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Torchlight |OT| The Definitive Loot game of 2009
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BlueScrote
Member
Pimpbaa said:
I know exactly what you mean. Every since Diablo 2 I've been looking for a game that comes close to the addictive loot game that is Diablo. This is really the only one that feels close to it.
Shame no multiplayer though.
I played the demo on a whim and I am amazed. I was playing through on Hard/Hardcore mode and it was FANTASTIC.
It's a good thing I died while doing that quest through the special portal
. Otherwise I'd have been up all night.
It's a good thing I died while doing that quest through the special portal
(For the guy who wants to be the richest man in town. Just after the first story twist.)
I feel sick playing this game.
I bought an identify scroll and used it for a while, discovered another one and gave it to my pet, figuring I'd be able to just use it off him; thus promptly overwrote my own identify scroll. Discovered I couldn't use pet's scroll, overwrote it, and now I can never, ever, ever find an identify scroll at the store or in the dungeon.
I'm going to cry.
Edit: Replace "scroll" with "spell" I guess? Just figured out if I played an alt character I can find her selling the right spells again and can just put them into my shared stash. Why did I not try this earlier...
Edit2: Welp that was fast. Ahh it's like I'm breathing fresh air now that I can just ID stuff w/o scrolls.
Final edit: And to add insult to injury, I come back after a quick portal quest, and she has an ID spell for me. What a bitch! :lol
I bought an identify scroll and used it for a while, discovered another one and gave it to my pet, figuring I'd be able to just use it off him; thus promptly overwrote my own identify scroll. Discovered I couldn't use pet's scroll, overwrote it, and now I can never, ever, ever find an identify scroll at the store or in the dungeon.
I'm going to cry.
Edit: Replace "scroll" with "spell" I guess? Just figured out if I played an alt character I can find her selling the right spells again and can just put them into my shared stash. Why did I not try this earlier...
Edit2: Welp that was fast. Ahh it's like I'm breathing fresh air now that I can just ID stuff w/o scrolls.
Final edit: And to add insult to injury, I come back after a quick portal quest, and she has an ID spell for me. What a bitch! :lol
Dreavus said:
^^
I basically remade a frenzy barbarian in torchlight by heavy use of haste.
Dual wielding unique maces with maxed dual wield and the weapon expertise skill, slash is pretty high up as well. I love wading into a group of trash and killing the whole group with one slash, then standing there beating down the boss with full hp thanks to the lifesteal and the insane attack speed.
modeps said:Yeah it's ours. ThanksI'm normally the host, but today I was the one coughing and not talking well.
Thanks for the podcast. I listened to it all.
The most interesting tidbit I picked up was that they would likely release an official multi-player mode with Torchlight when the MMO releases. That could be 2 years from now, but at least it could breathe some life back into the title at that time.
mysticstylez
Banned
Ok completed the main storyline (just shy of 10hrs fucking rocked). How do I get into this infinite dungeon thing?
Outdoor Miner
Member
Just d/l'ed the demo for this bored as I await the arrival of my copy of CoDMW2, and holy crap is it addictive. Dare I say the best Diablo "clone" I've ever played.
rohlfinator
Member
Playing a pure Lore Alchemist is awesome. The imps and golems are some of the most fun summons I've seen in a game, and it's so cool to have 6 imps, 2 golems, and my pet all fully buffed and beating the crap out of a tough enemy. I just need to throw some points into Charm Spell Mastery and pick up a couple skeleton spells to build my army even further.
I hope someone creates an extended storage mod soon... My shared stash has pretty much turned into a permanent gem storage, and I've already started a mule to hold my set items. I've already started dumping a lot of my less-useful uniques because they're not worth the juggling.
I hope someone creates an extended storage mod soon... My shared stash has pretty much turned into a permanent gem storage, and I've already started a mule to hold my set items. I've already started dumping a lot of my less-useful uniques because they're not worth the juggling.
rohlfinator
Member
Yeah, that's what I've been doing with the most recent bunch. Still feels like such a waste, though.bdouble said:
rohlfinator said:Playing a pure Lore Alchemist is awesome. The imps and golems are some of the most fun summons I've seen in a game, and it's so cool to have 6 imps, 2 golems, and my pet all fully buffed and beating the crap out of a tough enemy. I just need to throw some points into Charm Spell Mastery and pick up a couple skeleton spells to build my army even further.
I hope someone creates an extended storage mod soon... My shared stash has pretty much turned into a permanent gem storage, and I've already started a mule to hold my set items. I've already started dumping a lot of my less-useful uniques because they're not worth the juggling.
That's a great idea with the mule. I'll have to do that since I'm also facing the same shortage. Right now my main stash is solely used for gems and I use the shared stash for holding uniques, sets, potions and the odd green or blue until I can get enough for 4 to transform them into gems.
Hey does anyone know of a good site with info on this game? Without any respeccing I would like to read up on what some of these abilities do before I waste any points in them.
For example I'm unsure what "Frailty" (iirc, it's in the combat tree of the alchemist) does. Is it any useful for a melee alchemist?
For example I'm unsure what "Frailty" (iirc, it's in the combat tree of the alchemist) does. Is it any useful for a melee alchemist?
mysticstylez
Banned
Anyone know of a way to "reset" a level? For example I just started the first level of Shadow Vault and I sold a quest item that drops on that floor on accident, yet when I go back to that level its already all cleared out. Any way to have it respawn all the enemies and chests and shit?
rohlfinator
Member
I don't really like having to use the mule, though, since it can be pretty slow switching characters. It kind of annoys me that you can effectively have unlimited storage (thanks to unlimited mules), but there's no easier way to do it "legitimately". They could have one of the vendors sell storage upgrades for a really high price, or even have it as a rare item that only drops in the Shadow Vault or something.Javaman said:
There are three or four wikis, but none of them seem to be very fleshed out yet. This one is probably the best of the bunch.Lumine said:
It seems like they reset themselves either after you visit a certain number of other floors, or after a certain time limit (~30 minutes). But I think it's possible for it to respawn the enemies without respawning the quest item, in which case you'll have to just abandon the quest.mysticstylez said:
Teknopathetic
Member
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ROi_PoWQThc
Video of a multiplayer mod working.
