

Yeah, I kept thinking, "Gosh, shouldn't there be more to this than just basic stats? Where is the depth?"

Duh. It's behind a small icon that you're too thick to notice.

Does anybody else have the issue of always hitting the X that brings up the game menu when you really wanted to close your skills or inventory windows?

breander wrote:

Does anybody else have the issue of always hitting the X that brings up the game menu when you really wanted to close your skills or inventory windows?

Escape is your friend.