D3 hurt my eyes after a bit. That blur effect was afwul. They should have had that as an option in the settings. I used that darkd3 thing and that fixed it. TL2 has a sharpness and clarity thats much more easy on the eyes and appealing. In terms of art direction, I prefer PoE over both games to be honest.
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Torchlight II |OT| Good things come to those who wait
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D3 hurt my eyes after a bit. That blur effect was afwul. They should have had that as an option in the settings. I used that darkd3 thing and that fixed it. TL2 has a sharpness and clarity thats much more easy on the eyes and appealing. In terms of art direction, I prefer PoE over both games to be honest.
Keep an eye out for loot with charge bonuses.
'Tight' has a lot of factors in it and it can vary per user. It is usually connected to the games feedback loop of inputs causing actions causing reactions in the game. So if you're talking about the tightness of controls, it has to do with how fast the game recognizes your input, begins movement, how fast you move, and in D3/TL2 how well your character path finds to the point you clicked. Combat tightness would related to pressing actions causing attacks that impact enemies in a way that feels like a powerful impact, which has a lot to do with the visuals and sounds associated with those actions.
It is hard to qualify but it is definitely discernible.
I really wish Frost spec (at least at low levels) had a better skill to spam during these stretches of infinite Mana.
Though, I was kind of hoping to avoid Charge Mastery
There's more camera shake in Diablo 3 for a lot of attacks, which gives a sense of feedback. Also, animations have more of a "snap" to them, which tends to peak at the time of impact.
Still, plenty of attacks in Diablo 3 felt like shit (Poison Darts).
Revengeance
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Well, there is all sorts of micro and stutter stepping that is possible, even encouraged in Diablo 3. Trying to do similar things in Torchlight 2 has so far been an exercise in frustration. To me, the ability to pull off high player-skill based actions is what makes a game 'tight and responsive.' Spend a lot of time playing a good MOBA, and you'll know what I mean instinctively.
Still really enjoying the game, I must say.
Just exit the game. The game saves everything how you left it.
I don't know yet.
You know I didn't expect someone to play this who wasn't already familiar with Torchlight 1 or other A-rpgs. Just kill shit and explore. That's your goal.
I've been running dual wield; the high attack speed, execute chance is nice for charge building.
Haven't felt the need for a shield since I have life steal on hit, crit and via skills like the wolf charge thing. Also get life return from my pet and wolf summon as well.
I really love this game, never before i played with "wizard/mage" class, i take in this game and woah it's awesome! The music give me a great atmosphere when i fight with bosses or enter in dungeons.
Embermage level 20 with some specializations in "frost/lighting"
"Icy Blast" and "Hailstorm" destroy every horde!
Embermage level 20 with some specializations in "frost/lighting"
"Icy Blast" and "Hailstorm" destroy every horde!
Being someone who likes to do this sort or thing, which class / spec should I roll?
The first day.
I do not really consider loot that amazing in the game btw, removing half the range of the weapon missile shots (so the missiles actually disappear in thin air WAY before out of screen) JUST so you can introduce +range affix is not really clever, or good - but that is only my opinion, of course. I also could not imagine that people that were tired of allres hunt in ENDGAME D3 would welcome the EARLY GAME +specific res hunt so much that is on all these items
Someone with a gun. Embermage/Outlander is fine I guess, just make sure that you use the fastest weapons possible. That is the key with this.
Also, mouse positioning currently sucks. If you hold the mouse down, the game stops by detecting that and does not go any further - no matter what other hotkey you are spamming or what you might wanna do, as long as LMB is down, the character will repeat its last action on the previous target. Forget 10 years of muscle memory for it, basically.
To me this is responsiveness, and I have no issue with the game here.
I agree that their should be more animations from enemies when they're being hit (staggering, etc). It varies from ability to ability, though.
Agreed and that's why it's annoying when people just throw around buzz words instead of saying what they mean. I appreciate your input.
MagicWithEarvin
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Charge Mastery and Wand Chaos are just awesome for me. Build up the meter with my dual-wand wielding, causing random elemental effects with each strike, then when the meter is full - cause elemental mayhem from afar. Embermage is deadly from ANY range with my build.
Heavy's Sandvich
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I can't stop playing this.
What stats are you using? Do you need to put points into focus or can you just use the passive skill to boost execute?
Yes, you did get a popup that said "kill shit as fast as you can!!!" or did you ignore the huge fucking popup on the screen?
Same. I woke up, smoked a cigarette, ate breakfast, and I've been playing ever since.
There's a cave, and in that cave is a bucket. You put the lotion in the bucket.
Apparently that's a reference but I have no fucking clue what for.
MagicWithEarvin
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You guys are lucky - I only got one unique so far and it isn't even for an Embermage. Can I stash uniques and use them on another playthrough for a different class?
Yeah, there's a share stash in town.
I'm not at that point but that definitely is an interesting mechanic to add to this kind of game. Did they handle it well?
Yes. Put them in your "Shared Stash" in town.
Silence of the Lambs?
Try turning bloom and edge-lighting off and see if you like that better.
*edit* The Steam friends list import is apparently still broken, but you can add friends manually if you know their account names. I'm not sure if the initial Runic-Steam account link is still broken. *edit* Yep, that's still down too, so I can't play with my friend even though I linked my account earlier today.
put in your password first then your other info. I heard that works because they're not really unavailable unless your name is like BoB or something
For what it's worth I just was nicely remembered that gaining a level will identify everything in your inventory.
