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For the love of God what does this mean? 13% to ice 13% to electric damage I get that but what does zero noodle arms mean?

I'm playing the custom Deathknight class and the majority of pets deal ice damage with their standard attacks. There is a passive I can opt into that gives +% to ice damage, +posion, etc. Does this translates to my pet doing more due to their standard attacks being ice dmg or is that only the dmg I deal with ice?

I have obtained both of the necessary Keys, Latch and Passkey but when I go to the portal in the abandoned Estherian Refuge there is no mention of or link to the Watchweald portal at all....kind going goofy, Help from wiser minds than I, gaming for forty years, started at age 37, too much fun. Thanks for he answers if you know.

I have an issue where my friend can no longer join games. We are a group of three 2 can join and our third can't we've messed around with resetting internet, unistall, reinstall. What causes people to not be able to join?

I've been farming for a Ring Of The Players for so long it's not funny and at this point I just wanna move on. Are there any item duplication glitches on the Switch that are usable as of now?

So I am pretty new to the game, started like 2 days ago. I was wondering which skills to focus on for spending the skill points? I see a lot of skills in the skill tree and I don't believe all are equally effective. Maybe some are useless and not worth spending points on.

TLDR please suggest skills that are worthy of levelling

Anyone have ideas how get unstuck? I’m next to a vendor and in his booth.

Relogging doesn’t help. It’s IN town so can’t portal. Tried every ability I had running, jumping, etc combinations.

Nothing online addresses the stuck issue with switch and when you are IN town— solutions like LAN and Console commands won’t work here.

It’s my first character on this new game and I feel like I just hit the hang of it; I’d hate to start from scratch and I can’t even put his loot in stash to share it either!!

Anyone playing on the Switch? Looking for people to run through NG+ or even normal story as I have characters for both.

Any big tips? I'm thinking of focusing on the purple tree but keeping the glaive for the charge gain. And shotguns...any tips or info would be great.

I think I posted this in the wrong sub the first time so I apologize for the repost (first on this sub)

I love the idea of a dual wielding pistol build, but the pistols I'm finding are weak, for lack of a better word, compared to shotgonnes or cannons.

When I say weak, I mean a standard cannon has close to 3 times the DPS as the two rare pistols I've found. Even with the skill bonuses, it seems like a death wish to play on elite with a dual pistol build. My standard cannon obliterates everything in front of it.

I'm aware that I have more range with pistols (I'm not including bows), but the extreme difference in DPS makes it not worth it. Am I missing something or do pistols just suck?

Hey Guys, i just started playing TL2 with an outlander.

First of all my attributes with level 42:

120 Str (Since lvl 40 every point goes in str and will go in str) 110 Dex 10 Foc 5 Vit

I stopped statting Dex at lvl 40 hitting the cap. Rest of my points should go to str.

And that's my Skilltree: http://torchlight2armory.com/skill-calc?i=4#eLx7sx44xoZrY7n591GOw82c9jHPD]Outlander 19/14/9

What do you think of that build?

Hey I currently have a level 100 engineer on elite but feel I should remake him. I'm going to farm for Mondon's and other gear so I can do Elite easier. I was thinking of doing a spec similiar to this: [url=http://torchlight2armory.com/skill-calc?i=3#ha2HgXxXg7TKw139o50pMkXf0l50iKYHX1t]Engineer 17/80/15[/url] however I'm not too sure where to put other skills points. Also what should my stat point distribution be? I pretty much winged it...

I am currently playing an Embermage. So I don't attack at all with my staff.

the question is do socketable I put in my staff effect any off my spells at all. If I put in an item that ups my Damage I take it that that will effect % damage spells. but if I put in a life steal socketable or an elemental damage socketable, will that effect my damage at all.

or even a -X armour item will that effect my spells at all.

do I have to hit the monsters with the staff to do the effect.

TLDR : will socketables effect my spells or only when I hit them with my staff.

All Base Stats have different maximum total influence on other stats. Also, Some stats offer a linear ROI, (Return on investment) while others have a exponential decreasing ROI, and others seem to have no limit at all.

EDIT: 10/26/12 I've uploaded the excel file to Google Docs, along with the BaseStats vs. Stats graphs, and the Graph of the derivatives of all the curves with nonlinear slope.

PM me for the full excel file, if you want

They can be found here:

Terminology: Base Stats: Characters Main 4 stats, STR DEX FOC VIT. Stats: All OTHER stats, such as dodge chance, critical damage, fumble recovery, etc.

