Torchlight II is an action role-playing game developed by Runic Games, released on 20th September 2012. It is the sequel to Runic's 2009 Action RPG Torchlight, and features peer-to-peer multiplayer support and extended modding capabilities.
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What's the most efficient method of transferring gold between characters?
Aside from tranferring all your gold to a friend who will then tranfer it to your new player, it appears that the only way to transfer gold is by buying items that have a higher sell rate and ...
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How can I keep my Embermage alive?
The Embermage class, unlike the other three available classes in Torchlight 2, seems to lack any decent defensive spells:
Death's Bounty is arguably the most useful defensive spell, allowing you to ...
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What are the pros and cons of the single entity summon spells?
Torchlight 2 offers several summon spells:
Zombies
Skeleton Archers
Skeleton Warrior
Blood Zombie
Nether Imp
I often equip the first two on this list, simply because they seem to be the best ...
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Does reflect prevent damage in Torchlight 2?
How does "%X reflect damage" enchant on items work? Is the damage applied to the character and the reflect in % to the enemy? Does it mean that it is useless with character with high percentage of ...
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Can I Use a Vanilla Torchlight 2 Character With a Modded TL2?
So I have a higher level Berserker and wanted to create a mod myself to change some minor things. The problem is as soon as I load the mod I don't have access to my vanilla character. Can I somehow ...
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Are there any game items that grant fishing luck?
The Arcane Statistics page for each character has a line item labeled "Fishing Luck." What, if anything, affects this? Mine has always been at 0, and I've never seen any gear or potions which boost ...
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Are there any bonuses for playing higher difficulties in Torchlight 2? [duplicate]
Are there any bonuses for playing on higher difficulties in Torchlight 2? For example, will I get better gear?
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What are those specks of map that I see when walking the contour of an area?
I usually walk the contour of a map while exploring an area. Many times while doing this, I will uncover a "speck of map" around the edge of the map screen that seems to indicate a hidden area. Is ...
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What's better for a Berserker? Howl or Battle Rage?
In torchlight 2 for a berserker with a shield, whats better? howl or battle rage?
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How do passive effects stack?
I play an Outlander and have invested in passive Shadowling Ammo and Poison Burst, both of which may produce an effect upon enemy death. Let's assume I have a activation chance of 20% on both.
How ...
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Torchlight 2 - How does +elemental damage work?
Does +element damage items increase damage of spells or just add elemental damage to the attack of the weapon it's on?
For example, I have a poison damage focused Outlander and was wondering if ...
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Whats better for 2H Vet. Solo Eng.- Vit or Dex?
So I'm playing a 2h engineer solo on veteran difficulty and i want to know opinions on what would be better to put points in to- vit and str, or dex and str? Thanks.
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Torchlight 2 Passive Spells
So there are passive spells in Torchlight 2 that I can use on either me or my pet. If I use them on my pet, will I get the effects or just my pet? If I use them on myself, will I get the effect and ...
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Torchlight 2 crash message: Unable to determine file type( Best Guess ASCII)
Suddenly and at random, I get this error message when trying to start Torchlight 2:
I'll type it out for search engine crawlers:
"Unable to determine file type( Best Guess ASCII). You need to save ...
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Does Shockbolts lower the target's resistances?
I'm confused about the skill "Staff Mastery" in Torchlight 2. I'm pretty sure I'm right, but let me just get this straight:
If I use Shockbolts, (in addition to the other skills),
Does lower the ...
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What does this enemy effect icon mean?
I'm seeing a strange icon appear over enemies on a random (fairly rare) basis. The icon I'm talking about is shown on the left side of the screenshot below:
In this screenshot, you can see it ...
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What is this shining in the skull?
Walking through the Ossean Wastes, I found the following.
What is it? I haven't found the way to interact with it.
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Turning off my pet's idle sound?
Is there a way to turn off pet idle sounds in Torchlight 2? I'd rather not hear random growls when I Alt+Tab out. I read this guide, however I can't seem to find my game data. I installed the game ...
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Do gems have secondary effects?
Do elemental gems in Torchlight 2 have secondary effects other than direct elemental damage or elemental armor?
I am referring to poison, fire, ice and electric gem and try to understand which of ...
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Getting my reward in Zeryphesh
I remember travelling in the Frosted Hills and encountering a group of injured Zeraphis and their ambassador Lord Taldimut.
He offered two quests, which I completed in due time, the Zeraphi Envoy, ...
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Is there any advantage to talking to random townspeople?
Back in the olden days of RPGs like Dragon Warrior and Final Fantasy, you didn't have quest arrows showing you exactly where you needed to go. If it was your first playthrough and you didn't have ...
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How can I install mods in the Steam version of Torchlight 2?
How can I install mods on the Steam version of Torchlight 2? Also, will any mod I install flag my account as "cheater" as the "respec potion" mod does?
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How can I survive the elite difficulty in Torchlight 2?
I'm trying for the third or fourth time to make it through the Elite difficult level in Torchlight 2, and as usual, I'm unable to proceed past the second stage of act 1 (the Estherian Steppes). This ...
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Where are the cursed tombs?
I am searching for Boris the Stout and several sources say he randomly appears in the cursed tombs. Where is this place? I am surprised that there is very little info on Google about this place.
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Torchlight II for Mac? [closed]
What is the current status of the Torchlight II port for Mac?