Got a couple of orange items (finally ! xD ) but for embermage and Outlander
Also died to some Mirka Slashers, I know they are freaking hitting like mad with their ice scream, should have been less reckless
Getting the feel of my engineer, once again I clearly underestimated the potential of shield bash in the beginning, but since I got Overload things just got real
The Goblin caves Boss has gone into some changes since the Beta, did anyone else find it a little bit easy ? (on Veteran difficulty)
Mostly STR and DEX. Not sure what my focus is, but I think the base execute chance is around 15% and execute is at 21%. Stats are 81/73/40/50.
Executioner gives a small passive bonus to activating execute. Dual wield claws make skills proc so easily. The chance of crits go up because of the number of attacks you're putting in and reliance on potions go way down because of the Blood Hunger passive. Combine that with weapon and pet life on hit, Shadow Burst and Wolf Shade, you will steal life constantly, activating Rampage is just a bonus too.
I don't like Eviscerate as it gives you a negative penalty to charge. Instead I run (along with the skills mentioned above), Stormclaw and Storm Hatchet, Howl and Battle Rage. I'm not sure if the Storm Hatchet #s are right at 5% but it feels like it gives you quite a bit more Charge per hit. I like all nine passives as well.
I wish someone would have told me that shadowshot was piss ass buggy before I invested a bunch of points into it.
Similarly, I don't understand your second complaint, as most games in the genre don't allow you to use a hotkey to interrupt auto attack without letting go of the auto attack button; hell, not every game in the genre lets you auto attack, and most of them use a Diablo 2-style control scheme so hotkeys don't actually do anything by themselves anyway.
I'm not sure you understand the complaint about +allres items. People don't like it because it takes the specialization out of selecting gear, which single element resistance has. Also, at the beginning of the game no one gives a crap about resistance anyway.
The first day.
I do not really consider loot that amazing in the game btw, removing half the range of the weapon missile shots (so the missiles actually disappear in thin air WAY before out of screen) JUST so you can introduce +range affix is not really clever, or good - but that is only my opinion, of course. I also could not imagine that people that were tired of allres hunt in ENDGAME D3 would welcome the EARLY GAME +specific res hunt so much that is on all these items
Someone with a gun. Embermage/Outlander is fine I guess, just make sure that you use the fastest weapons possible. That is the key with this.
Also, mouse positioning currently sucks. If you hold the mouse down, the game stops by detecting that and does not go any further - no matter what other hotkey you are spamming or what you might wanna do, as long as LMB is down, the character will repeat its last action on the previous target. Forget 10 years of muscle memory for it, basically.
Similarly, I don't understand your second complaint, as most games in the genre don't allow you to use a hotkey to interrupt auto attack without letting go of the auto attack button; hell, not every game in the genre lets you auto attack, and most of them use a Diablo 2-style control scheme so hotkeys don't actually do anything by themselves anyway.
Yep augmentation gives the weapon bonuses when you kill the required number. So sad I haven't found one yet
Hah well now I know that but when I went in that one (my first one) I only noticed that a message had disappeared. I don't remember what I was doing but I wasn't looking at torchlight when the goal appeared
Hah well now I know that but when I went in that one (my first one) I only noticed that a message had disappeared. I don't remember what I was doing but I wasn't looking at torchlight when the goal appeared
Ya, I think they did. It's a very interesting and well designed dungeon.
1) It is not auto attack cancelling, it is simply auto attack being the priority in most situations where it should not be (and it is not in other games, clearly, otherwise many of us would not be so freaked out by it)
2) My "complaint"* is that I am looking at my gear and all I see is that beside a few basic traits, the most variety is simply "resistance". (Same with non-unique gems btw) That is not variety. This is not D2 where I suddenly decide to farm Andariel only and I need poison res. The game does not throw me one elemental type, and also, if it did, there is no dungeon reset either, so I could not build a gear with that specific res and farm it over and over again. You cant really have elemental resist variety this way - and while All res certainly dumbs it down one step further, at least it does not get introduced until mid-hell, really.
*It is not even a complaint: I am fine with the gear in D3, and fine with it in T2 as well. So far.
Joseph Flemming
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I am having a blast with this game!! It's very addicting, liked the beta, love the finished product. I'm pretty early in, just took down General Grell.. but I have to say I am having way more fun with this than I was with TL1 (which I thought was cool)
Stacking my skill points for now, until a decide on what build I want. I think the music is great, pacing of levels and all of that loot, loot, loot!!
Stacking my skill points for now, until a decide on what build I want. I think the music is great, pacing of levels and all of that loot, loot, loot!!
Off work, time to play~
The majority of the complaints about about the suddenly needing it aspect of All Resistance rather than introducing it over the game. I do agree that having All Resistance (at equal values to single resistances) sort of destroys any rationale behind single resists even existing, however.
The majority of the complaints about about the suddenly needing it aspect of All Resistance rather than introducing it over the game. I do agree that having All Resistance (at equal values to single resistances) sort of destroys any rationale behind single resists even existing, however.
BannedEpisode
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How do I adjust my difficulty?
Im in Act 2 with my Engineer and he is just getting stomped. I havent had much luck with drops. I'm on veteran like I played in Beta but I need to get over this hump.
Im in Act 2 with my Engineer and he is just getting stomped. I havent had much luck with drops. I'm on veteran like I played in Beta but I need to get over this hump.
You can join online games of a lower difficulty, but for single-player? I'm not sure if you can without editing your game files?
HocusPocus
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Wish this was on the 360. I like to split my PC / console game time and my PC time is reserved for Mists of Pandaria (sp?).
Act 2 is in a desert. You are at least there, is your 'hub' called Zeryphesh?