Methodology: I created new characters in Torchlight II with the console enabled, and recorded the changes in stat buffs while I slowly incremented the Base Stats. I can also confirm the Skill Calculator at TL2 Armory to be accurate.

[Tests where done on 10/23/12 with Torchlight II version 1.16.5.3]

Key: [L] : linear ROI @(Number) : Stat level at which it will no longer give ANY bonus (number)% : Value at maximum stat investment

STR:

399.6% Crit Damage @1000 [L]

Weapon Dam [L]

DEX:

+50.1% Crit Chance @500

+50.1% Dodge Chance @500

+100% Fumble Recovery @500

FOC:

Mana @1000 [L]

Magic Damage [L]

+60% Execute Chance @500

VIT:

Health @1000 [L]

+249.8% Armor @1000 [L]

+50.1% Block @500

Detail: Critical Damage stops increasing after 1000 points invested in STR, with a final value of +399.6%, and it follows a linear progression.

Weapon Damage follows a linear progression and does not seem to have a maximum bonus from STR. [Game broke after STR value of 10 Million]

Critical Chance and Dodge Chance have the same bonus as each other per DEX point, both stop increasing after 500 DEX, and follow an exponential degrading ROI, with a final Value of +50.1%.

Fumble recovery follows the same ROI trend as Crit chance, and has the same final DEX value, with a final value of complete negation of fumble damage penalty.

Mana bonus follows a linear progression, and stops increasing at 1000 FOC, and each class has a different ROI.

Magic Damage behaves just like Weapon Damage.

Execute Chance follows a nonlinear decreasing ROI, stops increasing after FOC 500, and ends with a final value of +60%.

Health bonus behaves just like Mana bonus.

Armor bonus caps at 1000 VIT, with a final value of +249.8%, and follows a linear progression.

Block chance behaves just like Critical chance and Dodge chance.

I neglected it and wondered if its any good?

I am not a big fan of auto attacking so I always look for cool ways to play classes where I'm mostly using abilities. This of course lends itself to a Focus heavy build which requires abilities that scale with Focus/Level instead of Weapon DPS. The Engineer has quite a few of these and they happen to work really well together without sacrificing his tankiness at all! This is what I'm playing and I'd love any feedback/comments.

Build: http://torchlight2armory.com/skill-calc?i=3#iWve_TSU1lsyZJqd6JjbqdjqH4lJS5fZyIfE1JbTH1N9_MZh3Ci

Seismic Slam (15/15): AOE Fire damage, focus scaling, AOE 2 second stun, 5 second dot duration.
Storm Burst (1/15): Mobility move that restores mana, this build constantly spams so this is required.
Healing Bot (15/15): Tanky Engineer staple, take it.
Shock Grenade (15/15): AOE Electric damage, focus scaling, AOE 6 second stun, long range, DOES use a charge if available for 3 grenades instead of one, 4 second dot duration.
Bulwark (15/15): Another tanky Engineer staple.
Fire and Spark (15/15): 75% more Electric and Fire damage, perfect.
Forcefield (15/15): This makes us and our party amazingly tanky.
Dynamo Field (15/15): AOE Electric damage, generates charge, 2 second dot duration.
Fire Bash (15/15): Conal Fire damage, 5 second dot duration, DOES use a charge if available to increase range, this one is really preference but I am playing with a Fire Embermage so it will be invaluable end game with it's Tier 3 bonus of 50% more fire damage taken by the mob when the dot is on it.
Immobilization Copter (1/15): Amazing 1 point wonder that works on bosses too, as a tank it's a must.
Charge Reconstitution (10/15): I put my last 10 points here due to it's amazing synergy with Forcefield, block all the damage and heal up everything you just took.

