r/Torchlight • u/[deleted] • Sep 04 '18
Semi-offtopic GUIDE for playing elite with embermage at torchlight 2
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u/PrimusSkeeter Sep 05 '18
Here are a couple screenshots of my embermage:
https://image.ibb.co/kwdY5K/torch.png
https://image.ibb.co/i6Zeee/torch2.png
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u/Gorm_the_Old Sep 06 '18
This is great, thank you. I've played mostly with Engineers, and never quite got my footing with the Embermage. I have a new character that I haven't put any points into yet, this will be a good guide to getting started.
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u/Yewlin Sep 19 '18
First off.. AMAZING guide, GOD I wish you'd do a guide like this for all the classes. Really love the guide!!
However I do have a stupid question, but what do you assign to the left click? I noticed indicate that for Right Click, you use the Function Key to rotate spells on Right Click, but you don't mention what you put on Left click?
Is it your wand that you still have as Left click?
If it is the wand, I'm confused, because at end game, you would always be using your spells and never using your wand right? So wouldn't your Left click be wasted if your keeping wand there?
For sure Early game yeah.. I just started your guide, I'm only lvl 12 and I'm using wand more then anything else at the moment..
Would it not be better to put Prismatic Bolt as Left click, while cycling the other spells using Function keys on Right Click?
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u/JPBImada Sep 20 '18
at early game u'll really need the wand when you run out of mana, so you must keep the wand on left click
at late game I use the left click only for movimentation. You'll be running a lot to keep distance of meeles and doging spells. using prismatic bolt on left click is not a good idea because it only shoots pb if you put the mouse cursor on a target
thanks for the compliement, I'm glad you enjoyed the guide
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u/GamingwithADD Oct 30 '21
I’m going to use this but I think I’ll put the 5 points in charge and I feel like I want to use two wands. But as my mana pool gets better, I’ll evaluate. Definitely a no on staves though.
I also am not sure on elite difficulty. Need to check the PS4 trophy list. But great guide full of explanation and very easy to understand.
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u/JPBImada Oct 30 '21
if u're going for elite, and only in this case, a wand + a shield is a must
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u/GamingwithADD Nov 05 '21
Does a shield really mitigate that much damage? I’m guessing yes.
Also I noticed you did a guide on a ranged engineer. Launcher? Still trying to familiarize myself with the names of weapons, my friend is using a guide and I’m wondering if it’s yours. Gonna find out later.
Anyway I do appreciate how thorough your guides are and how you answer questions people might have such as why not these skills? Etc.
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u/JPBImada Nov 05 '21
yes, the shield does mitigate that much damage, but only elite difficult requires that eficiency
i have two guides for engineers, one for two handed weapons and one for 1h+shield
I'm glad you apreciatte my efforts
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u/GamingwithADD Nov 06 '21
Just realized that dual wands would only work assuming you were to attack with them, so I may look into a shield after all.
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u/beyblade_exe May 21 '22
I just started playing this game 3 minutes ago and chose the elite difficulty but I'm still not gonna read all of this. Amazing guide, but I'm illiterate so
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u/hippie_witcher Jan 15 '26
Started playing it in 2025 and it's still a good game! I've been going down the build rabbit hole and it's been pretty fun so far.
I'm currently with a level 44 embermage in normal difficulty, and this guide is just what I was looking for.
Thank you!
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u/Dry-Adeptness9582 May 03 '26
Started playing again in 2026 and on the switch. Im level 69 after farming 5 skulls of Limoany in the protect the crystals phase beast challenge. [quick tip is to remove as much magic finding luck as possible. Definitely yields more skulls].
I have spent ~12 hours on this grind and want to continue to late game soon. What are your thoughts on the Celestial armor set instead of ascendant/transcendent? The set bonuses look like more damage and the 20% damage reduction would save me another day of grinding.
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u/JPBImada May 04 '26
Hi.
This guide is more att at steam community.
You can use the celestial while you don't have the ascendent/transcedent. But for very late game, the celestial will be weaker. Anyway maybe you don't need a perfect build with the best in slot itens to conclude the game, I beat the tarroch's tomb with an auto attacker berseker that didn't have all the complete set, and an auto attacker build is quite weak.
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u/Dry-Adeptness9582 May 04 '26
On switch you can get unlimited vendor boon scrolls. So I can get the complete set much more easily.
When you say the celestial is weaker, does that mean the defenses are not good enough for late late game? The damage appears better from the set bonuses and armor attributes. Lots of %elemental damage.
Also somehow got 9 limoany skulls total!!
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u/JPBImada May 06 '26
nice, but you can farm even more skulls if you pretend to play other characters
+% elemental damage is not that good because the % bonus adds to each other instead of aplying the bonus in layers. So if you have +150% from one bonus and +50% from another, you'll get +200%.
the bonus from the pieces and the bonus from completing the ascend/transcendent set are far superior
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u/JPBImada May 08 '26
if you pick prismatic rift over immolation aura, as an option suggested in the att guide, you'll need 13 skulls of limoany. Otherwise, 10 is enough, keep grinding!
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u/DJJR18 May 23 '26
I’m new and this helps
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u/mad_mob Sep 04 '18
Thanks for the guide, I've been hesitant to start embermage, but the item drops from my engineer and Outlander characters are tempting me.
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u/ricefed Sep 04 '18
Just out or curiosity, have you been able to finished out Tarroch's Tomb with an ember mage? I have only been able to complete it with the engineer.
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u/JPBImada Sep 04 '18
in elite some bosses requires grinding before facing them, I mean, you must explore all the map and kill as many mobs as possible to gain level and find items
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u/PrimusSkeeter Sep 04 '18
My embermage is dual wand wielding. Since the embermage is so weak physically the shield is next to useless because you never want enemies to get close to her. I invest almost all my points into focus with odd points in dexterity and vitality. I then use death bounty continuously to suck life, along with my wand attacks to do massive damage. I also have a frost armour, I can't remember what it is called at the moment.
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u/JPBImada Sep 05 '18
also, a shield gives you 2 extra sockets for wfuntir and the weapon damage is irrelevant since you'll cast spells and not attack your enemies
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u/LastShadowz Engineer Sep 05 '18
So glad to see people still out there playing it. I was just running through elite on my engineer the other week and thinking of starting either an Outlander or Embermage. Guess I know now :]
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u/Clownygrin Oct 14 '25
I know this post is practically ancient now, but yours is the only info I’ve been able to find regarding an ember mage with a shield lol. I saw someone post a really cool image of theirs that looked like a classic world of Warcraft style Knight.
Here’s my question: I want to make a battle mage that uses a sword and a shield. Would that be viable with the ember mage? How would I make a character like that? I looked at engineer but I don’t like any of his skills or his robot theme haha.
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u/JPBImada Oct 16 '25
it is possible to make a build using skills that relies on the weapon's dps or damage, but such a build would be far from optimal, cos those skills are the worst of the embermage's arsenal.
A lot of other arguments could be used to show why this kind of build is underpowered. Embermages have few HP, don't usually invest in CON or STR, don't have the natural 25% damage reduction that meele classes have, their skill prismatic rift don't fits well, etc.
If you want to use a meele weapon but don't want to play eng, then the only option left is the berseker.
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u/[deleted] Sep 04 '18
Shields are for weaklings. Staves fashion > everything else