My Berserker (who acutally needs heals) hasn't found a skull gem or heal scroll in 40 levels. Random is still random, my embermage got a skull gem, heal, and heal all scrolls before he hit lvl10. So leaving sets for the endgame isn't a bad idea. Set items are nice while you're levelling, but in most cases, by the time you've collected the set, there's a better set that you start getting pieces for or higher level non-set gear is superior. So you are guranteed to not get crap, but you're not getting anything really exciting either. The ranges on the affix rolls aren't 5 - 100, they're more like 45 - 55. Everything is generally an upgrade, even if its only a %1 improvement. The difference is that you don't get absolute crap in T2, but you also rarely get WOW drops. 40 hrs), but I've gotten better drops in D3. Maybe it's because I'm playing in Normal difficulty, and Veteran seems to be more popular, but generally speaking I've very rarely played with more than two others. I've also noticed that most multiplayer games have only one player in them. TL2 though only allows sorting games based on rank and difficulty, which is a problem because even though someone may be the same level as you, they may be working on quests you already completed. This meant that anyone who joined your game ported to you right away and you started hacking and slashing together. Diablo's quest system was very linear, and it allowed you to join games based on what quest the host was currently on. One thing I greatly dislike about TL2 is how difficult it is to find others to play with. I've only played TL2 for a week, and so far it's great, but I don't know if it will last. To me, Diablo 3 stopped being fun after a couple of months. I have watched a few youtube videos about torchlight and it looks amazing. I am sure I will pop in and give it a try after patches but I am done with it until some major, semi-permanent changes are made. Sounds like what I hoped D3 would be, and sums up the experience I had with D3 as well. Maybe I've just become disenchanted with the Diablo franchise, but Blizzard's choice to make the game about playing the AH instead of the game has turned me off.Įxactly what I am looking for. I don't hit roughly lvl30 and run out of new content like D3. I find good loot all the time, I have lots of quests and large areas to explore.

Torchlight2 has been a breath of fresh air. Monster power is irrelevant because I never played the game to measure my e-peen, pubbie raids have never been fun, and being able to see how many stacks of gruesome feast I have is not going to change my game experience. I have gotten extremely bored with playing the same content over and over and OVER for a bunch of vendor junk and the occasional modest sale on the AH. Once I am out of things to sell, I won't log in 'till the patch, and maybe not even then. Only time I log into D3 is to check on auctions. Charge Reconstitution doesn't heal for a hell of a lot, but since you burn charge frequently with Flame Hammer and/or Forcefield, it can help keep your health topped off. Dynamo Field is pretty great at building charge, as well, and you'll want a lot of it if you do use Forcefield. Heal Bot is pretty much mandatory, and 5 or so points in Forcefield can save your butt against champions and bosses. You probably also want a lot of Heavy Lifting, for bonus damage and inherent stun chance, as well as a few points in Coup De Gras. Maybe a few points in to make it last long enough to be meaningful. Onslaught is pretty great for getting into a new mob of enemies, and the debuff isn't too shabby. I suppose you could develop it into a big damage-dealer, but Flame Hammer is more fun IMO. Ember Hammer is really great against big shielded enemies, but I'm not sure I see the need to put in more than one point. You can probably do without Seismic Slam, but it does have a base 64% chance to stun in an area around you, so could be helpful. They're reasonably useful, but situational for the most part. I do have one point in the first few melee skills as well, though. I've yet to find anything better for big AoE damage than Flame Hammer. Well, the first fire-hammer skill you get is actually quite good. I would prefer a minimum of ranged attack spam, openers are fine, but I want to drop fugtfohammers everywhar. I do know I want to beat face, and abuse that passive that procs on stunned mobs.

Torchlight 2 emberquake build