Torchlight 2 is a MASSIVE incline

[Multidirectional]

Well, you did make it seem like you're addressing me in particular.

 

[SerratedBiz]

But beta was only the first act. Yes it might seem too easy on Veteran, except that around halfway through second act difficulty rockets up and you start getting one-shot killed more and more. Which is why I don't really see how playing hardcore would be that rewarding, but eh, I'll give it a go if you insist.

Again, oblivious as to the nature of the game past a few hours in. Already started a softcore (?) character after losing a few hardcore ones because I actually want to see the game past that point this time.

I'm in GMT-3, but I work non-established shifts which makes my play times kind of erratic. For instance, I'm going to be able to play until about 1pm today, then again at around 9pm, but tomorrow it'll be different and I'll know about it later today. Such is life.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

Been playing this lately.

First started as a Cannon Engineer on Veteran. Was a drag until I got a good cannon and was smart enough to invest into Fusillade + Fire and Spark + a few hundred points in Focus. He now stun locks whole groups of enemies and crits every hit for some good damage. Still, he sometimes dies because no shield. Yeah I know there's the Force Field skill and I use it, but it's only 30 seconds of some extra hp boost, might as well just use Riechliu skulls.

My second character is a Frost Embermage, I took her all the way to level 100 and Elite NG+++. She just frost phases into groups of enemies and stuff explodes. When there is a boss she casts Frost Wave 2-3 times and it dies. She has 75% DR, 75% Block and 15k hit points so she barely takes any damage, crits for up to 2 mln damage. lolwut, this is broken.

Any good builds for Berserker? Outlander is p much fucked, from what I can see. His gear requires Dexterity, yet his damage is determined by Strength, not to mention that his best skill, Glaive Throw, requires Focus. Bleh, what a shitty class.

 

[Grampy_Bone]

I recall playing the mage and just exploding everything. I found it quite boring. Had to struggle to get myself to finish it. Rather play Path of Exile now.

 

[Drog Black Tooth]

I recall playing the mage and just exploding everything. I found it quite boring. Had to struggle to get myself to finish it. Rather play Path of Exile now.

PoE is pretty horrible tbh. Shit production values, tons of meaningless grind and filler. Might as well just play Diablo 3 if you're already fine with all the MMO features.

 

[Blaine]

Well, I predict this conversation is going to get real interesting if seen by certain parties.

I've played PoE through to about level 90 with the Codex guild... and argued with them at great length, too, about things in PoE I didn't like. However, there was also a lot to enjoy. I find it peculiar you think the production values were lacking, because I thought they were excellent. Perhaps they've improved since closed beta, which I was also a part of for a few months before drifting away. Also, PoE's art direction and style are as close to D2 as any Diablo clone's ever been, by a wide margin. So's its atmosphere, as far as that goes.

Anyway, I think I've had enough of Diablo clones to last a lifetime. I've pretty much played them all and got tired of them about 2-3 clones ago, but didn't fully accept this fact until recently.

 

[Humppaleka]

PoE was just... Boring. Might get back at it someday as it had promise. The artstyle for one was just forgettable for me.

 

[Aothan]

I've recently done a circuit of a number of games listed in this thread:

http://www.rpgcodex.net/forums/inde...e-the-best-hack-n-slash-on-the-market.114695/

overall it is a close tie between Path of Exile and Grim Dawn, the former for online purposes, the latter for single player design and ambience. But the genre as a whole has gone into a long-term stasis with many games regressing after the standards set by Diablo for inspired atmosphere and Diablo II for action rpg gameplay. Wolcen could be of interest, time will tell

 

[RuySan]

Grim dawn combat has a much better feel, but poe has much more depth and I prefer its character and skill system

 

[bloodlover]

I think that as far as berserkers go you need lifesteal. There is a passive skill that gives you that and it helps a lot early but late game 1 level is enough with the crazy atk speed you get. There was some cool build with wolfpack main skill but I think the rest of the skills are more or less standard for the class. Battlestandard, Red Wolf, Shred Armor, Cold Steel (maybe?), some skills that reduces (reflects?) missile dmg and some mobility skill to jump around. Oh and some passive skill that makes your rage bar fill faster.

I never played much with berserkers but I had fun with 2h melee eng.

 

[Aildrik]

I always thought Torchlight 2 just totally manhandled Diablo 3. Could not force myself to play through D3 more than twice. What a sad showing by Blizzard. I finished Reaper of Souls but never bothered with it again. Hob looks interesting so I will probably check it out.

 

[NotAGolfer]

I'm playing it right now. It's addictive and dumb, but in a good way. Reminds me of Diablo 2.

*enters another quest-related dungeon, hoping to finally find a better twohanded weapon or another piece from one of these armor sets*

 

[pakoito]

Are you playing Vanilla or with Synergies?

 

[NotAGolfer]

Vanilla. First time, don't wanna spoil it.
Why? Is Synergies more fun?

 

[pakoito]

Vanilla. First time, don't wanna spoil it.
Why? Is Synergies more fun?

I believe so. More uniques and named monsters. In Vanilla mooks are trivial and only special and named monsters pose any difficulty. Same applies for items.

 

[Neanderthal]

I just couldn't get into this, not sure why, could be aesthetics and art style that soured me but I just didn't get hooked like with say Diablo 1&2 or lately Grim Dawn. I can admire a lot of the stuff it does right technically, but I still don't want to play it.

 

[Okagron]

I enjoyed this game for the most part, but didn't got addicted to it like other ARPGs i played. I think my biggest issue with this game is the skill respec. You only get to respec the last four points or so you used. Makes it kind of hard to try out skills and see which ones you will like.

 

[toro]

https://www.torchlightfrontiers.com

 

[pakoito]

They butchered my boi

 

[Citizen]

Played through most of the game with ma boys few years ago, and 4 man party playthrough was a blast

Artstyle is wow-tier cancerous, but the mechanics are gud. I liked the amount of jumping/teleporting skills that make it more dynamic than other diabloclones

 

[a Goat]

I've played through the game looong time ago, then I bougt it very cheaply and couldn't get very far. Got boring for some reason, maybe I'm just too fucking smart nowadays adn the fact that the char building in this system revolves around stacking skillpoints into that 1 or 2 skills that are decent and everything else is useless which pisses me off.

 

[Metro]

https://www.torchlightfrontiers.com

Breh, this was announced a year ago. And it's exclusive to Perfect World's Arc platform.

 

[Perkel]

So how is T2 with Synergis overhaul ?

 

[pakoito]

S'kay. The post-game content is where the meat's at, the main game is still ez af

 

[Gregz]

Well, this thread sure aged like milk.