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4509
Video of a multiplayer mod working.
http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=6&t=4509
scotcheggz
Member
Shadow780 said:
This is nice to know. I'm about to buy it for my laptop, which should be fine considering it has an Nvidia 8600M GT.
Looks like a lot of fun, but I've read it is addictive as hell, so I'll see you in a week GAF!
BobFromPikeCreek
Member
This mod will be my new god when it is finished.Teknopathetic said:
With the editor released and the promise of this new multiplayer mod, this game is going to be pretty incredible in about 12 months time.
If you are someone wanting to break into the gaming industry, this could be a golden ticket if you craft the right thing. This game could be to aspiring mod makers what HL2 was to many people 10 years ago.
If you are someone wanting to break into the gaming industry, this could be a golden ticket if you craft the right thing. This game could be to aspiring mod makers what HL2 was to many people 10 years ago.
scotcheggz
Member
So I'm just downloading now, does anyone know if a melee vanquisher build is actually any good? I've always been a fan of assassin type characters and was hoping it would be viable. I read around a bit and had a look at the torchlight official forum, but nobody was giving too much up about it.
I'm always super paranoid abut my builds. HALP!
I'm always super paranoid abut my builds. HALP!
Awwwe enchanting sucks. Some super lovely unique sword dropped for me. First unique item that I could actuall use and its exactly what I wanted, so I was really happy with it and its amazing stats. So I take it to the enchanter and "Oops! I removed all your enchantments!" ERGQIAGHARGREGYOU BASTeRD!( Out of frustration I started enchanting it again like crazy. Until I noticed I wasted every single penny I had and it's still not nearly as good as when I found it.
So yeah, I like the concept of enchanting, but this kind of sucks. I'm also thinking of putting my battle alchemist down for a while and play something else. It just doesn't seem nearly as effective or fun as many of the other builds you can make.
Still a great game though. Very addictive.
( Out of frustration I started enchanting it again like crazy. Until I noticed I wasted every single penny I had and it's still not nearly as good as when I found it. So yeah, I like the concept of enchanting, but this kind of sucks. I'm also thinking of putting my battle alchemist down for a while and play something else. It just doesn't seem nearly as effective or fun as many of the other builds you can make.
Still a great game though. Very addictive.
PuppetSlave
Member
Almak said:
Can't you just cheat and try the different builds you want to try?
Personally I use this: skill calc thingy
Masklinn said:
Steam presumably got the hotfix to deal with this problem, and I think at the Torchlight forums you can find fixes for the other services.
My shitty wizard is definitely giving better enchants (steam version), though I'm getting to 18% chance of disenchantment and so am starting to lighten up on the particular weapon I am using now.
Well I started it up last night on normal (as they state is the default difficulty for noobs to this genre). I got through to the first boss and found the game to be boring. I was just mindlessly killing dudes, constantly having to sort through the minor upgrades and junk that was flowing off mobs, and I never had to chug a potion or worry about my health (also ended up accumulating like 25 pots). I thought "maybe I'm doing this wrong", so I restarted on hard... enjoyed myself a lot more this time. I'm gonna get into it tonight and see how it goes.
Since Mules hadn't crossed the minds of some, here's another space saver (great for dungeon crawls and general storage):
Regarding gem storage, don't forget to set aside items you find that have two slots. Simply put the gems in the sockets, you can effectively store two gems per slot that way.
Makes them slightly harder to manage, but hey, no pain, no gain. I thank the deities that recovering the gems is free. Just don't talk to the wrong disenchanter by accident.
My problem is that I'm drowning in uniques. Most of them are crap, but my OCD prevents me from ever getting rid of them. If it's orange or purple I need to add it to my stash, no matter the cost. I really need more storage space... or at least a "uinique item log" to allow me to look at them again after I sold them.
Regarding gem storage, don't forget to set aside items you find that have two slots. Simply put the gems in the sockets, you can effectively store two gems per slot that way.
Makes them slightly harder to manage, but hey, no pain, no gain. I thank the deities that recovering the gems is free. Just don't talk to the wrong disenchanter by accident.
My problem is that I'm drowning in uniques. Most of them are crap, but my OCD prevents me from ever getting rid of them. If it's orange or purple I need to add it to my stash, no matter the cost. I really need more storage space... or at least a "uinique item log" to allow me to look at them again after I sold them.
mysticstylez
Banned
Finding an awesome Purple Polearm at vendor - 4kg
Enchanting it to maybe get an extra socket - 2kg
Getting greedy and ending up losing all enchantments, then trying to get them back - 30kg
F.M.L
Enchanting it to maybe get an extra socket - 2kg
Getting greedy and ending up losing all enchantments, then trying to get them back - 30kg
F.M.L
Cromulent_Word
Member
god dammit. fine. i will buy and play this game. fine.
rohlfinator
Member
This game seems like the type where you can kind of make it as easy or as hard as you want. It can be a real cakewalk on the lower difficulties, or even on the harder ones if you over-level or have the right gear, but if you want challenge, there are definitely ways of finding it.falastini said:
I wasn't planning to pick up MW2 or Dragon Age right away anyway, but Torchlight completely killed my playthrough of Borderlands. It's definitely my game of choice for the moment.Macmanus said: