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[Euld]

I've enjoyed being a ranged glass cannon Outlander, myself.  Although, when I encounter boss fights I end up spamming Glaive and taking a pot shot or two at the boss when I can.  Alright I think I agree, this game is not friendly when it comes to squishy ranged characters.

[DemonOfWrath]

I'm enjoying the game on my Outlander as well, just not on boss fights, as a third to a half of them have similar problems to what I said above (aka some mechanic designed to completely and utterly screw me and my playstyle) and all the rest feel rather same-y as the fights tend to all end up being avoid the dozen other guys in the arena while taking glaive potshots at the boss. There's a bunch of really, really cool bosses in the game but I don't get the chance to pay attention to them amongst all the minions! 

[Rose]

The armor you get also seem to be attempting to discourage you to make a glass canon, as they all seem to require multiple stats to wear.

[Mech#4]

I believe they've tried quite hard to make all stats very useful to all classes. As an Engineer my main stats are Vitality and Strength really only because I need those two for armour sometimes. Next highest is Focus since my spells and some abilities use Fire and Electrical, but I also need Dexterity for the critical chance and lower fumble rate.

It's kind of odd. Strength effects all weapons, even ranged I believe, where as ranged has been the domain of dexterity/agility.

[Wiles]

Torchlight II is the first game in a while that frequently frustrates me to the point where I'll just quit.

I really like the game, but I find the movement controls frustratingly terribad. It's fine most of the game, but trying to kite large swarms of enemies is maddening. It seems there is some sort of auto target so that when you click near an enemy you will attack them which makes trying to navigate a small space with a lot of enemies next to impossible. The default control layout is pretty fail too. Maybe it's just my keyboard but I have to do some crazy assed hand yoga to be able to push all the buttons I want to in a fight.

[Shades]

Is anyone else frustrated with the way ranged weapons actually have ranges, and short ones at that. Bugs me that shift and click to shoot at something doesn't work as it was just a little bit too far away.

[Sordid]

Yeah, that is slightly annoying. Thankfully the Outlander has a passive skill to increase that, and it's only the basic attack that has a limited range anyway. Any kind of skill-based special attack doesn't have a range limit.

[Bluerobin]

A few of the Embermage spells have range limits, most noticeably the fireball spell you start with. Not sure about the other classes.

[Johnfalcon99977]

Just posting here to say that I'm open to any multiplayer invites. My steam name is Leonthekiller (Not sure, there may be spaces or _'s) and my name in torchlight is Johnfalcon. Currently playing STR/DEX focused Outlander. Chances are that if I'm online I'm open to MP.

Is anyone else frustrated with the way ranged weapons actually have ranges, and short ones at that. Bugs me that shift and click to shoot at something doesn't work as it was just a little bit too far away.

Rapid Fire skill bro. Tier 2 if that skill has quite some range and you don't need to target a specific person to use it. It's a real spray and pray skill, which has it's benefits.

[forsaken1111]

I really hate that you can't do a full respec... at least I don't see a way.

[Shades]

I really hate that you can't do a full respec... at least I don't see a way.

http://forums.runicgames.com/viewtopic.php?f=47&t=35347

Looks like you can spawn a potion of respec using the console commands, which will also flag your character as cheated. Although it also looks like you can trade 'cheated' items to a non-cheated character without being flagged, which pretty much makes the flagging pointless.

[Rose]

Another spell that has a very small range, quite annoyingly, is the facemeltybeamofdeath (as yahtzee calls it) which is especially bad because it has knockback.

[KaelGotDwarves]

The more I play elite, the more I think that Runic hates glass cannon ranged and loves tanky brawlers.

[SalmonGod]

But the cool thing is that some modder is sure to notice the same thing and do something about it.  We're not stuck with Runic's approach to balance.

[Omegameep]

Is there any proper tanky builds for berserkers anywhere? Cause I seem to be dying an awful lot in elite due to enemies with knockbacks, especially in act 2.