Torchlight II - Page 39

On September 22 2012 08:35 DaCruise wrote:
I am really starting to struggle with my lvl 40 embermage. Died plenty in late act 2 and act 3 is not any easier.

Btw I wonder how many HC chars will make it through the luminous arena, rofl!

On September 21 2012 16:51 Seiniyta wrote:
One thing I'm a bit annoyed at is that I don't seem to have the same amount of control over my character as I have in Diablo 3. Perhaps it's a bug but sometimes when I press shift to stand still I still end up walking toward the monster to use the spell. Really annoying.

On September 22 2012 10:45 Rotodyne wrote:
It's friday night! You know what that means, it's time to sip on a couple brews and play torchlight for 4 hours

On September 22 2012 09:26 eluv wrote:
Couple of observations. First, engineers seem wildly overpowered for Elite difficulty. My friend wanted to roll tank, and assumed that Berserker would have something to support that without really looking at the abilities of the class. Went back and checked today and holy $#!+ the engineer has amazing skills to support tanking - to the point where rather than trying to work out which sub-optimal skill is the best of a bad lot, you're starved for points for all the absurdly good things you can get.

Obs 2 is that fast weapons like claws/pistols/bows are essentially useless without a -All armor on hit mod. The TC behind this is that armor in this game is flat reduction, so that at a given DPS, a slow weapon will do more damage than a fast weapon. As a quick example, assume a mob has 50 phys armor, and you have 2, 200 dps weapons. One hits twice per second for 100 damage, and the other hits once per second for 200 damage. In one second, weapon 1 does (100-50)+(100-50)=100 damage, while weapon 2 does (200-50)=150 damage.

For the fastest weapons, this means that without -armor, you may end up hitting for very, very small amounts. This is backed up by a dummy test I just did, where I went from using a 163 (.72 a/s) bow to using a 227 DPS (.56s/a) and the initial dummy hits were much, much lower (170 -> ~10). However, (thank god!) the enchanter saw fit to give me a -14 armor/hit mod, and over time the 227 gets up to the same end damage as the 163, both topping out at about 200, but of course the 227 is hitting a lot faster at this point. I assume the topping off means I have the dummy at 0 armor, but I haven't worked the numbers to see if this is the case, or if it bottoms out somewhere above 0.

Edit: As a followup, stacks of the -armor seem to fall of independently, so that if you stop shooting something, it will slowly regain its armor, until the most recent application falls off and it is back at full armor. This is very, very good, because it means that losing DPS time on a target won't mean losing your entire stack of -Armor. In addition, I didn't have to do any math at all! Character sheet tells me my top-end is 239, and at full stacks, I hit a 235, so I assume that the -armor takes it all the way down to 0!

Followup #2! -%Armor *does not* let you take a target below 0 armor, at least in the 1 data point case of Blade Pact.

On September 22 2012 11:38 Artok wrote:
Anyone found any legendaries yet? lvl 72 and nothing so far <.<

On September 22 2012 12:54 ThaZenith wrote:
Second phase portal i've found, had 3 slimes. I was dual-pistol, and i managed to get one down, but the other two were flooding me with little slimes. I realized i couldn't continue like that, and I have no real aoe, so i had to grab a sledgehammer from my pets inventory. Managed to win by swapping sledge to clear little ones and pistols to dps the main slimes.

So satisfying when money rained down from the sky.

On September 22 2012 07:40 Blitzkrieg0 wrote:


I'm not sure it actually matters how bad your damage is when you can tank forever. Although I wouldn't consider it an efficient way to play it seems like it would work. You can also use skills that damage based on level instead of weapon damage so that you aren't hindered by lack of good weaponry.


Cloud sync conflict...both last modified today ^_^ How can I tell which one I should do?

On September 22 2012 17:11 Psyonic_Reaver wrote:
Anybody have any suggestions on what I could do to fix a problem I have?

I have 2 brothers that live together in a home, I'll call them D and B. I live with my wife whom I'll call A.

If D hosts a game. A and I can join. But B cannot. If B hosts, then D cannot. If I host then A cannot join while D and B can.

Is this an IP conflict? Anyway around it?

We tried to set up a LAN game via Hamachi but no dice.