There are plenty of articles from the release date a few months ago, and several quotes that suggest a port is "a couple months away." I ...
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Does the weapon DPS contribute to Hailstorm?
Does the Damage of the weapon contribute to e.g. Hailstorm and other Embermage skills such as Thunder Locus without mention of the DPS?
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Where can I buy elemental resistance potions?
I've purchased potions of fire and ice resistance, but now I am out and need to buy more. However, I can't remember where I bought them the first time. I checked the Imperial Camp and the town after ...
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Change “New Game Plus” tier in Torchlight 2
Currently I am in a “New Game Plus” mode in Torchlight 2. But I want to change back to normal game mode. Is there a way to do this? Could also be a mod. I just want a functionality, like in Diablo 2 ...
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How does Difficulty scale damage in Torchlight 2
I made an an engineer with 2:1 VIT to STR, max bulwark and aegis shield, I find that at level 60 he is dying from 1 hit champions, boss attacks a little too often. Also regular mobs are hitting him ...
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How do reflect missile percentages add / combine?
How do +X% chance to reflect at Y% Weapon DPS enchantments add?
Example:
Base: x% chance to reflect at y% weapon dps
Add: w% chance to reflect at z% weapon dps
Result = ??
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Which stats should I add to as an Outlander using Shotguns/Canons?
In Torchlight 2, I am a newbie and have not play Torchlight 1 before. It doesn't seem obvious to me which class should add to which stats like diablo 3 does and the more I play it seems there is a lot ...
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Which weapons have splash damage in Torchlight 2?
As an Engineer I like using two-handed weapons because of the Heavy Lifting passive skill that gives bonus attack speed and stun chance. However, I'm not sure if the Greathammer I'm currently using ...
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Where is the lotion?
I am in Act 1 in the Slavers Stockade and I came across a giant pit at the end and there was a bucket. I hover my mouse over it and it says "put the lotion in the bucket". It cracks me up for the ...
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How to find your character's total DPS in torchlight 2?
Many abilities deal damage based on your current DPS, but the problem is I don't know how much my DPS is. In the character's menu your current damage is shown, but to compute DPS I need more data like ...
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Torchlight 2 Reactivation
Has anyone managed to successfully reactivate their copy of Torchlight 2, purchased from Runic Games' site, after changing their hardware (in my case, the motherboard)? If so, what are the steps I ...
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Is there a way to split items in a stack in Torchlight 2
Has anyone found one?
Lets say I have a stack of 10 health potions and want to sell 3. Can I do it?
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Does multiplayer or difficulty affect loot quality or quantity?
Does multiplayer or difficulty affect the quality or quantity of loot that drops?
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What is cast speed and how does it affect character spells in Torchlight 2?
From what I know, all my Embermage spells are all instant cast, so how or why would I want to stack +cast speed %?
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How do I get Into the Bone Gallery?
This quest says something about convincing the spirits to open the gate for me, but there are no spirits to be seen anywhere nearby. How do I get in to the Bone Gallery?
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What's This Blue Dome Projected Over My Back?
I've just noticed that my Engineer suddenly has this blue dome thing coming out of his pack and hanging in the air over his back. What is this? Is it put there by the 'Aegis' skill, the effects of ...
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What Does the 'Shrine of Skill Mastery' do?
I just came across something called Shrine of Skill Mastery. I activated it, and there was a glowy effect around my character, and a noise, but I didn't receive anything as far as I can work out.
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Spells and Weapon Procs
Are there any weapon procs that will work when you cast a spell as an Embermage?
Mana steal has no effect but what about other procs?
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What is the math behind the weapon strength?
I'm looking for example showing the math behind the calculation of the weapon strength. I'm aware of other questions, but can someone show the actual math in the following weapons?
Pistol 1:
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What are secondary targets and which skill involves?
In Torchlight 2 it happens to found weapons with attributes like +75% damage to all secondary targets. But what does it mean? Who are secondary targets and which skill affect them?
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Main quest disappearing, can't get to New Game+
I'm having problems concerning the mode New Game + in Torchlight 2. I would really like to proceed to that mode and or to Mapworks, but it seems that every time I go to The Minehead or defeat the ...
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Does bonus critical damage on one weapon affect crits with the other weapon while dual-wielding?
I was wondering whether bonus critical damage on weapons such as Steelfang also affects your other weapon.
It's difficult for me to test this since my Berserker is almost execute capped and it's hard ...
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How is “Modified DPS” caculated?
My weapon DPS is 169.
Modified DPS is 320.
Total damage is 221-357. The Average of this is 289.
Attack speed is 0,91 seconds per attack.
How is the modified DPS caculated? The closest i get is 289 ...
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Is there a way to pinpoint the locations of the special enchanters?
In my first playthrough of the game, I started a notebook where I wrote down all the act numbers and dungeon names of all the special enchanter locations (Boris the Stout, etc) as I came upon them. ...
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Which quests can be repeated?
I have finished the game with Veteran difficulty and now I am trying to do the same but with the Hardcore option enabled.
The problem is that I am a bit under-leveled and bad equipped and I would ...
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Obtaining Legendary Weapons?
Is there a level requirement or stat requirement for getting legendary items? Or do they simply drop that infrequently that they're hard to find? Are legendary weapons more likely to drop for high ...