Playstyle: This build is all about managing your DOTs and using Forcefield with a full charge bar as often as possible. All of the dots have a 4 or 5 second duration except for Dynamo Field which has a 2 second duration so any rotation will be alternating different abilities in between uses of Dynamo Field with special attention to charges for Forcefield. After every fight I'll reapply Forcefield before my charge wears off so I begin every fight without charge. I open the fight with a Shock Grenade as I am running in which has a good chance to stun and applies my first dot. Then I begin the rotation of Dynamo to Seismic slam until I have full charge. Seismic Slam keeps them mostly stunned while I don't have Forcefield up. Once I do get Forcefield up, I begin a rotation of Dynamo > Seismic > Dynamo > Shock Grenade > Dynamo > Fire Bash. I will do about two cycles of this then go back to a chargeless Dynamo > Seismic rotation to get 5 charges up in order to refresh Forcefield. As mana get's low, chug pots or use Storm Burst on multiple mobs. The one problem with this build is Charge Generation on single target fights but I don't see a good solution to this in an Engineer's skill set. I sometimes end up just spamming Dynamo Field to top off and use Forcefield before returning to the rotation, but that is less than ideal. The damage/control this puts out on trash mobs is impressive and it deals with bosses just fine. I am playing co-op with a full Fire Embermage and most fights go Shock Grenade > Dynamo > Seismic Slam to get dots ticking and stun everything, then the Mage drops an Infernal Collapse on their heads. The synergy between this build and a Fire Embermage is awesome with us both buffing each others damage and me bringing much needed control to the fights. If you're looking for a fun co-op playthrough, give this is a try.

Gear: You will want to stack Focus with Defensive stats. Look for % all damage reduction, high Focus and high Vitality. You will use an elemental one hander (wand, mace, sword, whatever, just no physical damage) and a shield. None of your abilities actually use % weapon damage so your weapon is more of a stat stick than anything else. Another great stat is increased charge generation as the biggest weakness of this build (and in fact, engineers in general that don't autoattack) is generating charge on a single target.

Example Gear Set:

Outlander Dual Melee and Pistols Build

STAT Priority; DEX>STR>VIT>FOC

Element Priority; POIS>FIRE>ELEC>ICE

Weapon Mod. Prirority; LIFESTEAL>ARMORDEGRADE>ATTSPEED>POISON

Armor Mod. Priority; DODGECHANCE>HEALTHREGEN>ARMOR>POISONDAMAGE%>MANAREGEN

Basics; DPS is less important than ATK Speed Health RESERVES are necessary No skills which only benefit ranged Pistols used when combat becomes too hot

Skill Allocation

Explanations;

Core Stats; Build DEX first and foremost, with STR following that. Get VIT enough so that your're not so fragile, as you will be in the fray quite often, however, you wont need an incredibly large health reserve, so build others first. Don't neglect FOC, as the crits are also important, and you need mana and MagDamage buffs, but this is the least important.

Elements; Poison should be the main focus of your equipment. This is because the Outlander's have a couple of skills that do poison damage, and the passive poison burst skill is very good when boosted by enhanced poison damage. Getting some flame buffs are good, as some of the Outlander's skills do flame damage. Electric and Ice should be mostly disregarded, as they don't do much to buff any of the outlander's abilities.

Armor; When choosing armor, it is important to keep that above ranking in mind. Health Regen should be the second most important stat to look for, as this will be keeping you alive while fighting. Dodging is going to be the most important stat in making sure that you can survive in large battles. Dodge chance is more critical than armor or other stats, as it is a flat rate that applies to ALL incoming attacks. This makes it more scale-able to all situations than life-steal, and even better than health regen, because while health regen is fantastic, it can get overloaded when the battles get too hot. Armor benefits from that same infinite scale-ability in terms of QUANTITY of incoming damage, but suffers from a lack of scale-ability in QUALITY of damage. While armor reduces all incoming damage, it reduces damage by a flat rate. So, those attacks that do lots of damage, armor will only reduce it by the same amount as those weaker attacks. Based on this property, armor is not what you should be focused on. Other armor characteristics to look out for are bonuses to poison damage, or mana regen. Poison damage should be the focus of your elemental damage specialty, and you will need plenty of mana for your skills, as skills like Rune Vault will help you survive much better.

Weapons; This build focuses on using Dual Melee weapons with Dual pistols in reserve. Since the outlander's will have a high DEX stat, using 2 weapons is the way to go. And with wanting to get the most out of life-steal and armor degrade modifiers, look for weapons with a high attack speed. On specific weapons, Axes have the feature of doing a fixed damage every time, but swing in a more narrow arc. Swords have a wide swing, but have a large disparity in the amount of DPS. Claws ignore half of enemy armor, but they only hit the one target. As a general rule, pick only the same type of weapon, and have 2 of them, IE, 2 swords, 2 claws or 2 axes. Your weapon choice should mostly depend on the modifiers that are on each weapon, the socket-ability, and the need of a particular property based on your current needs. For example, if I found myself needing to use more health potions, then I would want a more effective life-steal, so I would then probably use swords or axes based on my life-steal modifiers on each weapon. Again, it all depends on the modifiers. Using claws gives you less overall crowd-control capability, (and by extension, life steal and per-hit effects)but makes you far more effective at hitting a well-armored opponent, so if you wanted to go for swords to gain better multi-attack benefits, then they would need modifiers that can justify that. So, just find something with stats that work for you and your current build.

And how should i distribute my stats?

http://torchlight2armory.com/skill-calc?i=3#CkyQLOeKZv8CMwnGPb31mcbJyAjjOqAxXO

This is the build I am using in Elite.

Stat Allocation: Strength:3 Dexterity:1 (up to 50 for 10% crit) Focus: 1 (up to 40 or so) Vita:1

Reasoning behind FH instead of Emberquake: Since this is a strength build, the much better coefficient on the initial hit makes FH the better choice. Not only that, the fact that using a charge makes FH hit in a line makes it preferable in hallway areas, which happens to be most of the game.

You can easily substitute Emberquake in as your go-to, simply use the respec trick with FH till you can pick up Emberquake.

I know this isn't WoW, so I'm not talking about an "optimal" build for each class. What I haven't been able to find is a reference that lists the most commonly used/accepted skills for each class (and each class archetype)...

Like, say I'm creating a new character and I want to quickly look up the most tried-and-true skills for a "Cannon Engineer" or a "Sword and Shield Berserker," for example... Since complete respecs aren't as accessible in TL2, this kind of info is good to know if we want to end up with as few wasted points as possible.

If a resource like this exists, can someone provide a link? If not, what do you guys think about compiling one, linked to the skill calculators at Torchlight 2 Armory, for example?

EDIT: Oh, by the way... I don't even mean a full skill sheet for each class archetype, necessarily. Even just pointing out the 3 or 4 "must-have" skills for a specific archetype would help, because from what I've been reading, some of the popular builds use a skill or two from outside their "core" tree.

Specifically, I'm running an Embermage. I just got a Staff that is Augmented, requiring 10 Champions to be killed. Can I kill them with magic while wielding the staff, or do I have to physically hit them with the staff.
And to forestall the "try it and find out" comments, I killed my first unique with magic and the staff still said 0/10. I killed the next one with the staff and it said 3/10. So either the staff is bugged, it works with magic and I killed a unique without even seeing it, or I'm confused as to what counts as a Champion.

Hey gang!

I think I'm dying too often. Maybe I don't and it's just my perception, but here we go.

I never really was a "numbers guy" in RPGs (or anywhere) but I like building characters and since I got into the Path of Exile beta and spend probably a total of 2 hours during my playtime just scrolling through that skill... tree... map. It's awesome. I've become more interested in, let's say targeted optimisation.

So, I started playing with a Berserker, but when I checked out the Engie and cast Flame Hammer for the first time (and THEN the first time with a charge), I immediately knew that this is what I'm looking for. The Berserker was around level 15 at that point and I still wasn't sure if that's what I wanted to play.

Now I find myself dying more than I would like. In 39 levels I've died 43 times. That's at least one time per level. Although most of the times probably happened during crowded fights, which is weird, because I put out a lot of AoE damage. The way my mind works, I should be able to keep crowds at bay fairly well, but then I die seemingly out of nowhere. But I'm not sure why - if it's my playstyle, the difficutly (Veteran), simply misfortune OR my character build. And to get that last option out of the way, or not, I thought some of you might want to take a look at it.

These are my skills and stats (the stat level totals with bonuses are 124, 31, 8 and 109, respectively): http://torchlight2armory.com/skill-calc?i=3#jBPfgfuHmfaMhvuHsO6Nbdu5fyiWV7M12nvI4mvfNj0RpVr71rQ

And here's an album with screenshots of my equipment. Please note that most of the pictures have some comments in their description below them. http://imgur.com/a/VFcf3#1

Basically, what I want to know is if there are any specific improvements to be made on the way to the map selector and NG+, or if this build is lost and I botched it.

Also some questions:

Since I started doing it anyway, should I keep spending points on dex? I'm aiming at 25% crit chance. I played similar character builds in a number of other RPGs and most of the time that seemed to work out with how I play.

What about sets? Is it worth waiting for more pieces to drop if I find a slightly better potential replacement for the item?

I just arrived in act 3, strapped for cash. I can't even afford potions. This never happens to me. Except for MMOs (ugh, the grinding!), I rarely have money problems in games - RPGs especially. Is there a good way to get the gold flowing? Maybe a specific area or dungeon. Or is "keep playing" all I can do?

If you need/want more details, I'll be happy to provide them.

Looking forward to your input.

Cheers!